TV tunner + 720 by 480

[jkresh]

I have a DVD burner and I want to convert some tapes and new shows to DVD, I also have a Hauppauge wintv pvr, but it is giving me issues in windows XP and its not giving me an option for a DVD compatible resolution, also because they do not have wdm drivers for it, most of the other programs that might work better then the software it comes with wont work with it. If you have any suggestions on software to use with it, or how to set its own software (wintv 2000) to work for making DVD's (just compliant mpeg2 files I have other programs to actually compile and burn the discs) that would be useful, or if you can recommend another peace of hardware that would work as needed and was not incredibly expensive (semipro not pro prices (meaning less then $500 if possible)). I don?t need to do a lot of effects and I already have a geforce 3 so I would not put in an all in wonder radeon, nor do I think a thousand + dollar matrox or pinnacle card is necessary for this, I am considering the pinnacle bungee DVD at the moment, but if there is something better in a similar price range or if someone has any way to get the Hauppauge to work that would be preferable. Also the Hauppauge has been completely unstable in XP (though it works fine with dscaler) but running Wintv has caused complete crashes in XP, and after one particularly nasty one I lost my monitor for a while and had to cause xp to crash on startup (without a screen) so it would revert the video settings to something that would work which is not something that I want to repeat. I also tried virtual dub (record in the avi and then convert to mpeg 2 later), which actually recognized the Hauppauge after the most recent complete reinstall but then completely crashed, after giving a warning that the particular brooktree chipset might not handle more then 320 by 240, I said ok, (this was just as the program started) it crashed and I could not shut it down, even killing the process would not work so I am begging to think that the Hauppauge does not like XP very much. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Relayer]

I would like to know if anyone has used the Pinnacle Bungee aswell?