Hauppauge Computer Works
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Industry | Electronics |
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Founded | 1982 Hauppauge, New York, U.S. |
Founders | Kenneth Plotkin Kenneth Aupperle |
Headquarters | Hauppauge, New York , U.S. |
Website | hauppauge |
Hauppauge Computer Works (
In addition to its headquarters in New York, Hauppauge also has sales and technical support offices in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Poland, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan, Spain and the UK.
Company history
Hauppauge was co-founded by Kenneth Plotkin and Kenneth Aupperle, and became incorporated in 1982.[1]
Starting in 1983, the company followed Microway, the company that a year earlier provided the software needed by scientists and engineers to modify the IBM PC Fortran compiler so that it could transparently employ Intel 8087 coprocessors. The 80-bit Intel 8087 math coprocessor ran a factor of 50 faster than the 8/16-bit 8088 CPU that the IBM PC software came with. However, in 1982, the speed-up in floating-point-intensive applications was only a factor of 10 as the initial software developed by Microway and Hauppauge continued to call floating point libraries to do computations instead of placing inline x87 instructions inline with the 8088's instructions that allowed the 8088 to drive the 8087 directly. By 1984, inline compilers made their way into the market providing increased speed ups. Hauppauge provided similar software products in competition with Microway that they bundled with math coprocessors and remained in the Intel math coprocessor business until 1993 when the Intel Pentium came out with a built-in math coprocessor. However, like other companies that entered the math coprocessor business, Hauppauge produced other products that contributed to a field that is today called HPC - high-performance computing.
The math coprocessor business rapidly expanded starting in 1984 with software products that accelerated applications like
By 1987, math coprocessors had become
Companies like Hauppauge and Microway that were impacted by their new competitor that made their living accelerating floating point applications being run on PCs followed suit by venturing into the
Motherboards
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hauppauge produced motherboards for Intel 486 processors. A number of these motherboards were standard
Hauppauge also sold a unique motherboard, the Hauppauge 4860. This was the only standard
Hauppauge no longer produces motherboards, focusing instead on the TV card market.
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Product lines
Digital Terrestrial/Satellite
Hauppauge digital terrestrial and satellite products capture DVB-T and DVB-S broadcasts respectively without the need to re-encode the streams. There are several benefits from this approach:
- the cost of the TV card can be lower because there is no need to supply an MPEG-2 encoder
- the quality of captures can be higher because there is no need to re-encode streams
- ratio of file size to quality is higher due to the broadcasters' high-efficiency encoders
Until August 2004 all of Hauppauge's DVB products were badge-engineered TechnoTrend products. The first of the new Hauppauge-designed cards was the Nova-t PCI 90002 and the silent replacement of the TechnoTrend model caused confusion and anger among Hauppauge's customers who found that the new card didn't support TechnoTrend's proprietary interfaces. This rendered any existing third-party software unusable with the new cards. The new cards also came with a software packaged called WinTV2000 which lacked features that TechnoTrend's software had including seven-day EPG, Digital Teletext and LCN-based channel ordering. The new cards supported Microsoft's BDA standard but at the time this was at its infancy and very few 3rd party applications included support for it.
By 2005, all of the TechnoTrend products had been removed from the Hauppauge lineup, with the exception of the DEC2000-t and DEC3000-s which haven't seen a replacement.
Hybrid Video Recorders
The Hybrid Video Recorder (HVR) range capture a combination of different broadcast types. The majority of Hauppauge HVR models capture analogue
HVR-9xx devices are bus-powered USB 2.0 sticks, not much larger than a USB flash drive. They have support for analogue and digital terrestrial TV. The HVR-9xx sticks are produced in Taiwan by Deltron, and are also sold for Apple computers by Elgato under the EyeTV brand.
HVR-1xxx devices are PCI-based products that receive analogue and digital terrestrial TV. They are similar to the HVR-9xx but have support for NICAM or dbx Stereo for analogue terrestrial on all models.
HVR-3xxx and 4xxx devices are tri-mode and quad-mode devices respectively. Tri-mode means support for analogue terrestrial/cable, digital terrestrial and DVB-S digital satellite. Quad-mode devices additionally support DVB-S2 HD digital satellite. The HVR-4000 marks a change in bundled applications in that instead of using Hauppauge's WinTV2000 package, it ships with Cyberlink PowerCinema.
Personal Video Recorders
The Personal Video Recorder (PVR) range uses an on-board MPEG/MPEG-2 encoder to compress the incoming analogue TV signals. The benefits of using a hardware encoder include lower CPU usage when encoding live TV.
