Hauppauge WinTV GO Capture Card

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Hauppauge WinTV GO Tv Tuner
Analog VideoIn
Win95 Win98 Win2K WinXP
Vista? NT4 MAC? Linux
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PCI $50 8.2/10
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Description (from the manufacturer site)
Hauppauge's WinTV is a single slot PCI board for your PC which allows you to watch TV in a window on your PC screen. WinTV processes the video without requiring help from your PC's CPU, so your computer continues to run at full speed while WinTV is operating.
The WinTV application has exclusive features like channel surf, single-click no title mode, and always-on-top mode making WinTV easy and fun to use! Work on other applications while simultaneously watching TV in a window from the 125-channel cable ready TV tuner. WinTV also displays video from a VCR, camcorder, or any other video source.
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Good card, basic features, but does what it's supposed to do.

The card may have mono sound, but you are not limited to mono audio capture if you are capturing from a VCR. Since the sound is captured through the sound card, you can run a stereo cable from your VCR to your soundcard.

I have mostly used this card with Linux. It's well supported in that OS with 3rd party apps.



Comments posted by Tony from United States, January 04, 2007:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux - Rated: 8 of 10.





I was not expecting too much from this card since I got it for $15 on black friday. I mainly wanted it for the tuner and was not concerned about the capture quality. The tuner is so-so and is mono sound only. The included software does not capture well. Using the inclued software I got green lines in the video (at high resolutions) and drop offs (glitches) in the audio. Captures work fine even at high resolution using Virtualdub. For high resolutions (i.e. 720x480) captures need to be done with preview off. Using YUY for capturing also seems to help. The included drivers worked fine. My card had the Conexant 878A fusion chip.



Comments posted by johnnyquid from United States, November 29, 2006:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 6 of 10.





This card works excellently with Linux, with excellent support and a solid base of applications and drivers. I started with an ATI AIW card with such limited support and gave in, buying the WinTV Go. The capture card doesn't miss frames and does a great job of recording my favourite shows for watching on any PC.

The only downside, and I expect it's the same with any PC TV tuner, is that it is more susceptable to poor reception than a real TV or VCR.



Comments posted by Kevin Foss from Canada, October 09, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux - Rated: 10 of 10.





Wow.. was I impressed!

I needed a capture card for 2 reasons.. to keep adding clips to my website and to take stuff from old VHS tapes before they crumble into dust!

I tried a dazzle 80... which is a total piece of crap!! I bought it before I found this wonderful site a couple years ago. Needless to say.. I really wanted a high quality for a low price.

I know.. doesnt everyone?? My site is run on donations.. so I had a limited budget. I really wanted the 300 dollar Canopus... heh.. but I digress...

ANYWAY.. I searched the reviews here for a good.. low cost solution. I bought it and got it in the mail a couple days ago. I hooked everything up and expected good quality. Nothing special for 50 bux.

I cant explain how pleased I am with the results!! I will post a sample of the quality in a couple days. I never expected such good quality from a 50 dollar card!!! I know Hauppauge is a good company. Yay!

I would definately recommend this to anyone!! If you are looking for super duper high quality.. then get something a little more that wya... but if youre looking for great quality for home use or something like that.. this is it! :-D

I do however use a different program to capture (intervideo windvd which is awesome)

Thanks!



Comments posted by Becky from United States, September 01, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.





After about one and a half year with this card I found out that it also has nanoDVR bundled...call me a fool and I deserve it. Well, nanoDVR can only record up to VCD format without a big DEMO watermark, but it can go to a 3mbit bitrate...that means that you actually can author a 352x288 video with 3mbit with tmpgencDVDauthor and get up to 3 hrs of fine quality video on a DVD.

http://www.lordsmurf.com/convert/vcdtodvd/vcdtodvd.htm

You may want to read this article about how to do it.
Yet again, this card has proven it's worth. Man, this is one golden piece of hardware!




Comments posted by pizamandk from Other, November 25, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





to capture audio u should go to mutimedia(audio )properties select pc recording input line in and there should be small stereo jack pin spulied with the card or get one connect it from line out of wintv card to line in of mobo and enjoy sound recording



Comments posted by himan from Other, August 28, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.





