Hauppauge Computer Works
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United States
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manufacturer and marketer of electronic video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
hardware for personal computer
Personal computer
A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...
s. Although it is most widely known for its WinTV line of TV tuner card
TV tuner card
A TV tuner card is a kind of television tuner that allows television signals to be received by a computer. Most TV tuners also function as video capture cards, allowing them to record television programs onto a hard disk much like the Tivo digital video recorder does.-Variants: The interfaces for...
s for PC
IBM PC compatible
IBM PC compatible computers are those generally similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT. Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones, or IBM clones since they almost exactly duplicated all the significant features of the PC architecture, facilitated by various manufacturers' ability to...
s, Hauppauge also produces personal video recorders, digital video editors, digital media players, hybrid video recorders and digital television products for both Windows and Mac. The company is named after the hamlet of Hauppauge, New York
Hauppauge, New York
Hauppauge is a hamlet and CDP in the Town of Islip and the Town of Smithtown in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population of the CDP was 20,100 at the time of the 2000 census....
, in which it is based. It is sometimes misspelled as Happage, Happauge, or Hauppage.
In addition to its headquarters in New York, Hauppauge also has sales and technical support offices in France
France
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, Germany
Germany
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, the Netherlands
Netherlands
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, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
, Italy
Italy
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, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, Spain
Spain
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and the UK.
Company history
Hauppauge was co-founded by Kenneth Plotkin and Kenneth Aupperle, and became incorporated in 1992.Motherboards
During the late 1980s and early '90s Hauppauge produced motherboards for Intel 486 processors. A number of these motherboards were standard ISAISA
Isa is the name by which Jesus is known in the Muslim world.Isa may also refer to:* Isha Upanishad, Hindu religious text* Isa , 2004 album by Enslaved* Isa , common Arabic and Turkish male name...
built to fairly competitive price points. Some, however, were workstation and server-oriented, including EISA
Eisa
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support, optional cache
Cache
In computer engineering, a cache is a component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster. The data that is stored within a cache might be values that have been computed earlier or duplicates of original values that are stored elsewhere...
memory modules, and support for the Weitek
Weitek
Weitek Corporation was a chip-design company that originally concentrated on floating point units for a number of commercial CPU designs. During the early to mid-1980s, Weitek designs could be found powering a number of high-end designs and parallel processing supercomputers...
4167 FPU.
Hauppauge also sold a unique motherboard, the Hauppauge 4860. This was the only standard PC/AT motherboard ever made with both an Intel 80486
Intel 80486
The Intel 80486 microprocessor was a higher performance follow up on the Intel 80386. Introduced in 1989, it was the first tightly pipelined x86 design as well as the first x86 chip to use more than a million transistors, due to a large on-chip cache and an integrated floating point unit...
and an Intel i860
Intel i860
The Intel i860 was a RISC microprocessor from Intel, first released in 1989. The i860 was one of Intel's first attempts at an entirely new, high-end instruction set since the failed Intel i432 from the 1980s...
processor (optional). While boot required the 80486, the i860 could either run an independent lightweight operating system or serve as a more conventional co-processor.
Hauppauge no longer produces motherboards, focusing instead on the TV card market.
Digital Terrestrial/Satellite
Hauppauge digital terrestrial and satellite products capture DVB-TDVB-T
DVB-T is an abbreviation for Digital Video Broadcasting — Terrestrial; it is the DVB European-based consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television that was first published in 1997 and first broadcast in the UK in 1998...
and DVB-S
DVB-S
DVB-S is an abbreviation for Digital Video Broadcasting — Satellite; it is the original Digital Video Broadcasting forward error coding and demodulation standard for satellite television and dates from 1994, in its first release, while development lasted from 1993 to 1997...
