The card installs and works pretty much as advertised however the installation software and technical support are very poor. Be aware that this card does not have hardware encoding so it uses a lot (30%+ on a 3Ghz Pentium 4 with 1GB ram) of processor capacity when recording. Video recordings lose audio synch after 25 minutes and the synch differential continues to grow as the recording proceeds. Leadtek technical support suggested installing latest drivers but that made no difference. I have now ordered the hardware enabled card (Leadtek WinFast PVR2000) that other reviews indicate solves this problem. Also, be aware that the FM receiver is very low sensitivity and you will probably need a high gain external antenna for any reasonable FM reception. The card operation, operational software and remote are the best available, however, which is why I am staying with the Leadtek product line.
I bought this TV card in January 06 and it has failed twice. The first time the company replaced it but the new card started flickering right off the bat and soon failed. I tried it in 2 different computers one a Core 2 duo running XP and one an Athlon 64 running XP. The problem is the company will not respond to my emails. They do not answer their phone extensions: RMA, Sales, or Support. Leadtek does not reply to recorded messages you leave on their (Toll) phone number. I have been in contact with the Attorney General of the State of California, Bureau of Electronic Appliances concerning this matter.
I have this card and the software is dicey. I've used this card under W2k and XP and the particular operating system. Below is my expierence with installing the card to Windows XP. Certain versions of the PVR work well; certain versions of the drivers suck. The best driver on my Asus P5QL/EPU Motherboard for Crossbar, Tuner and Capture driver version was 4.0.107.3210.
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It was different on another Asus motherboard. As for PVR software: This software is a mish-mash of files. I don't recall what I installed, but it was some version of the 2006 version that worked best. So, experiment, or not. I'm I 'happy' about this? Need you ask? With above drivers and program the card does what I need.
Go to this address to find all the versions of drivers and PVR's for this card:. The card was a little difficult to put in.
Didn't seem to fit right. The RFtv and RFfm connectors seem to lay against the bottom of the external slot opening. The s-video works fine. I plugged in the playstation with the included connectors and it works great.
The remote works great too. However only channels 26-31 come in and they have terrible reception. I've thought of trying to hook the cable through a vcr and then thru the s-video in the tv tuner card, but haven't had time to try. I have a relatively new computer, WIN XP. I may try installing the drivers again.
The card installed in the PCI slot with ease. It came with numerous accessories, mostly in the form of cable adapters, and the documentation was good. I purchased the card to connect a few gaming systems to my computer and it works perfectly.
Even the included software works great, and that's rare. I have my PS2 connected through s-video, all I have to do is load the PVR software and I'm done. The picture quality is good and there's no lag even on very timing-specific games such as Guitar Hero. Unfortunately I have no need to connect an RF cable for cable broadcast, so I'm not quite sure how well the tuner works, so if that's what you're looking to do you may want to read some other reviews. However, for connecting some sort of external device through s-video, this is what you should purchase. I had problems installing this product in my computer, but not because of the product itself.
Make sure that your computer's on-board sound has a cd-audio expansion jack. Mine didn't, so I had to go buy a new sound card ($12). Not a big deal. Otherwise, the video quality on the screen is great.
A bit grainy at full screen, but would be fine from across the room. You shouldn't sit that close to a full TV anyway (right mom?).
This card is definitely worth every penny you'd pay for it. It's easy to install, easy to setup and the software is pretty much idiot proof. I think you would probably get a better picture from a more expensive card, but this is more than enough for the vast majority of users.
Save the money unless you're a very picky person.
Contents. Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP AKA: WinFast TV2000 XP Expert (current generation) Capture Card Information Vendors Website Input Formats not applicable Support Status MythTV works with this card. However the card does not have a hardware encoder, so watching/recording TV will be CPU intensive. Driver V4L for pre-Expert cards.
See also Sound Driver or Chipset for pre-Expert cards. CX2388X for Expert model Description Single-tuner PCI card with no hardware encoder.
The card comes in several versions: (current generation) The Deluxe model is just like the FM model but has a Remote Control included. The remote works using RF to a serial cable plugging into the card.