Got the card a few weeks ago. The card performs excellent, however getting full screen to capture is a big no no, as I cannot get the BTWINCAP drivers to install on my machine.

If you do get this card and have a VIA mobo, make sure you install VIA's 4-in-1 driver, they make the card mega stable.

Real shame about not getting full screen capture mode, but for VCD SVCD making, this card is ideal!




Comments posted by John Hardie from Other, August 06, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10.





I got this card yesterday, and after spending 1 hour trying to figure it out, due to my stupidity, not the difficulty of the card, i must say this card is excellent.

I use Virtudub to capture although i used the WinTV software to tune in the TV channels (that was my main problem at first).

My computer is:

2.26ghz P4
80 gb HD
512k ram
Geforce4 64mb GFX

etc, and i have been able to capture perfect quality. The only problem is that all my caps take up lots of space, but that is due to the fact that they are AVI.

I capture at 320x240

I havent managed to get sound yet, but yet again, i think this is down to my stupidity, i dont think it should be too hard to work out how to get sound.


My recommendation is: BUY THIS CARD. It is very cheap but does everything an expensive card would do.



Comments posted by Mike from Other, May 07, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.





This card is GREAT! I capture 720x480 mpeg 2 dvd quality rips, or 352x240 straight to mpeg vcd .. BEUTIFULL QUALITY! DOnt even install the haupague drivers, get teh btwincap drivers from http://btwincap.sourceforge.net . Install and use ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO 6 to capture straight to mpeg. Mpeg is alot easier on the cpu , avi drops frames cuz of my cpu. I have 750 mHz Celeron, 128 Ram. I can cap 720x480 dvd quality mpeg 2, and so CAN YOU!!!!!!! BUY IT RIGHT NOW, GET OFF YOUR ASS AND BUY IT!!!!!



Comments posted by Anonymous from Other, February 11, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.





The card works great, installed real easy. Watching satellite of it. Change channel via the satellite decoder box. Can't change it in the program. Haven't had time to try it in linux yet. Sound does mute itself after 30 sec, to 1 min. Able to get sound back by hitting mute in the WIN TV application.



Comments posted by dow--psycho from Other, February 09, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 6 of 10.





THE SOFWARE SUPPLIED WITH THIS CARD IS OK,THE CARD IT SELF IS PROBERLY THE BEST IN THIS PRICE RANGE(£40)WHEN USEING THE SOFTWARE IT SOMETIMES FREEZES,WHICH IS VERY ANNOYING WHEN YOUR CAPTURING SOMETHING LIVE,THE TURNER IS ONLY GOOD FOR WATCHING TV,IF YOUR GOING TO CAP USE THE COMPOSITE INPUT,THERE IS EITHER SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY SYSTEM,OR IM DOING SOMETHING WRONG,PUT I CAN NOT GET IT TO CAP AT ANYTHING OVER 352X288,ANYWAY GOOD CARD FOR THE PRICE,IF YOU CAN GET ONE THEN DO.ONLY GAVE IT 9 DUE TO THE SOFWARE.

DURON 1200
4GB&8GB HDD(8GB USED FOR CAP)BOTH 54OO
256 MEM
PC CHIPS M810L MOBO
ONBOARD GRAPHICS,SOUND,SIS CHEAP.



Comments posted by RICH G from Other, February 08, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





This card is very good. All negative posts are people who only tried Hauppauge's own software, which basically sucks. But the hardware works like a charm. There is enough third party software to made the card work fine, with or without Hauppauge's own drivers.

The lowest spec i have tried this was a Duron 650, 32MB ram with 5400rpm Maxtor, win98 (win95 osr2 hangs). With this spec i could capture fine up to 720x480 29.97 fps, and Huffyuv. It would lose like 1 frame per minute. No problems, capturing using VirtualDub and Hauppauge drivers. (never use overlay when capturing).

Now my system is stronger: Duron 1300, 256MB, Win2k, 7200RPM Maxtor. It worked fine, but it started hanging randomly, the capture screen suddendly freeze and if you hit ESC, after a long while vdub will say something about Audio overflow or something. Newest Hauppauge driver didn't seem to cure this so i tried btwincap. This driver works and its stable, never freezed again.

