Re: Capturin in DV format with Hauppauge PVR 150

I've been using Hauppauge PV150s (3 of them) as well as other Hauppauge PVRs
and MVPs for several years. Their mpeg2 output editing works superbly well
with both VideoReDoPlus and TMPGE DVD Author, both of which work directly in
native mpeg2 format. There is no need and no benefit from capturing in avi
format. I've done a lot of that also, but DO NOT recommend it.

Both of the software packages are inexpensive and readily available, have
been improved over numerous versions in the last few years, and are
extremely reliable, inexpensive, and do precise frame level (style) editing,
yielding very crisp and clean video output using machines as old as 2004
Pentium 4 2.8GHz vintage with 1 GB of RAM.

Smarty
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I have a Hauppauge PVR 150 card for TV tuner and s-video/composite video
capture. It captures mpeg at different bit rates, etc. and it seems to do
pretty well. However, editing mpgs with Premiere does not work well. I've
been editing with Premiere forever and don't want to switch apps. For the
past few years my capturing was done on a different machine (win 98) with
the dc30+, using avi_io to keep everything to 4 gig limit, and editing in
Premiere 6.5

I recently purchased a mini dv camcorder and am happy capturing
(transfering) via firewire in dv avi format. The quality is great and
Premiere handles everything very well.

My situation is this: I will be shooting in both s-video and DV. I'm
wondering if there is a capture program that will allow s-video capture
from the hauppauge card, but in DV format (rather than mpeg). Or is my
only
option to get an external analog - dv converter (i.e. Canopus ADVC-110,
300, or an ADS Tech Pyro, etc.)

No matter what application I try for caputring s-video, the only option
seems to be mpeg.

I hope I've explained the situation adequately.

And as always, thanks very much in advance for any assistance.

regards,
sailor

Sailor, with the proper combination of codecs and capture software,
you should be able to capture uncompressed AVI from a PVR150
(before the signal gets to the card's onboard MPEG encoder).

You need to install FFDSHOW and a third party capture program
(DScaler, TMPGEnc etc). These capture programs will see the
Hauppauge card as a video source.

Capturing uncompressed AVI without any dropped frames requires
a fast CPU and *lots* of disk space.




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