DVDMF5 and the Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-150MCE

mikeyboy1973 · Post by **mikeyboy1973** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:35 pm

Hello, I have movie factory 5 running on Vista Home Premium 64bit, and a WINTV-PVR-150MCE TV card. I want to capture videos from an old 8mm camcorder and save them onto DVD.

The Problem:
DVD movie factory will scan for tv channels, and will for a split second show what the camcorder is playing or seeing as it scans but it doesn't save the channel so that i can pick it to record from.

I have tried choosing the channel manually but most of the time it only lets me pick channel 1, and the time it did let me choose, i went through them all but it didn't show the camcorder picture, though when i autoscanned the channels again it was there (for a split second).

The camcorder is connected to the tv card using the original cable plugged into the antenna socket (ie. where the aerial would plug in).

Movie factory detects the source as analog TV.

All drivers for the tv card are upto date, version 3.1g from hauppauges website and moviefactory is updated to include the vista compatability pack.

Hope someone can give me some pointers. Thanks.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:55 pm

I suggest you use the Hauppauge WinTV 2000 software for video capture. Some capture-hardware and capture-software just don't "play well together". Some versions of Movie Factory (and Video Studio) seem to work with the Hauppauge cards, and others don't.

I think this is especially true with MPEG-only capture cards/devices like yours. The Hauppauge cards have a built-in hardware MPEG encoder, which has advantages and disadvantages. Most capture software wants to use it's own software based encoders.

Once you have a digital audio/video file on your hard drive, you can use any video editing and DVD authoring software of your choice.

You should have no trouble making DVDs from your WinTV captured MPEG files. However, editing MPEGs can be troublesome. (I found this out after buying my Hauppauge card.) If you get "lip-sync" problems, or any other "weird problems" after editing, take a look at this web page.

mikeyboy1973 · Post by **mikeyboy1973** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:25 am

Thanks for the response, it seems such an obvious answer but I had my mind set on using one program for everything.

Using WinTV 2000 appears to work, it found my signal from the camcorder and displayed a live picture on screen, however I have encountered another problem in that the 2 old 8mm camcorders I have will not read my tapes, one just ignores that the tape is there and the other just spits it back out again. Seems this is a problem for another forum maybe.

At least i'm one step closer. Thanks again. Michael

tyamada · Post by **tyamada** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:25 pm

Have you tried to install the Happauge/Terratec device support pack?
It is on the bottom of this page:
http://www.ulead.com/tech/dmf/dmf_ftp_50.htm#vistaplus

I don't know what install procedures you have to use with Vista and a 64 bit operating sytem. You might want to try to e-mail Ulead support.

mikeyboy1973 · Post by **mikeyboy1973** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:53 pm

Thank you for that tyamada, I've downloaded and installed the Hauppauge/Terratec device support pack and moviefactory 5 does indeed recognise my capture card however i get the following messege when I go to capture video.

Failed to connect to driver

One to ask technical support I think.

Thanks for the suggestion.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:19 pm

I think you may need to start WinTV2000
Menu
Suite Manager
Add
and then choose svideo/composite

You should then be able to add your camcorder manually.