hello everyone, i just need some help here, i have a leadtek winfast tv 2000 expert card, i have the latest drivers and
the latest pvr software, i have the audio cable plugged in between my winfast card and my cd audio slot on the
motherboard to get audio. i have a few problems..
problem 1:
i can't have any other pci cards in my machine as it causes problems with irq settings and the remote control then does
not work. i managed to look in the bios and i have a list of irq ports 1-15, i notice these ports
IRQ5 (LPT2) - enabled
...
IRQ10 (reserved) - disabled
the only options i have are to enable or disable these irq ports (these are the two ports im considering using to
assign my winfast card to), if anyone can help me, i need to assign my winfast card to one of these ports but im not
sure how to do it?also i would like to be able to make my pc wake itself from hibernation to record programs and then
rehibernate once recording has finished does anyone know how to set this up, i already know how to enable hibernate
mode in windows but thats as much as i know, any help please?
problem 2:
the card works fine just now as i have no other pci cards in there, but the other problem is when i record, whenever i
record in:
Videocodec:DivX5.1.1pro - encoding at 682 Kbits/s (worked out bitrate using Adv.DivX bitrate Calc! to fit 30 minutes of
video into 150MB space)
Videoresoloution:384x576
audioCodec:MP3 - 22.050kHz, Stereo 56kb/s
i have the problem that after 30 mins of recording the audio and video synchronisation gets progressivly worse as the
video goes on, and near the end of the video im sure the audio is nearly or over 1 minute out of synch! any ideas why
this and how to fix it?
problem 3:
whenever i record using the MPEG-2 Optimal Quality profile after about 15 seconds the video jerks every couple of
seconds till its done recording. The jerkyness also shows in the finished playback of the video.The other mpeg-2
profiles seem to work fine but the quality is not so great, any help as to what the problem is with the optimal mpeg-2
profile while recording and how to solve it?
if anyone could help with all these i would be so grateful?? also does anyone know if i should be using other programs
other than the ones provided by leadtek for my winfast tv 2000 expert card to watch live tv, capture video or live tv,
encode from AVI to dvd files or vice versa? if you know the best tools for these jobs using my winfast tv 200 expert
card please tell me?thank you so much to anyone who helps :D !!
my pc spec is:
chatintech apogee 7VJL deluxe motherboard
pheonix awardBIOS v6.00pg
amd athlon xp 2000+ (1.66ghz)
512MB ram (pc2100)
160GB maxtor diamond 9 7200 8MB cache
leadtek winfast tv 2000 expert pci card
windows xp pro
all software is up to date and all drivers are up to date.
also if you feel that your reply might be a bit long or you find it easier to email me than reply on here, please feel
free, my email address is dfcc_@hotmail.com, please put 'LEADTEK WINFAST' in the subject box, thank you all so much to
i've got an annoying problem-any help would be much appreciated. i tried this method:
"Start Winfast PVR, check that your line in connection (for recording) is switched on in your volume control.......Select the settings button on PVR (the spanner), Click on the 'Capture format profile' and select DVD PAL (of NTSC) then click on 'Capture profile setting' The Video codec will be set to 'MPEG 2 codec', leave it at that.
The capture resolution should be for the maximum for your system (720x576 for PAL), Move the video quality slider to maximum (1000), Set the target data rate to 6000."
followed almost exactly, except i have to capture at 352x480 because i drop frames any higher than that.
the resulting mpg looks and sounds great, but running it through TMPGEnc or burning to dvd causes the audio to go out of sync after about an hour. i've even tried extracting the audio with virtualdubmod and adding it to the video with TMPGEnc, but no luck.
any idea how to fix this, or better yet, prevent it?
Try useing Different Capture Software like "Intervideo WinDVR 3.0" Because I have noticed from Many other posts from LeadTech WinFast Owners that there are a lot of Sync problems with Captured Files but only after you either Edit the files or author them to DVD...It think it is because some Capture Software will add Padding to the Video stream to compensate for Dropped Frames or to Compensate in the Time Lag between the Audio and video capture and this Padding gets removed when the File gets re-Muxed Like when Authoring to DVD or When Editing and this causes the sync problem.......
Windvr 3.0 doesn"t seem to have this problem and it produces very good quality captures....
If you are captureing at 352+480 then you don"t need to use a bitrate of 6000kbs because the Video Resolution is Half of the Standard DVD Resolution so the Image needs only about half the bitrate to achieve the Same Quality...You could easilly get away with useing a bitrate of 3500kbs or 4000kbs which would allow you to Fit Much more Video on a DVD...
You should actually be Calculateing the Capture bitrate useing a bitrate calculator which calculates the bitrate Baced on the length of the Movie so that it exactly fits on a DVD without wasteing any space on the DVD or being to big to fit on the DVD, This way you get the Maximum Quality Possible for the length of the Movie, A good bitrate calculator is called "PowerBit" which is Freeware........Cheers
Got the card in my multimedia system after pulling my hair out trying to get my Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350 working. I soon discovered PVR-350 was not compatible with all the other backup software I have installed. Pissed off I went on the net did a little research which lead me (no pun intended) to the leadtek. I've not had a problem since and it does ok recordings and yes ultimately burns. Not a good capture card.
