WARNING: Recent WinTV-HVR-900 packages have actually included this instead of the original non-H version. As HVR-900H is based on different chips, there was no (experimental) support for it (as of June 2008). Update: June 2013. Analogue TV on HVR-900H (USB id 2040:6600) now works out-of-the-box with at least Mythbuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint. Download Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900 Series Driver 5.7.0129.25085 (TV Tuner / Capture Card).
Are you getting error messages 'TV Tuner not available' or getting a message 'Unable to locate capture filter' after installing a Windows 10 update?
This is a known 'feature' of the new release of Windows 10, related to video cameras but also affecting TV tuners and video recorders.
The latest versions of WinTV v8.5, WinTV v8 and Hauppauge Capture automatically update the Windows 10 drivers to fix this error message. If you need to manually fix this, click here.
Questions or problems? Please contact Hauppauge support at: support@hauppauge.co.uk
Prodinfo: get information on your Hauppauge TV tuner
Prodinfo.exe is a program you can run which will extract information about the WinTV product you have installed such as model and serial number, MAC address, revision, and features which can be used to identify the exact model of your product. The driver for the device must be installed in order to run Prodinfo.exe
HCWClear: remove all driver and files that were installed
HCWCLEAR.exe is a program you run to remove all driver and files that were installed with the installation of the WinTV application.
Rescan for TV channels
Windows 10 requires special drivers to avoid errors during the Hauppauge product installation. The latest versions of WinTV v10, WinTV 8.5, WinTV v8 and Hauppauge Capture include these drivers. But if you are looking just for the Windows 10 driver, these are updated drivers which can be used with Windows 10.
WinTV and HD PVR Drivers
- WinTV-NOVA-S2, PCTV 461e
PCTV Windows Drivers
North America TV tuners
How to find the product code of your Hauppauge product:
Hauppauge product codes on WinTV internal boards are normally found on the TV tuner. This is a five digit number normally followed by a revision (REV). You need to look at the first two numbers to determine the product type. The other numbers are related to the accessories which are on the product.
On the USB TV tuners and other 'boxes', the product code is normally on a label on the bottom of the case.
65xxx, 66xxx WinTV-HVR-935C, -935HD, -930, -900
75XXX, 160xxx WinTV-HVR-1975, WinTV-HVR-1900
88XXX WinTV-HVR-2200
122XXX USB-Live2
131201 Colossus
150xxx WinTV-HVR-55xx
69xxx, 121xxx WinTV-HVR-4xxx
14xxx WinTV-HVR-3xxx
37XXX
38XXX44XXX
56XXX
Wintv Hvr 900h Drivers Windows 10
58XXX
60XXX
61XXX
62XXX
64XXX
34XXX 88X based WinTV boards
86XXX MediaMVP
110XXX MediaMVP-HD
49XXX HD PVR
Model number:
Click on the product to be taken to that page.
All of our products have their name written on the front of the packaging however, if you no longer have this you can find the product name by using the Hauppauge 5/6 digit model number on your product and the 'Quick product finder' on the right to look it up. Video downloader vimeo mac.
Simply type in your 5/6 digit model number and click on the product name that appears.
Finding the model number on a USB product:
On USB products the model number can be found on the under side of the unit on a white label, simply turn the unit upside-down and locate the white label (Note: You do not need to turn the computer off to do this however some units may have multiple cables attached so caution is advised to avoid cables becoming disconnected or snagged).
Finding the model number on a PCI/PCI-e product:
On PCI/PCI-e products the model number can be found on a white label located on the silver box on the card, you will need to turn off your computer and open the case to examin the board, you may also need to remove the board from the computer to be able to view the label easily. (Note: Make sure you turn the computer off before opening the case, also make sure the board is reinserted into the same slot once you have examind it).
The SDK simplifies the development of TV applications in .NET. The SDK makes it easy for applications to perform functions like querying the available channels, start watching a channel in an application supplied window, pause/play, adjust volume, display OSD graphics, record live tv to a file, etc.
The SDK is provided under NDA and can be requested at support@hauppauge.com or sdk@hauppauge.co.uk
I recently got a Hauppauge WIN-TV HVR-900TV USB 2.0 Analogue & Digital TV Tuner in order to digitize old VHS tapes.
However it doesn't work out of the box on Ubuntu Linux. You can get analog video (but not audio) working under Linux if you patch your kernel.
The Hardware
Unfortunately there are several versions of the HVR-900 sold. I have the HVR-900H, but it says HVR-900 on the box. The HVR 900 works well in linux, however the HVR 900H doesn't have good linux support. You can tell them apart by the output of lsusb. Here's my one:
The kernel patch
This is the kernel patch you need to apply:
This is from a post on linux-media mailinglist, however it is not applied to the main kernel source, since it would not fully work. As far as I can tell, this patch makes the analog video work, but not the digital video. However for my uses (digitizing VHS), analog video is fine.
Device numbers
Every time you unplug the USB device and plug it back in, it'll get a new device number. If you plug it in first, it'll be /dev/video0, if you unplug it, and replug it, the same USB device will now be /dev/video1. When you reboot, it'll (obviously) reset to /dev/video0. GStreamer allows you to record for any video device with v4l2src
What works
With this patch, analog video (both with the tv aerial/co-axial cable, and via composite) works. Analog audio doesn't work. I can't try digitial (since I don't have it available to test), but I've been told digitial video or audio doesn't work.
Getting it working
I wanted to digitize some old video cassette tapes, and to use GStreamer on the command line (gst-launch).
Switching the device to composite
The tvtime application can switch the device from analog signal tuning to use a analog composite input. Just plug the device in, plug in the composite cable, start playing a video, then run tvtime, it'll automatically switch the device to composite. There might be some command line v4l2 programmes to do it aswell.
Recording with gstreamer
Recording video
To gstreamer, this USB TV tuner appears as just another v4l2src in the pipeline. Your video will appear out of there.
Wintv Hvr 900 Drivers Windows 10
Recording audio
I plugged an analog audio input into the microphone port of my computer, and recorded the audio with pulseaudio
Example Pipeline
This will display the video as it's playing. Watch TV on your computer!
Wintv Hvr 900h Drivers Mac
Misc
Wintv Hvr 900h Driver
Full lsub -v output
Wintv Hvr 900 Software
For the record here's the lsusb -v output while the tv tuner is plugged in: