hauppauge pvr 150 working vista b2 mc

I can not get decent Live or Recorded quality from my Vista Beta2 system using Media Center. I started with a clean install of Vista not an upgrade. Have the Vista drivers from Vista WinUpdate (..24.108) All other video and DVDs play find. My XPHome Boot disk in the same systems works fine with the WinTV2K application from Hauppauge. I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is working fine in Vista MC.

I had Vista 32-bit installed on my Dell Dimension E510 (till it died) with an Intel 630 (3Ghz) and 1gig DDR2 ram using the integrated Intel 945G video and the Hauppage 150 MCE card.
It ran just fine, and it had great quality TV both live and recorded.
The only issue I had, is I could not get MCE to burn a DVD (video) of a recorded show.
The recording wizard would begin, and it would get as far as asking if I want to burn a data or a video DVD, but after answering the question and clicking on 'next' the system would hang and never get to the next screen where it normall asks you to enter a title, then continue on to burn the DVD.
This weekend I'll be replacing the crashed E510 with a new E510 which happens to have a 2.8DGhz CPU, and I'll give it another try.
"JW" wrote in message

I can not get decent Live or Recorded quality from my Vista Beta2 system using Media Center. I started with a clean install of Vista not an upgrade. Have the Vista drivers from Vista WinUpdate (..24.108) All other video and DVDs play find. My XPHome Boot disk in the same systems works fine with the WinTV2K application from Hauppauge. I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is working fine in Vista MC.

Did you install Vista Beta 2 as upgrade to an esisting MCE 2005 system or as a totally new install of Vista on a newly formatted partition. Your configuration is almost identical, if not identical, to mine and I suspect that my problems are related to the fact that my VISTA MC installation was not an upgrade. "Timothy Drouillard" wrote in message

I had Vista 32-bit installed on my Dell Dimension E510 (till it died) with an Intel 630 (3Ghz) and 1gig DDR2 ram using the integrated Intel 945G video and the Hauppage 150 MCE card.
It ran just fine, and it had great quality TV both live and recorded.
The only issue I had, is I could not get MCE to burn a DVD (video) of a recorded show.
The recording wizard would begin, and it would get as far as asking if I want to burn a data or a video DVD, but after answering the question and clicking on 'next' the system would hang and never get to the next screen where it normall asks you to enter a title, then continue on to burn the DVD.
This weekend I'll be replacing the crashed E510 with a new E510 which happens to have a 2.8DGhz CPU, and I'll give it another try.
"JW" wrote in message I can not get decent Live or Recorded quality from my Vista Beta2 system using Media Center. I started with a clean install of Vista not an upgrade. Have the Vista drivers from Vista WinUpdate (..24.108) All other video and DVDs play find. My XPHome Boot disk in the same systems works fine with the WinTV2K application from Hauppauge. I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is working fine in Vista MC.

Mine was a total clean install on a empty single HD.
"JW" wrote in message

Did you install Vista Beta 2 as upgrade to an esisting MCE 2005 system or as a totally new install of Vista on a newly formatted partition. Your configuration is almost identical, if not identical, to mine and I suspect that my problems are related to the fact that my VISTA MC installation was not an upgrade. "Timothy Drouillard" wrote in message I had Vista 32-bit installed on my Dell Dimension E510 (till it died) with an Intel 630 (3Ghz) and 1gig DDR2 ram using the integrated Intel 945G video and the Hauppage 150 MCE card.
It ran just fine, and it had great quality TV both live and recorded.
The only issue I had, is I could not get MCE to burn a DVD (video) of a recorded show.
The recording wizard would begin, and it would get as far as asking if I want to burn a data or a video DVD, but after answering the question and clicking on 'next' the system would hang and never get to the next screen where it normall asks you to enter a title, then continue on to burn the DVD.
This weekend I'll be replacing the crashed E510 with a new E510 which happens to have a 2.8DGhz CPU, and I'll give it another try.
"JW" wrote in message I can not get decent Live or Recorded quality from my Vista Beta2 system using Media Center. I started with a clean install of Vista not an upgrade. Have the Vista drivers from Vista WinUpdate (..24.108) All other video and DVDs play find. My XPHome Boot disk in the same systems works fine with the WinTV2K application from Hauppauge. I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is working fine in Vista MC.

