PVA to Sansa: Convert PVA(Hauppauge Video Recording) video to Sansa with River Past Crazi Video

What is PVA?

PVA files are recordings from Hauppauge DVB Software.

To convert PVA files to other formats with River Past software, please have Radlight PVA Splitter and GPL MPEG-2 Decoder installed.

Launch Crazi Video

Install Crazi Video, launch Crazi Video.

Add File

Click on the "Add File" button on the tool bar. The standard file open dialog appears. Select "PVA - Hauppauge Video Recording" in its "Files of type" combo box.

Select the file you want to convert and click "Open". The file will be added to the conversion file list.

Note: To convert from PVA files, you must have Radlight PVA Splitter installed.

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Select Sansa Output

Click on the toggle in front of "Output Format" to expand the panel.

Select "Sansa" as the device type.

Change individual file settings

Select the file in the conversion list. An additional panel "Convert File" appears.

Click on the toggle to expand the panel.

If you want to extract the audio from the video, select "Audio" as the "Media Type".

The aspect ratio is retrieve from the original video file. In some cases, this value may be incorrect. To change it, you can either select from the list, or type in a value.

Select output directory

Expand the "Output Directory" panel. Use the "Browse" button to select an output directory.

If you have Sansa E200 connected, you can set the Sync Option to "Copy Files to Device Directly". Crazi Video will find the connected Sansa and copy the converted files to the appropriate directories for playback.

You can also set the Sync Option to "Do not Sync" and manage the files yourself.

Convert

Click the "Convert" button on the tool bar.

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