Then there is the playback functions for videos recorded. So yes if you still watch TV through your PC, you could record it.įrom left to right you have the Record, Play which is just strictly for the recording and playback. The most popular format can only encode in set parameters that are grayed out and cannot be changed.Įtc Dialog – allows you to surf channels at once if you have that ‘ Big Brother monitor everything at once‘ desire within you. Also adjusting the quality, bitrate and encoding speed will increase the quality.Įxcept when it comes to MP4.

There are other options to record in like DVD.

Not the end of the world I guess, but certainly not something to get excited about either. The Video DVR will see the correct video size (720×576) and let me change aspect ratio in MPEG-2.īut for PAL region I can only still only record as 25FPS. And this is where things get interesting. Record Settings – Here you can change what type of file you want to record as. Personally I wouldn’t change any of those settings from a capture device as those adjustments can be done to bettereffect in a video editor. Video Settings – which will let you change the Brightness, Contrast, Hue and Saturation. That’s good.Īlong the left side there are three tabs. With the Video DVR connected via USB, the software instantly saw the device as USB 2.0 PC CAMERA and also the sound. I mean we’re here for recording your old VHS tapes right. I’ll cover what the other buttons do on the software but first I would like to draw your attention to this button, as this brings up the property settings. It just feels like it belongs in such an old computer era, not that I can talk.

Honestech tvr 2.5 setup