Unable to open Hauppauge WinTV PVR capture device

AlexanderG wrote on 1/15/2012, 12:55 PM

I am trying to capture composite video into Vegas Pro 8.0c using my built-in Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II card (26xxx series). My computer is an HP Media Center PC m1180n. It came with Windows XP MCE loaded, but I have recently upgraded to Windows 7.

When I open Sony Video Capture 6.0, it says, "The device 'Hauppauge WinTV PCI II Capture' could not be opened. Please make sure that it is turned on and is not being used by another application or user." I tried updating the driver on the capture card, but Windows says it has the latest driver.

Any ideas?

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UlfLaursen wrote on 1/15/2012, 1:09 PM

Hmmm - I don't think that Vegas capture supports your card. As far as I remember there is some software budlet with the PVR thatvyou can use to capture andcthen import the files into Vegas afterwards.

Ulf

john_dennis wrote on 1/15/2012, 1:51 PM

Start here and select your 26xxx series card. You probably need to download a capture application from the Hauppauge site. Research whether the card captures to MPEG-2.

Capture with the manufacturer's application and injest the files into Vegas Pro.

musicvid10 wrote on 1/15/2012, 4:39 PM

"Capture with the manufacturer's application and injest the files into Vegas Pro. "
Captured TS (transport streams) from any device "often" require reindexing in VideoRedo before importing into Vegas. I have read of success using TSMuxer as well, but I have no personal experience with that method.

john_dennis wrote on 1/15/2012, 5:25 PM

@musicvid

There seems to be an evolution of tuner/capture cards. My HVR-1600 "captures ATSC broadcasts and writes the stream unchanged to the hard drive while it captures the S-video inputs and converts to MPEG-2 before it stores it to the hard drive. I tried the composite capture function using the Hauppauge capture application and it worked OK for some of my old VHS tapes. I didn't do much editing because I just wanted to save what was there to DVD. I didn't keep the capture app on the system as I'm done with it. VideoRedoDo will cut these streams without reencoding the whole stream. Since there is only one program stream for a composite input capture, they open in Vegas.

AlexanderG wrote on 1/29/2012, 1:19 PM

Thanks for the direction. I bought Hauppauge's WinTV CD for $9.95 and loaded that on my computer, then I updated it to vers. 4.6b with a download from their website. Their WinTV program seems to do a decent job of capturing the video at a variable bitrate, and it is adjustable, so I can set it for 4.8 Mbps and take the mpeg file straight into DVD Architect, bypassing the re-render in Vegas.

If anyone else needs to use Hauppauge's software, you have to add "channels" (i.e. the composite inputs) before you can record from the the composite inputs.

NicolSD wrote on 1/29/2012, 1:39 PM

Talking about Hauppauge... the HD-PVR is their best product. It will record the source video in MP4, AVCHD and M2TS. Providing you have the right source, the audio can be recorded in 5.1.