HVR 1600 Analog Tuner

[banmj]

I just installed a HVR-1600 card. I have 2 PVR-150's that I have been using for a couple of years. When I go to setup video sources I have
Hauppaugue Win TV 418 Video capture and Hauppauge WinTV 418 TS Capture. When I go int the Video Capture there is options for S-Video and composite. There is no option for tv tuner. I have coax going into the 1600. What do I chose to setup analog using the coax?

[gmijackso]

Originally Posted by banmj

I just installed a HVR-1600 card. I have 2 PVR-150's that I have been using for a couple of years. When I go to setup video sources I have
Hauppaugue Win TV 418 Video capture and Hauppauge WinTV 418 TS Capture. When I go int the Video Capture there is options for S-Video and composite. There is no option for tv tuner. I have coax going into the 1600. What do I chose to setup analog using the coax?

On mine, when you select the 418 video capture, it gives you a second list of "composite, composite 2, digital tv tuner, s-video, s-video_2, tv tuner" for the 418 video, you would select tv tuner and that would be your analog tuner. For the 418 ts capture (ts = transport stream), you would select digital tv tuner. If you're not getting those options, I would check to be sure you have current drivers installed.

I'm running XP and using driver 1.62.24326.0 from 11/22/2006. It should probably also be noted that i do NOT have the QAM capable card, so if you do, somethings might be different.

[banmj]

I moved the 1600 card to a different pci slot and the TV Tuner option showed up.

[Ryokurin]

I've seen that happen to me a few times, and it was because I didn't reboot after windows installed the card.

[tcarlus]

I didn't realize that the HVR-1600 was actually two tuners in one, you can record off the video in (using Video Capture) at the same time you record OTA (using TS capture).

[gmijackso]

Yes, it is 2 tuners in 1. It is an analog and a digital tuner. There are also headers on the board for up to 2 sets of video inputs as well. So, you can record 2 of any combination of inputs with enough forethought and all the cables, i.e. 1 ATSC and 1 Analog, 1 ATSC and 1 composite, 2 composites, or 1 analog and 1 composite.

[n9cqs]

I just had to do a major reboot and found the TS and Video being different. Before, I did not have the option of recording from the S-Video and the Digital tuner at the same time. Now, both show (on the web interface) as separate devices. THIS IS GREAT! But I am a but confused.

What does TS stand for?

Thanks.

[gmijackso]

TS stands for Transport Stream. The HD signals are already "encoded" in that format. When you record an HD signal, the card basically passes the data that it receives from your antenna/cable directly to the hard drive in the same format.

It's important to note that if you're recording an HD channel that has several sub channels, the TS stream that gets recorded is still holding the information for all the channels. (if a channel has 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 etc, if you record one, you're actually recording them all) So if you're going to save the HD stuff for a long time, you might consider getting something to strip off the data you didn't really intend to record.

I'm assuming that Sage doesn't do automatically strip the "unwanted" data while recording. If I'm wrong, somebody please advise.