Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250, Installation And Reference Manual

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Page 2: ...r television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encour aged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures reorient or relocate the receiving antenna increase the separation between the equipment and receiver connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected consult th...

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Page 4: ...tall the application software for Windows 98SE Me 2 1 How to install the application software for Windows XP 2 4 How to install the application software for Windows 2000 2 7 Using the WinTV2000 Application 3 The WinTV2000 window 3 1 Running the WinTV application 3 1 Setting up your TV channels 3 2 Setting up an external source 3 3 The Channel Suite Manager 3 4 Adjusting the video image color 3 4 S...

Page 5: ...on 5 3 Configuring MPEG compression formats directories 6 Setting the Video quality 6 1 MPEG 1 6 2 MPEG 2 6 2 DVD 6 2 Creating Video CD s 7 WinTV MPEG Editor 8 How to use the editor 8 1 Using WinTV Scheduler 9 Time to Begin Program 9 1 Time to End Program 9 1 Program Period 9 2 Date to Begin Program 9 2 Source selection 9 2 Channel selection 9 2 Recording options 9 2 Problem Snapshots don t displa...

Page 6: ...Support A Technical support telephone A 1 Service A 1 Warranty B Warranty B 1 Trademarks WinTV and the Hauppauge logo are registered trademarks of Hauppauge Computer Works Inc Microsoft is a registered trademark and Windows and the Microsoft logo are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation 2002 Hauppauge Computer Works Inc All rights reserved dbx TV is a trademark of THAT Corp 6 20 02 WinTV PVR Instal...

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Page 8: ...ollowing models WinTV PVR pci WinTV PVR 250 and WinTV PVR 350 References to the WinTV PVR apply to all models The Windows driver for all of the WinTV boards will be referred to as the WinTV driver and the installation CD ROM will be referred to as the WinTV Installation CD ROM For models which have particular features such as the chapter on the Radio application we will note which models these fea...

Page 9: ...stall these boards using the Plug Play installation Installation overview To install WinTV PVR under Windows 98SE Me 2000 or Windows XP you will follow these steps Install the WinTV PVR board in your PC and connect the cables After booting Windows you will install WinTV Windows device driver from the WinTV PVR Installation CD ROM After the Windows driver is installed you will install the WinTV app...

Page 10: ...ation and Reference Manual WinTV PVR 250 350 board connectors FM radio connector TV Connector for antenna or Cable TVinput S Video Composite video input Remote control IR receiver socket Audio Input Line In 250 350 S Video Composite video and Audio output 350 only Audio output LineOut to sound card S Video Composite video input Audio Input Line In Remote control IR receiver socket FM radio connect...

Page 11: ...move the cover Locate a free PCI slot a short white slot Unscrew and remove the metal cover plate which covers the back of the empty slot Plug the WinTV board into the PCI slot and screw the WinTV s metal cover plate to the PC Replace the computer cover Now your ready to connect your cables WinTV PVR Installation and Reference Manual 1 3 ...

Page 12: ...ard will open Click Next Insert the WinTV Windows Installation CD ROM into your CD ROM drive Select Search for the best driver for your device Recommended Click Next Select CD ROM drive and click Next The Copying Files window will open and you will see a number of files being copied to your hard disk drive 1 4 WinTV PVR Installation and Reference Manual ...

Page 13: ... Note On those WinTV models equipped with remote control after rebooting your PC the Remote Control will be enabled Installing the PVR driver under Windows Me When re starting Windows for the first time after the WinTV board is installed the Add New Hardware Wizard will open Insert the WinTV Installation CD ROM and select Automatic search for a better driver device Recommended Click Next The Copyi...

Page 14: ...iver under Windows XP After installing the WinTV PVR in your PC and boot ing into Windows the Found New Hardware Wizard will appear Insert the WinTV Installation CD ROM in your PC s CD ROM drive and make sure Install the software automatically Recommended is checked Click Next Note If the Hardware Installation dialog box opens Click Continue Anyway You will see a number of files being copied to yo...

Page 15: ... your PC the Remote Control will be enabled Installing the PVR driver under Windows 2000 After installing the WinTV PVR in your PC and booting into Windows the Found New Hardware Wizard will open Click Next Next the Install the Device dri vers window will open Insert the WinTV PVR Installation CD ROM in your PC s CD ROM drive and make sure Search for a suitable driver for my device Recommended is ...

Page 16: ...te If the Digital Signature Not Found window opens it will ask you if you want to continue the driver installation Click Yes The Copying Files window will open and you will see a number of files being copied to your hard disk drive Next when the Completing the Found New Hardware Wizard window opens Click Finish 1 8 WinTV PVR Installation and Reference Manual ...

