Hauppauge WinTV Computer Drive User Manual
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1. the side or back on the laptop or desktop Plug the WinTV HVR 950 stick into the USB 2 0 port You can use a USB extender cable to locate the WinTV HVR 950 a short distance from your USB slot Note if you plug the device into a different USB socket you will need to reinstall the WinTV HVR 950 driver but you will not need to reload any WinTV applications Note Due to power and bandwidth requirements we do not recommend connecting WinTV HVR into a USB Hub Plug an antenna for ATSC digital TV reception or either cable TV or a TV antenna for analog TV reception into the TV connector on WinTV HVR 950 It is recommended to connect to a roof top aerial during the first time installation This will provide better signal quality then the provided portable antenna 4 Installing the WinTV HVR 950 driver ote the latest WinTV HVR 950 software can be found at www hauppauge com pages support support_hvr950 html ote You may need to disable your antivirus programs during the installation only Installing the WinTV HVR 950 Windows XP driver Turn on your PC When it is completely booted the Found New Hardware Wizard will appear Insert the Hauppauge Installation CD ROM into your CD ROM drive Select No not at this time Click Next Select Install software automatically Click Next Found New Hardware Wizard Welcome to the Found New Hardware Wizard This wizard helps you install software for Multimedia Video Cont2. 1997 2004 Hauppauge Computer Works Inc Video Display Mode C Allow YMR WinXP Only implies Allow Overlay VMR Type C VMR Only C VMR9 Only Either MPEG Playback Options V Use DXVA if available M Use Hw Motion Comp if available C Allow Overlay To use hardware graphics C DIB Draw Page 11 A Siow motion button Clicking the Slow Motion button during playback will cause the video to play in slow motion Clicking the Slow Motion button again will return the video to normal playback speed File button Clicking the File button opens the File menu The last file recorded is listed in the File name box In the File menu you can e Rename your recorded video file To rename a video file find the file you would like to rename 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 on the file e Play a video file previously recorded Find the file you would like to play highlight it with your mouse one click of the mouse button and click Open Then click the Play button e Delete recorded video files which you no longer want Click your right mouse button on the video file once go down the menu and click Delete Schedule TV recordings with WinTV Scheduler WinTV Scheduler allows you to schedule the recording of TV shows WinTV Scheduler once it is set can be closed and the WinTV application
3. Clicking the Play button will playback from disk the last video file created When playing a video you can rewind fast forward replay 10 sec or skip forward 10 sec using the buttons on the control bar I Pause Clicking the Pause button while Playing will pause your audio video Rewind button Clicking the Rewind button will play the video file in reverse Clicking the Rewind button again will continue the playing of the video EA Fast forward button Clicking the Fast Forward but ton one time will fast forward your video at 2X speed Clicking the Fast Forward button two times will fast forward your video at 8X speed Clicking the button again will con tinue playing back at normal speed Page 8 Troubleshooting ote the latest WinTV HVR 950 software can be found at www hauppauge com pages support support_hvr950 htm Some notes on system compatibility Decoding high definition ATSC TV is very CPU intensive A graphics card with at least 64MBytes of memory and the latest graphics driver from the manufacturer makes the decoding task easier Typically a 2 2 GHz Pentium 4 proces sor or equivalent with a graphics card having 64MBytes of memory is required to properly decode ATSC digital TV on your PC A 1 6GHz AMD Sempro laptop computer tested in the Hauppauge lab used 50 of the CPU for playing ATSC 640i format and 90 of the CPU when playing ATSC 1080i the highest definition ATSC format In some cases either a faster processor o
4. Hauppauge ee WinTV HVR 950 Quick Installation Guide for Windows XP and Windows Vista all versions Hauppauge Computer Works Inc 2006 2007 QI WINTV HVR 950 V1 3A ENG 4 27 2007 Hauppauge Computer Works Inc Telephone 631 434 1600 91 Cabot Court Fax 631 434 3198 Hauppauge NY 11788 Tech Support 631 434 3197 techsupport hauppauge com 1 Contents of the WinTV HVR 950 package e WinTV HVR 950 Hybrid NTSC ATSC stick e USB extension cable e Portable TV antenna e WinTV HVR 950 Installation CD ROM including the WinTV application with SoftPVR and the WinTV Scheduler 2 What is ATSC digital TV and how does the WinTV HVR 950 work ATSC digital TV is a over the air digital TV for North America ATSC digital TV typically requires an antenna for reception and is currently broadcast in 200 cities with over 1500 TV stations Note ATSC digital TV is NOT digital cable TV or digital satellite TV The WinTV HVR 950 cannot receive digital cable TV or digital satellite TV ATSC digital TV is transmitted in several resolutions from standard definition which is similar to cable TV up to high definition which has about 16 times the resolution of normal cable TV In any resolution ATSC digital TV gives sharper pictures than analog cable TV and near CD quality sound WinTV HVR 950 has a built in analog cable TV and digital ATSC TV tuner It uses your PC or laptop s CPU for displaying both analog and digi
