Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP Capture Card

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Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP Tv Tuner
Analog VideoIn
Win95 Win98 Win2K WinXP
Vista? NT4 MAC Linux
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PCI $50 7.8/10
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Description (from the manufacturer site)
Main Features

1.) Remote Control Power On/off function
2.) Support Audio In connector, more flexible for audio capture
3.) Favorite Channel List and selection: (unlimited)
4.) Codec Configuration: Video and Audio compression
5.) Capture file size can excess 4GB(FAT 32).
6.) Support PIP( Picture in Picture), one for live and the other for playback
7.) Support FM radio record and playback function.
8.) Playback Mode: Speed Shuttle (1/16~16x), Multiple Media Files
9.) Schedule Management: easy and quickly.
10.) Driver: WDM driver for Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
11.) Multi-Language support: 7 languages (German, Spanish, French, English, Japanese, Chinese(BG5), Chinese(GB))
12.) Certified by Microsoft Windows XP WHQL test
Remote Control Power On/Off function

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I hate this freaken card. I have never ever ever been able to get a good rip from it. Anywhere from audio video not matching up, to lines on the screen, to mildly blured picture. I got this card because at the time this site said it was the best. Waste of my hard earned cash.

XP
512 megs ram
2400 athlon xp.



Comments posted by Travis from United States, June 13, 2005:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 3 of 10.





I installed this card and have tried to record some vhs tapes to mpeg. I can't quite figure out what level to set the audio recording to optimize the sound. There's no db metering or anything that I can see. My recordings seem a bit over-modulated. Any suggestions?



Comments posted by mikef from Other, January 07, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10.





The folks at Leadtek seem to be releasing driver updates and PVR updates very frequently. I've only had the card a couple of months and updated my software several times. It keeps getting better. I didn't have working Teletext initially but do now.

So keep checking their website often.



Comments posted by davej from Other, September 16, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10.





In contrast to previous messages, this card captures at 768*576 perfectly well.

I don't like the Leadtek Software because it's ugly and a bit buggy. I use VirtualVCR or IuVCR for capturing, Dscaler for viewing, fairy Radio for radio and Uice or Girder for the Remote control. At this moment I use the BtWincap drivers. But the Leadtek drivers are also OK. The Iulab drivers work but with no audio (so you can only use them for capturing from VCR or Cam).




Comments posted by knoertploert from Other, June 13, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10.





To Richard Ni Xuon

The fact that Leadtek states it SUPPORTS PAL BG is the problem with this card. It does not. PAL BG is 768 x 576. It is *not* 704 x 576. Also the mere mention of 720 x 576 (pal DVD) is completely irrelevant. As you'd be aware there is no direct correlation between frame size and aspect ratio with MPEG. MPEG makes no use of the frame width, only the height. For example a 16:9 720 x 576 PAL DVD, actually plays back at 1024 x 576. (576 x 16 / 9), so mentioning MPEG standards for capturing limits is completely useless for AVI capturing.

Have you even try to capture at 720 x 576 in avi with that card? You may find as I did that it WON'T DO IT. 704 x 576 was the highest the card I tested would capture to in AVI (using PAL BG). (on a 1.2ghz Pentium 3)

This is totally unacceptable to me. This card is suppose to be using the Conextant BT878 chipset, and that chipset can clearly capture at 768 x 576, yet the leadtek can't. Heck even a cheap Pinnacle PCTV Rave card can do it, and that's based on the older model BT848 !. The Pinnacle also allows custom frame sizes of *any* size upto 768 x 576. The Leadtek locks you into set frame sizes for no apparent reason. Poor implementation of the bt8x8 chip can be the only conclusion. (1:1 PAL CCIR601 = 720 x 576, PAL SQ Pixel = 768 x 576, so it seems that the Leadtek card does not support 1:1 PAL SQ Pixel as described in the BT878 whitepaper)

So all I can say is if you live in a PAL BG country and wish to capture to AVI then this is not a card I would recommend.

There are many cards which can capture 768 x 576 using same chipset as this tv2000xp, just check out this link from this dvdrhelp.

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/comptvcards.htm

{Quoting Richard: You might be uninformed regarding this card. This card is never intented to capture at
768*576 (PAL). As a matter of fact, not many video cards capture at 768*576. Pinnacle DC10+ for example capture at maximum 768*576 for PAL but only at maximum 640*480 for NTSC.

Leadtek Winfast TV2000XP captures at 720*576(PAL-DVD), 720*480(NTSC-DVD), 352*288(PAL-VCD) and 352*240(NTSC). Other 4:3 options such as 640*480 or 320*240 are also available in the Winfast PVR. But if this software is not user friendly for you, you may want to use other software such as VirtualDub or AVI_IO that can enable you to capture video at various framesize as long its width and height do not exceed 720*576 (PAL) and 720*480 (NTSC).)



