Watch TV on your PC screen, digitally record your TV shows, or pause live TV and create your own instant replay with the WinTV-PVR-250 Personal Video Recorder from Hauppauge^®. Turn your PC into a digital video recorder, recording TV programs or home videos to disk, and playing them back to your PC screen or burning them onto DVD with data rates up to 12 Mbps. Trim your videos, cut out segments, put them back together, all without losing video quality. With WinTV Tuner, you can control your TV recording on a daily, weekly or random schedule, automatically recording your favorite programs so you will never miss your TV shows again.

Specifications:

Model: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250

PCI Bus: The PCI interface / MPEG encoder uses the iCompression iTVC-15. The encoder channel uses a DMA controller that is used to bus master data to the host. For control purposes, the iTVC-15 can act as an I2C master to control the tuner, video decoder, and Audio processor. Additionally, various board control functions are provided by some general-purpose I/O (GPIO) ports on the iTVC-15.

MPEG Encoder: The iTVC-15 also operates as an MPEG audio and video encoder, in addition to its use as a PCI bus controller and DMA engine. The iTVC-15 encodes MPEG1 system stream at resolutions up to 352 × 240 (NTSC), 352 × 288 (PAL / SECAM), 500 kilobits per second (Kbps) to 6 megabits per second (Mbps). It encodes MPEG2 program streams up to 720 × 480 (NTSC), 720 × 576 (PAL / SECAM) at data rates of 500 Kbps to 12 Mbps. Audio encoding is done using MPEG1 Layer 2 - 32 / 44.1 / 48 kilohertz (kHz) sampling rates, 16-bit stereo, 192 / 224 / 256 / 384 Kbps data rates.

TV Tuner: The TV tuner section consists of a programmable tuner module and a stereo decoder circuit. These parts are I2C slave devices, programmed using transactions created by the iTVC-15 acting as an I2C bus master. The programmable tuner module can be any member of the Philips FI12xx MK2 or FM12xx MK2 series, or a short can Temic equivalent.

Audio Decoder: The stereo decoder circuit uses the Micronas MSP4448. The MSP4448 analog audio output, or audio from the front panel and rear panel left and right audio inputs, is sampled by a CS4330 stereo ADC at 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, or 48 kHz rate, and is routed to the iTVC-15 as an I2S serial audio stream.

Video Decoder: The Philips 7115 video decoder uses an advanced chroma filter to minimize video artifacts. This device outputs a CCIR656 digital video stream to the iTVC-15 MPEG video encoder.

Channels: The TV tuner supports 125 channels.

Packaging: OEM Please click on the following link to download the latest drivers!
Gateway Part Number: 6002365