Don’t buy the Leadtek Winfast DV2000 or XP2000TV Expert series TV tuner card. The bundled PVR software seems to have a bug that the recorded TV mpeg files cannot be used to burn DVD with its MovieFactory 3.0 SE (causing ‘Source file had some problems! Error (5003)’). I have seen two other message here and none of them came up with a solution.
Shame on Leadtek!
P.S. Come to think of it, the problem could come from DMF3SE, but since it's an OEM software, the blame will still go to Leadtek.
After learning from this forum (this forum is great IMHO), will try the DMF update tonite and see if it fix the problem.
Do not buy Winfast 2000 series TV card.
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torgo3k
For anyone in the market for a capture card, I'm using ATI's TV Wonder Pro and the trial version of DMF4.
The TV Wonder Pro captures in either ATI's own format or MPEG. Without a doubt, MPEG is the way to go.
The included recording and scheduling software isn't perfect, but it does capture DVD-compliant MPEG-2 and VCD compliant MPEG-1. That's a huge advantage when working with DMF4. If you make sure DMF4 is set to avoid converting or rendering compliant MPEG files (in the Project Settings menu, which is a little gear shaped icon at the bottom of the screen), it will save countless hours in creating a DVD folder or image file or burning to disc. (For example, a AMD2700+ system with 1 gig of RAM turned a two hour movie into a DVD folder in about 12 minutes.)
That alone is reason enough to suggest the TV Wonder Pro as a suitable replacement if you decide your capture card has to go. Make sure you go with the "Pro" rather than the regular TV Wonder - the difference is that the Pro records sound in stereo while the regular one captures mono sound only.
The TV Wonder Pro captures in either ATI's own format or MPEG. Without a doubt, MPEG is the way to go.
The included recording and scheduling software isn't perfect, but it does capture DVD-compliant MPEG-2 and VCD compliant MPEG-1. That's a huge advantage when working with DMF4. If you make sure DMF4 is set to avoid converting or rendering compliant MPEG files (in the Project Settings menu, which is a little gear shaped icon at the bottom of the screen), it will save countless hours in creating a DVD folder or image file or burning to disc. (For example, a AMD2700+ system with 1 gig of RAM turned a two hour movie into a DVD folder in about 12 minutes.)
That alone is reason enough to suggest the TV Wonder Pro as a suitable replacement if you decide your capture card has to go. Make sure you go with the "Pro" rather than the regular TV Wonder - the difference is that the Pro records sound in stereo while the regular one captures mono sound only.
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chiff_chiff
I use the winfast PVR 2000 and DVD MF 4 and so far ive had no problems at all.
there is a problem with the winfast software that doesnt set the 16:9 flag if your recording 16:9 content...
you can get around this by patching the mpeg clip with dvd patcher
http://www.wincesoft.de/index.html
this will be fixed in a future release of the PVR software...
but as a hardware encoder, i found it be to very good, a nice replacement for my ATI AIW.
there is a problem with the winfast software that doesnt set the 16:9 flag if your recording 16:9 content...
you can get around this by patching the mpeg clip with dvd patcher
http://www.wincesoft.de/index.html
this will be fixed in a future release of the PVR software...
but as a hardware encoder, i found it be to very good, a nice replacement for my ATI AIW.