Re: Questions about Hauppauge WinTV 350
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:56:26PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: A number of software products use the Hauppauge WinTV 350 Personal Video Recorder (what a stupid name!). I've been planning to get one for some time, but here in Australia the prices are ridiculous (more than double what they are nearly anywhere else). So I've decided to have one sent from overseas. Question: are all WinTV 350s the same? In Australia we have the same standards as in most of Europe (PAL, not NTSC), and the tuner frequencies are also the same as those in Europe. If I buy a card in the USA, will it work here, or are there two different kinds of card, depending on where they're sold? The web site is not of much help. To help me decide, it would be nice to hear from somebody with experience with the cards who can tell me a definite answer to at least one of these questions: * Are there separate versions for different countries? * Does the device you have support both PAL and NTSC? * Does the tuner on your device support both European and US frequencies? * What kind of antenna connector does your card have? US TVs tend to have a screw-on connector, while European one tend to have a push-on connector. Other information, in particular where I can get them cheap, would also be appreciated. You may find some useful info in this article: http://arstechnica.com/guide/audio-visual/videocapturing/vidcap-1.html Email me offline if you want me to send you the PDF of it. - aW ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Questions about Hauppauge WinTV 350
-- Message: 17 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:56:26 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Questions about Hauppauge WinTV 350 To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii A number of software products use the Hauppauge WinTV 350 Personal Video Recorder (what a stupid name!). I've been planning to get one for some time, but here in Australia the prices are ridiculous (more than double what they are nearly anywhere else). So I've decided to have one sent from overseas. Question: are all WinTV 350s the same? In Australia we have the same standards as in most of Europe (PAL, not NTSC), and the tuner frequencies are also the same as those in Europe. If I buy a card in the USA, will it work here, or are there two different kinds of card, depending on where they're sold? The web site is not of much help. To help me decide, it would be nice to hear from somebody with experience with the cards who can tell me a definite answer to at least one of these questions: * Are there separate versions for different countries? * Does the device you have support both PAL and NTSC? * Does the tuner on your device support both European and US frequencies? * What kind of antenna connector does your card have? US TVs tend to have a screw-on connector, while European one tend to have a push-on connector. Other information, in particular where I can get them cheap, would also be appreciated. Thanks in advance Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachmen ts/20040623/c3b2e14b/attachment-0001.bin -- Hi Greg, I searched the German web page of Hauppauge (http://www.hauppauge.de/) for answers to your questions: There's nothing mentioned about the tuner part. But this card also features MPEG2 encoder hardware that's capable of encoding an NTSC signal. On the page there's a reg file (http://www.hauppauge.de/files/pvr2_pal_ntsc.zip) to apply the correct parameters to the Windows registry. Actually I have no clue how to put this into effect on a FreeBSD machine. Maybe you should ask the manufacturer directly... ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) You mentioned that standards in Europe are the same. Why don't you order the card in Germany for example. Try to consult http://www.preissuchmaschine.de to find a dealer offering a reasonable price. As of today the cheapest offer I found was around EUR 165,-- (about AUD 290,--) Greetings, Stephan Yaraghchi. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Questions about Hauppauge WinTV 350
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:56:26PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: A number of software products use the Hauppauge WinTV 350 Personal Video Recorder (what a stupid name!). I've been planning to get one for some time, but here in Australia the prices are ridiculous (more than double what they are nearly anywhere else). So I've decided to have one sent from overseas. Question: are all WinTV 350s the same? In Australia we have the same standards as in most of Europe (PAL, not NTSC), and the tuner frequencies are also the same as those in Europe. If I buy a card in the USA, will it work here, or are there two different kinds of card, depending on where they're sold? The web site is not of much help. To help me decide, it would be nice to hear from somebody with experience with the cards who can tell me a definite answer to at least one of these questions: * Are there separate versions for different countries? * Does the device you have support both PAL and NTSC? * Does the tuner on your device support both European and US frequencies? * What kind of antenna connector does your card have? US TVs tend to have a screw-on connector, while European one tend to have a push-on connector. Other information, in particular where I can get them cheap, would also be appreciated. Thanks in advance Greg -- I can't help with the regional issues or recording aspects; but I can tell you that the USB WinTV product was not detected by FreeBSD 4.9. I haven't checked since then. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Questions about Hauppauge WinTV 350