Comments posted by Narler from Other, June 12, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 2 of 10.





I,ve had this card for a few months now and basicly like it . It improved capture 100 percent when I installed a Sima Copymaster and started capturing via the composite connections. It also helped capture quality when I only have the connections hooked up that I am using for the capture (composite and audio). One problem, can't seem to download the new updates from the Leadtec site. I get logged in and then the party's over. Don't know if the site's down or if one of the new IE security updates is screwing up the operation. All those IE updates give me an uneasy feeling. All and all a good card. Not as clear capture as Sony Giga Pocket but then you can't use Giga Pocket to copy much anyhow. What a waste. If there's a hack I surewish I could find it. ....... harrymj3



Comments posted by harry from Other, June 08, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10.





Before I start I'll just say that I bought the TV2000 XP Deluxe package.

I've captured a few movies now using this card to various mpeg1, mpeg2 and mjpeg standards all with excellent results using an 800MHz Duron/256MB SDRAM/7200rpm WD drive with 8mb cache system. I'm extremely pleased with the hardware and have had supurb results with captures using the faster codecs. Personally I found the included software fairly useless, I really dislike the "Winfast Entertainment Centre" it's made to look all fancy but I find the interface is far from intuitive and its also fairly resource heavy. Ulead Videostudio 6 has been prone to locking up while capturing, ussually I can only stop a capture with it, by killing the program. I'm now using Cyberlink PowerVCR 2 and am extremely happy with its performance and the excellent captures it produces and also have had success with iuLab's iuVCR.
I have tried several of the the third party drivers (btwincap, iuLab's Tweaked bt8x8 etc.) under win2k these last few days and find the current drivers on leadteks website to be the best solution. Overall I feel that you get a hell of a lot for the price, even if you take the software (which I really dislike) out of the picture, you still get a real nice card which makes excellent captures, a tv tuner which works well providing you use an external antenna, a cute little remote, also you can listen to FM radio, you get a antenna for that included!

Things that I think would've been nice are headers on the board for audio connection to the soundcard internally, and also an internal connector for the IR sensor so it could be hidden in the front panel of a case, just peering through a small hole, instead of sticking it on the front and having a meter of cable on the outside of the case... (I might address these two issues myself with a soldering iron later if I feel energetic, now the card is still a bit too new to experiment with.)

If this card had software that suited my tastes better and those minor issues addressed, I would give it a perfect 10.



Comments posted by Karina from Other, June 04, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux - Rated: 9 of 10.





I bought this card and after about a month and a half it stopped working. I checked for new drivers and despite spending several days trying to install them I never could get them to work.

I then called support and they were of no help at all. I am sorry I bought this card and would not buy another of their products again.

I am thinking about the ASUS or waiting for the new ATI TV Wonder Pro to be released.



Comments posted by neo from Other, June 02, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 1 of 10.





Very nice TV-Card. Few problems are
- It takes too much of my CPU (XP2600+) cycle under both W2K and WinXP. Its about 60% with less than 25% of my 17" monitor. Is this happen to anyone whom also using a AMD CPU ?
- There quite a few channels that it just can not pick up there signals, not sure why. I am in the Toronto area and my regula TV are perfectly okay. It just have too much statics with most of channels. However, if I using the Video-In via my VCR, things are much better but not perfect. Any suggestion please.
- Capture with VCD format from VHS is not that good, but in SVCD is much, much better and acceptable.
Over all, its a money worth and fun to own this TV-Card.



Comments posted by Nice from Other, June 01, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10.





Great card;
Installed with some minor difficulties on Win2K: Had to manually point to the various drivers on the CD to circumvent crash on install. Easy enough but might put some users off.
Quality of the picture is superb and far better than I expected.
So good that I find myself watching TV on my computer screen rather than on my 42' Sony which has a gorgeous picture!!! I did not expect that!!
WinPVR software is neat, but has some silly idiosyncracies. For exemple: Why can't I just go to the schedule screen to play already recorded videos? Why do I need to have 2 separate programs to run FM radio and TV. Why can't I just change the input from TV to Radio on the same scheduler? What happens if I have a conflict schedule between TV and Radio recording (Haven't tried but I suspect it would fail one recording). Why can't the app exit after a recording.... (So I can use another cap program for the next recording)
Also it uses more CPU cycles than WinDVR to record so I use WinDVR to record at high resolution but WinFast to record .wmv low quality files (to take the news with me at work and play postage stamp size in the corner of my screen while I work).
Real nice option to be able to record low qual wmvs.
1 hour= about 128 Mb file. Very small indeed and quite surprisingly watchable small size.
EPG from Titan TV in the US is neat, though I am having some minor problems using Opera as a browser (extra channels show up which are not selected). I hate IE, so don't like to have to use it for anything but it works perfectly with IE. Maybe I'll finally upgrade to Opera 7 (Don't like M2 mail, another subject!)
Annoyance: Though I input satellite (Dish Network) through S-Video, EPG insists on Tv recording through a channel number when none are setup.

