Originally posted by: RobsTV
Originally posted by: Muse
So, you are saying that if you aren't watching TV or recording or listening to FM or recording, you're best off shutting this thing down (the Off button in the software or remote).
No, it requires more than simply turning it off.
You need to right click on the Winfast Wizard icon located in your system tray, then left click "Unload".
Simply turning it off does not remove it from using your system resources. You must Unload it.
Originally posted by: nexialist
Got mine today and set it up.
I have to say that the picture is MUCH sharper than my ATI All-in-onder Rage 128
I miss the Guide plus TV channel listings. Does Winfast have anything similar?
Dan
Originally posted by: jinduy
also is there a particular brand/type/model that yall reccommend?
Originally posted by: RobsTV
I bought this to aid in making CD's of TV programs that I could play in my TV's standalone DVD player. (SVCD?)
Running Dish Network's Dishplayer 7200, which is like Tivo.
The Dishplayer has excellent picture quality, and uses mpeg2 DV3(?) for all viewing, not just recordings. Pure digital quality.
With it's excellent quality, recordings use a little more than a gig per hour, and the 20gig drive stores about 17 hours.
This Winfast card doesn't sound like it can match the recording quality for space used, that the Dishplayer has. Correct?
My goal is to get close to the DP quality, but at about 1 CD per hour, or 700 meg per hour.
2 hours per CD would be much better. Is that possible while maintaining decent quality?
Next question is getting the info from DP to PC.
The data coming out of the DP is already at mpeg2, but of course the TV card won't know that.
If I could take the current mpeg 2 data, and compress it just a little more, then it would meets my size/time goals.
Seems like I would be going backwards converting the DP's mpeg2 to AVI, then back again to mpeg2.
Any ideas as to the best way to do this?
If you do need S-Video cables, a good place is PCCables.com. I got some there and some other stuff. I thought the prices were very very good.Originally posted by: MikeA
What the hell, decided to order it to replace my WinTV. Now I can hookup my Xbox using Svideo, and have software that actually works in XP so I can use the remote. Am I going to need an Svideo cable or does it come with one I can just hook up to my Xbox Svideo out? If so, where's the best and cheapest place to get a short Svideo cable (good quality cable that is)?
Thanks,
Mike
Originally posted by: Muse
What is the Winfast TV USB installation on the CD?
Originally posted by: Muse
I've gone back to square one on my Epox 8K7A box running Windows 2000 SP3 and reinstalled the TV2000XP Deluxe and drivers/apps and continue to get lockups every time I shut down Windows. Anyone know anything about Leadtek's responsiveness to requests for tech support? It's one of their drivers that's hanging up my system.
AFAIK, the drivers have not changed and are all version 5.13.1.243. I'll try installing the previous application software and see if it makes a difference. I doubt it will. I believe it's one of the drivers that's hanging up the system.Originally posted by: J-Dub
Originally posted by: Muse
I've gone back to square one on my Epox 8K7A box running Windows 2000 SP3 and reinstalled the TV2000XP Deluxe and drivers/apps and continue to get lockups every time I shut down Windows. Anyone know anything about Leadtek's responsiveness to requests for tech support? It's one of their drivers that's hanging up my system.
FWIW, I've had the same problem with my system (ECS K7S5A with WinXP SP1) since installing the latest application software from Leadtek. I don't think it happened with the previous release (which can still be downloaded from Leadtek's FTP server).