NextPVR setup assistance with WinTV-HVR-1250 and VCR input only

[Amadeus]

I am hoping someone might be able to assist me with setting up NextPVR so that I can use it to record videos from a VCR (rather than "live" television.) Basically, I'm using a WinTV-HVR-1250 card and the VCR is connected to it via a coaxial cable. I've used the VCR in the past and it works great, so I know that the hardware is good.

My first question is with regard to the devices I'm seeing in NextPVR. Is it a problem that it's saying WinTV 885 instead of WinTV 1250? Please see attachment for screenshot of my NextPVR "devices" tab along with the WinTV entry from my Windows 10 Device Manager.

Otherwise, I'm assuming that, if everything is working properly, I should be able to start playing on the VCR and then go to the devices and click "scan" and it would find the channel, correct? At this point, this is not working...at least, it didn't find the channel within the first 10 or so (and I'm assuming it should be channel 3 or 4.) I saw an older thread here on the forums suggesting to manually add the channel rather than using scan; however, I can't find that option in the UI, so I figured it was removed at some point (?)

Finally, could someone advise whether I should use the ATSC or QAM tuner for playing/recording from a VCR? (Or, does it not matter?)

Thanks in advance!

[mvallevand]

Nope to play from a VCR you need to use the analog inputs and not scan. Install WinTV to get the proper drivers and you should see them.

I am not sure why you wouldn't just use WinTV after that though.

Martin

[sub]

Yeah, NextPVR isn't really designed for dubbing videos from a VCR. There is much better tools for that type of task. As Martin said, maybe just use WinTV for it.

[Amadeus]

You can see that I have drivers installed (from the screenshot), but they're from 2013. The new driver package I downloaded won't install at the moment, so I need to see what they Hauppauge says about that (I have an email into them at the moment.)

I don't have the WinTV CD and was just wanting to get things working right now without having to wait for a new one, etc. And, to be honest, this software looks nice and I thought it'd be easy to use for what I need, once it's set-up. But, if it doesn't work out, I'll just use the WinTV software.

Thanks!

[Amadeus]

Yeah, NextPVR isn't really designed for dubbing videos from a VCR. There is much better tools for that type of task. As Martin said, maybe just use WinTV for it.

Sounds good. I'll just work on getting WinTV installed and using that.

Thanks!