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| Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP Expert | Tv Tuner Analog VideoIn |
Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? *based on user reports. |
PCI | $50 | 7.8/10 43 votes |
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| WinFast TV2000 XP Expert is your best personal digital video recorder with video editing & authoring. It is the smartest and most effective way of turning your PC into a high definition TV and FM entertainment center.
It allows broadcast TV viewing, stereo FM radio, live video display and video communication on a PC with the finest quality and optimal performance. Moreover, you are able to access rich variety of information at no cost and without an Internet connection through today\'s data broadcast technology! |
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Can somebody please help me with this fu***** card? I've had it since December and a week ago I rebooted windows and now when I try to install it it says that one file/driver is missing. I remember that I had difficulties the first time I installed it but I can't remember what I did then. I tried to uninstall it and then install it again couple of times but it always cannot find some file named 'cx88vid.sys' on WinFast Drivers (CX2388x). I've been sitting here for couple of hours now trying to install the damn thing! I need help!! Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...... Comments posted by happy_pretty_funny from Yugoslavia, September 25, 2008: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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Hello! I just bought a Winfast TV2000 XP Expert. I followed the Quick Installation Guide without a problem. I rebooted the computer and lauch the program WinFast PVR2 and I got a message "Cannot find any available BDA devices". I found out that in Device Manager, the MULTIMEDIA VIDEO CONTROLLER is in yellow exclamation point and the properties says "The drivers for this device is not installed". I tried reinstalling the driver in different ways but the results always say "An error occured during the installation of the device. The data is invalid". I removed and reinstalled the board in different PCI slots and tried reinstalling the driver again, still no luck. The drivers came with the CD and I also tried reinstalling the latest driver downloaded from Leadtek website. It seems to me that the device won't accept any driver which tells me it could be defective! I'm not sure and I need help. Thanks in advance. Respectfully, Allen Pardy Comments posted by allen_pardy from United States, June 22, 2008: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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hi! guys/gals i have tried capturing, it's very nice quality, i'm new at this stuff. i was wondering if i could ask you guys... is it possible to have less space when space but still have good quality? thanks.. please let me know...thanks again. pandahuge@yahoo.com Comments posted by pandahuge from Philippines, May 30, 2008: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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Heeeeeeeeeeeeeelp Can any one sent me the instalation driver for winfast TV2000 xp expert . I have lost my cd and the update driver that i download from the official side is not working for the first instalation. Thank you Evagelos If you can helpme pleace sent mail to evapa2@mycosmos.gr Comments posted by Evagelos from Greece, September 20, 2007: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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WARNING****The Winfast TV2000 XP no longer works with windows xp. It is not compatible. Comments posted by HonestBill from United States, July 26, 2007: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K |
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I can copy tv to my hard drive but cant burn it. I have tried Nero, Roxio and DVD Decrypter but no luck. Can anyone help? Comments posted by Moe from Canada, April 07, 2007: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 6 of 10. |
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Fantastic TV picture and finally got FM to work but not with the software supplied on CD. Used new XP drivers on Leadtek site. Also found updated PVR software on Aussie WinFast forum. Looks a lot better plus has additional video features. Haven't done any recording. However, new software really made the TV video beautiful on Samsung 960BF LCD monitor, using digital interface. FM is good but not many stations where I live. Now I've been using a old STB PCI TV/FM card for about 8 years. Got it to work under XP and may move it to another machine that still has a CRT. The reason I got the Leadtek card was due to IRQ problems. Alas, it was an XP problem which they just patched in March 07. Still the picture quality is far better than the old BT878 chip especially on LCD monitor. Boys and girls this is a good TV card and as such many of you will still have to play with it to get it to work as I have done for over 8 years. Can't say it's all been fun either but I've had my old one in approx 7 PC's going all the way back to an AMD K6-2 300. My current system is a Abit KD7-Raid Mobo, AMD Athlon XP 2800+, 2 GB RAM, 6 Internal HD's, 1 Ext HD, GeForce FX 5200, Ext Serial Modem for Fax and phone line monitoring, Router, Cable Modem, Laser, Inkjet, and a 4x6 Photo Printer, 2 LiteOn DVD burners, old Web Cam, 5.1 Speakers, APC UPS. OS: XP Pro. I'm going to give this card a 9 due to software CD. Leadtek also has new drivers for Vista. Do a search for WinFastPVR2_20214 that I found and