I purchased a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150. Every time I attempt to capture in Roxio media import I get an error message stating....

Operation "Build" on CaptureManager failed

I can then either select "Details" or "Ok". Details tells me.....

Failed to build capture graph.

Any idea what this is or means? I was rather surprised that this pci device from Hauppauge came with a program from Ulead called DVD Movie Factory v3.0. After checking out Ulead's site they're at v5.0...and the device shippped with v3.0? yikes sounded like an old model on shelf at local Circuit City. Anyway this program did capture ok...but crashed once itself. I'm using Win XP pro w/SP2 and all other updates available.

Many of us with Hauppauge cards have a problem with capturing. I suggest you use the software that came with your card to capture.

Is this card decent? I realy only want to transfer VHS material over and burn it to DVD. I did read some technical stuff on this card and 3rd party software for capture issues

>>the card records directly to MPEG using onboard Hardware encoders. Most third party capture applications are looking to attach to a card or driver that supports uncompressed video recordings. Like AVI files.<<

Don't know if this is the trouble but I just hate having other software that does the same thing because one of them fails to work right. The supplied v3.0 of DVD Movie Factory has now crashed twice and seems trouble also.

Yes, I feel it's a good card. There's lots of them out there and my card, the pvr 500 uses the same drivers as the 150. You should be able to use WinTV to capture from your VCR. I will admit, the documentation with Hauppauge is very poor. Maybe this site can give you some helpful info.