5. One Touch Record oo OTF OTA TY PAUSE recoro TV Modus Pause Record There are two buttons to control the Watching and Recording of TV Clicking on the Record button will cause the Record menu to roll down Clicking OTR will cause the Record menu to roll down and start recording Note Pause is not supported on WinTV HVR 950 Recording TV with the WinTV HVR 950 When recording ATSC digital TV the recording format is the same as the digital TV resolution of the TV program These recordings will consume a large amount of hard disk space For example if the TV program is being transmitted at the highest ATSC resolution called 1080i the recording will consume 5 6 Gigabytes of disk space per hour of recording WinTV Settings Di view e Movies can snap shot Audio Color EH MPEG When recording analog cable TV using SoftPVR the fms DVD MPEG 2 for coe mat will typically consume 2 8 Gbytes per hour oon DVD EMb MPEG2 SVCD Pause Buffer Size Page 7 WinTV Scheduler works by using the Windows Task Scheduler to launch WinTV at the chosen time WinTV Scheduler sets up a command line in Task Scheduler to run WinTV2000 specifying a TV channel and a length of time to record To set up an event for timed watching or recording run Scheduler and click on the Add Program The items that need to be se
6. V menu Plus _ Chanel Up 0 9 Channel number Minus Channel Down F1 Launch Help Ctri T Frame TV SHIFT F1 Online Help Ctrl P Peame Print Space bar Take a Snapshot Ctrl F Still image Page 10 Record mode Time counter Video position Skip forward 10 sec Skip back 10 sec Skip back 10 sec Skip to end File menu save open Record Pause Stop Play Fast forward Fast rewind Slow motion Configuring the record formats When recording analog TV WinTV2000 uses your PC or laptops processor and Hauppauge s SoftPVR to make the recording The default recording quality is DVD To con figure the directory to store video recordings and to check the analog recording format click the Pref button and then Movies Note since ATSC digital recording uses the format the orig inal TV program is broadcast in there are no other record ing format options To record TV Click on the Record button or the OTR button on the WinTV 2000 application to open the Record and Playback control bar Time counter the time is specified in a Hour Minute Second format 8 Record Clicking the Record button will auto matically generate a file name and start recording your audio video program La Stop Clicking the Stop button will stop the video you are recording or playing back Bal Play
7. he Menu button to open the TV setup menu Here is the main control bar for TV channels and duplicate controls for other functions Suite Manager Configure the TV tuner Scanning naming channel preset etc setting up favorite chan nel lists Configuration Duplicate configuration menus for colour audio MPEG settings etc View For setting an exact TV window size 320x240 640x480 etc Page 6 Configuring an external A V source in WinTV2000 using the optional A V breakout cable To bring video from an external audio video source you will need an optional A V cable set which is available from the Hauppauge web store When using an external audio video such as a satellite TV receiver VCR cable TV set top box camcorder game con sole etc you will need to connect the S Video input con nector or Composite video input connector for video and the Audio input Line In for the sound To configure the external A V source in the WinTV2000 application click Menu Suite Manager and Sources To add the S video or Composite source highlight the entry and then select the Video Format from the drop down list NTSC is the commonly used format in North America Select Add to finish Then click Close To select an external audio video source click the Up and Down channel but tons to cycle through TV Composite and S Video sources The external source is at the end of the channel list Watch and record TV One Touch Pause
8. ld your right mouse button to see image options iY channel selector 0 E i T Pause RECORD TV Mode Pause TV No function Changing channels You can change channels by clicking the Channel Up or Channel Down buttons on the WinTV2000 You can also type a channel number for example 27 or 1021 and WinTV2000 will tune to that channel If the entered channel does not exist you will see a black window You can also right click in the Current TV channel box where you will see a list of channels Changing the TV window size You can change the size of the WinTV window by grabbing any corner and dragging the video window to the desired size Displaying TV full screen When you click the Full screen TV button TV will appear Page 5 Once the driver component is installed click the Finish but ton Installing the WinTV HVR 950 Windows Vista driver After installing the WinTV HVR 950 in your PC boot Windows Vista The Found New Hardware window will appear Insert the WinTV HVR Installation CD ROM in your PC s CD ROM drive j Found New ive i a Click Locate and _ needs to install driver software for your Nova T install driver soft ware recom mended Then click Don t search on line Click Next When the driver is installed click G Close Locate and install driver software recommended i Windows will guide you through the process of installing driver sof
9. nnels are found during ATSC channel scan If you are only receiving some known TV channels when scanning it means your TV antenna is not adequate to pick up the channel You will need either an antenna signal booster a Radio Shack antenna amplifier will work or a high gain antenna Here s a link to an ATSC antenna selector http www antennaweb org aw address aspx Black window when selecting an ATSC channel A black window when selecting an ATSC channel means that the WinTV HVR 950 is not getting a signal This is most often due to poor reception See Only some channels are found during ATSC channel scan above Uninstalling the WinTV driver and applications Run the hewclear exe from the installation CD Select OK A black screen will briefly appear and once it has disappeared the software will be removed If you now re start the comput er you will be at Step 4 of the installation Radio Interference Statement The WinTV products have been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a resi dential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio fre quency energy and cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interfe
