Hauppauge Pvr 2 Gaming Edition and Obs Setup Windows 10
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Which HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition do you have and what type of audio are you trying to capture? If you are trying to capture AC3 audio, the older Hauppauge HD-PVR 2 Gaming Edition 1480 does not have the ability to capture AC3 audio input from HDMI or S/PDIF. The ability to record AC3 delivered via HDMI or S/PDIF was added to the Hauppauge HD-PVR 2 Gaming Edition Plus 1504.
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The HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition Plus is basically the same as hardware as the HD PVR 2 with a green stripe and different accessories in the box. This YouTube video addresses HDMI video and audio set up for the HD PVR 2 within OBS. Both video and audio require setup with Crossbar. Have you tried what it suggests?
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Several years ago I used other capture software with the Hauppauge Colossus but I never used OBS. I guess you will need to wait for someone who does currently use OBS because the OBS user interface has apparently changed since Hauppauge posted their video.
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I've only tested OBS studio (currently using v26 RC1 64 bits) for a few screen captures some with browser player audio source but I have never tried to use OBS to capture from the Haup PVR2 (1512 usb) until I saw this thread.I tried a couple of small tests from hdmi source and a cable box and it worked right away. The files play both video and audio fine and in sync. The output file is MKV, 1080p, 60fps, stereo, aac audio all options in OBS settings menus which I'm sure you know more about than I do with my limited experience with this great tool.
I can say that at the very least simple stereo audio works from hdmi but I'm not sure what else to add except under the mic/aux option I clicked on the gear icon and then Advanced Audio Properties and of the 4 options offered for audio (based on the number of source profiles I am testing), I selected all 6 tracks of the video capture device to make sure I didn't miss any but made sure no other source profiles had any selected audio. Got good captures with audio!
As a further test I deselected all 6 tracks and captured a short clip and the output file was mute. Re-selecting the tracks and capturing again produced a good video/audio file.
edit:
Someone mentioned the "crossbar" earlier but I have difficulty reading text in images so sorry if this is just a repeat but its well worth it.
Since you already created a new capture source just to make sure the video and audio hdmi streams are linked properly...click on the video capture box under the sources section. Then right click and select properties and then configure crossbar. The 1st box probably says something like "0: Video SerialDigital In" now look underneath and see what it says for related pins. If It says something like "Audio AESDigital In: then check the box that says "Link related Streams. and press "apply". If "apply is grayed out just change the 1st video input box to something else and back again.
Last edited by gll99; 3rd Sep 2020 at 20:18. Reason: adding a thought
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I first used ac3 but switched to aac and other codecs can be used also. What I have under settings, output, type= custom output (ffmpeg) then further down you can select the video and audio encoders and bitrate etc... AC3 should be in the Audio Encoder drop down list
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Are You just capturing audio?
Under "Container format" I have matroska since I want an "MKV" (You should choose a compatible container that will accept your selected video encoder e.g. x264 and audio encoder e.g. ac3).
There's not much to do but then I can't do much anyway.
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I don't convert anything to blu-ray or DVD format anymore. If I write to discs (which is rare now since I mainly use hdd) I leave the files in their original captured format e.g. with the Hauppauge capture apps (Showbiz or Hauppauge Capture) it can be TS, M2TS or MP4 and now with OBS I've been using Matroska (MKV). Try matroska or MP4 if you want and try a short test with your blu-ray software of choice to see if these formats are compatible. I haven't tried any other containers in OBS Studio but if you do just make sure that whatever you choose accepts h264 video (as per your x264 encoder selection) and ac3 audio in the container to minimize conversion in the later steps when you generate your blu-ray discs (if you are talking about the blu-ray format and not just the media in your original post).
Last edited by gll99; 4th Sep 2020 at 18:00.
There's not much to do but then I can't do much anyway.
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The x264 library (default) will generate the proper video type so no need to look for any video codec. Matroska will work fine as far as the video and audio compatibility are concerned. Just make sure your blu-ray creation program accepts the MKV extension as input.
There's not much to do but then I can't do much anyway.
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For the fast forward issue, I can only guess at how OBS Studio handles the PVR2 usb device drivers. I imagine that OBS can only "see" and play what comes out of the usb 2.0 port after the PVR2 hardware encoder is done with it. One thing for sure is that there is a 14000 Kbps hardware video bitrate limit possible using the capture programs supplied by Hauppauge. I don't know if OBS can get around that so using higher bitrates in the OBS post process capture seems counter intuitive. I have no idea if there is any adverse effect on the output file generated by OBS if the capture exceeds that boundary so I'm just spitballing. It might be worth a try to lower the bitrate accordingly and see if that has any effect on the ability to fast forward.EDIT: Just to add
I'm not sure which version of tsMuxer you are using but the nightly builds have a number of fixes and some are Blu-ray related which I haven't researched but they'd be worth a look if you haven't already done so.
Last edited by gll99; 6th Sep 2020 at 15:55.
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Please don't think that mkv is the panacea of containers. You probably could have obtained the same results choosing MP4 since they both default to AVC as the video codec. Other combos available in OBS might also produce the same results if you hunt around. I just use whatever format works in in my players or are accepted by editing programs in case I need to trim some excess. Its the same with audio, I often used ac3 in my caps but a player on an android tablet did not accept ac3 so I changed to aac. I haven't turned on my old PS3 in ages but if I remember right it would probably choke on MKV and I'd have to switch to mp4 (or maybe it's the other way around... lol)As far as the differences and which video codec is best you'd need one of our resident experts to chime in or maybe see what Google has to say.
To reiterate,
I learned something too. While I used OBS Studio prior to this thread for screen caps, I had not considered using it with the PVR2.
Although choosing MP4 in the Hauppauge capture apps would result in using the same AVC video codec for me the main advantage of using OBS is that my most frequently used sources are 1080i over hdmi and component and the output (TS or MP4) from Showbiz and Hauppauge Capture maintains that on the output. My main screen is 4K set to 1080p so OBS can produce a 1080P 60 fps output which suits my needs really well. The result is surprisingly good. In early test comparison I might even say superior.
There's not much to do but then I can't do much anyway.
Hauppauge Pvr 2 Gaming Edition and Obs Setup Windows 10
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