WinTV USB, TV Analog Hauppauge Computer Works ( ), or just Hauppauge, is a manufacturer and marketer of electronic hardware for. Although it is most widely known for its WinTV line of for, Hauppauge also produces, digital video editors, digital media players, and digital television products for both Windows and Mac. The company is named after the hamlet of, in which it is based.

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Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Company history [ ] Hauppauge was co-founded by and, and became incorporated in 1992. 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 8087s. 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 increased starting in 1984 with software products that accelerated applications like Lotus 123. At the same time the advent of the 80286 based IBM-AT with its 80287 math coprocessor provided new opportunities for companies that had grown up selling 8087s and supporting software. This included products like Hauppage's '287 Fast/5,' a product that took advantage of the 80287's design that used an asynchronous clock to drive its FPU at 5 MHz instead of the 4 MHz clocking provided by IBM, making it possible for the 80287s that came with the AT to be overclocked to 12 MHz. By 1987 math coprocessors had become Intel's most profitable product line bringing in competition from vendors like Cyrix whose first product was a math coprocessor faster than the new Intel 80387, but whose speed was stalled by the 80386 that acted as a governor. This is when Andy Grove decided it was time for Intel to recapture its channel to market opening up a division to compete with its math coprocessor customers that by this time included 47th street camera.

The new Intel division, PCEO (the PC Enhancement Operation) came out with a product called 'Genuine Intel Math Coprocessors.' After playing around in the accelerator board business PCEO would settle down in the 80386 motherboard business originally selling a motherboard designed by one of its engineers as a home project that eventually ended up with a new division that today sells 40% of the motherboards used in high end PCs that find their way into products including Supercomputers, medical products, etc. 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 Intel i-860 vector coprocessor business: Hauppauge came out with an Intel 80486 motherboard that included an Intel i-860 vector processor while Microway came out with add-in cards that had between one or more i-860s. These products along with Transputer-based add-in cards would eventually lead into what became known as HPC (high performance computing). HPC was actually initiated in 1986 by an English company, Inmos, that designed a CPU competitive with an Intel 80386/387 that also included four twisted pair high speed interconnects that could communicate with other Transputers and be linked to a PC motherboard making it possible to create distributed memory processing computers that could employ 32 processors with the same throughput as 32 Intel 386/387s operating in a single PC.

The add in card parallel processing business morphed from the Transputer to the Intel i-860 around 1989 when Inmos was purchased by STmicroelectronics that cut R&D funding eventually forcing companies that had entered the parallel processing business to shift to the Intel i860. Narodna Muzika Za Skidanje Besplatno Bez Registracije. The i-860 was a vector processor with graphics extensions that could initially provide 50 Megaflops of throughput in an era when an 80486 with an Intel 80487 peaked at half a Megaflop and would eventually top out at 100 Megaflops making it as fast as 100 Inmos T414 Transputers. I-860 Add in cards made it possible for as many as 20 Intel i-860s to run in parallel and could be programmed using a software library similar to today's MPI libraries which today support distributed memory parallel processing in which servers sitting in 1U rack mount chassis that are essentially PCs provide the horsepower behind the majority of the world's Supercomputers. This same approach could be employed using Hauppauge's motherboards connected by Gigabit Ethernet, something that was however first demonstrated using a wall of IBM RS/6000 PCs at the 1991 Supercomputing Conference. IBM's lead was quickly followed by academic users who realized they could do the same thing with much less expensive hardware by adapting their x86 PCs to run in parallel at first using a software library adapted from similar Transputer libraries called PVM (parallel virtual machines) that would eventually morph into today's MPI.

This section needs expansion. You can help. (May 2008) Product lines [ ] Digital Terrestrial/Satellite [ ] Hauppauge digital terrestrial and satellite products capture and 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 3rd 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 7-day, Digital Teletext and LCN-based channel ordering. The new cards supported Microsoft's 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 PAL and DVB-T but there have been some more recent models which capture analogue NTSC and ATSC as well as a tri-mode card which supports analogue PAL, DVB-S and DVB-T. 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 /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 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 () 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. Aion 4 0 Download Full Client Ragnarok. High-Definition Personal Video Recorder [ ] In May 2008, Hauppauge released the HD-PVR, a USB 2.0 device with an on-board H.264 hardware encoder for recording from high-definition sources through component inputs. It is the world's first USB device that can capture in high definition. The HD-PVR has proved to be a very popular device, and Hauppauge has been updating its drivers and software continually since its release. In addition to being able to capture from any component video source in,, or, the HD-PVR comes with an IR blaster that communicates with your cable or satellite set-top box for automated program recordings and channel-changing capabilities.

In 2012, Hauppauge released the HD-PVR Gaming Edition 2, which features a much smaller design than its predecessor along with support. The PVR is not officially supported on Macintosh systems, but a variety of third party programs exist that allow it to function on OS X, including EyeTV by and HDPVRCapture. In 2013, Hauppauge released an upgrade for the existing HD-PVR 2 with the HD-PVR 2 Gaming Edition Plus, which supports Macintosh systems. 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 is a device that displays music, video and pictures (hence 'MVP') on a television.

It is based on an IBM RISC processor specialized for multimedia decoding. The operating system is a form of Linux, and everything (including the menus) is served to the device via ethernet or, on newer devices, 802.11g from the server PC.

Various products can use the device as a front-end. An example is, which allows the MediaMVP to be used as a front-end for.