I am having major frustration too. I did a clean Vista install on a partition drive but can not get Vista MCE to play live TV well, I get freeze frames, pixilation but when I use the application supplied with my turner pci card, it runs incredibly well.
System specs: TV Tuner: AverMedia UltraTV 1500 Also using Windows MCE Remote Control & Receiver Mother Board: Asus p5rd1-vm-uayz Processor: P4. 2.66Ghz RAM: 1.2 Graphics: ATI Radeon Xpress 200 series HD: 150 Gig (Vista partition using 80 Gig)
-----Original Message----- From: JW [mailto:nospam@no.spam] Posted At: Friday, July 14, 2006 8:03 AM Posted To: microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_video Conversation: Hauppauge PVR 150 working in Vista B2 MC? Subject: Hauppauge PVR 150 working in Vista B2 MC?
I can not get decent Live or Recorded quality from my Vista Beta2 system
using Media Center. I started with a clean install of Vista not an upgrade. Have the Vista drivers from Vista WinUpdate (..24.108) All other video and DVDs play find. My XPHome Boot disk in the same systems works fine with the WinTV2K application from Hauppauge. I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is working fine in Vista MC.

HDRDTD, If your 150 card is working fine with the clean install you describe I would also be curious to know if your 150 card had been used sucessfully before running on a MCE2005 system and if was origianally purchased as non MCE 150 PVR card or as a MCE 150 PVR card. The only difference I know is supposed to be the drivers, however, since my card bought in the fall of 2005 was just a regular 150 PVR card I am suspecting that there are possibly some encoder chip rev level differences between cards and that not all rev levels work properly with Vista MC. Hauppauge knows of no reason so far that I should be having trouble but does admit that the recording I sent them looks very bad. That fact that my card works fine when I dual boot my system to run under XP Home with the WinTV2K application from Hauppauge.
"HDRDTD" wrote in message

Mine was a total clean install on a empty single HD.
"JW" wrote in message Did you install Vista Beta 2 as upgrade to an esisting MCE 2005 system or as a totally new install of Vista on a newly formatted partition. Your configuration is almost identical, if not identical, to mine and I suspect that my problems are related to the fact that my VISTA MC installation was not an upgrade. "Timothy Drouillard" wrote in message I had Vista 32-bit installed on my Dell Dimension E510 (till it died) with an Intel 630 (3Ghz) and 1gig DDR2 ram using the integrated Intel 945G video and the Hauppage 150 MCE card.
It ran just fine, and it had great quality TV both live and recorded.
The only issue I had, is I could not get MCE to burn a DVD (video) of a recorded show.
The recording wizard would begin, and it would get as far as asking if I want to burn a data or a video DVD, but after answering the question and clicking on 'next' the system would hang and never get to the next screen where it normall asks you to enter a title, then continue on to burn the DVD.
This weekend I'll be replacing the crashed E510 with a new E510 which happens to have a 2.8DGhz CPU, and I'll give it another try.
"JW" wrote in message I can not get decent Live or Recorded quality from my Vista Beta2 system using Media Center. I started with a clean install of Vista not an upgrade. Have the Vista drivers from Vista WinUpdate (..24.108) All other video and DVDs play find. My XPHome Boot disk in the same systems works fine with the WinTV2K application from Hauppauge. I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is working fine in Vista MC.

