Recording software for Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600

[kh4130]

I have a side project where I wanted to record some of my old VHS tapes to a digital format using an old Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 PCI card.

I tried using the older Huappauge WinTV v6 software and the video is extremely choppy.

I found VirtualDub and that seemed like it would work great. I can watch video through the program. However, it only wants to record avi files and the TV card will only encode in MPEG. I am unable to compress in an way with VDub. When I record an uncompressed video I only hear sound and VLC give me the following error: "No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "HCW2". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this."

Anyone know a work around for this where I don't have to shell out money for a new card?

System Info:
Intel i5-3570K @ 3.4 GHz
8GB RAM
256 OZC Agility 4 SSD
NViGeForce GTX 670
Win 8.1

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Try Corel (former Ulead) Video Studio... I never had a problem with that one, and I've used it since version 5 (I think they're at 13 now). Great capture, no dropped frames, you can do encoding on the fly and even tweak things a bit.

Have a look here, and see if any of the free software works for you: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/capture