PVR-250 & DScaler

[Jammydodger]

I have been using Snapstream, however due my power supply blowing and killing my entire PC, I built a new PC and decided to go with hardware compression and bought a PVR-250. Snapstream doesnt do hardware compression yet (although I can continue to use it with an old Wonder VE), so was looking around for ways to schedule recordings and change channels of my cable box using my IR Blaster.

I am very pleased to say that I stumbled on this site when poking around the Hauppauge website, so downloaded the Recorder and the TV at work, got home last night and installed it, played around setting it up etc and it works like an absolute charm. The setup process was a breeze, the IRBlaster worked straightaway (you have no idea how much trouble that thing has given me in the past). And best of all, I was recording to DVD-compliant MPEG (in hardware of course!) straight away.

Recorded my first film this morning, twenty minutes later I have my first DVD, can it get any better?

Well, just very slightly

The burnt DVD versions of the movies look great, however playing on a computer can definitely see where de-interlacing would work. Checked the manual, it said it'd work with DSCaler and that's about it. Downloaded, stuck that in c:\dscaler, tried another recording, no change, so moved the install to SageTV folder, still no change (with restarts of software of course).

Had a play around trying to get DScaler to work on it's own with the PVR but had no luck and to go to work. Was doing some research here, and found on the DScaler website that it says for the PVR250 (same for the 350 too)

"WinTV-PVR-250
This Card Will Not Work With DScaler -- It Contains An Unsupported Chipset "

Is this true, or has someone managed to get DScaler to work, and if so, can they tell me the card settings they used please? I figured that it must be possible seeing as how that's the card you guys bundle.

Anyways, whether it works or no with DScaler, you can look forward to me buying the software in the next couple of days - it's an outstanding implementation of a PVR.

(And if you added the remote viewing and/or remote scheduling of recordings a la Snapstream, that'd be perfect )

[dkardatzke]

To use SageTV with Dscaler you don't need to download anything other than the Elecard MPEG-2 Decoder available at www.elecard.com. We already installed the Dscaler plugins when you installed SageTV.

After you install the MPEG-2 Decoder enbale it from within Detailed Setup > Video and then the Dscaler options will become available. You should shut down SageTV before installing the Decoder pack.

You can do remote viewing and scheduling over a network with our new client version of SageTV which will be released next week!

[Jammydodger]

Seems like you guys are way ahead of the curve. Now where did I put my credit card?

[Mark Lamutt]

RIght here: http://www.freytechnologies.com/buy.html

[Jammydodger]

You have my money Just waiting for the email with the download link it and stuff..

although I'm beginning to think this isn't automatic...

[JasonJoel]

Took longer than I expected to get my links when I bought it last week too.

Be patient though, they will come.

Jason

Originally posted by Jammydodger
You have my money Just waiting for the email with the download link it and stuff..

although I'm beginning to think this isn't automatic...

[Jammydodger]

Originally posted by JasonJoel
Took longer than I expected to get my links when I bought it last week too.

Be patient though, they will come.

Jason

I'm just an impatient kind of guy Actually I also want to order the TV guide stuff as well, and I'm figuring I'll need some of serial key to do that, which will be in the email that I'll get.. soon.. ish..

[jimbobuk]

Just wondered... are there substantial improvements to using descaler with sagetv and pvr-250 ... I've not really noticed many interlace issues.. I've seen the ghosting people talked about a little bit... what does dscaler offer and are the improvements worth the increased CPU load?!