The card was give to me as a Christmas present, so it was bought in December of 2005. It's the WinTV-PVR 150 Media Center Kit, and I installed it in a Dell Dimension E510 that was bought in October of 2005 w/Windows MCE.
"JW" wrote in message

HDRDTD, If your 150 card is working fine with the clean install you describe I would also be curious to know if your 150 card had been used sucessfully before running on a MCE2005 system and if was origianally purchased as non MCE 150 PVR card or as a MCE 150 PVR card. The only difference I know is supposed to be the drivers, however, since my card bought in the fall of 2005 was just a regular 150 PVR card I am suspecting that there are possibly some encoder chip rev level differences between cards and that not all rev levels work properly with Vista MC. Hauppauge knows of no reason so far that I should be having trouble but does admit that the recording I sent them looks very bad. That fact that my card works fine when I dual boot my system to run under XP Home with the WinTV2K application from Hauppauge.
"HDRDTD" wrote in message Mine was a total clean install on a empty single HD.
"JW" wrote in message Did you install Vista Beta 2 as upgrade to an esisting MCE 2005 system or as a totally new install of Vista on a newly formatted partition. Your configuration is almost identical, if not identical, to mine and I suspect that my problems are related to the fact that my VISTA MC installation was not an upgrade. "Timothy Drouillard" wrote in message I had Vista 32-bit installed on my Dell Dimension E510 (till it died) with an Intel 630 (3Ghz) and 1gig DDR2 ram using the integrated Intel 945G video and the Hauppage 150 MCE card.
It ran just fine, and it had great quality TV both live and recorded.
The only issue I had, is I could not get MCE to burn a DVD (video) of a recorded show.
The recording wizard would begin, and it would get as far as asking if I want to burn a data or a video DVD, but after answering the question and clicking on 'next' the system would hang and never get to the next screen where it normall asks you to enter a title, then continue on to burn the DVD.
This weekend I'll be replacing the crashed E510 with a new E510 which happens to have a 2.8DGhz CPU, and I'll give it another try.
"JW" wrote in message I can not get decent Live or Recorded quality from my Vista Beta2 system using Media Center. I started with a clean install of Vista not an upgrade. Have the Vista drivers from Vista WinUpdate (..24.108) All other video and DVDs play find. My XPHome Boot disk in the same systems works fine with the WinTV2K application from Hauppauge. I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is working fine in Vista MC.

Thank you for the feedback, our cards are probably identical. I think I will give up trying to solve this problem for the moment since there are several other companies whose products I use daily that are preventing me from using Vista on a regular basis.
"HDRDTD" wrote in message

The card was give to me as a Christmas present, so it was bought in December of 2005. It's the WinTV-PVR 150 Media Center Kit, and I installed it in a Dell Dimension E510 that was bought in October of 2005 w/Windows MCE.
"JW" wrote in message HDRDTD, If your 150 card is working fine with the clean install you describe I would also be curious to know if your 150 card had been used sucessfully before running on a MCE2005 system and if was origianally purchased as non MCE 150 PVR card or as a MCE 150 PVR card. The only difference I know is supposed to be the drivers, however, since my card bought in the fall of 2005 was just a regular 150 PVR card I am suspecting that there are possibly some encoder chip rev level differences between cards and that not all rev levels work properly with Vista MC. Hauppauge knows of no reason so far that I should be having trouble but does admit that the recording I sent them looks very bad. That fact that my card works fine when I dual boot my system to run under XP Home with the WinTV2K application from Hauppauge.
"HDRDTD" wrote in message Mine was a total clean install on a empty single HD.
"JW" wrote in message Did you install Vista Beta 2 as upgrade to an esisting MCE 2005 system or as a totally new install of Vista on a newly formatted partition. Your configuration is almost identical, if not identical, to mine and I suspect that my problems are related to the fact that my VISTA MC installation was not an upgrade. "Timothy Drouillard" wrote in message I had Vista 32-bit installed on my Dell Dimension E510 (till it died) with an Intel 630 (3Ghz) and 1gig DDR2 ram using the integrated Intel 945G video and the Hauppage 150 MCE card.
It ran just fine, and it had great quality TV both live and recorded.
The only issue I had, is I could not get MCE to burn a DVD (video) of a recorded show.
The recording wizard would begin, and it would get as far as asking if I want to burn a data or a video DVD, but after answering the question and clicking on 'next' the system would hang and never get to the next screen where it normall asks you to enter a title, then continue on to burn the DVD.
This weekend I'll be replacing the crashed E510 with a new E510 which happens to have a 2.8DGhz CPU, and I'll give it another try.
"JW" wrote in message I can not get decent Live or Recorded quality from my Vista Beta2 system using Media Center. I started with a clean install of Vista not an upgrade. Have the Vista drivers from Vista WinUpdate (..24.108) All other video and DVDs play find. My XPHome Boot disk in the same systems works fine with the WinTV2K application from Hauppauge. I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is working fine in Vista MC.

