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From the sound of it, your original setup had the RF output from the Sky box going into the RF or "aerial" in on your VCR. If correct, the signal would have been an analogue one on a UHF frequency. Your VCR therefore only acted as a connector with your computer card's analogue RF input.
Where your confusion may have arisen is that I understand the software then converts analogue input into an MPEG-2 encoded file to record it. This is the same encoding used by DVB-T but not, incidentally, DVB-S2/H264 which is used for Freesat HD.
I think one solution may be to use the VCR to do what you thought it was. Connect the SCART on your Humax to the SCART input on your VCR. Then set up the VCR as if it were doing the recording. It should then send an analogue RF output to your computer card.
The right solution however would seem to be to use the S-Video output from the Humax straight into your card which I understand also accepts this signal. I would suggest you first check that you are using the SCART socket on the Humax marked "VCR" as the TV one can also be configured to RGB. You should also have a SCART lead that carries the S-Video signal (not all do) with the appropriate plugs at the other end (and, of course, plugged into the correct inputs on your card)
Reading the specs of the Wintv 1100 shows it does not accept RGB signals, merely composite ones. The "CVBS" setting on the Humax output menu may help here. In that case, you would need a SCART lead with the "red, white, yellow" RCA plugs at the other end.
The matter of the leads is crutial and I suspect at the root of your problems. As a matter of interest, I presume you do not have an HD ready TV or you would not be using the SCART socket to connect to it. If you do, make sure you use the HDMI lead that came with your Humax or you will not be getting HD pictures. Nor, of course, will your WinTV setup be recording in HD.
Last edited by lbear; 14-03-2010 at 11:37 PM.
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15-03-2010, 9:12 AM
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