Unfortunately this driver lacks many things. The Hauppauge driver can automatically crop side black bars, and can also handle color and contrast automatically much better. For some reason, the btwincap driver drops frames like hell if the source is VHS. This didn't happened with Hauppauge's drivers.

I don't use the tuner, like many people here. I simply plug my VCR to tune channels or record from VHS tapes, and the stereo output of the VCR goes straight to the onboard audio in my motherboard, so i don't care about the "mono sound" either. My card is exactly WinTV PCI model 404, basically same as GO but includes a remote control i never used. Chip is BT878, i have been like 2 years with this card. I wish both my card and VCR had S-Video plug, ah well.., my VCR could use some video stabilizer too.

I have also installed some WinTV PCI GO for some friends, and those behave exactly the same as mine.
The WinTV GO is like 50$, it is a very nice price. The card specs are open, so we have plenty of third party apps that some people really miss :) And solid support in Open Source OSes, like Linux and FreeBSD.

In VirtualDub i play with various noise reduction filters after the capture is done to reduce the noise from VHS tapes. Using VirtualDub i usually capture at 720x480, smart deinterlace, denoise and resize down as needed. I usually feed this stream to tmpgenc. Will experiment with Xvid and OGM more in the future...



Comments posted by Artemis3 from Other, February 03, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95 Win98 Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux - Rated: 8 of 10.





When I unpacked my new WinTV PCI board I discovered it
was based on a 881 chip, not BT8x8. This means the btwincap driver is not supporting this card. With drivers from Hauppauge I have not been able to capture with more pixels than 352x288. I would like to capture with SVCD resolution, so this is a drawback. Besid9es this I am happy with the card.
Capturing stereo sound is no problem, despite what is said in the documentation.



Comments posted by jakob himmelman from Other, February 02, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating.





The abilities of this card are impressive. It just takes some time, research, and many test runs to get things right.

The first thing you do after you install the included software is to get the btwincap drivers. After you do that, you can kiss WinTV goodbye, but that's okay, because the free software out there is better.

To watch TV, get DScaler. It's a nice program with many options.

For capture, I personally use (and if you use 2000 or XP, I strongly recommend this) VirtualVCR. It's not as full-featured as, say, PowerVCR ($50) but it's free and it does an outstanding job capturing.

I can capture for hours without a single dropped frame, and I usually go 640X480, YUY2, MJPEG(quality=18). Then convert to whatever using VirtualDub and TMPGenc.

My system:

Athlon 2100+
256 MB DDR-2100
60 GB + 30 GB hard drives, ATA-100
Win XP

Only two negatives: the included software stinks, and the card only captures in mono.

I love this card. There's no telling how much money I would have to spend to get a better one.



Comments posted by Dale from Other, January 24, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





I personally love this card. Simple, affordable. Great for a newbie. Make sure you have around an 8GB Hard Drive to capture the large AVI files. I think that TV viewing is good (even from antenea) and I have ease capturing from TV reception or VHS.



Comments posted by David from Other, January 22, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95 Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





Superb! I could have given 10 out of 10 had my Audio worked!

My config:P4 2.53 Ghz, 512 MB 333 Mhz RAM, P4X400 Soyo Motherboard (Via Chipset),

The card is HAU 190.

No need to patch for Via motherboard.

Simple installation of driver, working nicely with Ulead Movie Factory(VCD Max 352x240)
,Virtual Dub(VCD MAX 352x240),
Dscaler(not good resoltion!),
WinDVR(Very good upto DVD quality Mpeg2 720x480).
This forum indicated that WinDVR is working with this card. It is really good with trial version.

Audio is not working, which is not a major expectation for me as I would like to convert my camcorder movies and dub it with background music.

Negative points: 1) Forget the email support except auto reply which is no use to you. 2) if audio works, you are lucky! BT8x8 generic driver did not for me, same way dscaler.