cured a lot of the initial problems with Leadtek's software. Be sure to uninstall old stuff first. New PVR2 may work on MCE but have no way to test. Also, comment below about not being able to edit .cfg is still valid. Good luck and enjoy! Comments posted by Bubba9 from United States, March 19, 2007: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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I have this card for about 3 months now and I have only few complains about it. Actually complains are about the software that comes with it. It's SUX!!! I would give it 0 if I could rate it separatelly and 10 for the card, so the whole package got 9. This card does everything it's advertised to do and it does pretty fine job. I have captured in every format possible and I have yet to see any dropped frames. Not even in direct burn mode (real fast way to capture). My system though is: Dual P4 XEON 2.4GHz (running at 2.5GHz) with Hyper Threading support, 1 Gb of RAM, 2 Ultra 320 37GB HDDs in RAID 1 for the system, 2 Ultra 160 75GB HDDs in RAID 0 (150GB total) for the capture, 16X dvd burner, etc. As I said one of my complains is the software. Beside it functionality, it also looks ugly. Also as it was mentioned before, this card is not supported in Media Cender Edition ot Windows XP. In the response to my question to Leadtek the just said to use the software provided with the card. To some of you who would like to get it working with Windows XP MCE, I would suggest trying drivers from different cards (even from different manufacturers) who use the same chip in their cards. You may get full or partial functionality of TV2000XP Expert in this setup, or it may not work at all. In any case it worth a try and you wont brake anything anyway. I will try it when I get more time. The ONLY ONE glitch with the card itself is when the screen is too bright it start flickering. Comments posted by Vitali Kolos from Canada, January 10, 2007: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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Although this card is great and I love it, I'm having trouble with tuning channels. If I set the region to Australia and scan for channels, it only picks up two channels, so I have to do the Adaptive Scan to get all 7 F2A channels (those of you in the US are so damn lucky to have cable). But as soon as I shut of the Winfast PVR I lose all the channels, and have to scan evertime I want to use the card, which is quite frustrating. Does anyone know if it's possible to save the channel configuration? Considering the channels always transmit at the same frequency I wouldn't think it would be that difficult to be able to save the channel list. Apart from that I'm very happy with this card, being my first ever TV Tuner/Capture card. I record to Mpeg Optimal quality and encode to Divx6 after editing, though I have found it's needed to limit file size to 2GB chunks to avoid audio sync issues, but once the files are edited and rejoined there's no problems. My main priority for purchasing a capture card was to record every V8Supercars round for posterity, in 20 years time it will be classic motorsport footage. Comments posted by Leighton from Australia, December 21, 2006: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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Until recently I haven't had any problems with this tuner. Got sick of the software provided with it, and upgraded to Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, but it will not load in media center (still works in software provided). Updated drivers, etc, still no go .. be warned you may have the same problems as I am having if you expect it to work in media center. Also, if someone else has had the same problems with their card, and has found a solution, please post it and email me where you found a solution. Thanks. Comments posted by M4rtin from Canada, November 23, 2006: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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for me it just work perfect!on my computer the image is like on my tv and with proper settings the capture is great too!i use divx 6 last release and the quality is very good (i capture with resolution 640x480 because my cpu is not soo great and for higher res. i have dropped frames:upgrades on my computer will solve this!:).but for the money i spend ,i have no complains!! Comments posted by boy in the hood from Romania, October 14, 2006: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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I bought this card 1 month ago and it's my first capture card with task of convert my old VHS to DVD and I am so satisfied with it, because of it's great quality. It's quality is more than money which you spend the only thing that you must aware of it is weekness of programs in pack,I mean ,when I captured from DVD sourse or it's TUNER with winfast PVR prog the image was so great but with VCR input in fast movement of camera in picture the quality became poor I had this problem with Ulead videoStudio too, so after some search I fined NeoDVD works great with this capture card but lack of edit tools,So now I capture with Neodvd in best DVDmode and then use ulead tools to edit it and now I get best quality which can get.:) when it capture in best quality(720*576 mpeg2) it uses 60% of cpu ,ever when it was in capturing I delete 2GB files from my hard without any frame drop!It's so great but I think the Expert mode is the best among RM&Deluxe. my system is : P4 2.1 full cach(512 kb) seagate 40GB plus 7200rpm 256 apacer ram Ati 9200SE 128mb Vga. Comments posted by Ehsan from Iran, Islamic Republic of, January 