Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 Capture Card

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Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 Tv Tuner
Analog VideoIn
MPEG1 hardware
MPEG2 hardware
Win95 Win98 Win2K WinXP
Vista? NT4 MAC Linux
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PCI $150 7.3/10
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Description (from the manufacturer site)
With WinTV-PVR-250 you can:
Watch TV in a window on your PC screen (any size), or watch TV full screen!
Record your home videos and TV shows to disk using MPEG compression. The built-in hardware MPEG encoder allows you to continue to use your computer while recording. Surf the net or answer e-mail while digitally recording to your PC's hard disk!
Schedule your TV recordings with WinTV-Scheduler. The Electronic Program Guides TitanTV.com in the U.S., TVTV.de in Europe and iEPG in Japan, are Internet based program guides which work with WinTV-PVR to help schedule your TV recordings
Pause and instantly replay your TV shows, with 2X and 8x digital fast forward and rewind
Capture high quality still video images from live or recorded TV
Edit your TV shows or home videos with the Hauppauge MPEG Editor
With the included DVD MovieFactory, you can author your home videos onto CD or DVD

MPEG record specifications:
* MPEG1 recording at 1150K bits/sec (Video CD data rate)
* MPEG2 record datarates:
2MBit/sec, 4MBit/sec, 6Mbit/sec, 8Mbit/sec, 12Mbit/sec.
Selections for DVD Standard play (8MBitsec), DVD Long Play (4MBit/sec) and DVD Extra Long Play (2MBit/sec)
* NTSC format* at 29.97fps: Full D1: 720x480, MPEG1: 352x240
* PAL format* at 25fps: Full D1: 720x576, MPEG1: 352x288
* Audio capture formats: 32/44.1/48 KHz, 16bit stereo, 192/224/384Kbits/sec
* Chroma sampling: YUV 4:2:0
* Video file format: .MPG
* MPEG file tested compatible with: MediaStudio 6.0, MyDVD and DVD MovieFactory DVD authoring applications
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You can use PVR-250 to capture both NTSC and PAL
(not to receive TV stations - that is either NTSC or PAL
depending on built in tuner).
But you have to use WinTV 6 , not WinTV 2000 because
WinTV 2000 supports only NTSC and PAL-M.
I am talking about PVR-250 with SAA7115 and CX23416.



Comments posted by HaupFan from Canada, May 07, 2010:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





I have been using the PVR-250 for well over a year and it has not skipped a beat. Easy to install and setup. It is also compatable with BTV, Sage and GB PVR.

The recording quality is very good, no audio sync or volume issues.



Comments posted by bits from United States, May 19, 2006:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.





I tried this card in three different computers and across three Operating Systems and was never able to get it to work properly with an SVHS or Composite Video input.

Tried it on an old Dell GX-110 with a 1 GHz processor running Windows 2000 - couldn't even get the card recognized.

Plopped a new HD in the GX-110 and installed the latest edition of KnoppMyth - could never get the card set up to capture through the SVHS or Composite video at all.

Tried it on an A7V266-E MB with an Athlon XP1700+ processor running Windows 2000 - no go; was able to get a choppy capture using Windows XP on this machine but nowhere near the quality I would have expected. Drives are running DMA mode so couldn't see the problem.

Tried it on my fastest machine running a P4C800E motherboard with a 3 GHz Pentium 4. No go in Windows 2000 or XP.

Used the lastest driver downloads from Hauppauge and even tried to use Win DVD Creator 2 from the disk that came with the P4C800E instead of WinTV 2000, which most people here seem to agree is worthless; even though I specifically selected the composite or the SVHS input mode to view was never even able to find a signal much less capture one.

Very disappointed - tried the USB-2 and got it to work the first time with a USB2 equipped computer. Will run this one awhile and post comments.



Comments posted by T from United States, April 10, 2006:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux - Rated: 1 of 10.





I use the Hauppauge PVR-250 Model 980 on Suse 9.2 Linux and mythtv with ivtv 0.4.0 drivers. The picture quality is quite good and the hardware MPEG2 encoder leaves only a very minimal amount of overhead work for the CPU while encoding (less than 1% on a Sempron 2300+.) The remote control that came with the card works great with an irman receiver after lirc is fully configured.

