PowerVCR II & Pinnacle Studio PCTV Pro

[idfubar]

I recently installed a Studio PCTV Pro card with WDM Drivers (Bt8xx SourceForge Drivers), and a trial version of PowerVCR II.

The combination works great. I've seen a lot of posts about the PCTV Pro under the Hot Deals forum (really cheap TV Tuner card), but plently of complaints about the driver support under 2000/XP. I must say, this combination works almost flawlessly under 2000.

My only problem is: The sound in PowerVCR II is mono... Has anyone else had this problem? The card does support stereo sound - just wondering if this is a limitation of the trial software, or the WDM driver.

-Rishi

 

[Echelon]

Check other capturing programs, you won't get any stereo sound. It's some kind of bug in the drivers or something in the hardware that causes to switch to mono when you exit the pctv vision software. There are a lot of ppl having this problem (myself included) and i'm still searching for a solution. Pinnacle tech support is of no help at all.

 

[idfubar]

Just wanted to say Thank You to Echelon for the response.

Has anyone found a solution to this? There must be at least 200 Forum Members with PCTV Pro cards, somebody's probably figured out something. Please, enlighten us!

-Rishi

 

[GeekSupportCom]

New Drivers/sw pack (?) coming out ~3mo. stupid thing is that you'll have to pay for it (normal drivers are free).

 

[Joyride]

Can I use the software that came with the CD or version 4.02a sofware along with those Bt8xx SourceForge Drivers drivers?
I have XP and the Sourceforge work great so far.

Now all I need is to get the sound going

 

[idfubar]

Uhh, correct me if I'm wrong, but it's either/or when it comes to the SourceForge Drivers - if you use them, I think you won't be able to use the 4.02a or CD drivers. If you decide to use the SourceForge WDM drivers, you won't be able to use the CD software - it will complain that the device is already in use.

I highly recommend using the SourceForge + PowerVCRII or DScaler solution - much more flexible, and much better quality.

-Rishi