04, 2006: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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Well i got this capture card, and i have to say it`s works exelent for the money i paided for. one think is when capturing avi files i got frames drops video gets slow down, but using huffjuv v2.1 fixes the problem no more drop frames, for capturing mpeg is exelent it`s true that capturing at 640x480 your cpu`s usage gets down, i have to say that this card is exelent. my spec : amd 3200+ an35n ultra motherboard sound blater live 5.1 with hacked driver from audigy 4 wester digital ata 66 15 gigas maxtor 40 gigas ata 133 Comments posted by RE*ST.AR.S*2 from United States, April 29, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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I encounter exactly the same problem as L Vuyk with the color flickering on the upper half of the screen. This happens mostly when source is connected via RCA, but like L Vuyk said, sometimes it does not happen. I have not seen it happen if the source is a miniDV, even when connected to RCA. I also tried to use different software, settings, etc, but with no luck. When capturing MPEG2, the picture becomes pixelated when there is a sudden motion, specially while the camera is panning. I use Athlon 2GHz, 512MB DDR. Comments posted by tkyo from Philippines, March 31, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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just wanted to comment on the jan 22 2005 comment by L Vuyk, I'm having the exact same problems you are describing. Even with vcd capture, I get colour problems but no dropped frames. DivX capture is choppy . I'm using the following config: sempron 2400+, asrock microatx 8X agp, 300W enermax, 512meg no name ddr400 (operating at 333), 80gig 2M cache HD ata100, ati 9250 with 128mb vram. I've upgraded to a gig of no-name ram...hope it makes a difference. I'm wondering if power supply issues can be causing some problems seen in the forums. I'm giving this card a 7 since my old kworld bt878, though lower resolution capture, was a robust reliable card. btw, when discussing software capture cards, shouldnt we all be giving a brief summary of system config? probably not so important with hardware capture cards. cheers all Comments posted by smelly_feet from Canada, March 31, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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I recently spent several weeks looking for a video capture card that was inexpensive, would accept RCA/composite inputs and would capture in the .avi format. I bought this card because of it's price and it did what I wanted. I mainly bought it cause I got tired of looking and pulling my hair out over it. After getting the card in and installed, I had it up in running in about 30 minutes with no problems at all. I have had it for only a short time, but have done several captures, have done a DVD backup and what-not. Everything worked fine and I couldn't have asked for better. The quality of the video and sound is very good and for the money, this little card isn't bad at all. Since this is my first capture card, I don't have a clue how it stacks up to the expensive one. I do know that I am very satisfied with the performance of the card and the quality. I am not all that impressed with the bundled Ulead VideoStudio 8 SE, but it does a pretty good job. I did try it out when I first got it, but have opted for something else with more kick to it. This is a PVR, but I've only played with the FM for a few minutes and have not yet tried hooking cable up to it yet so I have no idea how the quality or what-not is. I do know that the capture portion of it is excellent in my opinion and is worth the $50 I paid for it. Comments posted by Vance from United States, March 22, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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Tv Tuner is an alright card to watch TV on your comp. I like it for watching TV when all the other TVs are in use in the house. (only 2 other tvs). The FM Tuner kinda sucks. I cant get very good reception on it no matter how i put the antenna up. I am dissappointed with this. I can only get 1 FM station with good quality without any buzzing and such. Overall it isent a bad card since I dont use the FM Tuner now because of the reception. Meh. Comments posted by Kdubbz from United States, March 16, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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Lousy card. Video freezing during recording. Drops the frames. I wasted a lot of time updating drivers, looking for the other capture software. Nothing helps. Garbage. Comments posted by Just Nobody from Canada, February 11, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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I rate this a 7, but that might be a little harsh. For the $50 I paid, I shouldn't really complain. The bundled software is functional and user-friendly once you set the right audio channels. The best way to illustrate why I'm disappointed in this card is as follows: Everything looks great and smooth until a character or some scenery in motion enlarges on the screen. The card just can't keep up, resulting in dropped frames and choppy playback. Perhaps if I tried Dscaler or something that might fix it. But it IS a software-based card anyway, meaning it hogs your computer's resources. I have noticed that cartoons look just fine, however. Comments posted by rick from United States, January 25, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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I bought this