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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PoloMint" data-source="post: 23532" data-attributes="member: 175235">Yes my old TV card used the BT878 capture chip and Phillips tuner, but I now have a Hauppauge one (which also uses a BT capture chip)In XP the easiest way to install drivers is to right click on My Computer, select properties>Hardware>Device Manager.If the card is not recognised or has the wrong driver installed it will have a yellow question mark, or red cross next to it. It should be listed under the ‘sound and video’ controllers, but may well be under ‘other devices’ until you get some working drivers installed, in which case it will be called simply ‘multimedia video input’ or something to that effect.To install the driver right click on the device and select ‘update driver’ and select the option to install from a specific location, then select ‘don’t search, I will choose…’ then ‘have disk’. Finally select the folder containing the driver.You will probably then have to restart your system several times as Windows will find both the audio and video part of the card, normally on separate occasions. If it asks for any more drivers simply point it to the folder with the downloaded drivers.To get Power VCR 2 Kazza is probably the easiest place, but the XP patch that you can get from the official site it vital, also you should install them after the drivers. A program called ‘showshiter’ should also work; a free trial version is on the official site.It would be easier if you just wanted to use composite in as then it wouldn’t matter if the driver was incompatible with the tuner, but as the Phillips one is popular hopefully you will be okey.TV cards can be very fiddly, when I changed mine (my old one didn’t work with PAL-I in the UK) I got a Hauppauge one, not because of the features but because they seemed to have the best support for XP and hopefully any future windows releases.</blockquote>

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