broadcasts respectively without the need to re-encode the streams. There are several benefits from this approach:
- the cost of the TV card can be lower because there is no need to supply an MPEG-2 encoder
- the quality of captures can be higher because there is no need to re-encode streams
- ratio of file size to quality is higher due to the broadcasters' high-efficiency encoders
Up until August 2004 all of Hauppauge's DVB products were badge-engineered TechnoTrend products. The first of the new Hauppauge-designed cards was the Nova-t PCI 90002 and the silent replacement of the TechnoTrend model caused confusion and anger among Hauppauge's customers who found that the new card didn't support TechnoTrend's proprietary interfaces. This rendered any existing 3rd party software unusable with the new cards. The new cards also came with a software packaged called WinTV2000 which lacked features that TechnoTrend's software had including 7-day EPG
Electronic program guide
Electronic program guides and interactive program guides provide users of television, radio, and other media applications with continuously updated menus displaying broadcast programming or scheduling information for current and upcoming programming...
, Digital Teletext and LCN-based channel ordering. The new cards supported Microsoft's BDA
Broadcast Driver Architecture
The Broadcast Driver Architecture is a Microsoft standard for digital video capture on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It encompasses the ATSC and DVB standards and gives developers a standardized method of accessing TV tuner devices...
standard but at the time this was at its infancy and very few 3rd party applications included support for it.
By 2005 all of the TechnoTrend products had been removed from the Hauppauge lineup, with the exception of the DEC2000-t and DEC3000-s which haven't seen a replacement.
Hybrid Video Recorders
The Hybrid Video Recorder (HVR) range capture a combination of different broadcast types. The majority of Hauppauge HVR models capture analogue PAL and DVB-T but there have been some more recent models which capture analogue NTSC and ATSC as well as a tri-mode card which supports analogue PAL, DVB-S and DVB-T.HVR-9xx devices are bus-powered USB 2.0 sticks, not much larger than a USB flash drive. They have support for analogue and digital terrestrial TV. The HVR-9xx sticks are produced in Taiwan by Deltron, and are also sold for Apple computers by Elgato under the EyeTV brand.
HVR-1xxx devices are PCI-based products that receive analogue and digital terrestrial TV. They are similar to the HVR-9xx but have support for NICAM or dbx Stereo for analogue terrestrial on all models.
HVR-3xxx and 4xxx devices are tri-mode and quad-mode devices respectively. Tri-mode means support for analogue terrestrial/cable, digital terrestrial and DVB-S digital satellite. Quad-mode devices additionally support DVB-S2 HD digital satellite. The HVR-4000 marks a change in bundled applications in that instead of using Hauppauge's WinTV2000 package, it ships with Cyberlink PowerCinema.
Personal Video Recorders
The Personal Video Recorder (PVR) range utilise an on-board MPEG/MPEG-2 encoder to compress the incoming analogue TV signals. The benefits of using a hardware encoder include lower CPU usage when encoding live TV.The first WinTV-PVR product was the WinTV PVR-PCI, launched in late 2000 and not receiving any driver updates since February 2002. It was joined by the WinTV PVR-USB, which has two variants. The first variant supported MPEG-2 streams up to 6 Mbit
Megabit
The megabit is a multiple of the unit bit for digital information or computer storage. The prefix mega is defined in the International System of Units as a multiplier of 106 , and therefore...
/s and supported Half-D1 resolutions (320 × 480). This was replaced by an updated model supporting up to 12 Mbit/s streams and Full-D1 resolution (720 × 480).
The first WinTV-PVR to gain popularity was the PVR-250. The original version of the PVR-250 was a variant of the Sag Harbor (PVR-350) which used the ivac15 chipset. Although the chipset was able to hardware decoding the video out components were not included on the card. In later versions of the PVR-250 the ivac15 was replaced with the ivac16 to reduce cost and to relieve heat issues. The PVR-250 and PVR-350 were joined by the USB 2.0 PVR-USB2 to complete their generation of devices.