The only downside I've noticed is that the card doesn't handle cable signals that are too strong very gracefully. I have a boosted signal going into the card and it can cause some sort of analog distortion during bright scenes on certain channels. Thankfully I don't encounter this problem very often.



Comments posted by Jonathan Little from United States, February 19, 2006:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux - Rated: 8 of 10.





What can i say? This card is one of the best pieces of hardware i bought and used in the past 20 years!!!
Software includedin the package is crap!! Except for the U-Lead Movie Factory II SE which i use for authoring and burning DVD's and WinTV 2000
I use PvaStrumento for demuxing the MPEG, next step is to load the seperate video and audio in MPEGSchnitt to cut out the unwanted parts like comercials which btw is frame acurate, and after that i use IMAGO MPEG muxer to put the audio en video back together again. These apps are freeware and can be downloaded here on Videohelp.com. And not only that they are free but they also do an excelent job.
After all this you can use the MPEG for converting to Divx/XVid or burn them to DVD




Comments posted by Marcel Smit from Netherlands, September 24, 2005:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.





Overall, it's very nice, very good picture and sound, no problem with recording. Installation is SUPER EASY if:

Install card in PC, then install Win XP, then install
related mobo drivers, video card software (EVGA Nvidia 6600 128 MB in my case), then install Hauppauge drivers/software, then install everything else. Some software may cause problems other people mention, so it makes sence to watch the card performance after every
install of new software package. Putting card in PC with lots of different software/harware already installed may indeed, but not necessary, cause problems.

I did experience such problem myself, which was short term out of sync audio right after channel change. This problem completely went away after I used procedure above.

Worked pretty good and right from the start in my other PC, Win 98SE, based on cheapy PCChips M789 with VIA C3 on board. Of course, live TV was choppy, but recording was O.K. Also, no problems of any kind with VIA CLE266/8235 chipset.

No problems of any kind with my XP machine based on ASUS
mobo with Intel 915 chipset, assuming that install was done
as described above.

Gave it 9 out of 10 because package included no adapter cables and I think this card is a bit overpriced.

P.S. It's a good idea to use Qsoft RAMDISK for LiveTV buffer. It appears to improve picture quality. Also, it cuts HDD load.




Comments posted by Boris from United States, June 08, 2005:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





The main purpose of this card was to capture tv shows, and old vhs tapes. And for that the card is fantastic. The hardware it comes with is pathetic, but it seems to get high quality recordings from Beyond Tv and Showshifter.

One thing I'm not pleased with is that it seems to have a delay between an external source and the display, no matter what program I use. I wanted to use my ps2 with it to play games in pal format but that's hardly a problem. (if anybody knows how to get "realtime" results please let me know)

I used to have an ATI all in wonder which was fantastic, until I wanted to upgrade from a 64mb video card. If I could afford it, I would deffinitly get another AIW, but for 1 third of the price, I'll settle for this card anyday.

rated 8 for the video quality, better software would have gotten it a 9 or maybe even a 10



Comments posted by Brandon Legacey from Canada, April 21, 2005:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10.





GREAT PRODUCT. I wish they included a AVI codec, but using lowest compression MPEG2 (15Mb/CBS) I get great quality and a low disk space usage.

Right out of the box, there were no install or sync problems.

I wish the software had a built-in histrogram monitor, but it's easy to correct manually.

Well worth the money, amazon.com has it for $133 right now.



Comments posted by D. P. Cole from United States, April 04, 2005:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux - Rated: 9 of 10.





User interface is not very clean; look at Apple's apps to see how it should be done.

However, the card works very well (even with Hauppauge's included software). I had the PVR-150 card and returned it; overdriven volume on the cable input that couldn't be corrected in software (or registry). The PVR-250 just works great.

I use it as my digital VCR for timeshifting TV shows and some movies (TCM). The mpeg editing software (nanocosmos) sucks. Luckily, TMPG DVD Author (not included with the card) works great to cut out commercials without having to do any transcoding; the edit list is used to author the DVD.

I'm running a Shuttle XPC (Athlon XP2500+) with only one PCI slot; might get a new PC with more PCI slots and add another PVR-250 to record two channels at once.

