Ok guys and gals. I want to digitize my video tapes to mpeg2 format. I am going to purchase the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250. Once I get this what software do I need to digitize my video tapes and do watch and capture live TV. Thanks!!!!!!!!

i wouldn't bother with a pvr card specifically, they won't get utilized without officailly bespoke software (afaik)

i just use a bog standard wintvgo card and mencoder ( http://mplayerhq.hu ) to encode directly to divx

Acid is there some dummy instructions to follow that I can up on??? Please let me know........

Its not best to encode directly into a compress format. You want the original be clean. Either use raw video codecs or DV. To get all the lines that VCRs put out. You need to record at 352 X 480 for NTSC and 352 X 576 for PAL. What this does is it captures all the lines. Remember TV is interlaced and computers are non-interlaced. Then use a program to deinterlace or use BOB and resize the picture to 352 X 240 for NTSC and 352 X 288 for PAL. Finally you can make a compress video format like MPEG-1, MPEG-2, Divx, etc.

Go to http://www.dvdrhelp.com/ for more information.

man thats a awesome site.. THanks!

Electro when I set up the wintv card will it automatically be configured? I am running redhat9 with the latest stable kernel... Thanks...