Their successors, the PVR-150 and PVR-500, were released alongside the PVR-250/350/USB2 and while popular with both OEMs and the general public, there have been numerous driver issues as well as video quality complaints. The PVR-500 was released as a Media Center card and wasn't supplied with Hauppauge's WinTV2000 software. It was effectively two PVR-150s on a single board, connected via a PCI-PCI bridge chip. The PVR-USB2 was silently replaced with the PVR-USB2+ which is identical both visually and terms of features, but uses a Conexant chipset rather than the Philips chipset in the old model.
From its name and time of release, the PVR-160 appears to be newer than the PVR-150 but it is not. The PVR-160 is a repackaging of the WinTV Roslyn. The Roslyn is based on the Conexant
Conexant
Conexant Systems, Inc. is an American semiconductor company, formerly the semiconductor division of Rockwell International. Currently it's privately owned by Golden Gate Capital, an equity firm headquartered in San Francisco.-History:...
Blackbird design and uses the CX2388x video decoder. This board was originally available only to OEMs and third-party software vendors such as Frey Technologies (SageTV
SageTV
SageTV Media Center was a proprietary, commercial DVR and HTPC software for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It requires that the host computer have a hardware based TV tuner card. The SageTV software has an integrated Electronic Programming Guide that is updated via the Internet...
) and Snapstream (BeyondTV). The board was sold under many names including the PVR-250BTV (Snapstream). This card is known to have color and brightness issues that can be corrected somewhat using registry hacks. Hauppauge received a large surplus amount of these cards from OEM and third party vendors. The cards were repackaged with an MCE remote and receiver and rebranded the PVR-160. The PVR-160 was often mistakenly referred to as the PVR-250MCE but is not related to the PVR-250.
High-Definition Personal Video Recorder
In May 2008, Hauppauge released the HD-PVR, a USB 2.0 device with an on-board H.264 hardware encoder for recording from high-definition sources through component inputs. It is the world's first USB device that can capture in high definition. The HD-PVR has proved to be a very popular device, and Hauppauge has been updating its drivers and software continually since its release. In addition to being able to capture from any component video source in 480p480p
480p is the shorthand name for a video display resolution. The p stands for progressive scan, i.e. non-interlaced. The 480 denotes a vertical resolution of 480 pixel high vertically scanning lines, usually with a horizontal resolution of 640 pixels and 4:3 aspect ratio or a horizontal resolution of...
, 720p
720p
720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan...
, or 1080i
1080i
1080i is the shorthand name for a high-definition television mode. The i means interlaced video; 1080i differs from 1080p, in which the p stands for progressive scan. The term 1080i assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a frame size of 1920×1080 pixels...
, the HD-PVR comes with an IR blaster that communicates with your cable or satellite set-top box for automated program recordings and channel-changing capabilities.
WinTV Analogue
The standard analogue range of products use software encoding for recording analogue TV. The more recent Hauppauge cards use SoftPVR, which allows MPEG and MPEG-2 encoding in software provided that a sufficiently fast CPU is installed in the system.MediaMVP
The MediaMVP is a thin clientThin client
A thin client is a computer or a computer program which depends heavily on some other computer to fulfill its traditional computational roles. This stands in contrast to the traditional fat client, a computer designed to take on these roles by itself...
device that displays music, video and pictures (hence "MVP") on a television. It is based on an IBM PowerPC
PowerPC
PowerPC is a RISC architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM...
RISC processor specialized for multimedia decoding. The operating system is a form of Linux, and everything (including the menus) is served to the device via ethernet or, on newer devices, 802.11g wireless LAN
Wireless LAN
A wireless local area network links two or more devices using some wireless distribution method , and usually providing a connection through an access point to the wider internet. This gives users the mobility to move around within a local coverage area and still be connected to the network...
from the server PC.
