Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

[goodpsusearch]

I own this card 1 year. It's the worst TV card I have ever had.....


It never came to work right. Every now and then PC hangs and the IRQ LESS OR NOT EQUAL message appears...
It's software is the crappiest TV soft one could imagine. No zoom function. No auto resize according to the program's aspect ratio...
Every now and then the MPEG4 HD AVC codec just stop working and need to be reinstalled....
Did I mention it is very slow and hard on resources? The TV server service consumes more than 50MB ram all the time.
When you change channels sometimes you get no sound, so you have to change it to another channel and then back...
That card costed 97 euros and did not even include mpeg4 hd decoders. The HD decoding capabilities are being sold separately:
http://www.hauppauge.eu//boutique_us...lg=lg_us&num=0

The saddest thing is that the card by itself may be good, but I can't use it due to the incredibly unreliable software.

So, I am desperate with that card... Do you know any alternative software that I could install and use with it?

I have the card in an Athlon XP 2200+, 1GB DDR, ATI HD4650 AGP. This is a slow machine but I don't use the card to watch HD TV (there aren't any in Greece), only for SD mpeg4 broadcasts...

[toastygoodness]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

Sounds like your vidcard might have some funny drivers too, especially since rhd isn't supported on agp. use wmc or mythtv if you can.

[ratdude747]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

try it on a linux box w/ tvtime installed... that would rule out any hardware burps from the sh!t list.

[Krankshaft]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

It seems like all TV tuner cards have sketchy drivers but a decent viewing / DVR software makes all the difference.

Most of the bundled programs are glitchy poorly coded crap. Unless you have XP Media Center edition, Vista, or Win 7 you'll need a third party app for TV viewing / recording.

I use a DVR software called BeyondTV on my comp never had ANY problems with it since I installed it.

Download the trial and give it a shot and see if stability improves the full version is only 100 bucks US.

http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/

I have the HVR-1600 it's a very nice card and I haven't had any problems with it with this software. Don't know how it compares to yours since the 1300 is a European model only. For analog only broadcasts it should take very little CPU power since the card will use it's internal encoder.

[goodpsusearch]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

Sounds like your vidcard might have some funny drivers too, especially since rhd isn't supported on agp. use wmc or mythtv if you can.

I think this is true because the card is an Asus AH4650 AGP and if you hit it on google, lots of driver problems come as first results.

I attach a common blue screen I get while I watch TV with the Hauppauge unreliable bundled software: bsod

On the other side, I forgot to mention the computer is dual boot, it has XP and Windows 7. I tried windows media center today in win 7 and it recognized the TV card correctly and then it worked like a charm

Thanks for your help! It seems to be light on resources as well.

Is there any way I could install it on XP?

[Krankshaft]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

If this is with the bundled software junk it and try another program and see if you get the same error.

It won't be the first time I've had the included tuner card software not work you get what you pay for.

[brethin]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

I think this is true because the card is an Asus AH4650 AGP and if you hit it on google, lots of driver problems come as first results.

I attach a common blue screen I get while I watch TV with the Hauppauge unreliable bundled software: bsod

On the other side, I forgot to mention the computer is dual boot, it has XP and Windows 7. I tried windows media center today in win 7 and it recognized the TV card correctly and then it worked like a charm

Thanks for your help! It seems to be light on resources as well.

Is there any way I could install it on XP?

No problems here with a XFX ATI 4650 (AGP) 1 meg card and the WinTV-HVR 1300. It is running on a socket 478 P4 3.4 on a ASUS P4C800 (875 chipset) with 3 gig ram and I am using the HDMI output to a 40" Samsung 1080p TV.

I am using Windows XP Media Center Ed. Yes the tuner is Analog but I use it as a input from a VCR and from a Dish Network Receiver and to record to my network media storage. It only being Mpeg-2 it does a really good job with Mpeg-4 video. I play it back and its hard to tell it was only captured in Mpeg-2.

[toastygoodness]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

I think this is true because the card is an Asus AH4650 AGP and if you hit it on google, lots of driver problems come as first results.

I attach a common blue screen I get while I watch TV with the Hauppauge unreliable bundled software: bsod

On the other side, I forgot to mention the computer is dual boot, it has XP and Windows 7. I tried windows media center today in win 7 and it recognized the TV card correctly and then it worked like a charm

Thanks for your help! It seems to be light on resources as well.