The first WinTV-PVR product was the WinTV PVR-PCI, launched in late 2000 and not receiving any driver updates since February 2002. It was joined by the WinTV PVR-USB, which has two variants. The first variant supported MPEG-2 streams up to 6 Mbit/s and supported Half-D1 resolutions (320 × 480). This was replaced by an updated model supporting up to 12 Mbit/s streams and Full-D1 resolution (720 × 480).
The first WinTV-PVR to gain popularity was the PVR-250. The original version of the PVR-250 was a variant of the Sag Harbor (PVR-350) which used the ivac15 chipset. Although the chipset was able to do hardware decoding the video out components were not included on the card. In later versions of the PVR-250 the ivac15 was replaced with the ivac16 to reduce cost and to relieve heat issues. The PVR-250 and PVR-350 were joined by the USB 2.0 PVR-USB2 to complete their generation of devices.
Their successors, the PVR-150 and PVR-500, were released alongside the PVR-250/350/USB2 and while popular with both OEMs and the general public, there have been numerous driver issues as well as video quality complaints. The PVR-500 was released as a Media Center card and wasn't supplied with Hauppauge's WinTV2000 software. It was effectively two PVR-150s on a single board, connected via a PCI-PCI bridge chip. The PVR-USB2 was silently replaced with the PVR-USB2+ which is identical both visually and terms of features, but uses a Conexant chipset rather than the Philips chipset in the old model.
From its name and time of release, the PVR-160 appears to be newer than the PVR-150 but it is not. The PVR-160 is a repackaging of the WinTV Roslyn. The Roslyn is based on the Conexant Blackbird design and uses the CX2388x video decoder. This board was originally available only to OEMs and third-party software vendors such as Frey Technologies (SageTV) and Snapstream (BeyondTV). The board was sold under many names including the PVR-250BTV (Snapstream). This card is known to have color and brightness issues that can be corrected somewhat using registry hacks. Hauppauge received a large surplus amount of these cards from OEM and third-party vendors. The cards were repackaged with an MCE remote and receiver and rebranded the PVR-160. The PVR-160 was often mistakenly referred to as the PVR-250MCE but is not related to the PVR-250.
High-Definition Personal Video Recorder
In May 2008, Hauppauge released the HD-PVR, a
WinTV Analogue
The standard analogue range of products use software encoding for recording analogue TV. The more recent Hauppauge cards use SoftPVR, which allows MPEG and MPEG-2 encoding in software provided that a sufficiently fast CPU is installed in the system.
MediaMVP
The
Various
Table of products
Type | Model | Tuner | Host interface | Analog | Digital | Other | IR |
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Digital Terrestrial | DEC2000-t | Philips | USB 1.x
TMX320AV7111 |
No | DVB-T (TDA10045) | Yes | |
DEC2540-t | Philips | USB 1.x
TMX320AV7111 |
No | DVB-T (TDA10045) | Yes | ||
Nova-t PCI | Grundig | PCI
SAA7134 |
No | DVB-T (LSI L64781) | No | ||
Nova-t PCI | Philips | PCI
SAA7134 |
No | DVB-T (TDA10045) | Yes | ||
Nova-t PCI (90002) | Thomson DTT7592 | PCI
CX2388x |
No | DVB-T (CX22702) | Yes | ||
Nova-t PCI (90003) | Thomson DTT75105 | PCI
CX2388x |
No | DVB-T (CX22702) | Yes | ||
Nova-t USB | Philips | USB 1.x | No | DVB-T (CX22702) | No | ||
Nova-t USB2 | Panasonic ENV57H | USB 2.0
Cypress FX2 |
No | DVB-T (DIB3000-P) | Yes | ||
Nova-t Stick (70001) | Microtune MT2060 | USB 2.0 | No | DVB-T (DIB7000-M) | Optional | ||
Nova-t Stick (70009) | Microtune MT2060 | USB 2.0 | No | DVB-T (DIB7700-P) | Optional | ||
Nova-TD-Stick | 2× MicroTune MT2266 | USB 2.0 | No | DVB-T (DIB7700-P) | Optional | ||
Nova-t 500 | 2× Microtune MT2060 | PCI
VT6212L |