card for $65 CDN about 1 month ago, hoping to convert some Hi-8 video to DVD. It is installed in a quality rig - Athlon64 3000+, 1GB RAM, Asus MB, 200GB HD, fresh install of Windows 2000. The card was easy to install, works well with VDub or the PVR Software, Virtual VCR, etc. The card is stable, and I don't drop frames at 29.97 fps, 640x480. Unfortunately, the card continues to give me BIG problems with colour banding (for lack of a better term). It looks like the video is flickering. Red's flicker to pink off and on, that sort of thng. The sky flickers between blue and green, hopefully you get the picture. It is an irregular problem. Sometimes I can get 1/2 hour of nearly perfect video, then the problems start, and don't stop. A reboot doesn't help. So, basically I have gotten some good quality footage, but very inconsistent, and I have had to record the same stuff numerous times to get a good run. And it's time consuming because you can't just leave it be, and expect it to work right. You have to keep watching for the flickering. I have tried different encoding settings - huffyuv AVI, MPEG2, etc, which appears to make no difference. I have tried the latest drivers, older drivers, older PVR, all have the same problem. (fresh installs of Windows, as well, so as not to leave artifacts from previous installations) I've seen posts about this problem in other forums, relating to MPEG-2 encoding, but not general encoding, no matter which codec/compression is used. I have emailed tech support at Leadtek. They responded after a couple of days with some questions, so I answered the questions and sent them a short video showing the problem. That was several days ago, and so far, no response. I would like to give this a better rating, but the lack of tech support is very discouraging. I will likely RMA this piece of junk and trade up to something decent. Comments posted by L Vuyk from Canada, January 22, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 3 of 10. |
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This is my first Capture Card and I think it is great for the price. I went with it from the reviews that everyone gave it on here. It didn't take anytime to get it set up and going. I would recommend this card to anyone wanting to try out something new and don't want to pay too much. Comments posted by Tom from United States, December 13, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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This section applies to linux: After much suffering, I got it to "work" with modprobe cx8800 card=5 tuner=44 however as of 12/8/2004 it still doesnt have any sound, despite the card having an audio out which I ran directly into speaker. Video is okay. On Windows 2000 it didnt work either - channel scan would turn up nothing. May have had something to do with Windows not having an audio device (driver) installed. I didnt spend too much time on this since my primary interest is linux. Oh and why sound must be fed into sound card? Engineers are too dumb to send a video AND audio in one stream? I will be returning this card and buying an external tuner/encoder. Comments posted by Joe Booth from Canada, December 10, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? |
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You will not find a better tuner card for the price. This is my 4th card. I have found the card with the features I've been looking for all along. I've been using it for a week and have not had one gripe. Other cards gave me various problems such as a/v synch, pic quality, memory hog, etc. I have directv connected to it. Here are my ratings. Video quality 10 Sound quality 9 Performance 10 Video capture 9 Picture capture 10 PVR features 10 FM features 10 Comments posted by Deiter Cinatri from United States, October 04, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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I'm also going to say this is an very good card. I'm having some IRQ conflict problems, but, I expected that since my PCI slots are now all full with this LeadTek WinFast TV2000XP Expert installed. I triple boot this machine with w98SE, w2K, and wXP. Once I get the bugs worked out in w98SE, I'll move on to trials in the other two Windows OS's. The computer boots, but, it won't shut down properly. I can't access the FM tuner functions without a crash, either. Don't let this scare you. I truly believe I have an IRQ conflict. I've experienced these symptoms before. The TV tuner works in spite of the IRQ problem, so, I can talk about that. This card has a Conexant CX23883-19 chip and I've got to say that it is a major improvement over the older Conexant 878. The image display quality and the image capture quality from an analog signal are probably about as good as they can get. I expect a lot from these video cards even though they don't cost much. A long time ago I returned a card that had the Conexant 878 chip because I couldn't stand the poor image quality. On the other hand, this CX23883 chipped card from LeadTek is definitely a keeper. I like the way the video looks. The model designations from LeakTek are confusing. You must be sure to get the "Expert" model, I think, in order to be sure you get the 23881 Conexant chip. I have an old slow 733MHz computer so capture straight to 720x480 MPEG 2 is impossible--too many dropped frames. It will, however, do capture straight to DivX and MPEG1 with no dropped frames. I think you'd need 2GHz or faster CPU to capture straight to MPEG2 720 x 480. In the LeadTek software, it looks like I'll be able to capture straight to DVD when I get my 3GHz computer in the near future. That's cool. A big