10. r more graphics memory might be required Slow or jerky video and a noisy TV picture indicate system performance problems Jerky video with live ATSC digital TV Jerky or distorted video can be caused by two things in your PC or laptop a slow CPU which cannot decode the ATSC TV signal fast enough and a graphics system which cannot keep up with the high datarates of ATSC TV Many times improving the performance of the graphics dis play will fix the jerky video display of ATSC digital TV Here are some tips on improving graphics performance Use the latest graphics driver graphics drivers are often tweaked to improve performance especially the built in graphics on laptops Check the Microsoft Windows update site to download the latest graphics driver for your computer For Dell computers check the Dell website for the latest graphics driver Use Hauppauge s Primary program to optimize graphics performance Primary exe is used to change the display mode of a graphics card for TV watching This does not affect any other Windows program Primary exe is found in the Hauppauge WinTV program group The default mode used by WinTV2000 is Force Primary Force Primary uses your processor to move the digital TV image into the graphics memory It is more CPU intensive but often fixes display problems on some laptops Note Snapshot does not work in Force Primary mode Primary PRIMARY Version 3 9 22146 Copyright c
11. rence to radio or televi sion reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the follow ing 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 the dealer or an experienced radio TV technician for help FCC ID HSOWINTV CE Statement This equipment has been tested and complies with EN 55013 EN 55020 and IEC 801 3 part 3 standards CAUTION Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party respon sible for compliance to the FCC Rules could void the user s authority to operate the equipment Page 12
12. roller If your hardware came with an installation CD EH or floppy disk insert it now What do you want the wizard to do install the software O Install from a list or sp ic locat Click Next to continue Page 2 Other changes to channel listings If you want to add names or fine tune an analog channel click Menu Suite Manager Sources Choose Analog Source You will see a list of your analog channels Click on the desired channel Click the Tune button to change channel You can change the Name to the name of the sta tion To fine tune an analog channel unclick AFT and then use the Finetune slide bar When finished click Close Davee Channels County v Nene 67 s ares ADD Source Dei A sace able Analog Soace on 6 Tune fads Source X Fratre Analog Source MN 5 F AFT Video Fom Full screen TV Volume adjust ns 4 Channel down Minimise Always on Top L a PREF cao Channel Surf oie CA Last channel recall WE o i Last channel cecell Click your right mouse button in the pin TV window to remove toolbars Setup Menu a j 7 Click again to restore toolbars CFG Configure Snapshot Current TV channel Click your right mouse f button here to see One Touch Pause no function One Touch Record Snapshot view Double click on each thumbnail to see image full size Click and ho
13. t 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 second to start the program ote It takes about 10 seconds to launch the WinTV and set up for recording Time to End Program set to the time to end this event ote you need to leave at least 30 seconds between scheduled pro grams to give the recorder time to set up its disk buffers Program Period one time daily weekly Date to Begin Program today s date is the default Change this if you want to schedule on another date Source selection leave at WinTV2000 to open WinTV at the requested time and the requested channel Channel selection choose one of the scanned channels Recording options click 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 Once these are set click Set Program You can add more Events clicking Set Program after each event is set When you are finished click Close The WinTV program does not have to be running for the Schedular to work If WinTV is not running it takes about 10 seconds to start Scheduler and to start the recording of TV Keyboard shortcuts Sound up Page Up Ctri M Mute on off Sound down Page Down ALT M Re size T
14. tal TV programs on your PC screen The decoding of high definition ATSC is very processor intensive and the smoothness of high definition TV pro grams depends upon how fast your PC or laptop system is Other PC activities that consume CPU resources might affect the display of ATSC digital TV Slow video jerky video and momentary pausing of video are all results of a CPU which is temporarily being used by other activities Page 1 6 Running WinTV 2000 for the first time To start the WinTV 2000 application double click on the WinTV 2000 icon on your desk top When you run WinTV2000 for the first time a message says Would you like to scan for channels now Click YES Click the Scan button and WinTV2000 will automatically scan for both analog and ATSC digital TV channels The scanning process takes about 10 minutes The scanning process for ATSC will scan from channels 2 to 68 The ATSC digital channels that are found will appear in the channel listing box The Name is the name as defined by the broadcaster The Channel number is created by the WinTV application For ATSC digital channels since each primary channel might have several subchannels the chan nel number is calculated so that channel 22 2 would be list ed as 1222 Channel 7 2 would be listed as 1072 Note if you have attached an antenna and do not receive any ATSC digital TV channels either use a stronger anten na a roof top antenna is recommended for best recep