Page 17: ...on for Windows 2000 Continue to Chapter 2 to install the WinTV Application software On those WinTV models equipped with remote control after rebooting your PC the Remote Control will be enabled WinTV PVR Installation and Reference Manual 1 9 ...

Page 18: ...Device Manager for 98SE Me XP 2000 for the WinTV PVR 250 1 10 WinTV PVR Installation and Reference Manual Windows 98SE Windows Me Windows XP Windows 2000 ...

Page 19: ...s been installed you need to run WinTV Setup to complete the installation Double Click on the My Computer icon on your desktop and then click on your CD ROM drive letter Double click setup exe to begin installing the applica tion software Next Select your language and Click Next Next the PVR update window will open Click Ok 2 1 ...

Page 20: ... will only appear if you purchased a WinTV with FM radio Next the Welcome window will appear Click Next Next select the destina tion directory Click Next to install the application to the default directory C program files WinTV 2 2 WinTV PVR Installation and Reference Manual ...

Page 21: ...oftware Click Next The Copying Files window will open and you will see a number of files being copied to your hard disk drive Click Finish to com plete the WinTV2000 application software installation WinTV PVR Installation and Reference Manual 2 3 ...

Page 22: ...p to complete the installation Click on the My Computer icon on your desktop and then click on your CD ROM drive letter Double click setup exe to begin installing the appli cation software Next Select your language and click Next Next the PVR update window will open Click Ok 2 4 WinTV PVR Installation and Reference Manual ...

Page 23: ... open Click Install Next the Welcome win dow will open Click Next Next Select destination directory Click Next to install the application to the default directory C program files WinTV WinTV PVR Installation and Reference Manual 2 5 ...

Page 24: ...oftware Click Next The Copying Files window will open and you will see a number of files being copied to your hard disk drive Click Finish to com plete the WinTV 2000 application software installation 2 6 WinTV PVR Installation and Reference Manual ...

Page 25: ...p to complete the installation Click on the My Computer icon on your desktop and then click on your CD ROM drive letter Double click setup exe to begin installing the applica tion software Next Select your language and click Next Next the PVR update window will open Click Ok WinTV PVR Installation and Reference Manual 2 7 ...

Page 26: ... open Click Install Next the Welcome window will appear Click Next Next Select destination directory Click Next to install the application to the default directory C program files WinTV 2 8 WinTV PVR Installation and Reference Manual ...

Page 27: ...oftware Click Next The Copying Files window will open and you will see a number of files being copied to your hard disk drive Click Finish to com plete the WinTV2000 application software installation WinTV PVR Installation and Reference Manual 2 9 ...

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Page 29: ...inTV 3 1 Freeze Configure snapshot Color Audio configuration Preferences menu Remove toolbar Full screen TV Minimize Close WinTV Video source select Snapshot viewer window double click on each thumbnail to see image full size Current TV channel or video source Click your right mouse button here to remove toolbars Click again to restore toolbar Click and hold your right mouse button to see the Opti...

Page 30: ...egion North America uses NTSC M Most of Europe uses PAL B G U K uses PAL I South America uses either PAL M or PAL N If you are using Cable TV in the Broadcast Cable select Cable Otherwise select Antenna Then click on Start You can modify the channel names by sin gle clicking on the channel Then click Edit 3 2 WinTV PVR Installation and Reference Manual ...

Page 31: ...Video Pick your video format NTSC for North and South America PAL for Europe etc and give it a name for example external and description then click ADD Now you have a external video channel Note if setting up S Video make sure to check the S Video box When using WinTV2000 and swtiching to an external video source you can either select the channel name you just configured or click the Switch video ...

Page 32: ...ite and add channels to the suite Click OK when finished To change to a suite right click your mouse in the TV window for 2 seconds and go to Select Suite you will then see a list of suites Click on the one you would like to switch to Watch Pause and Record TV buttons There are three buttons to control the Watching Recording and Pausing of TV Clicking on the Pause button will cause the Pause menu ...

Page 33: ... record for 30 minutes Adjusting the video image color You can adjust the Brightness Contrast Saturation and Hue of the live TV image by using the color adjustment menu Click on CLR Color button to get the adjustment menu Still Frame Image Capture mode You can capture high quality images by clicking on the Capture button in the WinTV2000 application you will see a thumbnail appear in the Capture t...

Page 34: ...set in Capture Resolutions To reduce the effects of motion in the video image but with lower image resolution in the Fields Captured option choose 1 Motion Example 1 Motion used for Sporting events Football Baseball etc 2 Still used for Interviews talk shows news etc You can also adjust your captured image by clicking your right mouse button on the Thumbnail that appears in the WinTV application w...

