The Hauppauge HD PVR “in the lab” at SnapStream
April 7th, 2008 at 8:16 pm by Rakesh
Since there’s been some excitement about the upcoming Hauppauge HD PVR product, I thought I’d share some photographs of Hauppauge’s new product “in the lab” here at SnapStream:
Here’s a photograph of the Hauppauge HD PVR prototype board itself — everyone had to be careful to ground themselves before handling it.
Here’s another pic of the HD PVR all wired up to a digital source via component video cables (those are the blue, green and red cables).
This one shows the HD PVR in action — the red light means Beyond TV is busy making a recording off this thing when the photograph was taken.
The final product — some good ‘ol baseball recorded on the Hauppauge HD PVR in Beyond TV
A close-up of the same frame (I took it without a flash, holding the camera in my hand, so there might be a slight blur)
April 7th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Love the case
Thanks for sharing though – as you said there is lots of excitement for this thin. Thanks for the photos!
April 7th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Can you please post the original full size pics.
April 7th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
[...] has pictures here of BeyondTV working from a prototype Hauppauge HD PVR. One caption reads “the red light [...]
April 8th, 2008 at 12:50 am
YES! I ordered Directv HD today and its going to be installed on Wednesday morning, the HD PVR is “On Order”.. YES!
April 8th, 2008 at 6:36 am
Thanks for posting, looks like it works without a hitch in Beyondtv (since you recorded with it). That’s big news, worth a preorder. BTW, What are the file sizes per hour, at what resolution?
April 8th, 2008 at 8:28 am
SouthPaw, Not sure if this is what you’re looking for but the Ambarella chip logo is clearly visible in these pictures.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:17 am
[...] out. Hopefully Hauppauge can add support by years end. Price is $250 per device.Update: SnapStream Blog has photos of it working with Beyond TV. Looks like the data corruption bug in Windows Home Server [...]
April 8th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Can you give us your impressions of how the captured video compares visually to the pre-captured source video?
April 8th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
[...] The Snapstream Blog has pics of the soon-to-be-released Hauppauge HD-PVR in action, albeit without a case. Pics here. [...]
April 8th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
[...] The Hauppauge HD PVR “in the lab” at SnapStream – SnapStream Blog Very happy Rakesh decided to publicly post these pictures and imply Beyond TV will support this highly anticipated device. (tags: Hauppauge HDTV TVTuner Snapstream BeyondTV) [...]
April 8th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
RE> Dave Zatz Says
RE> SouthPaw, Not sure if this is what you’re looking for
RE> but the Ambarella chip logo is clearly visible in
RE> these pictures.
The Ambarella chips only handle stereo audio. I am trying to see what other chips there might be to handle digital audio
April 9th, 2008 at 12:01 am
[...] support it. Snapstream and Elgato were reported to be evaluating it. Snapstream then showed it off in their labs. All that hype and GB-PVR quietly slipped in support for it. Of course, who knows how well the [...]
April 12th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
I’m curious, can you watch live tv via BTV using the HD_PVR as the tuner? How about via BTVL?
April 16th, 2008 at 9:51 am
How many of these could I hook up to a single machine?
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Tony: right now, it’s not clear how many can be connected to a PC at once. –Rakesh
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Anyone know which A/V decoder chip is on these boxes that is feeding the Ambarella h.264 encoder. Is it a NXP or Conexant device?
April 24th, 2008 at 12:16 am
What are the minimum requirements for this device. Usually with the digital source instead of the analog source you don’t need as much firepower in the system. Can a pentium 4 2 ghz run this card or do you need a core 2 duo, also what video card do you have to have installed. I guess when the product is out and available they will have some data but do you guys have any ideas? Thanks and keep up the good work on BeyondTv……..
April 25th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
So let me make sure I understand. I can hook this to a cable\satellite box that has component and optical out and capture HDTV with snapstream.
Is this true? When can I get it?
May 31st, 2008 at 6:01 am
can i see video that i recording with HD PVR
in player ” vlc ” or with K-Lite Mega Codec ?
June 1st, 2008 at 11:40 am
Its shipping. When will it be supported?
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Found the link to it here, price $249
http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html
June 5th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Guys, I got my HD PVR on Tuesday and it works well, but I’ve *got* to find something better than the included ArcSoft software to use it with.
Does the trial version of BeyondTV that is available by download (BTV_V481.exe) support the HD PVR?
TIA,
TL
June 7th, 2008 at 12:23 am
Received my Hauppauge HD PVR Thursday, bought second installation of
Beyond TV for living room computer that night.
Works as advertised !!
I have to agree with Tony Ledford, I was not impressed by the ArcSoft software package.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Ugh… Can’t they make this in a PCIe format to fit internally? The last thing I want is another box sitting around my rig…
June 18th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Can anyone confirm that they have captured the 5.1 sound track with this device and BTV?
August 7th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
I think we’re still waiting for Hauppauge to update the drivers to support AC3 5.1 audio recording.
I’m not sure the current v.1.0b drivers support that…anyone know for sure?
October 12th, 2008 at 12:43 am
I have one here, It runs finr a a P4 3ghz 2gb ram. Software is cheezy. I can not find any software that will edit the H 264 .ts files it makes. Ulead DVD Movie Factory 6.
January 13th, 2009 at 9:58 am
I had one of these for a couple weeks until the power supply blew up. I was getting some digital glitching at 720p, but I am not sure if it was my laptop or the recording software. I was not able to get the digital sound to work, but there was a recent firmware upgrade that was supposed to allow for that. I also had issues with Vista and the IR blaster (very important peice) but it did all function under XP. The conversion process was a mess using the TS or TP file format, but I can play those files dirctly on the PC if needed and I bought a new HD player at best buy that can also play the native files using a pocket drive as the source.
January 21st, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Just opened my 1212 PVR box. There is no software in the box. The box lists Arcsoft as bundled software application. Is this usually included with the PVR and missing in my box ? or do I have to purchase this seperatley ?
What other 3rd party software is supporting this box?
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:49 am
Shez: I’m not sure what’s supposed to be included in the box with the Hauppauge HD PVR… we don’t sell it on the SnapStream Store. You should probably check with Hauppauge or post in the right forum somewhere.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Steve: Have you tried comskip/comclean on TP files from the HD PVR?
Show recording on XP just works, it is solid!
Playback of the TP files on the WesternDigital TV ( aka 1212 PVR ) is solid as well.
And Comskip accepts the TP files an locates the commercials fine as well.
The issue is the cut/join/delete function to remove the commercial content.
Have tried MPGTX, Videoredo and others; none will open the TP files created by the great Hauppauge box.
Any success with your search?
Thank You
Jim Christophersen
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:45 pm
The latest Drivers fix a few things:
1. DD5.1 via SPDIF now works well
2. Files are AVCHD / PS3 spec compliant
3. No overheating or random crashing
4. New updates are in progress….
( http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_hdpvr.html )