hcwutl32.dll

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Windows Process Description:

The hcwutl32.dll module is described as the Hauppage Video Card Library of Utility Functions. It is included in almost every installation of software applications or device drivers from Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc.

Hauppauge Computer Works, or just Hauppauge for short, is a united States based manufacturer and marketer of electronic video hardware and peripherals for personal computers. Although the company is most widely known for its WinTV line of TV tuner cards / capture cards for personal computers, Hauppauge also manufactures personal video recorders, digital media players, digital video editors, hybrid video recorders and digital television products for both Windows Operating Systems and Apple Macintosh platforms.

Hauppage's foremost software offering is a television tuning and recording software application called WinTV2000, and the WinTV capture card that comes with it. The hcwutl32.dll module is bundled with installations of those products on the user's machine. The functionality and interface of both the hardware and the software has changed very slightly since those products were introduced in 1999. The software WinTV2000 is also distributed with a non-skinned interface that goes with the name WinTV32.

The WinTV2000 / WinTV32 software has other companion applications. The hcwutl32.dll module is also included in installations of WinTV Scheduler that performs timed recordings and WinTV Radio, a software program that receives FM Radio. The hcwutl32.dll module handles all the utility functions, like Recording and playing for example.

Recently, a change of direction in the consumer market has seen the move towards a service-based software package. Though the hcwutl32.dll module is still the primary library for utility functions, certain components were detached from it. Card management and recordings are now taken care of by the TV Server service and the Electronic Program Guide data collection by the EPG Service. These changes let WinTV2000 operate with multiple Hauppauge cards in the same machine.

The hardware that utilizes the hcwutil.dll module all have Conexant hardware MPEG2 encoding chips and use very minimal CPU power to record / encode the television signal. They all have 125 channel tuners that the user can still operate with digital cable or satellite with channel numbers that is higher than 125.

Author: Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc.

Author URL: www.hauppage.com

Part Of: WinTV softwares and various Hauppage Video device drivers

Memory Usage: Low

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