I also bought the MediaMVP device but haven't connected it yet. This should eliminate having to burn DVDs (I re-use +RW) and should let me program the unit remotely as well.

Bottom line: I wish this card worked in my Mac with a nice user interface. In my PC, however, it works without complaint and I'd buy another in a minute.



Comments posted by rumplestiltskin from United States, April 03, 2005:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10.





I have been doing video captures for two-three years now and up until I bought the PVR-250, had been using IEEE1394 through a camcorder which worked OK but the transcoding DV to MPEG2 was tedious.
I had high hopes for the PVR-250. I wanted to be able to burn to DVD quickly after capture. So far I have been very pleased with it. Installation was a breeze and I was test-capturing about ten minutes after got the card home. The 3rd party apps available seem much better than those supplied with the card. I'm using SageTV Recorder for capture and VideoReDo for editing (usually just cutting out ads &etc). VideoReDo is an absolute must for MPEG editing. It is by far the best editor I've ever used. It's great being able to capture and work on previously recorded video at the same time. CPU utilization during capture with preview off is under 2%. It is entirely feasible to use the PC for whatever you want whilst capturing. Playing games and burning DVDs are no problem during capture.

BTW specs of my PC:
AMD XP3200+
1Gb RAM
2 x DVD writers
2 x SATA hard drives (240Mb total)
2 x ATA hard drives in RAID config 240Mb total
ATI 9800XT
WinTV PVR-250 PCI



Comments posted by Alfred Smith from Australia, March 26, 2005:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.





Have had this card for a few months now. Added it next to my Creative Video Blaster DVCR card for recordings that will get burned to DVD. Both work great at the same time. Lots of people comment on how bad the WinTV software is. I haven't used it. I use Frey's SageTV Recorder software and love it. If you haven't tried it, try it or SageTV (PVR version). Try VideoReDo as well, for editing. If you've had problems with audio sync issues with your edits, this works well.



Comments posted by Dan from United States, February 09, 2005:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





I tried every thing, for a couple years, to get a decent video from a tvblunder card with no luck at all.

After hearing about the hardware encoders on this card, and the dvd video resolution, I decided to give it a try. I have only had it for a about a month, and I am already recording my favorite shows, as well as taping movies, and burning DVD's that you would be very hard pressed to prove weren't purchased off the shelf. I am now using this to record 4 hours of video a day every day, plus any movies I like.
On the down side I still haven't figured out the sound setup on my system. I have the soundblaster audigy 2 zs platinum card and still haven't gotten wintv to show actual stereo sound in setup. I'm not sayng the card is the problem, I just haven't figured it out, and the sound is fine as is. I would just like to get stereo, and maybe even surround sound since I know the audigy is capable of that.



Comments posted by Mike B. from United States, January 28, 2005:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





I'd give it a higher rating if the user interface of the software didn't blow
chunks. However, it all DOES work.

Those having trouble tweaking the mpeg encoding settings, make sure you're
not recording and have the recording "tray" closed. Then select Configure
mpeg. When you change any settings in the dialog tabs (Video and Audio),
click on the Configure (IIRC) tab, provide a new name for the tweaked settings
and be sure to click Save before you dismiss the dialog. Then, back in the
larger dialog window, select that new setting in the drop-down menu (that's
what we call it on the Mac, don't know what you call it on the PC). Okay the
dialog so you're back in the WinTV app. Now whatever you record will be
saved using the new setting.

Another (unsolicited) suggestion: VideoReDo works very well for editing out
commercials. It's much easier to use than the Womble or TMPGenc options
suggested elsewhere.



Comments posted by rumplestiltskin from United States, January 03, 2005:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10.





Solid Capture card. Has lots of support with other PVR software. (Sage, WinDVR, ect)

Hardware based, so it works with "slow" machines. (Mine is an 950mhz AMD with 384 megs)

Only thing I didn't like was the software it came with. I ca only get it to record at the system settings. There are a lot to chose from but would like to tweek.

All in all, a good card



Comments posted by jntaylor63 from United States, January 02, 2005:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





Ok well here is my system specs. Athlon 3000 radeon 9000 graphics card, build on mother board sound card. asus a7v8x mother board with via chipset. 2 hd 7200 rpm 8 meg cash with a neo 17" flat screen monitor.
First tried the dazzle 150 usb....(garbage) returned it.
Well got tire of fighting with my plextor converter box the mu02 or whatever, and after reading several comments here pick up and installed the win pvr 250 card.

