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| Thread ID: 91433 | 2008-07-07 04:23:00 | TV card, need better capture program | williamF (115) | Press F1 |
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| 685952 | 2008-07-07 04:23:00 | hi. i have this oldish (lifeview flyvideo) TV/Video caputure card and i would like to use it to replace my VCR but the program supplied with the card (and updated/different drivers/programs) are unstable and dont have the functions im looking for, preferably something similar to most VCRs (timer record etc) | williamF (115) | ||
| 685953 | 2008-07-07 05:23:00 | Dscaler might do it | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 685954 | 2008-07-07 13:17:00 | Hi, I use a quirky (but free) TV card PVR program called "K!TV" with my old TView2000 card. It does the job, has a scheduler you can set up to record TV programs just like a VCR. It's actually quite full featured, but because it's French some of the error messages and dialog boxes here and there are in French (but most of the interface is English). It took me quite a while to get it all working and I can record programs using Xvid for compression with some success. Though you do need a powerful PC to do this in realtime (recent Core2-Duo recommended). If you have absolutely acres of hard drive space you can record uncompressed and then do a 2-pass Xvid or DivX compression which gives much better quality with less CPU grunt. You can download K!TV from here: http://www.kastortv.org/ |
Rod J (451) | ||
| 685955 | 2008-07-07 15:44:00 | tried configuring DScaler, no go, maybe me or is just the OS its on (98se) but it says it cant open something, and it doesnt auto detect the card i dont think, or it doesnt support it will try K!TV, it looks ok from the description so will see how it goes |
williamF (115) | ||
| 685956 | 2008-07-07 17:10:00 | K!TV = nope. of all the TV cards my one is the one that it doesnt play nice with. K!TV doesnt even pick it up |
williamF (115) | ||
| 685957 | 2008-07-07 20:24:00 | Try "SNAGIT". Not free, but a months free trial is allowed | JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 685958 | 2008-07-07 21:16:00 | What is it you are trying to record? Analogue TV, Satellite Freeview TV, Freeview UHF, or recording from another device? IF You are recording TV programs then Win98 would not cut it to record an hour long program as it can only see Fat32, a 1 hr TV program would probably be more than that thus blow the 2Gb limit that Fat32 has as opposed to NTFS. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 685959 | 2008-07-08 05:31:00 | I don't think my card was detected (correctly at least) by K!TV either. I had to tune it all in manually. Did you try that? With K!TV running try going to Setup, Source Setup and experiment with the Card Model choices there. Mine works fine with-- Card Model: "Askey/Typhoon/Anubis Magic TView CPH051/06" Tuner Type: Manual Tuner. I had to tune all the channels in manually also; but it does work (just takes a while to get there). :) There are several FlyVideo models in the Card Model list. Did you try those? You may still have to tune the channels manually in any case. |
Rod J (451) | ||
| 685960 | 2008-07-08 06:08:00 | What is it you are trying to record? Analogue TV, Satellite Freeview TV, Freeview UHF, or recording from another device? IF You are recording TV programs then Win98 would not cut it to record an hour long program as it can only see Fat32, a 1 hr TV program would probably be more than that thus blow the 2Gb limit that Fat32 has as opposed to NTFS. fat32 does more than 2 gig mate (even fat16 can do a maximum of 4 gig), that and i have a few 4 gig Hdds, btw its an analouge TV card |
williamF (115) | ||
| 685961 | 2008-07-08 06:13:00 | I don't think my card was detected (correctly at least) by K!TV either. I had to tune it all in manually. Did you try that? With K!TV running try going to Setup, Source Setup and experiment with the Card Model choices there. Mine works fine with-- Card Model: "Askey/Typhoon/Anubis Magic TView CPH051/06" Tuner Type: Manual Tuner. I had to tune all the channels in manually also; but it does work (just takes a while to get there). :) There are several FlyVideo models in the Card Model list. Did you try those? You may still have to tune the channels manually in any case. all K!TV comes up with is the splash screen on startup and displays no source found for a fraction of a second, hence cant do anything in the interface as you mentioned |
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