I would recommend Hau 190 with WinDVR, good choice



Comments posted by jj from Other, January 21, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





This was my second card ( my fisrt was a jetway - nicam/remote/text - and it was truly awful!) and it is fantastic when used with DScaler. i don't use the tuner though, just the composite. i also use WinDVR which works excellently with this card, tweaking the capture formats a little for best results.
a little tip if you have one of these cards;
Mono sound? i don't think so. all i had to do was take the audio from my Nicam VCR into the line-in on the tv card and then the line-out (tv card) to the line-in on my sound card (basically just passing through the card so when the capture software is closed the audio is muted) and set the volume controls for capture/tv software to use line-in.
Bingo! Nicam stereo!
if you try DScaler set the initial settings to no tuner on card. for some reason it works a little better.



Comments posted by Drew from Other, January 13, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





Configuration: AMD AthlonXP 1600+
Abit KG7 motherboard, 128DDR RAM
CMI8738 based sound card
WD HDD 40GB, 7200rpm
WinTV PCI (PAL)
Win2k SP-1

Best low-price capture card you can find out there!!! With a bit of tweaking, faster CPU and a
HDD at 7200rpm with DMA support you can get better results then with an expensive hardware mpeg-2
capture cards!!! I don`t know what are you folks talking about when you say it`s a crappy card with
only low-res capture support. It supports capturing in full PAL (NTSC) specification (720*576 PAL,
720*480 NTSC). A must-have addition to this card is VirtualDub, small downloadable freeware.
My configuration is able to capture 720*576 encoded with lossless Huffyuv codec without
dropped frames (not counting a few dropped frames needed to synchronise video with audio). OK, I
wouldn`t suggest this codec for Hi-res because it eats tons of disk space. Great alternative is PICvideo
Mjpeg codec with quality set to 19. With this setting you can capture 2h of hi-quality video to 30-35 GB
file. Later you can edit it and re-encode with tmpgenc to DVD Mpeg-2 or again with VirtualDub to
hi-quality DivX. For best results in watching and capturing TV program, I would suggest an external
tuner (such as one integrated in stereo VCR) with video connected to composite input on the capture
card and audio directly to the line-in input on the sound card. This also solves mono sound limit.
Conclusion? One of the best video capture solutions you can find. For extremly low price. Great!



Comments posted by Marburg from Other, January 10, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.





I have had this card for a month now and I have had pretty good results from it. I use the Soundforge WDM drivers with Win XP Pro and I can capture NTSC or PAL footage at 720x480 or 576 to encode into DVD compliant MPEG 2 files. It does drop frames every now and again, but only one or two over a 45 minute capture session. I use Virtual VCR to capture since V-Dub works with VFW. Also I capture from the Composite input since it gives the better quality than the TV input. Would be a "ten" if it would capture stereo audio. Oh well for the price it can't be beat!



Comments posted by Cifcap from Other, December 23, 2002:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10.





PCs used:- Duron 700MHz/256Mb RAM/Oxygen VX1 graphics card/NT4SP6a; Celeron 700MHz/192Mb RAM/810 graphics/WIN98/Suse 7.3 demo / Mandrake 8.2 demo

Works well as a TV card, with some interference on some channels (ALL of the above configs). Captures well either via tuner or composite in, provided using VirtualDub. Capture software provided with the card works-ish! Using HUFFYUV I can get full frame captures in PAL, but with obvious HD limitations. 352x288 is fine using most CODECs DIVX & MS-MPEG4 being the favourites. Some loss of frames in Win98 with long ( >15min) captures, but not in NT4. Sound compression seems problematic, so I re-encode if required using tmpgenc.
Haven't tried any serious capturing using Linux as both versions tried were demos with limited HD space.

Extremely good card for the money. Works well under many configurations. Occasional problems with the software under Win98 is part of the territory of running a MS operating system



Comments posted by Mark from Other, December 14, 2002:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4 MAC? Linux - Rated: 10 of 10.





At first, I'ved had trouble trying to be able to capture over 352x240 until I installed btwin drivers then I can capture in vcd, svcd, and dvd resolutions. With my Duron 750mhz, 384mb ram, 60gig 7200 rpm. I can capture with 640x480 resolution without dropping frames using huffyuv or picVideo codec. The tv tuner's quality is great. Good card for $50cdn.



Comments posted by Sixain from Other, December 14, 2002:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.