On Wednesday 23 June 2004 05:26, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: A number of software products use the Hauppauge WinTV 350 Personal Video Recorder (what a stupid name!). I've been planning to get one for some time, but here in Australia the prices are ridiculous (more than double what they are nearly anywhere else). So I've decided to have one sent from overseas. Question: are all WinTV 350s the same? In Australia we have the same standards as in most of Europe (PAL, not NTSC), and the tuner frequencies are also the same as those in Europe. If I buy a card in There's only PAL and NTSC and any TV card should support both. WinTV and almost every other have a bktr 848/878 capture chip. That;s the one you want in any case. As for the tuner they all work alike and should support both pal as NTSC and the Fench standard (SEcam?) as well as 34xx audio (which is usually most easily dealt with by just plugging it from the tv card audio-out into the soundcard audio-in. A cheap bktr card should cost up to 100-200 euro max these days. the USA, will it work here, or are there two different kinds of card, depending on where they're sold? No tuners are univrsal but they just have different definitions for different rendering tech. The web site is not of much help. To help me decide, it would be nice to hear from somebody with experience with the cards who can tell me a definite answer to at least one of these questions: Get a cheapo wintv with a bktr787 chip * Are there separate versions for different countries? Possibly but it technically means nothing IMO * Does the device you have support both PAL and NTSC? Yes and every one should as well as SECAM * Does the tuner on your device support both European and US frequencies? Yes any Phillips or other standard one should. * What kind of antenna connector does your card have? US TVs tend to have a screw-on connector, while European one tend to have a push-on connector. push on for coax there can be a lot of interference (even using cable broadcast via coax as is usual here in N europe) Other information, in particular where I can get them cheap, would also be appreciated. Like I said before get the cheapest bktr supported card (beware these tuner cards may get overheated and burn out at least the ones from a few years ago could -- proof on pic) Thanks in advance HTH, Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Questions about Hauppauge WinTV 350
A number of software products use the Hauppauge WinTV 350 Personal Video Recorder (what a stupid name!). I've been planning to get one for some time, but here in Australia the prices are ridiculous (more than double what they are nearly anywhere else). So I've decided to have one sent from overseas. Question: are all WinTV 350s the same? In Australia we have the same standards as in most of Europe (PAL, not NTSC), and the tuner frequencies are also the same as those in Europe. If I buy a card in the USA, will it work here, or are there two different kinds of card, depending on where they're sold? The web site is not of much help. To help me decide, it would be nice to hear from somebody with experience with the cards who can tell me a definite answer to at least one of these questions: * Are there separate versions for different countries? * Does the device you have support both PAL and NTSC? * Does the tuner on your device support both European and US frequencies? * What kind of antenna connector does your card have? US TVs tend to have a screw-on connector, while European one tend to have a push-on connector. Other information, in particular where I can get them cheap, would also be appreciated. Thanks in advance Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgphAOOE08C3t.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Questions about Hauppauge WinTV 350
Hi there I have a leadtek card which I bought in the USA the box said NTSC, but when I went to europe I did not have any problem using it. there is also some firmwares that let you change that but I've never tried that. it worked for me with no problems Jorge = _ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Questions about Hauppauge WinTV 350
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: A number of software products use the Hauppauge WinTV 350 Personal Video Recorder (what a stupid name!). I've been planning to get one for some time, but here in Australia the prices are ridiculous (more than double what they are nearly anywhere else). So I've decided to have one sent from overseas. I'm in Korea, which supposed to follow USA standards. I had such a TV card sent over from Europe and set the NTSC option in the kernel configuration file. I never got it work. I used FreeBSD, but all I got was sound, without pictures. I installed recent Mandrake/Linux, that got me pictures but no sound. I'm not an expert at all in this TV/Computer stuff; so I gave up on it. Either the TV-card is very sensitive to what computer I have (let me not blame the OSes, but my hardware first), or it needs a computer-freak's mind and intelligence to get it work. Or Korea has a not so standard NTSC TV system. Regards, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
