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Thanks for info, I will set mine to variable.

Thinking about a 2nd HD PVR now that recordings via RT and rcTVCap are going swimmingly. Then this came to mind, IR Blaster. If you have two HD PVRs when IR Blaster is run how does it know which HD PVR to talk to?? I quickly scanned the instructions and there was no step to specify which box. Anybody else have multiple HD PVRs and sort this out?

I think I mentioned this in the other thread, but I'd actually have to use ffdshow for cutting, because the MPC video decoder that I normally use for playback would always crash when I try to edit in a cutting application (either h264ts_cutter or Expression Encoder, which I also use)

I remember reading in the manual that the IR range is only a couple of inches and has to be placed right up against the source.

Even though it costs money, I've become a pretty big fan of CoreAVC, it handles h264 pretty well for me, whereas ffdshow just couldn't handle the 1080i interlaced stuff that I recorded on the HDPVR.

CoreAVC, I originally said AVC Core.

My friend who has two hd pvr's uses firewire to change channels on the two cable boxes he has. Each has a unique id so it's easy to differentiate the two.

I know usbuirt has zones (up to 3 I think). I'm not too familiar with hauppague IR blasting since I've never used it before.

also, another vote for coreavc. It was well worth the money. I still use the daily builds of ffdshow tryouts for my mpeg2 decoding needs (hdhomerun recorded shows).

Yes!!! Thank you jruhnke and sdsalsero for the heads up on this program. I tried it and it works great! Finally, a prog that can cut out commercials (although not very accurate) without introducing any artifacts in and out the cuts. And it's fast too! I really like the "test" feature to fine tune the start and ends. Beats using TME and h264TS_Cutter.

Thanks for the info. Reb, I'll give that a try. So far I'm fine with ffdshow except for this one use, and after I get them cut, I won't have any more files like those since everything has been AC3 since the updates came out a couple months ago.




Here's another question for anyone who might have encountered it. On some Blu Rays, the audio track is listed as "DTS-HD Master Audio" which might as well be labeled as "2.0" because thats all I get when I capture it. Can change audio to 5.1 on my PS3 but that comes at the expense of losing english which i don't really want. Any workaround/adjustment I can make on that? As always, thanks in advance for the help.


John

I have been thinking about getting the Hauppauge HD PVR since it was announced. One thing holding me back was playback, as I understand it a fairly fast Core2Duo Intel processor or equivalent was required for HTPC playback. I have a couple old Pentium 4s that would be great for capturing but not for playback. Has anyone tried this device to play back HD video files captured by the HD PVR: Western Digital - WD TV HD Media Player for USB Storage Devices http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1218008588808

What I am thinking is to capture HD feeds from a Comcast Motorola box, via component out, and then play those files back via the WD device.

Indeed. I have one of those WB boxes and it works just fine with the HD PVR recordings.

I guess this requires buying some other new IR devices??? And the software you are referring to is something called usbuirt???? All right, it talks to the firewire port on the HD PVR or on the machine. I'll ggle usbuirt to see if I can find more understanding.

Actually I might not have to have another blaster. I might be able to leave one HD PVR set on ABC. The local ABC out of San Antonio threw a big monkey wrench into my HD recording plans. I live far away up in the hills so I had 40' tower put up holding a 7' UHF antenna. For recording purposes I get all network programming clear as a bell. Then I heard that come Feb while the other networks are going to continue to use UHF the local ABC is going to back to the VHF freq to transmit HD. All my equipment for naught!!!! Rather than adding a VHF antenna and multiplexor just buy another HD PVR. Tell RT which HD PVR to use for all ABC programming and don't worry about changing channels. Problem solved.

i also have the wd device and capture directv hd with the hdpvr.it plays the m2ts files perfectly after i updated the arcsoft software.but i have alot of older captures in .ts captured with the old version that play when i change them to m2ts,but choppy.so i am waiting for videoredo to support h264 so i can run the old captures through it.

