VLC 0.7.1 with Happauge Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-250 on Win XP
Posted: 06 Mar 2004 18:57
Tarek
Thank you for your suggestions. Tonight, we tested VLC 0.7.1 with Windows XP, and we did manage to get the video working, but were unable to get the audio working.
There were, however, a number of bugs with the video.
1. VLC would only work with the Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-250 AFTER we
ran the WinTV2000 application. VLC did not appear to be properly
initializing the hardware or possible the device driver for the WINTV-
PVR-250.
2. The picture would desynchronize in the VLC display window
whenever the window was moved around the windows desktop.
3. The picture was somewhat jerky and did not look like 30fps.
The three issues above were observed with the VLC display window running on a desktop machine with the WINTV-PVR-250 installed in the same desktop, i.e one machine only - no client server configuration.
However, we were also able to stream an MPEG2 TS from the WINDOWS XP desktop with the WINTV-PVR-250 hardware to a notebook computer. The notebook computer was also equipped with WINDOWS XP and had VLC installed on it. Issues 2 & 3 from above were observed on the notebook and were the same as when they were observed on the desktop in a stand alone mode.
I hope this helps. I will post these results tomorrow as promised.
If you have any further suggestions how to improve the performance of VLC please let me know. Are there any further updates for VLC coming out?
Regards,
Ross
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: VLC with Happauge WINTV-PVR-250
>
> > Have you heard of anyone who is using VLC on Windows XP with the Happauge WINTV-PVR-250?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ross MacGillivray
> >
>
> Dear Ross,
>
> We haven't experienced until this moment the Happauge WINTV-PVR-250 on a
> Windows XP OS, though we know well how to use it on Linux OSs'. But this
> is a suggestion for making it work on WinXP with the last VLC's version
> (0.7.0 on http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html): a new
> feature of this version makes it possible to use the "directshow" input
> as soon as Windows drivers detect it. Normally, the installation CD rom
> given with the WinTV-PVR-250 makes this card directshow-detectable (it
> is usually the case, as for web-cams or Pinnacle devices). To check
> it, just install the WinTV-PVR 250 normally, give it video signal, and
> run VLC (without launching WinTV appropriate programs), then ask for
> "DirectShow Input" among possible inputs.
>
> I hope it will work well. If it does, can I ask you a favour Ross? There
> is an appropriate forum for VLC FAQs, on http://forum.videolan.org ,
> other VLC users might be asking the same question than you. Then, if
> you report your problem to this forum (we will than report this answer,
> sworn!), this will be usefull for further questions. If the solution we
> suggested doesn't work, still you can ask on the forum site, other users
> might answer.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Tarek
Thank you for your suggestions. Tonight, we tested VLC 0.7.1 with Windows XP, and we did manage to get the video working, but were unable to get the audio working.
There were, however, a number of bugs with the video.
1. VLC would only work with the Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-250 AFTER we
ran the WinTV2000 application. VLC did not appear to be properly
initializing the hardware or possible the device driver for the WINTV-
PVR-250.
2. The picture would desynchronize in the VLC display window
whenever the window was moved around the windows desktop.
3. The picture was somewhat jerky and did not look like 30fps.
The three issues above were observed with the VLC display window running on a desktop machine with the WINTV-PVR-250 installed in the same desktop, i.e one machine only - no client server configuration.
However, we were also able to stream an MPEG2 TS from the WINDOWS XP desktop with the WINTV-PVR-250 hardware to a notebook computer. The notebook computer was also equipped with WINDOWS XP and had VLC installed on it. Issues 2 & 3 from above were observed on the notebook and were the same as when they were observed on the desktop in a stand alone mode.
I hope this helps. I will post these results tomorrow as promised.
If you have any further suggestions how to improve the performance of VLC please let me know. Are there any further updates for VLC coming out?
Regards,
Ross
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: VLC with Happauge WINTV-PVR-250
>
> > Have you heard of anyone who is using VLC on Windows XP with the Happauge WINTV-PVR-250?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ross MacGillivray
> >
>
> Dear Ross,
>
> We haven't experienced until this moment the Happauge WINTV-PVR-250 on a
> Windows XP OS, though we know well how to use it on Linux OSs'. But this
> is a suggestion for making it work on WinXP with the last VLC's version
> (0.7.0 on http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html): a new
> feature of this version makes it possible to use the "directshow" input
> as soon as Windows drivers detect it. Normally, the installation CD rom
> given with the WinTV-PVR-250 makes this card directshow-detectable (it
> is usually the case, as for web-cams or Pinnacle devices). To check
> it, just install the WinTV-PVR 250 normally, give it video signal, and
> run VLC (without launching WinTV appropriate programs), then ask for
> "DirectShow Input" among possible inputs.
>
> I hope it will work well. If it does, can I ask you a favour Ross? There
> is an appropriate forum for VLC FAQs, on http://forum.videolan.org ,
> other VLC users might be asking the same question than you. Then, if
> you report your problem to this forum (we will than report this answer,
> sworn!), this will be usefull for further questions. If the solution we
> suggested doesn't work, still you can ask on the forum site, other users
> might answer.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Tarek