plus for me is the fact that the LeadTek PVR software will hook into all the codecs available on my system. It will access those designed for VFW (Video For Windows) as well as those designed for WDM (Windows Driver Model). I am able to capture through the Huffy YUV lossless codec without dropped frames. That's impressive and that's what I wanted most from this card. I've used a Canopus ADVC-100 in the past to capture and it works great but capture is limited to the DV codec by the sheer nature of its design. The Canopus works great, but, I've always wanted to experiment with the Huffy codec. Those older BT878 cards would do Huffy, but, the digital transcoding chip output quality was bad. This CX23883 chip overcomes all of those problems and does a really great analog to digital conversion. So, basically, I've performed my first captures ever using the Huffy codec and I've got to say, I'm impressed. Now I know what all of you have been raving about. About 9 or 10 minutes of capture through Huffy is about 4 Gigs. TMPGEnc did a nice MPEG2 encoding from those Huffy files. I did a 30 minute capture at 720 x 480 with great audio synch. I've got the audio routed through the internal connectors from the LeadTek card to the internal aux input of my SoundBlaster Live! Value sound card. I like that option because it leaves the external line-in of the SoundBlaster available for other inputs. I have no trouble with low sound output. The LeadTek software has an audio recording level control that provides adequate sound levels at 50% of max. I've only captured from analog cable so far. I haven't yet tried input from a camera or VCR. I've got to say that the capture and image quality from the analog cable signal borders on excellence. Conexant has really done a nice job at this price point. Many of our cable system analog signals are very poor. If the Conexant chip encounters a bad signal, it can't, of course, do anything to avoid that. However, on those channels where we get a nice, clear, strong unadulterated analog signal from our cable company, the Conexant chip captures quite well. From what little I've seen so far, I'd almost say it's "perfect." Using only Windows 98SE so far, file sizes are limited to about 3.9Gigs due to the limitations of FAT32 and the OS. The LeadTek software does allow an automatic file split at the file size you may choose. That function works, but, there's a bit of a "blip" in the video frames as it switches its captures from one file to another. That "blip" might be dependant on computer speed because mine's an old slow 733MHz. On the other hand, the software called ScenAlyzer (for DV capture) doesn't have that problem on my machine. Therefore, I think it is possible that the LeadTek software might not have the "predictive ending" compensation that is afforded by ScenAlyzer. This, of course, can be overcome using the 32-bit Windows OS's and the NTFS file system so that capture files can be large without the need for a split. Like I said, I've got IRQ problems that will take some time to work out. I can't, therefore, describe the time shifting and timed program functions because I've got to ake one problem at a time. IRQ happiness comes first in my book. Others have already discussed the PVR functions, however. One "glitch" you must expect when buying this card involves the channel line-up. That is a known aggravating bug. There is no manual method of adding a new channel or deleting a channel from the tuner function. You can only do a full scan of your cable company's analog signals and allow the LeadTek software to find everything. It did find all available channels. The channel numbers are different on many channels compared to a normal television channel number selection system. The channel line-up is stored in *.cfg files of the LeadTek WinFast software. They have [b]not[/b] provided an interface for manually editing the channels. If your cable company adds a new channel, your only means of grabbing that new channel is to do a full scan again and this adds a lot of duplicates to your channel line up and many channel numbers are messed up in the old array to which the new array is added. The only easy way to overcome this is to uninstall the PVR software, then delete the installation directory so that the *.cfg files are deleted. Then, reinstall the PVR software and do a full channel scan. As an alternative, now that I know which *.cfg files are involved, I think I have discovered another workaround. When I next install the PVR software, I'm first going to copy the original *.cfg files to a location BEFORE I do a channel scan for available channels. Then, if the cable company adds a new channel, I'll first restore those original *.cfg files and that should put me back to "no channels" in the line-up. Then, I'll do a full channel scan to access all available channels. Like I said, the channel numbers don't necessarily correspond to the channel numbers you are used to and there's no manual way to modify them in the PVR software. You can, however, apply text names to the PVR channel numbers. In other words, you can give the text name "HBO" to the channel number for that station. You can give the name "MSNBC" to that channel number. In this way, you can select the proper channel not by number but by its name. I'd surely like the WinFast software people to add a manual editor for channel addition/deletion/renumbering. That would be cool. Once I get the IRQ bugs worked out, I'll play with those *.cfg files in some hex editors and see what I can discover. Maybe things can be edited after all? The PVR software seems to assign each found active frequency to the next available channel number as