Installations was fast and simple (read instructions first)
All drivers, software was a snap to install. I haven't played with everything yet but managed to convert 2 vhs movies about 1.6 and 1.8 hours long. I watch one of them this morning, very impressed. The shceduler works great, You have to play with the setting for quality to get what you want. I did some test and the darn thing never even drop a single frame, audio video in sync so far. I haven't upgraded the drivers or the software yet, will do this tonight. Once I had done 1 movie decided to try the cable channel thing. So I hooked up my cable to my vcr and did a channel scan, wow it got them all and the quality is good. A few channel the picture is a bit fuzzy but that could be lack of strong signal. My review so far is excellent. I give a 10 t'ill now. I will post another review in a week or two. I strongly suggest this unit to anyone who wants to convert vhs to dvd. This is simple and IT WORKS...check in a week or two for a follow up review. I hope to test all the bells and whistle.. ooh by the way I used tv2000 to capture to mpeg, used movie box (i think)to convert to dvd format and burn with nero. in case anyone asks..

Pierre Voyer



Comments posted by Pierre Voyer from Canada, November 16, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





I didn't rate this card as I'm talking again. I'm one of those that has an AMD 1800+ using womble and was amazed that it hardly used the cpu. I have had experience before by putting a card next to the VGA slot (PCI 1 and VGA slot share the same irq on 90% of the motherboards. Not an expert but someone told me that.) I am yet to put the card in my XP 2800+ machine, but I'm not worried the performance would change any. It's unfortunate that some setups are not done right, and the card gets the bad rapp. I like this card so much that I'm lending out my machine for a week (spare machine) so it can be tested for our church services. Anyhow God bless and good luck!



Comments posted by oneref from United States, September 19, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating.





I use the PVR-250 as a personal video recorder, with Snapstream, and it works great!

I also use it to convert Vhs and 8mm home movies to DVDs with great results. I first use Win2000 program to create a (1-2 hour long) MPEG file of the captured source. I then use Womble Mpeg-Vcr to cut the captured MPEGs into individual smaller files that will become chapters on the DVD. I then have used both TmpGenc DVD Author and Ulead DVD Movie Factory to create the DVDs. Excellent results. No sound sync problems.

System: Dell 4550 2.4G
Memory: 512MB + 128MB = 640MB
Video Card: Nvidia Geforce4 MX 64MB



Comments posted by Hal Keiner from United States, August 03, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





I have converted several home movies to the computer through this card without difficulty. I still own the Canopus 1394 card that is probably collecting dust (not that it's a bad card, it doesn't convert avi to mpeg without taxing the processor) inside the computer right now. Setup and use were very simple after first loading the newest software versions. I have been using the Womble video wizard to cut out unwanted (will give that software a 9 as well, just for the speed of it) sections of video. I have investigated and tested several ways of converting our families’ entire home movie archive, and right now this combination is the best. Oh and also use TMPGenc DVD Author to finish.
God bless all!!!



Comments posted by Ron from United States, July 17, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.





My review is below this comment (gave it a 9/10). I forgot to list my system specs, so here they are:

HP Pavilion a264w
AMD Athlon 2800+
Nvidia Nforce 2 Motherboard
512MB
Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 w/TV out
150 & 80 GB HDD's
WinXP SP1



Comments posted by lednerg from United States, June 06, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating.





I've had this card for a week so far and I'm very happy with it. First off, the card is stable. I had an ATI TV Wonder Pro for about a month and it was a constant battle to keep it running for over an hour without crashing; I tried all the drivers and MMC releases, I even re-installed Windows. So having a card now that actually does what it's supposed to do is like a Godsend. I've kept it running for hours on end without incident, no matter what software I throw at it.

Picture quality is very nice, it rivals my cable box when I have the bitrate above 6 Mbps. When I have it on a low setting like 3 Mbps, it does a nice job of keeping the artifacts to a minimum. It may be because of compression, but I've noticed a significant decrease of noise and graniness compared to regular broadcast. There is one problem that sometimes creeps up, though. Sometimes, dark areas with lots of color saturation tend to strobe about twice a second. But you have to be looking for it. This is what brought the card down one point from a perfect score.