It uses the Fusion 878A chipset The RM model loses the radio, but keeps Remote Control The RM (OEM) uses a different form factor (shorter PCB) The Expert model uses the CX2388X chipset and includes worldwide radio support. Other Leadtek Cards: Issues and Problems Having problems getting sound out of a WinFast TV2000 XP Deluxe card. The video works fine. Winfast 1000T remote does work with 0.8, however to the v4l-dvb code need to be applied.
Having problems using this card with mythtv. It works fine with tvtime for example. How can I improve resolution?
The TV image is not very clear. Iam using ' options bttv card=34 tuner=2 ' in etc/modules - Thanks - I don't have sound on almost all chanels. Same chanels have sound but only few. On TvTime everything is OK. Do you know why? Associated Software Nothing yet.
Installation guides Dual/Multi-card use After using a single DTV2000H with mythbuntu for a while (having edited /etc/modprobe.d/options and /etc/modules appropriately), I decided it was time for a second. Plugged the second one in, and still only one card was enabled. To enable the second card, had to edit /etc/modprobe.d/options and add a second card identifier to the appropriate line. I.e.; options cx88xx card=51,51 After rebooting, and card is detected and.video. worked well, but.sound.
playback was silent. Following the 'Configuring default soundcards / stopping multiple soundcards from switching' section at the helped (problem was the cx88 alsa drivers took index 0, for some reason). Now, onboard sound is occasionally not detected, thus playback doesn't work. Restarting seems to resolve it. Not sure if this is associated with the presence of two cards. Sound is still recorded when these problems occur, so it seems to be an ALSA/playback issue, rather than recording problem.
Remote I have a Leadtek WinFast 2000XP card 34 that came with a CoolCommand remote that has the code 'Y0400046' in the bottom right corner. See a picture.
Most aspects of the remote work, with a bit of work. Button does not currently work and a few keys generate the same events as other keys, meaning that you cannot use them for something different. To get this going, you first need to set up the remote with the system, as described. Mythbuntu control centre can set up some of this for you, but a lot will be incorrect and you will have to tweak it. Once you have done that, you need to set up MythTV to use the remote. This is done by creating a /.lirc/mythtv file.
Mythbuntu comes with a section of Mythbuntu Control Centre that is supposed to generate this file for you, but I have found it not to work for me at all. Note that if you run the Mythbuntu Control Centre after setting up the remote, it will overwrite a lot of your hard work. My configuration file is and is set out in order of the buttons on the remote, so that you can change it as you like. FAQs Nothing yet. User Experiences If you have this card, speak up! This is a good place to note your experiences - ease of install, what you like, what's not to like, etc.
With R5E50 and R5F1, the WinFast DTV1000 works out of the box,. On Ubuntu (Feisty) and the Winfast DTV1000 or the Winfast DTV2000H you have to load the module cx88-dvb to get the digital tuner to work. To do this automatically upon startup type: sudo echo 'cx88-dvb' /etc/modules I have the expert version and after several days of trolling through forums and wikis and other places on the web I am still unable to get this thing to work. I wish someone would post something that can help the Expert user. I got this card to work using sudo echo 'cx88-dvb' /etc/modules in tvtime but no mythtv. Thanks for that!
Can you please give some guidance how can I make it work in mythtv? Thank You I have a LeadTek DTV 2000 H, i got it to work by adding 'cx88-dvb' to /etc/modules and 'options cx88xx card=51' to /etc/modprobe.d/options. Also found this link which has a link to a remote config, but it didnt work for me. Have dual cards DTV200H cards which (as I noted in the dual/multi-card section above) works well but for the occaisonal sound playback problem- this may or may not be related to the dual cards, but didn't have problems prior to the installation of the second card. No Luck yet with LIRC/remote use.
I have the Expert version of this card and it has worked flawlessly with mythTv from day 1 with kernel 2.6.25's drivers built into my kernel. It's a bit annoying to have the audio cable run to the sound card input, but the perks of this setup are nice. You get complete control over the sound because it comes in through your dedicated audio processing circuits. I am not sure how you would manage to install two of these in a system with only one sound card though. I have not gotten the remote working properly, although I have not had a chance to look into the patches mentioned above yet.
Great card, only analog card I could find on the market with the well-supported Conexant chipset, I recommend it for anyone who still needs an analog card.
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