it scans the analog signals. This is quite similar to the process used by televisions in the U.S except that televisions know which conventional channel number should be assigned to a particular frequency. The problem is, if the WinFast PVR software mistakenly identifies a snow-filled inactive channel as an active one, it will, of course, assign a channel number to it and all other following identified channels will be mis-numbered as a result. Dagnabbit! There's no method provided to manually delete that bad channel and rearrange the rest!! I'm still keeping the card. For $50 U.S. from NewEgg, it's quite a bargain, I think. Mostly I was just looking for a decent analog-digital conversion chip. The Conexant 23881 is certainly that. As long as I can get the IRQ problem worked out, I'd be happy to keep this card for the price even if I used it only for analog captures from cameras and VCR. The Conexant 23881 chip is just that good in my estimation. The WinFast PVR software still has some needs for improvement, but, it's finally at a point where it is basically functional. Software installation is a bit of a pain. You really must use the updates for drivers and PVR software available at the LeadTek site. You would like to install only the updated drivers and PVR software from the web site and avoid the older versions provided on CD-ROM. However, it seems that some files are missing if you use only the downloads from the web site. I had to install the drivers and PVR from the CD-ROM. Then, manually update the card drivers from the hardware control panel using the download of the updated drivers. Then, I had to uninstall the old PVR version (which leaves some important files behind) and then install the updated PVR version. I tried installing the updated PVR version as an update over top of the old PVR software and it took, but, thoroughly messed up the video image in the process. The only method that worked for meinvolved using the IntallShield uninstaller for the PVR software with a subsequent installation of the new version over top of the files that were left behind by the InstallShield uninstaller. So, yes, there are software problems, but, the encoder chip is great. For $50 U.S. I'm keeping it just for the fun of it because it's basic analog to digital signal conversion in the hardware chip is quite acceptable. Conexant CX23883-19. Finally they got it right. Now, we just need to wait for WinFast to get the bugs out of the software. In the meantime, I'll certainly get $50 use out of the card just capturing analog signals to the Huffy codec. Comments posted by VideoJockey2002 from United States, August 26, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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fantastic card. i brought this card because that's the only one the shop had, but said i could return if it was no good. it cost me £39.00 and it's awesome. i can capture 768 X 576 PAL & 720 X 480 ntsc in mpeg 1,2,4 and avi. it is a bit processor intensive for my 1.6 gig Athlon xp but i can still capture any resolution without dropping a single frame (can't do anything else with my computer while capturing though) i did some tests with this card and they were perfect. i recorded some of tomb raider 2 from my dvd player in uncompressed avi and ripped the same frames from the dvd, you could hardly tell the difference. i also tried video and had no macrovision problems. this was very important because i couldn't back up home movies before becase my ati aiw 128pro card & my lifeview 2000 card would always see none perfect tapes as macrovision encrypted. this card solved that issue. it's awesome!!! Comments posted by syzmix from United Kingdom, August 25, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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Column Explanation  Click on this for
more technical information.New comments= New comments since your last visit. New Card= New Capture Card since your last vist. Feature What kind of main capture features it supports Analog VideoIn = Analog composite or/and SVHS video input Video Card = If it is a Video Card/Graphic Card Tv Tuner = Built-In TV-Tuner Digital TV = Built-In Digital TV-Tuner DV/Firewire = DV/Firewire/i.Link input DV Converter = Analog composite or/and SVHS video input and converts to DV video MPEG1 hardware = Capture directly MPEG1(VCD) video using hardware* MPEG2 hardware = Capture directly MPEG2(SVCD and DVD) video using hardware* MJPEG hardware = Capture directly to MJPEG using hardware* MPEG4 hardware = Capture directly to MPEG4(DivX,Xvid) video using hardware* * = Most capture cards can capture to this format using software but it usually requires a very fast computer, if it supports realtime capturing it uses the capture cards hardware and it doesn't require a very fast computer and you may get better quality but less options/settings than software capturing. Compatibility What Operating System our users have reported that it works on, Win95=Works Cnx = Connection What type of connection the capture device has to the computer, PCI, AGP, USB1/1.1/2, DV or PCMCIA. Price The price in US dollar. Rating The first rating is based on a weighted rank (the true Bayesian), it requires at least 5 votes to get a weighted rating. The second rating between the ( ) is a normal average rating. Comment User comments, click on view to view them or add to post a own comment. We can not gurantee that this list is 100% correct. Don't forget to read the User Comments for more Info about each Capture card. If you find any features that are not correct contact us instead of posting a comment about it. |
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