It took some tinkering around with but when i got it right - the results were superb! I use the btwincap drivers as the normal wintv ones are awfull. I found though that I had to turn the brightness and the contrast down a lot for the results to look nice on my DVD player.

I capture with AVI_IO using huffy or picvideo at 544x576. I then use the KWAG templates (http://www.kvcd.net) to convert to a kvcdx3 VCD stream which plays on my Dansai DVD player. To do this I use an avisynth script to smooth out all the noise. Using this I can get most films on 2 CD's.

Not bad for 30 odd quid - is it!



Comments posted by James Poll from Other, December 01, 2002:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10.





YES!!

This is the best card EVER!




Comments posted by xPCGUY from Other, October 30, 2002:
Compatibility: Win95 Win98 Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4 MAC? Linux - Rated: 10 of 10.





My PC: AMD Athlon XP 1.4GHz, 256MB DDR RAM, 80GB HDD, 40x CD-RW, 64MB GeForce4.

I've captured video and audio directly from my camcorder/VCR into 320x240 using VirtualDub. I've used the WinTV USB for about a year, and the quality wasn't very good. I purchased the WinTV Go for $50 at Circuit City, installed it into my PCI slot, and did the driver installation. The software that comes bundled with it isn't good to capture with, though.

After capturing from a couple VHS tapes, the quality was flawless (especially when compared to the WinTV USB). I captured using VirtualDub (and the DivX 4 low-motion codec @ 6000kbps), converted into VCD/MPEG using TMPGenc, and burned it using Nero. During 30 minutes of Goldeneye 007, only about 30 total frames were dropped (lots of action) -- and I was capturing in 29.94 FPS.

The quality is the exact same as a VHS. My PC freezes when trying to capture audio in MP3 format, so I use 44khz PCM audio (default). It also freezes when I try to capture in 640x480 (which I think looks interlaced).

This was a great investment. The quality is twice as good as the USB version, and the resulting VideoCDs are never choppy. I was able to fit Goldeneye (125 minutes) onto one CD (I had to burn them as MPEGs, but couldn't burn it as a true standard-compliant VideoCD), and the quality was amazing.



Comments posted by paingwin from Other, October 21, 2002:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





/me hath..

PAL system
Pentium III 650mhz
512mb RAM
4mb On-Board Graphics Card
SoundMAX On-Board Sound Card
10.2gb HDD, I'm not sure how many RPM.


/me caps with..

Using Virtual Dub 1.4.10
Resolution: 768x576
Frame Rate: 25fps
Compression: PICVideo MJPEG 2.10 Codec @ Quality: 18 (push for 19-20 if on a speedy PC)
Colour Format: YUY2
Audio: Choose the "CD Quality" (172kbps) scheme.


If you drop frames, put the Compression Quality down to 16ish. That should fix it right up. Remember - if you drop one frame, or two frames, or whatever, but each are in different spots of the video, it will be unnoticable to the eye, so don't stress over it. Two frames in one spot us usually pretty unnoticable also, but three is usually I stop and capture again.


/me encodes with..

Using TMPGEnc 2.54.87.137
Resolution: 352x240
Bitrate: 1850/2048/100kbps 2-Pass VBR
Filters:
Noise Reduction - 15/1/15 (adjust accordingly, depending on what the source was like)
Sharpen Edge - 46/46 (adjust accordingly)
Deinterlace - Double Adaptation (if you use NTSC, use Even Adaptation)

And under the Quantize Matrix menu, set the Soften Block Noise to 60/60.


You might wanna leave this on Batch Encode overnight, cause this'll take hella long to encode (on my PC, 30 seconds of video takes 43minutes to encode). However, I'm sure you'll be VERY happy with the result. My caps are sometimes a little soft, but have no noise, even in full screen (unless in a fast action part, where there'll then be a little). On my "average" speed PC, I'm able to acheive mucho l33t results. I am known for my quality :-*. This card is for watching TV? F&ck you pussies, this is a capture card. :D

...and Mr. PC Guy, I think you mean that seXXXay template that you got from me. ;D

If you run into any major problems, feel free to email me at Reiko316@ihug.com.au.


yes yes I am sexy thank you



Comments posted by Reiko from Other, October 16, 2002:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.




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