Page 35: ...the Title Bar where it says Hauppauge WinTV2000 holding it down and dragging it to the new position You can set a different size and a different place on your VGA screen for the WinTV window in TitleMode and NoTitleMode Then by simply clicking with the right mouse button the WinTV window will switch from one saved size and place on the screen to the other Try clicking your right mouse button sever...

Page 36: ...hown when in the TitleBar and NoTitleBar modes click on Preferences You can eliminate the status bar and the toolbar in the TitleMode or add the status bar in the NoTitleMode Setting preferences in Title mode Click PREF and then click on the Title Mode tab Enforce Aspect Ratio forces the viewed aspect ratio to 4 3 When turned off it will allow arbitrary aspect ratios 3 8 WinTV PVR Installation and...

Page 37: ...ormat which is used internally in Windows and then copied back into the VGA memory so that you can see the image which will be printed or saved This becomes a Thumbnail image in the WinTV tray window The video images which are digitized can be saved to disk printed to a color or black white printer or copied to the clipboard These functions can be viewed from the PREF menu There are a few things w...

Page 38: ...rd button will start a record session If you click OTR more than once a record timer will be set and the recording will be done for 15 minutes for each additional time the OTR button is clicked For example if you click the OTR button 3 times the WinTV PVR will record for 30 minutes Keyboard shortcuts Convenient keyboard control functions Volume Up Page Up Volume Down Page Down Mute Ctrl M Channel ...

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Page 40: ... you have chosen Both of these can be set in the MPEG settings menu see the section entitled Configuring the format for MPEG compression To catch up to the live audio video program you can either exit the Pause mode by clicking the TV mode button you can click the Skip button which skips ahead 10 seconds per click or you can grab the Video Position indicator and move it to the right until it is at...

Page 41: ...ogram to start playing from the point where the button was originally pushed Most WinTV functions are active while in the Pause or Pause Live mode For example you can change volume resize the TV window go into no title mode etc While in Pause mode the Video Position bar shows the amount of the Replay Buffer which is filled with video For example if the Video Position indicator shows halfway it mea...

Page 42: ...the Replay button 3 times so that you are replaying the audio video seen 30 seconds ago the video you see in the WinTV window will be 30 seconds behind the live audio video program Skip Ahead Button Clicking the Skip button will skip the video ahead 10 seconds Rewind Button Clicking the Rewind button while playing video will rewind the recorded video Clicking the Rewind button again will continue ...

Page 43: ...on the market which are designed for high er performance video captures These drives use 1 1 interleaving and track caching to eliminate gaps caused by a hard disk drive seeking to the next track They are available with both IDE and SCSI interfaces 4 4 WinTV PVR Installation and Reference Manual ...

Page 44: ...s specified in a Hour Minute Second format Record Button Clicking the Record button will automatically generate a file name and start recording your audio video program The quality of the video recording and the directory where the files are stored are set in the MPEG Configuration Menu see the section enti tled Configuring the format for MPEG compression Click the PREF button on the WinTV2000 app...

Page 45: ...p button to stop your recording The recorded audio video file is then saved to disk using the automatically assigned file name The Time counter is reset to 00 00 00 after the recording is saved VCD Record Button Clicking the VCD Record button will automatically generate a file name and start recording your program using the VCD record quality All other characteristics are the same as in the Record...

Page 46: ...last file recorded is listed in the File name box In the File menu you can Rename your recorded video file To rename a video file find the file you would like to rename remember the automatically generat ed file names start with _dvcr highlight it with your mouse and click and hold the right mouse button Go down to Rename and then you can type in a new name Remember you must keep the MPG extension...

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Page 48: ...nTV PVR supports several formats for MPEG video compres sion called Quality Levels The differences in these formats are The higher the datarate the better the video quality you see from live TV and your recordings The higher the datarate the more disk space which will be required CPU horsepower required during playback and pause mode The compatibility when creating Video CD s or S VCD s To configu...

Page 49: ...te For creating Video CD s for playback on your home DVD player chose the MPEG1 VCD format If you would like to burn a DVD ROM chose MPEG2 2 0MB sec 4 0MB sec or 8 0 MB sec for best compatibility If you have a fast PC and would like the best video image quality chose MPEG2 12 0MB sec If you have a slower PC try either the MPEG2 2 0MB sec or the MPEG2 4 0MB sec formats Once chosen the format is set...

Page 50: ...DVD player chose the MPEG 1 VCD format If you would like to burn a DVD ROM chose DVD Standard Play DVD Long Play DVD Extra Long Play If you have a fast PC and would like the best video image quality chose MPEG 2 12 0MB sec If you have a slower PC try the MPEG 2 2 0MB sec format Once chosen the format is set for both the Pause and Record modes You can change the format between recordings or after y...