Various open source software products can use the device as a front-end. An example is MVPMC, which allows the MediaMVP to be used as a front-end for MythTV
MythTV
MythTV is a free and open source home entertainment application with a simplified "10-foot user interface" design for the living-room TV, and turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a network streaming digital video recorder, a digital multimedia home entertainment system, or home theater...
or ReplayTV
ReplayTV
ReplayTV is a brand of digital video recorder , a term synonymous with personal video recorder . It is a consumer video device which allows users to capture television programming to internal hard disk storage for later viewing...
.
Table of products
| Type | Model | Tuner | Host Interface | Analog | Digital | Other | IR |
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| Digital Terrestrial | DEC2000-t | Philips | USB 1.x TMX320AV7111 |
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| DEC2540-t | Philips | USB 1.x TMX320AV7111 |
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| Nova-t PCI | Grundig | PCI SAA7134 |
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| Nova-t PCI | Philips | PCI SAA7134 |
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| Nova-t PCI (90002) | Thomson DTT7592 | PCI CX2388x |
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| Nova-t PCI (90003) | Thomson DTT75105 | PCI CX2388x |
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| Nova-t USB | Philips | USB 1.x | |||||
| Nova-t USB2 | Panasonic ENV57H | USB 2.0 Cypress FX2 |
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| Nova-t Stick (70001) | Microtune MT2060 Microtune MT2060 MicroTuner MT2060 is a single-chip, microprocessor-based TV tuner capable of receiving analogue and terrestrial TV by Microtune, Inc. It is commonly used in USB digital TV receivers due to its small size and power consumption... |
USB 2.0 | |||||
| Nova-t Stick (70009) | Microtune MT2060 Microtune MT2060 MicroTuner MT2060 is a single-chip, microprocessor-based TV tuner capable of receiving analogue and terrestrial TV by Microtune, Inc. It is commonly used in USB digital TV receivers due to its small size and power consumption... |
USB 2.0 | |||||
| Nova-TD-Stick | 2× MicroTune MT2266 | USB 2.0 | |||||
| Nova-t 500 | 2× Microtune MT2060 Microtune MT2060 MicroTuner MT2060 is a single-chip, microprocessor-based TV tuner capable of receiving analogue and terrestrial TV by Microtune, Inc. It is commonly used in USB digital TV receivers due to its small size and power consumption... |
PCI VT6212L |
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| Nova-TD 500 | 2× Microtune ???? | PCI DiB0710 |
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| Digital Satellite | DEC3000-s | Unknown | USB 1.x TMX320AV7111 |
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| Nexus-s v2.3 | Alps BSBE1-502A | PCI SAA7146 TMX320AV7111 |
S-Video Out | ||||
| Nova-s PCI | Alps BSBE1-502A | PCI SAA7146 |
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| Nova-s SE PCI | Unknown | PCI SAA7146 |
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| Nova-s USB | Unknown | USB 1.x | |||||
| Nova-SE2 | Unknown | PCI CX2388x |
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| Nova-S-Plus | Unknown | PCI CX2388x |
Composite In S-Video In |
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| Hybrid Video Recorder | HVR-900 | Xceive XC3028 Xceive XC3028 Xceive's XC3028 and XC3028L are single-chip TV tuners by Xceive Inc., capable of receiving analogue cable, analogue terrestrial, digital cable and digital terrestrial TV... |
USB 2.0 EM2881 |
Composite In (Opt) S-Video In (Opt) |
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| HVR-900 (Rev B2 & C2) | Xceive XC3028 Xceive XC3028 Xceive's XC3028 and XC3028L are single-chip TV tuners by Xceive Inc., capable of receiving analogue cable, analogue terrestrial, digital cable and digital terrestrial TV... |
USB 2.0 EM2883 |
Composite In (Opt) S-Video In (Opt) |
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| HVR-930 | Xceive XC3028 Xceive XC3028 Xceive's XC3028 and XC3028L are single-chip TV tuners by Xceive Inc., capable of receiving analogue cable, analogue terrestrial, digital cable and digital terrestrial TV... |
USB 2.0 EM2881 |
Composite In (Opt) S-Video In (Opt) |