No | 2× DVB-T (DIB3000-P) | Yes | ||
Nova-TD 500 | 2× Microtune ???? | PCI
DiB0710 |
No | 2× DVB-T (DIB7070-P) ?? | Yes | ||
Digital Satellite | DEC3000-s | Unknown | USB 1.x
TMX320AV7111 |
No | DVB-S | Yes | |
Nexus-s v2.3 | Alps BSBE1-502A | PCI SAA7146
TMX320AV7111 |
No | DVB-S (STV0299) | S-video out | Yes | |
Nova-s PCI | Alps BSBE1-502A | PCI
SAA7146 |
No | DVB-S (STV0299) | No | ||
Nova-s SE PCI | Unknown | PCI
SAA7146 |
No | DVB-S (TDA8260) | No | ||
Nova-s USB | Unknown | USB 1.x | No | DVB-S | No | ||
Nova-SE2 | Unknown | PCI
CX2388x |
No | DVB-S (CX24123) | Yes | ||
Nova-S-Plus | Unknown | PCI
CX2388x |
No | DVB-S (CX24123) | Composite in
S-video in |
Yes | |
Hybrid Video Recorder | HVR-900 | Xceive XC3028 | USB 2.0
EM2881 |
1× TVP5150A
SoftPVR |
DVB-T (ZL10353) | Composite in (opt)
S-video in (opt) |
Optional |
HVR-900 (Rev B2 & C2) | Xceive XC3028 | USB 2.0
EM2883 |
1× TVP5150A
SoftPVR |
DVB-T (DRX3975D) | Composite in (opt)
S-video in (opt) |
Optional | |
HVR-930 | Xceive XC3028 | USB 2.0
EM2881 |
1× TVP5150A
SoftPVR |
DVB-T (ZL10353) | Composite in (opt)
S-video in (opt) |
Optional | |
HVR-930 (Rev B2) | Xceive XC3028 | USB 2.0
EM2883 |
1× TVP5150A
SoftPVR |
DVB-T (DRX3975D) | Composite in (opt)
S-video in (opt) |
Optional | |
HVR-950 | Xceive XC3028 | USB 2.0 | 1× TVP5150A
SoftPVR |
ATSC | Composite in (opt)
S-video in (opt) |
Optional | |
HVR-1100 | Philips FMD1216ME | PCI
CX2388x |
1× CX2388x
SoftPVR |
DVB-T (CX22702) | Composite in
S-video in FM radio |
Yes | |
HVR-1110 | Philips 8275A | PCI
SAA7134 |
1× SAA7131
SoftPVR |
DVB-T (TDA10046a) | Composite in
S-video in FM radio |
Yes | |
HVR-1300 | Philips FMD1216ME | PCI
CX2388x |
1× CX2388x
1× CX23416 |
DVB-T (CX22702) | Composite in
S-video in FM radio |
Yes | |
HVR-1600 | Analog TCL Series | PCI
CX2388x |
1× CX2388x
1× CX23418 |
ATSC (CX24227) | Composite in
S-video in FM radio |
Yes | |
HVR-1800 | Analog TCL Series | PCI-e | Yes | ATSC / Clear QAM | Composite in
S-video in FM radio |
Yes | |
HVR-2200 | 2× Philips TDAxxxx | PCIe
SAA7164 |
Yes | DVB-T (2× TDA10048HN) | Composite in
S-video in FM radio |
Yes | |
HVR-3000 | Philips FMD1216ME | PCI
CX2388x |
1× CX2388x
SoftPVR |
DVB-T (CX22702)
DVB-S (CX24123) |
Composite in
S-video in FM radio |
Yes | |
HVR-4000 | Philips FMD1216ME | PCI CX2388x | 1× CX2388x
SoftPVR |
DVB-T (CX22702)
DVB-S2 (CX24116) |
Composite in
S-video in |
Yes | |
Personal Video Recorder | PVR PCI | Various | PCI
Fusion 878A |
1× Altera flex EPF6016 ATC144-3
1× Vision Tech Kfir |
No | ||
PVR USB | Various | USB 1.x | 1× SAA7113H
1× iTVC12 |
No | |||
PVR-150 | Various | PCI
CX2584x |
1× CX2584x
1× CX23416 |
No | Composite in
S-video in |
Yes | |
PVR-160 | Various | PCI
CX2388x |
1× CX2388x
1× CX23416 |
No | Composite in
S-video in |
No | |
PVR-250 | Various | PCI
SAA7115 |
1× SAA7115
1× ivac15 |
No | Composite in
S-video in |
Yes | |
PVR-250 | Various | PCI
SAA7115 |
1× SAA7115
1× CX23416 |
No | Composite in
S-video in |
Yes | |
PVR-350 | Various | PCI
SAA7115 |
1× SAA7115
1× ivac15 |
No | Composite in
S-video in/out |
Yes | |
PVR-500MCE | Various | PCI
PLX FastLane 6140 |
2× CX2584x
2× CX23416 |
No | 2× Composite in
2× S-video in |
No | |
PVR-USB2 | Various | USB 2.0
SAA7115 |
1× SAA7115
1× CX23416 |
No | Composite in
S-video in FM radio |
Yes | |
PVR-USB2+ | Various | USB 2.0
Cypress FX2 |
1× CX2584x
1× CX23416 |
No | Composite in
S-video in |
Yes | |
High-Definition Personal Video Recorder | HD-PVR | Not Applicable | USB 2.0 | No | No | Component In/out
Composite in |
Yes |
WinTV Analog | WinTV Express | Various | PCI
BT878A |
1× BT878A | No | Composite in | Yes |
WinTV Go | Various | PCI
Fusion 878A |
1× Fusion 878A | No | Composite in | Yes | |
WinTV Go+ | Various | PCI
Fusion 878A |
1× Fusion 878A | No | Composite in | Yes | |
WinTV Go2 | Various | PCI