I'm about to give up on Video Redo, they've been talking for over a year on this h264 stuff and I've yet to hear one thing yet. We need an alternative, if nothing else, something exclusively designed for the HDPVR captures, from what I can tell, I think we should be able to get good cuts at least every second(32 frames on 29.97 1080i material and probably every 1/2 second on the 720P 59.97 FPS captures. I don't have enough know how to develop a frontend, but I think I can determine good cut points and be able to put the sound back with the video correctly.

i had pretty good success with tscutter until i upgraded the arcsoft software,now it does not work well with m2ts.so now i cannot capture a movie on commercial channels because i have nothing to edit them.i check the videoredo forum everyday for anything new and once a month or so someone will post it's coming soon.tmpgnc 4.0 express works good too i can turn it into mpeg with no loss of quality,it just takes hours and hours.

My understanding is that in the most recent update to OEM TME, capture of 5.1 audio is implemented - but not DTS HD MasterAudio. At any rate, any DTS HD I've tried to capture has only been encoded as 2 channel!

firewire channel changing:
http://home.comcast.net/~timmmoore/firewire/readme.htm

usbuirt:
http://www.usbuirt.com/

if you do the firewire thing (like I am) you don't really need a usbuirt except I really like them for receiving IR (using it with event ghost) so I have 5 of them. But if you want to just change channels and you have a compatible cable set top box then firewire is the free and most reliable way to go. If your pc doesn't have 1394 port you can usually buy an add on pci card for around $10.

DTS master audio and dobly true HD (and PCM uncompressed) both require the bandwidth of an HDMI cable. They are NOT supported using optical cable (just not enough bandwidth to support next gen audio). Usually it will drop to the "core" portion of the audio in those cases. Since hd pvr only takes optical in, it's pretty much a hardware limitation at this point.

Just started getting the popup to update the Arcsoft TotalMedia Extreme software . Anyone know what this update does and improve? I am leary to do it without some beta people out there.

From the FAQ on Hauppauge's HD-PVR Support page,

You sure there's not a setup option in your BD-DVD menus to select AC3/Dolby Digital 5.1 audio output?

I have been looking at these boxes and switching to SAGE after the DirecTV debacle.

What was the DirecTV debacle?

DirecTV dropped their support for the tuner in Windows 7 :

http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archi...9/1656281.aspx

I updated, and now my receiver is saying it's getting 5.1 audio.

Oh well, I guess I never really expected it to happen anyway, I was all excited back in the summer when it started getting some ink, but I gave up hope not too long after, the Hauppauge unit serves my purposes well, the current Directv HR boxes are fine for my needs and if I want to archive I can, it's a bit more work, but it's not that bad and the quality is plenty good enough.

My choices now are:
1. DTV STB
2. Wait for Tivo DTV STB
3. Sage and hope they don't close the analog hole.

What version of the Hauppauge driver are you using? I'm still using 1.1, the first version that allowed 5.1 AC3 capture. I have not tried any of the new version(s) that have came out in the last couple weeks, since everyone on here said they did nothing but mess things up.

Can anyone confirm the WD player works fine with files captured using the version 1.1 driver? I believe it does, just rename the files to .m2ts from .ts. There is a 4 byte difference in the headers but the WD doesnt' seem to care, and still plays the .m2ts file(that was originally a .ts file), right?

Hello all. I have been lurking for the past week - read every post. Been editing video from camcorders and DirecTV capture for a few years but not in HD. Want to get the HD-PVR to capture and burn HD w/5.1 to DVD and/or BR. I don't have a good enough computer yet but I want to start capturing using my laptop which is woefully inadequate- Dell w/AMD Semperon 3500+ 792 MHz 512 MB

Even though I read through this forum, with all the updates to the software I'm not certain as to whether I can disable preview while capturing so my laptop can do the job.

Any help would be appreciated. BTW I think this forum is great!

^You can't disable preview, although they claim the program is prioritized to devote as much power as possible to the encoding at the expense of a fluid smooth preview. I only feel safe when I can see that the preview seems fluid and non-juddery but I think I have made recordings where it did look bad in the preview yet playing back the results after burning to disc were OK.

I thought the encoding is done by the hardware but that a slow computer, trying to display the preview, couldn't handle the file transfer from the USB port.

I'm no computer expert but I can tell you that using the device without any preview screen at all for feedback would be daunting.