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| HVR-930 (Rev B2) | Xceive XC3028 Xceive XC3028 Xceive's XC3028 and XC3028L are single-chip TV tuners by Xceive Inc., capable of receiving analogue cable, analogue terrestrial, digital cable and digital terrestrial TV... |
USB 2.0 EM2883 |
Composite In (Opt) S-Video In (Opt) |
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| HVR-950 | Xceive XC3028 Xceive XC3028 Xceive's XC3028 and XC3028L are single-chip TV tuners by Xceive Inc., capable of receiving analogue cable, analogue terrestrial, digital cable and digital terrestrial TV... |
USB 2.0 | Composite In (Opt) S-Video In (Opt) |
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| HVR-1100 | Philips FMD1216ME | PCI CX2388x |
Composite In S-Video In FM radio |
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| HVR-1110 | Philips 8275A | PCI SAA7134 |
Composite In S-Video In FM radio |
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| HVR-1300 | Philips FMD1216ME | PCI CX2388x |
Composite In S-Video In FM radio |
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| HVR-1600 | Analog TCL Series | PCI CX2388x |
Composite In S-Video In FM radio |
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| HVR-1800 | Analog TCL Series | PCI-e | Composite In S-Video In FM radio |
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| HVR-2200 | 2× Philips TDAxxxx | PCIe SAA7164 |
Composite In S-Video In FM radio |
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| HVR-3000 | Philips FMD1216ME | PCI CX2388x |
Composite In S-Video In FM radio |
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| HVR-4000 | Philips FMD1216ME | PCI CX2388x | Composite In S-Video In FM radio |
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| Personal Video Recorder | PVR PCI | Various | PCI Fusion 878A |
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| PVR USB | Various | USB 1.x | |||||
| PVR-150 | Various | PCI CX2584x |
Composite In S-Video In |
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| PVR-160 | Various | PCI CX2388x |
Composite In S-Video In |
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| PVR-250 | Various | PCI SAA7115 |
Composite In S-Video In |
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| PVR-250 | Various | PCI SAA7115 |
Composite In S-Video In |
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| PVR-350 | Various | PCI SAA7115 |
Composite In S-Video In/Out |
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| PVR-500MCE | Various | PCI PLX FastLane 6140 |
2× Composite In 2× S-Video In FM radio |
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| PVR-USB2 | Various | USB 2.0 SAA7115 |
Composite In S-Video In FM radio |
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| PVR-USB2+ | Various | USB 2.0 Cypress FX2 |
Composite In S-Video In FM radio |
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| High-Definition Personal Video Recorder | HD-PVR | Not Applicable | USB 2.0 | Component In/Out Composite In S-Video In RCA Audio In S/PDIF Optical Audio In/Out |
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| WinTV Analog | WinTV Express | Various | PCI BT878A |
Composite In | |||
| WinTV Go | Various | PCI Fusion 878A |
Composite In | ||||
| WinTV Go+ | Various | PCI Fusion 878A |
Composite In | ||||
| WinTV Go2 | Various | PCI CX2388x |
Composite In | ||||
| WinTV Primio FM | Various | PCI CX2388x |
Composite In S-Video In FM radio |
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| WinTV PCI-FM | Various | PCI CX2388x |
Composite In S-Video In FM radio |
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| WinTV Radio | Various | PCI BT878A |
Composite In S-Video In FM radio |
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| WinTV USB | Various | USB 1.x | |||||
| WinTV USB Live | Various | USB 1.x | S-Video In Composite In |
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| WinTV USB2 | Various | USB 2.0 EM2840 |
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WinTV2000 and related software
Skin (computing)
In computing, a skin is a custom graphical appearance achieved by the use of a graphical user interface that can be applied to specific software and websites to suit the purpose, topic, or tastes of different users....
ned interface under the name WinTV32.