I haven't had any audio problems whatsoever. Since all the compression is being done in the card, there are no sync issues. The sound is crisp and clear without the distortion the ATI card sometimes had with loud TV shows.

Channels tune in just fine. There is a little bit of lag, but that's only because it needs to go through compression first. Also it sometimes drops audio for a split second right after I change the channel, but it's not a big deal. That actually might be a software issue

I haven't used the PVR program that came with the card yet (it did install without a hitch), so I can't say anything about it. Instead, I use Snapstream's Beyond TV. BTV seems like it was made for this card; there have been no conflicts or dropped frames or anything. It's really a great combination. You can watch a recorded show while recording something else at the same time and it doesn't even flinch.

Highly recommended.



Comments posted by lednerg from United States, June 05, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





I've been using one of these for over 2 years now, on a PIII 600 MHz. Let me also say that my satisfaction went up with a decent video card (I'm using an ATI 7000). I liked this card enough that when my first one died, I got a replacement.

I've never had any compatability problems with this card - I guess because I originally installed in in PCI slot 2 originally and never moved it ! I'm also using a relatively old MOBO - Intel 440BX chipset - using UDMA 33 to my harddrives. Inspite of my ancient hardware, I have no problems recording the 12Mbps files. If you need to use the PC for something else at the same time, you can "freeze" the display and it will continue recording.

File compatability - I usually run my VCD files through TMPGenc 2.5 after they have been edited, after that they are fine.

The same seems to work for SVCD, except I find TMPGEnc does better at editing the MPEG2 files. I have yet to try Womble - I would hope it will do a better job.

I have tried doing Star Wars VHS capture - the White-on-white scenes were a bit of trouble, but for the most part it came out OK.




Comments posted by Scott from United States, May 25, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.





After trying a pinnacle card, which i returned within
4 days, i decided to go for this and it turned out to
be a wise move.
If i can use it anyone can, easy to use, great captures
and billiant tv pictures make this the card to have.



Comments posted by scotsman from United Kingdom, May 03, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10.





I have been searching for a PVR card for quite awile and finally settled on this one. I am using an iwill kk266 motherboard with an amd 1.33ghz chip(non duron). I also have an sblive (The sblive has been a very troublesome card with just about anything other than leaving the computer off). I installed the card and in 15minutes i was watching tv fine. Im playing with the record feature now. I really like the titan tv software that came with it, but i know it could be better, such as more tivo like in the menus. The live tv looks good, not plasma screen quality, but very watchable. Full screen is a little choppy.

I have tried hauppage cards in the past with dismal results and this one erases my mind about the bad experiences of the past. It came with fairly recent drivers and i did not need to install any extra ones or adjust any settings. I would reccomend this card to anyone looking for a pvr card.



Comments posted by Rich from United States, May 01, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





I have a Athlon XP 2600+ running Windows XP and just recently bought this card after retiring my trusty old Ati Tv Wonder. I have not had one single problem, in fact it was probably the easiest piece of hardware I have ever installed! I don't quite understand why other AMD users are having problems.

I bought this card to use as a pvr lined out to my home tv and so far the results have been fabulous. The quality of the captures are above excellent. Best thing about it is you can still use your PC while recording your tv shows with ZERO frame loss. I can play Medal of Hounor while capturing the latest CSI or I can watch whatever I have recorded while recording another show, simply awesome.

My only real complaints are the bundled software and the fact the card doesn't work with most of the current batch of capturing software but all ya really need is Wintvcap(which has a integrated timer to setup scheluled recordings from either svideo, rca or cable connection and uses about 2% cpu while recording) and womble Mpegvcr to edit and your set.

All in all an above excellent product from my experiences, I wouldn't hesitate to by a Hauppage product again in the future!!



Comments posted by MK_ULTRA from Canada, April 30, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.





Just to let you all know from what I have read, the pvr cards dont support AMD chips and as you might have read all the previous users that have had complaints all had AMD chips. So beware about purchacing this card if you are an AMD user.

Technetium



Comments posted by Tech from United States, April 29, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating.




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