"JW" wrote in message

I can not get decent Live or Recorded quality from my Vista Beta2 system using Media Center. I started with a clean install of Vista not an upgrade. Have the Vista drivers from Vista WinUpdate (..24.108) All other video and DVDs play find. My XPHome Boot disk in the same systems works fine with the WinTV2K application from Hauppauge. I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is working fine in Vista MC.

I'm using a PVR500MCE and from my understanding my card is basically two 150 tuners on a single card. I am getting OK (not great) recording and live TV performance using the PVR150MCE Hauppauge drivers from here.
http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_pvr150.html
By not great I mean it seems to take a while to switch channels, and the initial video startup is perceivably slower then with MCE2005. The recordings are fine and very watchable, TV is watchable... The quality of both seem fine... The hardware itself seems to be slow.
I haven't managed to be able to burn a show to DVD yet... and my shows do not sync to my PPC. I believe both of these are problems associated with the windows encoder, and not the hauppauge card.

You can edit and convert the DVR-MS files to MPG with Nero 7 Ultra. Works fine.
"Eric G. van der Paardt" wrote in message

"JW" wrote in message I can not get decent Live or Recorded quality from my Vista Beta2 system using Media Center. I started with a clean install of Vista not an upgrade. Have the Vista drivers from Vista WinUpdate (..24.108) All other video and DVDs play find. My XPHome Boot disk in the same systems works fine with the WinTV2K application from Hauppauge. I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is working fine in Vista MC.
I'm using a PVR500MCE and from my understanding my card is basically two 150 tuners on a single card. I am getting OK (not great) recording and live TV performance using the PVR150MCE Hauppauge drivers from here.
http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_pvr150.html
By not great I mean it seems to take a while to switch channels, and the initial video startup is perceivably slower then with MCE2005. The recordings are fine and very watchable, TV is watchable... The quality of both seem fine... The hardware itself seems to be slow.
I haven't managed to be able to burn a show to DVD yet... and my shows do not sync to my PPC. I believe both of these are problems associated with the windows encoder, and not the hauppauge card.

But what does that have to do with anything when it comes to watching live TV? "Nathan Wallace" wrote in message

You can edit and convert the DVR-MS files to MPG with Nero 7 Ultra. Works fine.
"Eric G. van der Paardt" wrote in message "JW" wrote in message I can not get decent Live or Recorded quality from my Vista Beta2 system using Media Center. I started with a clean install of Vista not an upgrade. Have the Vista drivers from Vista WinUpdate (..24.108) All other video and DVDs play find. My XPHome Boot disk in the same systems works fine with the WinTV2K application from Hauppauge. I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is working fine in Vista MC.
I'm using a PVR500MCE and from my understanding my card is basically two 150 tuners on a single card. I am getting OK (not great) recording and live TV performance using the PVR150MCE Hauppauge drivers from here.
http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_pvr150.html
By not great I mean it seems to take a while to switch channels, and the initial video startup is perceivably slower then with MCE2005. The recordings are fine and very watchable, TV is watchable... The quality of both seem fine... The hardware itself seems to be slow.
I haven't managed to be able to burn a show to DVD yet... and my shows do not sync to my PPC. I believe both of these are problems associated with the windows encoder, and not the hauppauge card.