WinTV2000/WinTV32 has other companion applications, including WinTV Scheduler, which performs timed recordings, and WinTV Radio, which receives FM radio. A recent change of direction has seen the move towards a service-based software package. Card management and recordings is taken care of by the "TV Server" service and EPG data collection by the "EPG Service". These changes allow WinTV2000 to work with multiple Hauppauge cards in the same PC.
In 2007, Hauppauge launched WinTV Version 6, followed in 2009 by WinTV7.
wing
"wing", a recent supplemental software application from Hauppauge, allows the company's PVR products to convert MPEG recordings into formats suitable for playback on the Apple Video iPod and Sony PSP. The software also includes several DivX profiles that can be used for conversion as well.Third Party Software
There are many 3rd-party programs which work with Hauppauge tuners as well. These include: GB-PVRGB-PVR
GB-PVR is a PVR application, running on Microsoft Windows, whose main function is scheduling TV recordings and playing back live TV. This PVR also acts as a home media center with a digital video recorder, a radio station online tuner, a music and movie player, a library of images and other...
, InterVideo
InterVideo
InterVideo was a software publisher specializing in multimedia related programs. InterVideo's products include video capturing, video editing, DVD authoring, CD/DVD recording, film distribution, and video playback. Its best known product is WinDVD. InterVideo markets its products to the retail...
WinDVR, Snapstream's Beyond TV, SageTV
SageTV
SageTV Media Center was a proprietary, commercial DVR and HTPC software for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It requires that the host computer have a hardware based TV tuner card. The SageTV software has an integrated Electronic Programming Guide that is updated via the Internet...
, Windows Media Center
Windows Media Center
Windows Media Center is a digital video recorder and media player developed by Microsoft. It is an application that allows users to view and record live television, as well as organize and play music and videos...
and the Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
-based MythTV
MythTV
MythTV is a free and open source home entertainment application with a simplified "10-foot user interface" design for the living-room TV, and turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a network streaming digital video recorder, a digital multimedia home entertainment system, or home theater...
.
Linux
Hauppauge offers limited support for Linux, and doesn't offer Linux drivers on its web site. There are drivers available from non-Hauppauge sources for most of the company's cards (in IVTVIVTV
IVTV is a driver for Linux/Unix systems to allow them to use certain video capture cards that make use of on-board MPEG-1/MPEG-2 encoders.-What is IVTV?:...
and LinuxTV
LinuxTV
The LinuxTV project is an informal group of volunteers who develop software related to digital television for the Linux operating system. The community develops and maintains the DVB driver subsystem which is part of the Linux 2.6.x kernel...
). It appears that some of these drivers (Nova and HVR) are written by a Hauppauge engineer.
The PVR-150 captures video on Linux, but there are reportedly difficulties getting the remote control and IR blaster to work. Also, a January 2007 product substitution of HVR-1600 in PVR-150 retail boxes forced many Linux users to exchange their purchases because the Linux driver has not been updated for the HVR-1600.
SageTV
SageTV
SageTV Media Center was a proprietary, commercial DVR and HTPC software for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It requires that the host computer have a hardware based TV tuner card. The SageTV software has an integrated Electronic Programming Guide that is updated via the Internet...
Media Center for Linux supports PVR-150, PVR-250, PVR-350, PVR-500 and MediaMVP.
For ATSC and DVB applications, a list of Linux supported Hauppauge and other makes of TV cards can be found on the LinuxTVWiki page (see "Supported Hardware" section).
External links
- Hauppauge Computer Works
- Hauppauge Computer Works UK
- Hauppauge UK Support Forum
- PCTV Systems
- SageTV (a vendor of products based on Hauppauge hardware)
- SHS-PVR Unofficial WinTV-PVR & MediaMVP forums
- Difference Hauppauge PVR150 PVR250 PVR350 PVR500
- usbvision (partially-functional Linux driver for WinTV-USB)
- The Hauppauge 4860 Motherboard in Detail
- WinTV-PVR Family Identification