Hot? Hauppauge WinTV Radio $30 AR @ Officemax

[ChefJoe]

petebest: The remote that came with my 401 is IR and it does work with win2k.

 

[petebest]

I spoke with tech support and have some info on the remote. The older 401 cards that have a mail in coupon for the remote come with an IR receiver that plugs into the serial port and support for the drivers for this receiver/remote stops with Win98. The card will still function with a newer OS, but the remote will not function.

The newer 401 cards that come with the remote in the box have the IR receiver that plugs directly into the card. These are the cards that are supported thru XP.

Can anyone with the older and newer 401 cards confirm this. Did some third party possibly release a driver to use the older remote (serial port) with a newer OS(2000,XP).

 

[Syclone]

If it runs on the serial port, I bet you could at a minimum get it to work with Girder. You might have to mess around with settings to get it to work, but Girder is very flexible. They have a Hauppage driver on their site, but I'm not sure which version it is for.

The problem with Girder is it has a pretty high learning curve, but once you figure it out, you can do tons of stuff.

I use an old Packard Bell remote and receiver I bought for $8 to do tons of stuff on my home theater PC via Girder.

 

[Slickone]

I'm looking for something not to expensive to be able to read in my VHS tapes to convert to MPGs or AVIs. Will this do it? Or do I need something with hardware encoding?

 

[Syclone]

It should work fine. Hardware encoding isn't a requirement by any means with a decent CPU. You can always do the first pass with something fast and high quality (huffyv for instance), then encode later with whatever you want, even on a slower machine.

 

[Rab]

Thought I'd mention:

I found the BT878 (new) version of the 401 (with the surfer and remote) at the Burlington, WA Office Max, and they still have a few in stock at the $49 price.

If you're in the north sound or skagit area, now's your chance to get in on the deal.

 

[eugovector]

Well, this seems slightly relevant to this post, so I'll through it out there.

I bought the WinTV Go from Officemax a week ago without a remote, didn't look to find what chip and don't feel like pulling it to find out. I'm using XP and the latest WDM drivers. Boy, does winTV2000 like to crash. Regardless of the overlay settings, it will just crash windows every now and then. I've just started looking into DScaler, so I'm hoping that will solve my crashing problem for viewing TV. Just to let you know that WinTV2000 doesn't seem to be up to snuff under these conditions.

As for capturing VHS, which I have not done yet, any input via PM would be welcome (what software to use, etc.). I've been reading up on the VCDHelp.com forums when I have time, but that hasn't been often as of late.

Just throwing that in.