How do I switch source input in Windows MC?

[shiro]

Hey guys I have a Hauppauge WinTV 150 media center edition pci tv tuner card, and am running it on windows media center of course. This card has composite video/audio inputs as well as s-video input. Question is can I switch inputs somehow in the Windows Media Center to either the composite or s-video input?

I also tried running the AMCap capturing program that came with the driver CD, and tested out the tv tuner but did not get any audio. Is there supposed to be audio in the preview? Or is it only recorded when I capture video? TV audio works fine in Media Center. I haven't tested out the composite/s-video input with audio yet.

 

[nullpointerus]

Originally posted by: shiro
Hey guys I have a Hauppauge WinTV 150 media center edition pci tv tuner card, and am running it on windows media center of course. This card has composite video/audio inputs as well as s-video input. Question is can I switch inputs somehow in the Windows Media Center to either the composite or s-video input?

Do you want to do it temporarily or permanently?

The permanent solution would be to go through the source setup over again. It should be under Tasks/Settings or something like that. Just look through the menus and pay attention to the help text.

I don't know how to do this temporarily (i.e. for quickly switching back and forth).

I also tried running the AMCap capturing program that came with the driver CD, and tested out the tv tuner but did not get any audio. Is there supposed to be audio in the preview? Or is it only recorded when I capture video? TV audio works fine in Media Center. I haven't tested out the composite/s-video input with audio yet.

I believe it's fairly common for capture previews to avoid playing the audio streams, but you could always do a test recording, right?

 

[shiro]

Hm I just wanted to do this temporarily. Wanted to hook up a video device and make some recordings, and use the tv tuner the rest of the time

I've been having some strange problems with AMCap I dunno what's going on with it. I'm running Windows Vista and let the OS take care of installation by itself and it worked fine with Media Center, but not with AMCap. So I installed the drivers that came with the tuner card last night and restarted, and it seemed to work with AMCap, just that there was no audio during the preview. But now just today I tried a AMCap and now nothing wil display not the tv tuner nor the video inputs. I looked for a newer version of AMCap and found 9.11 (I was using 9.00 before) and nothing's changed. I just let the Vista device manager automatically udpate the drivers to my card by searching online and am about to restart, so I'm about to see if that helps...


Just got back from restart and the tv portion was working fine (without the audio), but the svideo and the composite audio weren't working. It was working well till I started going into some options to see what I can check out to see if it'll make it work, but after going into a video option, the tv froze and just stopped giving a constant feed, and I couldn't get it back, so I just gave up. I think this is supposed to be easy to figure out, but nothing seems to be working...


Well I somehow managed to get the svideo working but yet still no audio from the composite cables. I have no idea what's going on. Everytime I go into the options it seems to freeze up the preview video and won't give a constant feed, whether it be Tv Tuner or S-Video. I restarted the program and nothing was fixed. All I did was set the capture folder, the type of video compression for saving and that was it. This is getting stupid...

Can anybody recommend me a WORKING video capture program that can do both tv and/or composite/s-video inputs? Free would be preferable, but if none exist I will settle for a cheap but working program.

-edit-
I started using VirtualDUB and figured out how to get BOTH the video and audio working! I haven't tested capturing yet, but I have noticed that the video is kind of choppy. Anybody know how to get that to stop? Audio is fine.

ahh...I just tried to do a test capture and it captured the audio fine but there was no video... I remember seeing some option somewhere about a master stream, and I'm pretty sure it was set to audio. Maybe that's it? I just can't remember where it was though lol.