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Page 52: ...nd the WinTV PVR usb the VCD MPEG files themselves need to have the audio and video remultiplexed before a Video CD can be recorded onto CD ROM The WinTV PVR 250 and the WinTV PVR 350 when recording using the VCD format have correctly multiplexed audio and video and therefore these files can be directly burnt onto a CD ROM in the VCD format Note We have found that most home DVD players can play Vi...

Page 53: ...3 Burning your converted file to a CD R or CD RW After the converting process is complete your file will be VCD compliant Now you are ready to burn your VCD file on a CDRW Open DVD MovieFactory click on Author Menus and click on the VCD button Then click Next Click Add MPEG file then select your VCD compliant video file Note if you select a non burnable VCD file MovieFactory will give you an error...

Page 54: ...ct a video to be played by opening the Video CD using Windows Explorer and looking in the MPEGAV directory on the Video CD There will be a file or several files if your Video CD contains more than one video file with names like Avseq01 dat You can open this file with WindowsMedia Player and the video will play back in a window on your PC screen WinTV PVR Installation and Reference Manual 7 3 ...

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Page 56: ...he quality of the original video Version 2 1 of the WinTV Editor has these new features Edit cut MPEG1 and MPEG2 files This version is about 3 times faster than version 1 x Join MPEG files of the same resolution and bit rate Remultiplex Video CD compatible files so they can be burnt into VCD s Remultiplex S Video CD compatible files so they can be burnt into SVCD s Split large files into pieces so...

Page 57: ...f the clip you want to keep then click the Out button Click Add Interval to add the defined clip to the cut list Repeat until you have put all the desired video clips in the cut list When you have finished with your cut list click the Generate output button All intervals in the cut list will appear in the final video The Generate Output step normally takes a while Your MPEG video is named nanoEDIT...

Page 58: ...e If you enter the name of a file which is not VCD compliant an error message will pop up Remultiplex File for SVCD Note If you have an SVCD file open when you click on Generate Movie the file will be saved as a burnable SVCD file But if you have a SVCD file on you PC and would like to simply make it burnable use this option You will be prompted for a File name Enter the name of a file which has S...

Page 59: ...d of the sec tions will overlap If you enter the GOP Group Of Pictures length no pictures will be missed 12 typical GOP length Also write unsplit file In addition to splitting the output file also write the complete file unsplit 8 4 WinTV PVR Installation and Reference Manual ...

Page 60: ...imed watching or recording run WinTV Scheduler and click on the Add Program The items that need to be set for each event are Time to Begin Program set to the desired start time The default time is about 3 minutes from the current time Click on the hour to set the hour the minute to set the minute and the second if you feel this is necessary to set the minute to start the program Note It takes abou...

Page 61: ... on Record to File to record your show Leave this button unchecked to watch TV at the requested time You can also name your file to record in the dialog box below Once these are set click Set Program You can add more Events click ing Set Program after each event is set When you are finished click Close The WinTV program does not have to be running for the WinTV Scheduler to work If WinTV is not ru...

Page 62: ...e channels have not been detected you can insert channels manually Also in some areas using cable TV a format called Cable HRC is used If so try rescanning see page 3 2 but use CABLE HRC instead of cable in the Broadcast Cable box Problem Live TV program and video playback has a Jerky effect and or lip synchronization during play back Make sure that DMA is enabled for IDE hard disks See the sectio...

Page 63: ...ou adjust the audio volume slide bar in the WinTV2000 application the WinTV PVR adjusts the audio volume accordingly While playing back a video the PC s MediaPlayer is used though the video appears in the WinTV window The Wave Out device in your PC s Volume Control mixer is used to adjust audio volume 10 2 WinTV PVR Installation and Reference Manual ...

Page 64: ...e click on Disk Drives Highlight GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE and click on Properties Click on Settings Make sure DMA is selected Note in Windows XP enable write caching 3 Defragment your Hard Disk To Defragment your hard disk in Windows click on Start Programs Accessories System Tools and click on Disk Defragmenter 4 You can use 7200 RPM disk drives Also there are several hard disks on the market which ...

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Page 66: ...act your dealer for on site or repair service Hauppauge s Technical Support and Customer Service staff can aid in solving many problems Our service department is available to repair any Hauppauge product For completion of repair the product must be returned to our factory If this WinTV board is not in working order your only recourse is repair or replacement as described above UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANC...

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Page 68: ...ver any losses or damage that occur as a result of Improper installation Misuse or neglect or operation with faulty equipment Repair or modification by anyone other than Hauppauge Computer Works or an authorized repair agent Please complete and return the Warranty Registration Form inserted in this manual To obtain service under this warranty contact Hauppauge Computer works at 631 434 3197 or fax...

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