ChrisTWEAK 2.15 is a Video Utility product from chris-pc.com, get 4 Stars SoftSea Rating, Using ChrisTWEAK you can tune and optimize your capture device(s) driver settings and more.
While using your favorite capture program or TV application, ChrisTWEAK lets you change any setting in the capture device driver in order to improve TV experience, such as :
* Image settings (brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, sharpness)
* Video standard ( PAL, NTSC, SECAM etc.)
* Image Prefilter Settings (Dynamic Noise Reduction) available only for Hauppauge PVR 150/250/350/USB2/500, ATI Theater 550 PRO, TV Cards with Blackbird and Falcon Conexant Chipset ( Leadtek PVR 2000, Prolink Pixelview PlayTV@P7000, Provideo PV258 Series and others).
* Sound mode (mono, stereo or dual)
* TV channel number and country channel table
* Video and audio input
* You can also adjust these settings without having your TV software or capture program running.
The supported capture devices that can be tweaked are :
* TV Cards with compatible WDM Driver
* TV Cards with MPEG Hardware Encoder
* Graphic Cards with Video Input (VIVO)
* Combo Cards (Graphic Card and TV Card)
* WebCams and other compatible devices.
You have to choose the TV Card type you want to tweak :
* Generic TV Card without MPEG Hardware Encoder
* Generic TV Card with MPEG Hardware Encoder
* Generic Conexant BlackBird TV Card
* Generic Conexant Falcon TV Card
* Generic TV Card with WIS GO7007SB Chip
* Hauppauge PVR 150
* Hauppauge PVR 250
* Hauppauge PVR 350
* Hauppauge PVR 500
* Hauppauge PVR USB2
* Leadtek PVR 2000
* Plextor ConvertX PX-M402U
* Plextor ConvertX PX-TV402U
* Lifeview TV Walker
* ATI Theater 550 PRO
* ATI TV Wonder Elite
* Sapphire Theatrix 550
* Theater 550 PRO
* MSI Theater 550 PRO
* Visiontek Xtasy Theater 550
Choose the capture devices components that you want to tweak from the apropiate lists and click on the button, next to every list in order to bring the device component property window:
* Video Capture - main capture device settings : image settings, video standard and other.
* TV Tuner - you can change TV channel number and country channel table (available only for devices with TV module).
* TV Audio - set the sound mode (available only for devices with TV module).
* TV Crossbar - choose the sound and video input, like TV, S-Video, Composite (available only for devices with TV module).
* MPEG Hardware Encoder and Multiplexer - you have access to all MPEG Hardware Encoder settings, for example : video/audio bitrate, stream type, frame size etc. (available only for TV cards with MPEG hardware encoder). The license of this video & dvd software is Free Trial Software, the price is $20, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of ChrisTWEAK, you can buy this video & dvd software.