Ulead software is very good but too time consuming for my needs, which are more on the Tivo side than on the film creation side. Nice touch to include it though.

Remote control works real well, and is recognized by a number of 3rd party remote control programs, so you can use it to control BsPlayer, ZoomPlayer, Real Media Player, Windows Media Player, etc.... Real handy. Haven't made it work with WinDVR unfortunately (CPU / timing issues I believe). It is very responsive with WinPVR. If only I could find universal codes so I can program my 7in1 remote to replace it.....

On my 1Ghz Athlon with 384MHz RAm and separate IDE 40GB HD for capture, I have to be very careful when capturing. I can get 640x480 at 3600Kbps stereo.

Similarly time shifting of decent quality is not possible with this CPU. So i don't use it as much as I thought I would.

I will be upgrading soon, since my machine is getting old. I am hoping a 2.7 GHz AMD on a ASUS A7N8X deluxe with 512MB will give me the speed boost I want to be able to capture at full 640x480 resolution Mpeg 2 high stereo without maxing CPU. Also that I will be able to time shift at highest quality.

All in all a great card, let down a bit by good but piecemeal software. However considering the price ($55 delivered at my door) I am extremely happy with the current results, and very hopeful to have a great system after my upgrade. A top software PVR costs more than the card, and the included software is more than the card also!

If you want top quality TV on your computer at very low price, this is it. If you want extreme capture, you may need a recent computer, otherwise thinj about onboard MPEG encoder.






Comments posted by Eric3a from Other, May 29, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





Great card for video and TV

I have also found a great use for converting my old LP records and cassette tapes to mp3 by using the FM radio interface and record button and using the line in to plug in my stereo turntable/cassette player instead of the card line out lead. I just turn off and on record in between tracks and create great mp3 files that I can recreate albums from using Nero burning rom.

the U-lead software is also great. I still use a firewire card for DV capture though but the video studio software recognises my firewire card!!! Great Value. The leadtek card is great for analogue video capture.



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





Initialy I had trouble installing the software and drive that got shipped with the tuner card. I had directx 9 installed on my PC. I reinstalled the windos xp and then installed the driver and the PVR before applying any critical patches from Microsoft. Since then the driver and the PVR is working great. I also send a note to the Leadteak customer care and was send a link to the latest PVR and the driver that has passed windows XP certification.

More details at http://www.leadtek.com.tw/support/download.asp?pronameid=82

Since then I have installed Directx 9 and has no futher issues with the PVR.

Hope this helps.



Comments posted by tvtuner from Other, May 21, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating.





Wont submit a review or rating for this card as I've only had it for a few hours, just wanted to confirm that it does work with linux (with some messing about) although not officially supported by the manufacturer.



Comments posted by Karina from Other, May 20, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux - Rated: No rating.





For a long time I wanted to buy a Cature Card. Primarily for catupring from vcr and camera, to backup old movies.

So I read a lot of reviews, and after reading some more here at dvdrhelp, I decided to go ahead and buy this card.

I followed Andy's advice, and it installed everything correctly. The PVR software works ok. That is the radio worked, I couldn't look TV yet because I hadn't had an extra coax cable (don't laugh).
But well I wanted to truy to capture from video, so I hooked up the vcr and captured something with virtualdub, it worked after some tweaking in vitualdub. so I like it so far.
So now I have to get a long coax cable and hook it up, and then I am going to try to capture from TV.

Only thing left is to try to get the videocamera hooked up and capture some old movies, and then put them on CD.