CX2388x |
1× CX2388x | No | Composite in | Yes | |
WinTV Primio FM | Various | PCI
CX2388x |
1× CX2388x | No | Composite in
S-video in FM radio |
Yes | |
WinTV PCI-FM | Various | PCI
CX2388x |
1× CX2388x | No | Composite in
S-video in FM radio |
Yes | |
WinTV Radio | Various | PCI
BT878A |
1× BT878A or
1× BT848 or 1× BT88x |
No | Composite in
S-video in FM radio |
Yes | |
WinTV USB | Various | USB 1.x | 1× SAA7113 | No | No | ||
WinTV USB Live | Various | USB 1.x | No | No | S-video in
Composite in |
No | |
WinTV USB2 | Various | USB 2.0
EM2840 |
TVP5150 | No | No |
WinTV software
Hauppauge's principal software offering is WinTV, a TV tuning, viewing, and recording application supplied on a CD-ROM included with tuner hardware.[2] A previous version was called WinTV2000 (WinTV32 without skins). It had companion applications, including WinTV Scheduler, which performs timed recordings, and WinTV Radio, which receives FM radio. It was modified towards a service-based software package, with card management and recordings taken care of by the "TV Server" service and EPG data collection by the "EPG Service", allowing WinTV2000 to work with multiple Hauppauge tuners in the same PC.
In 2007 Hauppauge launched WinTV Version 6, followed in 2009 by WinTV7. WinTV8 was current as of 2016[update]. WinTV updates are available without charge to Hauppauge tuner users (major updates require access to a qualifying earlier WinTV installation CD, e.g. WinTV8 requires a CD not earlier than WinTV7). An option available at extra cost, WinTV Extend, allows TV to be streamed over the Internet to several portable devices such as smartphones, and PCs.[3]
Wing
"Wing", a supplemental software application from Hauppauge, allows the company's PVR products to convert MPEG recordings into formats suitable for playback on the Apple iPod, Sony PSP or a DivX player; it converts MPEG-2 videos into H.264, MPEG-4 and DivX.[4]
Third-party software
Third-party programs which support Hauppauge tuners include: GB-PVR, InterVideo WinDVR, Snapstream's Beyond TV, SageTV, Windows Media Center and the Linux-based MythTV.
Linux
Hauppauge offers limited support for Linux, with Ubuntu repositories and firmware downloads available on its website.[5] There are drivers available from non-Hauppauge sources for most of the company's cards (in IVTV and LinuxTV). It appears that some of these drivers (Nova and HVR) are written by a Hauppauge engineer.[citation needed]
The PVR-150 captures video on Linux, but there are reportedly difficulties getting the remote control and IR blaster to work. Also, a January 2007 product substitution of HVR-1600 in PVR-150 retail boxes forced many Linux users to exchange their purchases because the Linux driver has not been updated for the HVR-1600.[6][7][8]
SageTV Media Center for Linux supports PVR-150, PVR-250, PVR-350, PVR-500 and MediaMVP.
For ATSC and DVB applications, a list of Linux supported Hauppauge and other makes of TV cards can be found on the LinuxTVWiki page (see "Supported Hardware" section).
External links
- Official website
- Hauppauge UK
- Hauppauge UK Support Forum
- PCTV Systems
- SageTV (a vendor of products based on Hauppauge hardware)
- SHS-PVR Unofficial WinTV-PVR & MediaMVP forums
- usbvision (partially functional Linux driver for WinTV-USB)
- The Hauppauge 4860 Motherboard in Detail
- WinTV-PVR Family Identification
References
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- ^ "WinTV Extend: TV on your iPhone or iPad". Hauppauge.co.uk. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
- ^ "Wing: turn your TV recordings into portable video!". Hauppauge.com. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
- ^ "Hauppauge Support | Running WinTV TV tuners and HD PVR 2 under Linux".
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