Hauppauge HD PVR video recorder

[Hooe]

http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html

Anyone have any experience with this? Thoughts?

I'm thinking about getting one, it looks pretty capable from the Youtube clips I've seen, but I thought I'd ask about it on here as well.

[Cyros]

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I have one, and I know Phobia has one.

It's a really simple installation. You run your console AV cables to the box, and then another set of cables to the TV, and then there is a USB cable that runs from the box to the console. It comes with a CD to install the drivers, and capture software. Drivers can be gotten off the official site, but the capture software is only on the install disc.

[Phobia]

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Anyone that wants to capture gameplay. This is the go to device. Amazing piece of hardware and extremely easy to work. Only thing you will need is some editing software. Check out my youtube videos if you want to see video quality. It does up to 1080 but I rather stick with 720 for file sizes to remain smaller. A good external hard drive is a good addition to save all your media to.

[Hooe]

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Good to see that the positive impressions I've read elsewhere jive with what I'm reading here.

Out of curiosity, how big do recorded files get? For example, how large would a ten-minute 720P video with sound be, assuming default settings?

[Cyros]

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I had a roughly 9 minute video of Brink recorded in 720p at 13.5Mbps and it came out around 880MBs.

[Phobia]

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Good to see that the positive impressions I've read elsewhere jive with what I'm reading here.

Out of curiosity, how big do recorded files get? For example, how large would a ten-minute 720P video with sound be, assuming default settings?

It will depend greatly on your settings. I record at 720p but I also record on the highest settings of everything. My general video come out to around 3 to 5 gigs before being rendered. Once they have been rendered they decrease to the 500 meg to 1.4 gig range.

This video is 15 min and is a huge 1.4 gig rendered size.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhgLHS1OC8o&feature=channel_video_title

While this 10 min part was 945meg rendered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuDDJZMgFOQ&feature=relmfu

Edit: The pre-rendered sizes are estimates because I am at work and can't see the pre-rendered sizes until I get home. I know they take up tons of space. I transferred 60 gigs of videos over to my external last night and I had maybe 20 videos being moved. So that is a rough average of around 3 gigs a video.

[peteykirch]

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I have one as well, use it for RB videos and what not. It works pretty well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfAIFEPWf0Q

[Phobia]

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I have one as well, use it for RB videos and what not. It works pretty well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfAIFEPWf0Q

Nice playing Pete! I am not great at those games so I was impressed lol

[jct32]

I got one waiting for me at my apartment in SC. Should get home in a few hours to test it out.

[AllJuicedUp]

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so are there any framerate issues or lag issues online when running this thing and playing?

[peteykirch]

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so are there any framerate issues or lag issues online when running this thing and playing?

The only lag issues I've found is when I try streaming via this. If there is a lot going on, it can skip a little bit. But just recording I haven't had any major skips or hiccups.

[Blzer]

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I just bought this, spent over an hour planning and re-wiring every frickin' thing in my HT setup, and the damn thing won't even turn on.

Before you ask, yes, it's plugged in.

I don't mind exchanging it, aside from the fact that I was just there... but it's going to take another long rearranging just to get cables back the way they were, or at least get the Hauppauge cables back into the box.

Am I missing a step somewhere?

[bcruise]

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I just bought this, spent over an hour planning and re-wiring every frickin' thing in my HT setup, and the damn thing won't even turn on.

Before you ask, yes, it's plugged in.

I don't mind exchanging it, aside from the fact that I was just there... but it's going to take another long rearranging just to get cables back the way they were, or at least get the Hauppauge cables back into the box.

Am I missing a step somewhere?

Not even a blue light on the front panel? I think that should be lit even if it's not connected to the TV...

If you can press the power button on the front and there's no blue light, something's loose or faulty.

[Blzer]

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Not even a blue light on the front panel? I think that should be lit even if it's not connected to the TV...

If you can press the power button on the front and there's no blue light, something's loose or faulty.

Right, no blue light or anything. I started reading the instructions, and it said not to power on until everything was fully connected. That's when I started doing the rearranging, and that's why I'm now doing the headbanging.

I'll still be facing dilemmas, though. They give you component cables without audio, which is fine because I'll more than likely be going optical. However, I want to try and do this with both cable and the PS3, and I wanted to try and run it through the receiver first, so then one component cable can run into the back of the PVR (instead of having to switch all of the time). I'm not quite sure how to work the audio in this instance, though... especially since I'll be using two different devices to do this with. The only way I can see this happen is if I buy a third optical cable and continually switch it when I need to. Perhaps I'll have to film my setup so it makes sense.

Oh well, I have bigger issues right now.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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They give you component cables without audio

What ? Mines have audio. You might have just got a refurbished box or something.