Comments posted by Marco from Other, May 19, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





Selected this card after reading heaps of reviews and sorting out what was compatible with my system.I am not that computor literate so any directions or information i have been able to source has been of the utmost help.Basically it came down to this forum and the realisation that alot of yous had tried this card and the Pros far outwayed the cons.Their are lots of possible solutions to problems you can come up against within this Forum . My system is a 1.8 gig Athlon,GA-7vrx motherboard,512mb PC2700 333DDR Ram,60 gig maxtor hard drive,5.1 Soundblaster live, Win XP Home and a Ge force 3 Ti 500 graphics card.Mostly use for games and video edditing.WinFast TV 2000XP Deluxe capture card arrives.After reading reviews and comments was abit weary about software[namely drivers]installation but thought what the heck will follow leadteks supplied instructions.Installed hardware,not a problem,Turned on computor up pops install hardware wizard[manual tells you to click cancel to exit Wizard and insert the software CD into your CD Rom drive]You then are supposed to follow the set up screen prompts to sucessfully install the drivers and applications."CRASH" Stright after the choose what language prompt my PC spits the dummy and the blue screen of death instructs me to stop whimpering and moaning while it sorts its S--- out.Reeboot up and running again,I try again,same thing.My worst fears are realised,"Problems"Its then that i remember this discussion forum and the possible answers to my dellema.Firstly i would like to thank Andy whos solution to install Winfast Leadtec 2000XP under win XP made my installation a success.[You can find his answers in this forum]I followed his instructions to the letter Downloaded the latest drivers from the Leadtec site and in about 10min had it all up and running without a hitch.The pictures im getting are as good as a 14 inch Tv[if not better]on full screen.I have a direct coaxel cable to an outside vhf/uhf aireal.In summing up id just like to say that for the price its exceeded my expectations and im looking forward to tinkering around with it.[With the help of yous of course]Downside,I wish companies would iron out installation bugs before shipping."Installations Everything"



Comments posted by Tony from Other, May 16, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10.





I've used my Winfast TV 2000 XP, and it works great. I just formatted my harddrive and reinstalled WinXP Pro. The first time around, installation was easy, but this time, it's being a butthead. I've downloaded new drivers and I have extracted them to a folder on a desktop. I went to the systems properties to view the device manager and I see two unrecognized devices.

1. Multimedia Controller
2. Multimedia Video Controller

When I tried to install the drivers, I directed them to the folder where I extracted the drivers. However, they didn't find them. I then went specificially to the driver to install. I installed the Video Controller. After that the Tuner and the Crossbar installed automatically. However, Multimedia Controller wasn't. I just couldn't find the drivers for that. I went ahead an installed the latest winfast PVR application. It couldn't find the video device. I've been so frustrated. This is a good card, because it has worked before....I don't know what's going on now though. If anyone can help, that would be great.



Comments posted by Van from Other, May 16, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.





Finally got this working and am very pleased with it. Although I cannot capture in AVI_IO or Virtualdub as it keeps saying that another program is using the device (though I close down the Winfast program). So I just capture in Winfast PVR and it works great.



Comments posted by Eddie from Other, May 16, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





I have found this card to be a great purchase! Everything I have needed / wanted to do with it has worked, without problems.

If people are having problems installing drivers for this card, or cannot see it when it has been installed into the PC, here is your problem.

If you are running Windows XP, you will probably have ACPI turned on in your BIOS. XP will auto-allocate IRQ numbers to the devices installed in your computer. If you change IRQ numbers, XP will become unstable. So, to rectify this problem, you are going to have to re-install your computer. Steps are as follows...

- Place all hardware into available PCI slots
- Go to the BIOS setup, and disable ACPI
- Re-install Windows
- Your devices will now be there (hopefully)

If they are not, you can now change hardware in the PCI slots (change them around) and it wont affect the boot of XP.

Please note: If you have a ghost of your OS, there is no point in using it. The ghost will still remember the IRQ slots, and it still wont boot. So, if you were thinking that a reformat is not needed, think again!

Have fun peoples



Comments posted by Rikoshay from Other, May 12, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





I am having lots of success with this card after finally getting it installed! Many thanks must go to Andy for his guide to installing the card under Windows XP further down the page - points have to be knocked of the cards rating for the crap support offered by Leadtek. Once it's working though, good results can be obtained!

Thanks again to Andy!!!!



Comments posted by Scott from Other, April 26, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10.





The card functioned as advertised without problems, however there are 2 main things that this card had wrong with it, which others may or may not have noticed:

A) - the card I used DID NOT recognize full screen PAL as 768 x 576 (which we use in Australia), it would only recognize PAL as being 704 x 576. This means all captures are out of the correct 4:3 ASPECT ratio. Not only did it NOT allow 768 x 576 captures, but it also didn't allow other frame sizes, for example it would NOT allow 384 x 288 (which is 1/2 resolution 768 x 576), it would only allow 352 x 288 (which is 1/2 resolution 704 x 576). So with everything not being in the correct 4:3 aspect ratio, it didn't matter how good or bad the card was, the captures still looked crap.