15. tion or reposition your portable antenna Then rescan for ATSC channels see below for instructions on rescanning and the Troubleshooting section for information on choosing an ATSC antenna Note When initially installed WinTV HVR 950 uses a set ting which does not take advantage of graphics accelera tion If you experience problems when watching ATSC digi tal TV channels see the Troubleshooting section Rescanning TV channels If you want to rescan for TV channels click Menu Suite Manager To scan analog cable TV channels under Sources highlight Analog source and click Auto scan To scan for digital ATSC channels under Input Sources highlight ATSC source and click Auto scan During the scan for ATSC digital TV channels the Signal Status will show a quality level and the locked box will be checked if a channel is detected ATSC source in Page 4 The supplied portable antenna is designed primarily for ATSC digital TV reception and will work within 10 miles of an ATSC transmitter reception might be limited by obstruc tions such as steel buildings For the best ATSC digital TV reception a roof top Wideband or Highgain antenna is recommended In the U S a good ATSC digital antenna selector can be found at TitanTV com under Resources 3 Installing the WinTV HVR 950 device Turn on your Windows XP PC or laptop and boot into Windows Locate a free USB 2 0 port normally located at
16. tware for your device Ask me again later Windows will ask again the next time you plug in your device or log on Don t show this message again for this device Your device will not function until you install driver software Cancel 5 WinTV Software Installation In Windows XP Click Start Run then type your CD ROM drive letter for example D and then Setup exe In Vista Click the Start button then click Computer you can find Computer halfway down the right hand col umn then locate your CD ROM drive You should see the contents of the WinTV Installation CD Double click on Setup Choose a language and click Next Click Install The Setup program will automatically install all necessary WinTV software Once the installation procedure is finished you will see the WinTV2000 Icon on your Desktop It is also listed in the Start menu under the Program files and Hauppauge WinTV folder WinTV Setup Vista Hauppauge The main applications installed are the WinTV2000 application for TV watching and recording and the a WinTV Scheduler for schedul ing your TV recordings ree Page 3 full screen on your PC monitor When finished watching TV full screen right click your mouse button If you see video with a black box around it click the Pref button then click TV mode tab Check the box which says Allow resolution change Always on Top mode With Al
17. ways on Top WinTV will always be visible on your Windows desktop on top of any applications To turn on click the Always on top button It will turn green To turn off click this button again A convenient way to use Always on Top is to make the TV window in the no title mode small and to make the TV window in the title mode larger Then you can switch very quickly from a small window to a larger one by clicking the right mouse button To hide the WinTV toolbar No title mode Click your right mouse button in the WinTV s video window for the no title mode To restore the toolbars the title mode once again click your right mouse button in the video window You can set the size of the window differently in each mode Pref button Click the Pref button to open the Preferences menu View These are the settings for the On Screen Display of the TV channel and Audio Volume plus con trols for the Toolbar mode Title mode NoToolbar mode No Title and Full Screen TV mode Movies Here is where you configure the video and audio setting for SoftPVR You can set the movie record directory DVCR Record File Path the MPEG Quality settings and the Audio settings Snapshot Set the size of your captured image and settings for capturing motion or still images Note VMR must be the graphics setting to enable snapshot Audio Your audio settings are configured here Color Adjust the color of your TV picture here Menu button Click t
18. will wake up at the desired time and tuned to the desired channel When using an Electronic Program Guide EPG such as TitanTV the WinTV i Add Program Scheduler makes a con Source Selection i 10 WNW DI version so that Owna norna e e m correct ATSC Channel Selection Program Period Program DateTime One Time Only digital chan Every day nels will tuned Sres Program Duration Record To File For exam ple if PE l Minutes Mute volume while recording the EPG wants da Time as End IE Keep WinT open when done to record digi e E ereda ate To Begin 5 tal channel eet I Enere Wie ae 22 2 you will Bi Fiidey Date To End Hosp acl A PCs i Saturday see the record ing listed in WinTV Schedule as recording channel 1222 After installation WinTV Scheduler can be found on your Windows desktop You can also find it in Start Program files Hauppauge WinTV Page 9 acceleration close WinTV2000 then run Primary Click Allow VMR Close Primary and rerun WinTV The Allow VMR setting will allow your graphics system to use hard ware acceleration for video decode Note graphics hard ware acceleration does not work on all systems If this setting does not help or if you experience WinTV not responding after a channel change then your graphics sys tem cannot use hardware graphics acceleration In this case run Primary Click Force Primary then rerun WinTV Only some cha
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