PVR UPDATE
I received the Hauppauge WinTv-PVR 250 from NewEgg - $139 for the retail edition, which includes the remote control, bundled software and free shipping! I installed it on my son's 2.6GHz eMachine running WinXP on Friday night. Everything worked nicely out of the box. I was able to use the bundled software to edit the MPEG capture files and compare recordings from LiveTV as well as the home videos from my Sony Camcorder (which connects to the card's composite Video-Input).
The Hauppauge bundle includes Ulead DVD MovieFactory (a $99 value if you need to order it directly from Ulead). MovieFactory has the ability to create custom menus with individual titles, chapters, etc, select film clips for each title, edit the menu soundtrack, back ground, etc. This is a nice piece of software in that it allows you to burn directly the mpeg files directoy to the DVD writer, to create a DVD-ISO image, or to save the raw IFO and VOB files directly into the standard Audio_TS and VIDEO_TS sub directories.
Once the video files were created, I FTP'd them to my CollegeLinux server where my DVD burner is installed. I used the K3b burning software to successfully create DVDs using both the DVD image and and individual IFO/VOB files I had captured from my Camcorder. I used Fujistu DVD-RW 2x media but my RCA DVD player has trouble reading some of the disks. I'll continue to test different media (DVD-R, DVD+R, etc) to see what works best.
I received the Hauppauge WinTv-PVR 250 from NewEgg - $139 for the retail edition, which includes the remote control, bundled software and free shipping! I installed it on my son's 2.6GHz eMachine running WinXP on Friday night. Everything worked nicely out of the box. I was able to use the bundled software to edit the MPEG capture files and compare recordings from LiveTV as well as the home videos from my Sony Camcorder (which connects to the card's composite Video-Input).
The Hauppauge bundle includes Ulead DVD MovieFactory (a $99 value if you need to order it directly from Ulead). MovieFactory has the ability to create custom menus with individual titles, chapters, etc, select film clips for each title, edit the menu soundtrack, back ground, etc. This is a nice piece of software in that it allows you to burn directly the mpeg files directoy to the DVD writer, to create a DVD-ISO image, or to save the raw IFO and VOB files directly into the standard Audio_TS and VIDEO_TS sub directories.
Once the video files were created, I FTP'd them to my CollegeLinux server where my DVD burner is installed. I used the K3b burning software to successfully create DVDs using both the DVD image and and individual IFO/VOB files I had captured from my Camcorder. I used Fujistu DVD-RW 2x media but my RCA DVD player has trouble reading some of the disks. I'll continue to test different media (DVD-R, DVD+R, etc) to see what works best.
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