Now you may not having any trouble with captures if you just stick to MPEG capturing as you can set/force 4:3 aspect ratio with mpeg1/2, however for AVI capturing, forget it - aspect ratio is directly related to frame size, and I capture 95% with AVI codecs (huffyuv)

B) - the tv viewing quality is very good, however this card is not a WYSIWYG. The recording quality was considerably lower quality than the actual viewing quality. So comparing the capture quality (AVI) to that of a Pinnacle PCTV card, the Pinnacle card was considerably better.

Cya
Narler



Comments posted by Narler from Other, April 25, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating.





I purchase this card recently and didn't have any problems installing it. It runs smoothly on WinXP (with Athlon XP2400+; 512 Mb ram; 80 Gigs HD). I'm happy with quality of recorded material - video & audio, but there is only one concern. When I'm recording TV shows saved in mpeg-1 by default for VCD, I found little problem burning VCD. If I play the VCD on my inbuilt DVD player it seems to be OK, but when I'm playing it on my standalone DVD player, it freezes after 10-15 mins of playing.
Anyway, I'm not criticising, it is a GREAT card, could be the problem with my DVD player.
The menus are great, very easy to use and I could recommend this card to anyone.



Comments posted by bob rock from Other, April 24, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10.





Very happy with it. Paid cdn$ 88.- for it and it came with decent Ulead capture software, all cables you could want. Using built in capture software gave mediocre quality, but when using Ulead you get to realize the potential of the card. Even impressed by the remote. In the days when VCR and DVD remotes seem to get smaller and flimsier, was a refreshment to see a decent sized remote.



Comments posted by Manfred from Other, April 23, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





I have a version of this card called Leadtek WinFast PVR. It uses the basic TV2000 XP drivers. The card worked for a short while but capture quality was poor. With Windows updates it stopped working. The new basic drivers have to be manually installed from TV2000. The PVR software has to be separately installed. It totally crashed my system. It was good I had a total image backup.

Support is poor with no email address, no toll free number and support staff without knowledge.

I would not recommend these products at this time.

I am going to wait for the new ATI TV Wonder Pro to come out.



Comments posted by neo from Other, April 17, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 1 of 10.





If you are having trouble getting your Leadtek WinFast 2000 XP Deluxe card to install on a Windows XP system, you can do the following to install it. I got my card yesterday and tweaked around with it until I got it working. The first thing you need to do is go to this website http://www.leadtek.com.tw/support/download.asp?pronameid=82 and download the latest drivers for the card. Next you want to go to control panel, switch to classic view, go to system, hardware, and then device manager. In device manager make sure that you card is not installed. If so it may be noticeable by a yellow exclamation point. If it is installed, uninstall all components of your card through device manager. Next unzip the drivers you downloaded from the Leadtek website, and put them in a place you'll remember. Now restart your computer. Next when your computer is restarting it will discover the new hardware. When it begins to install, choose the location to install from. Then direct the installation to your folder with the new drivers. Do this each time for each component of your card. Now your hardware should be installed properly. Now the last step is to install the WinFast PVR software. This you must do with the WinFast cd included in your capture card box. Place the cd in the cd-rom. If autoplay pops up the Leadtek install program, exit the program. Next go to my computer, and right click on the cd-rom and choose explore. Go into the DirectX9 folder and install Direct X 9 by clicking on the dxsetup icon. Now after Direct X 9 is installed go to the WinFast TV folder. Next and most importantly go to the AP folder. In the AP folder click on setup and the WinFast PVR software will install, and then you'll be able to use your capture card. Make sure you do not go to the DRV or Outrider folders inside the Winfast TV foldre and install anything. These two folders try to install the old drivers onto your computer, and is the reason your comptuer hangs up and restarts after installing the crossbar. That is also what the autoplay Leadtek program does, when you try to install from the installation screen of the cd. If you follow the above steps, the card should install properly and everything should work fine. Also to make sure you get audio on your card, connect the audio cable to the line out on your LeadTek card, and take the other end of the audio cable and plug it into your line in hole on your soundcard.



Comments posted by Andy from Other, April 12, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





I'm having some major problems installing the card. I can't seem to get passed the driver installation...I can't get the wdm crossbar installed....everytime it gets to that point my pc shutdowns and restarts saying that it has recovered from a serious error...
I have Norton Antivirus Prof. installed..but I have the virus definitions up to date so that shouldnt be the problem...I even disabled it...
Any help would be great....Leadtek doesn't seem like they respond to emails...

I have WinXP...w/ an 80 gig HD..P4 2.4...



Comments posted by dgouger from Other, April 08, 2003:
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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.

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What Operating System our users have reported that it works on, Win95=Works Win95=Does not work Win95?=Not tested This is user based.

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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