Hauppauge cards have tv out?

[Magellan]

I am looking at buying a new hauuppauge card to use with snapstream and was wondering which models have tv out.

Thanks

[tjkraz]

I don't think you'll find a dedicated TV Receiver card with a Video OUT port. Think about it--you'd be using the receiver card to send a signal out to a normal TV...which already has its OWN receiver. What's the point?

If you're wanting to display content recorded with SnapStream on a TV, then you need a VIDEO CARD (nVidia, Matrox, etc.) with a Video Out port. That would enable you essentially use your TV as a secondary PC montior. Watching SS encoded programming on the TV would then be as simple as running the show on Media Player in Full screen mode.

Hope this helps.

[Magellan]

Thanks for the info. I was mainly using the tv out for watching recorded shows and movies. I was trying to avoid buying another ATI AIW card since they seem to have problems with snapstream.

[Magellan]

Another point, I sometimes watch tv through the tuner on my other pc to use the time shifting feature of the ATI AIW card.

[tjkraz]

Unless you're locked into a single-card solution, there's no reason why you couldn't buy a Hauppauge tuner card and a separate video card with the video out connector. I've got a generic video card with the nVidia chipset and think it's great.

As an alternative to the ATI combo cards, I believe Matrox has one of their own. Don't know a thing about the quality or performance with SnapStream, but it's worth looking in to.

[Magellan]

Has anyone tried the Matrox G450eTV?

[jmracek]

I have one.
The TV out quality is great. It also has this neat mode of sending video to the TV out port in full screen while it is playing in a normal media player window. Very convienent.

However, I have not gotten it to work with SS encoder yet. The matrox video capture drivers work with other programs but not SS. But to be fair, I haven't exhausted all settings. I was lazy and grabbed my hauppauge TV card and stuck that in my computer. It works good now.
If I get some time I'm going to try the
matrox card with the SS encoder again. I post again if I get it to work. But the
TV out features and quality are excellent.
Jack

[Magellan]

Thanks for the info, I am ordering it today. I have an older Millenium G200/Rainbow runner I used with snapstream fine after playing with the settings. I remember I had to gobackto media encoder 4.1 for it to work.