Is there any way I could install it on XP?

that for sure is a video card driver error. the ati driver is the one causing the BSOD. see if there are newer ones from asus available. either that or u might have to roll back.

great that you like wmc join the club haha. xp is not built to work with digital tuners, so i would just stick with win7. if you turn off all the visual stuff, win7 should run pretty speedy.

[goodpsusearch]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

that for sure is a video card driver error. the ati driver is the one causing the BSOD. see if there are newer ones from asus available. either that or u might have to roll back.

Only one driver is available at asus site for that 4650 agp card... It's the same that came with the CD.

great that you like wmc join the club haha. xp is not built to work with digital tuners, so i would just stick with win7. if you turn off all the visual stuff, win7 should run pretty speedy.

I had a problem with washed out colours in wmc but I fixed it by doing this:
http://sekharpadikkal.wordpress.com/...-media-center/
(I did the first registry edit)

I also tried recording a program and it did it flawlessly.

I wish there was a way that I could stop TV buffering. Live TV transmission might be lighter on cpu usage.

Nevertheless it works great until now

[toastygoodness]

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on mine wmc uses the overlay settings in catalyst but i dunno. yeah, not sure how to stop buffering besides setting it to use like no space, i guess suffocating it. that kind of sucks for ur vidcard. you think another vendor's 4650agp drivers would work? i don't really feel that it would, beyond screwing up ur compy. oh well. i know for sure winxp isn't built for decoding mp4 at all though.

at least it works great now ish.

[goodpsusearch]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

I am very satisfied with wmc in windows 7.

The graphics card and its drivers didn't cause me any other problems, so I think it is better not to touch them.

I opened a thread in hauppauge support forum regarding the problems with WinTV. Maybe they help me fix some of the issues with their software.

Thank you again for your help

[weirdlookinguy]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

Yeah Win7 WMC is excellent.

Are you getting any hardware acceleration from your 4650? I have a 4850 and my CPU usage while watching HD is like ~3%.

[bgavin]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

This bug check is tied to a Read failure, IRQ=5, memory address=000.

Time for new drivers... this is a coding problem.
The executing code went out in the weeds and tried to read low memory.
Not allowed.

Skip the ASUS drivers... go directly to the ATi site and download their latest drivers. The board vendors are always behind the times...

[goodpsusearch]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

Yeah Win7 WMC is excellent.

Are you getting any hardware acceleration from your 4650? I have a 4850 and my CPU usage while watching HD is like ~3%.

How can I check that hardware acceleration is enabled or disabled?

This bug check is tied to a Read failure, IRQ=5, memory address=000.

Time for new drivers... this is a coding problem.
The executing code went out in the weeds and tried to read low memory.
Not allowed.

Skip the ASUS drivers... go directly to the ATi site and download their latest drivers. The board vendors are always behind the times...

I have read somewhere in this forum that it's not easy to install ATI drivers on Asus graphics cards because they change the card's bios...

About the bsod, I found yesterday that if I change the mpeg-4 decoder from Arcsoft to Cyberlink, then I get no bsod. But Cyberlink decoder has its own issues with that crappy software..

[bgavin]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

Friends don't let friends buy Asus.
-PCBones

That pretty much sums it up.
If the Asus card won't run the standard drivers, kick the card to the curb.

[weirdlookinguy]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

I'm not sure if you'll get any hardware acceleration from your card. I get hardware acceleration on my setup because my HD tuner has the ATI theater chip and I have an ATI card (XFX 4850). The easiest way to see is to check your CPU usage while you're watching live HD. If it's super low (~3% for me) then you know your graphics card is doing most of the work.

[toastygoodness]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

This bug check is tied to a Read failure, IRQ=5, memory address=000.

Time for new drivers... this is a coding problem.
The executing code went out in the weeds and tried to read low memory.
Not allowed.

Skip the ASUS drivers... go directly to the ATi site and download their latest drivers. The board vendors are always behind the times...

that's not possible. rhd is only for pci-e. the manufacturers hardmod the chip for agp. the drivers won't work no matter what. i've tried, its stupid and you feel stupid after spending forever trying to get it to work.

[brethin]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

that's not possible. rhd is only for pci-e. the manufacturers hardmod the chip for agp. the drivers won't work no matter what. i've tried, its stupid and you feel stupid after spending forever trying to get it to work.

Ok I have to ask what does rhd stand for in the 2 posts you have used it?

[goodpsusearch]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

rhd = Radeon HD?

[toastygoodness]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

rhd = Radeon HD?

precisely. radeon hd 4650.