Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 Quick Installation Manual

WinTV-HVR-1600
Personal Video Recorder

Quick Installation

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QI-HVR-1600_rev1-ENG
December 1, 2006
Full screen TV
Always-on-top
Channel up
Video source select
Remove toolbars
"no toolbar" mode
Pref
Preferences
Channel down
menu
Channel surf
Menu
Setup Menu
Previous channel
CFG
Configure
Freeze
Click your right mouse button in the TV
Snapshot
video
Snapshot viewer Click again to restore toolbars.
window
Current TV channel
Snap
or video source
Double click on
Snapshot
each "thumbnail" to
Button
One Touch
Click your right mouse
see image full size.
Pause
button here to see the
Click and hold your
channel selector
right mouse button
to see image
options.
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 sub-
channels, the channel number is calculated so that channel 22.2
would be listed as 1222. Channel 7.2 would be listed as 1072.
N ote: if you do not receive any ATSC digital TV channels, an
antenna signal booster might be needed. After adding a signal
booster, see below for instructions on rescanning and the
Troubleshooting section for information on chosing an ATSC antenna.
N ote: When initially installed, WinTV-HVR-1600 uses a setting
which does not take advantage of graphics acceleration. If
you experience problems when watching ATSC digital TV
channels, see the Troubleshooting section.
Quick instructions on recording and pausing your TV
shows
If you want to record a TV show you are watching:
- Click the Record button to lower the record and play menu
- In the Record menu, click the red record button to start recording
- When you are finished recording, click the stop button
- Click the Play button to play the video you just recorded
- To play a video you recorded earlier, click the File button and then
move your mouse and click once on the video you want to play.
Click Open and then the Play button. For more instructions, see the
section entitled Record mode.
If you want to pause a TV show you are watching:
- Click the Pause button to lower the pause menu. After about 15
seconds, your screen will stop and the Time counter will start
counting.
- To start the video from where you paused, click the Play button
- To pause the video again, click the Pause button
- To rewind the video to the beginning, click the Skip to the begin-
ning button. If your video was paused, click the Play button.
- To rewind the video 10 seconds, click the rewind 10 seconds but-
ton. If your video was paused, click the Play button.
For more instructions, see the section entitled Pause mode.
Record Mode
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.
Record timer:
A timed record is started by clicking the OTR button. Each time you
click OTR, the Record Timer is incremented by 15 minutes. At the
end of the time specified by the Record timer, the record will stop.
Also, clicking the Stop button will stop a timed record. The time is
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.
What is ATSC digital TV,
and how does the
WinTV-HVR-1600 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.
WinTV-HVR-1600 cannot receive digital cable 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 resolu-
tion, ATSC digital TV gives sharper pictures than analog cable TV
and near CD quality sound.
WinTV-HVR-1600 has a built-in analog cable TV and digital ATSC TV
tuner. It uses your PC CPU for displaying both analog and digital TV
programs on your PC screen.
The decoding of high definition ATSC is very processor intensive,
and the smoothness of high definition TV programs depends upon
how fast your PC 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.
For the best ATSC digital TV reception, a roof top 'Wideband or
Highgain' antenna is recommended. TitanTV.com has a good ATSC
digital antenna selector which can be found under Resources.
Installing the
WinTV-HVR-1600
WinTV-HVR-1600 is a TV tuner board with an analog TV tuner, a seper-
ate ATSC digital TV tuner plus a hardware MPEG-2 encoder. WinTV-
HVR-1600 is designed for WindowsXP and Windows Vista.
Note: if you are running Windows Media Center application, you only
need to install the WinTV-HVR Windows device driver.
Installation overview

Install the WinTV-HVR-1600 board in your PC and connect the
TV cables. For the best ATSC digital TV reception, use a high
quality roof top antenna.

After booting Windows, install WinTV-HVR Windows device driv-
er from the WinTV-HVR-1600 Installation CD-ROM.

After the Windows driver is installed,install the WinTV applica-
tions from the WinTV-HVR-1600 Installation CD-ROM.
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.
Close
Minimize
WinTV
Analog
Source
Remove toolbars
window to remove toolbars.
To scan for digital ATSC channels, under Input Sources,
highlight ATSC source and click Auto scan.
One Touch
Record
Record During the scan for ATSC digital TV channels, the Signal
open the record
Status will show a quality level and the locked box will
controls
be checked if a channel is detected.
ATSC
source
Setting up the channels
After you have scanned for channels, you can add channel names
and fine tune for better reception. To do this, click the Menu button
on WinTV2000, then click Suite Manager. You can also click and hold
your right mouse button, then click SuiteManager.
Click on the desired channel, then Edit. Change the ChannelName to
the name of the station, change the description or fine tune. Then
click OK.
Record timer
Time
video position
after clicking OTR button
counter
Skip back
10 sec.
Skip to
beginning
Video CD
record
Record
Stop Play
Rewind
Slow
Pause
Motion
The quality of the video recording and the directory where the files
are stored are set in the MPEG Configuration Menu (see the sec-
tion entitled "Configuring the format for MPEG compression").
Click the PREF button on the WinTV2000 application, then clicking
Capture / MPEG. In Quality Levels, the highest quality is MPEG-2 12.0
MBit/sec, and the lowest quality is VCD.
While recording:
- Live video continues to play in the WinTV window
- The Counter will display the length of your recording
- If you had started recording with the OTR button, and had
clicked it more than once, the total time for the recording will
also be displayed
The recorded video file is saved in the DVCR Recorded File Path which
can be configured from the MPEG Configuration Menu. Everytime you
record a file, a new file is automatically created. The first file will be
_dvcr001.mpg. The second file will be _dvcr002.mpg and so on.
Click the Stop 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 mode. This button makes
it easy to save VCD quality video, for burning later on to a Video CD.
Stop Button:
Clicking the Stop button will stop the video you are recording or play-
ing back. Once the video is stopped, live TV will be displayed.
WinTV-HVR-1600
Board connectors
S-Video/Composite video
Step 1: Install the WinTV-HVR-1600 board and connect
the cables
Turn the power off on your PC. Install the WinTV-HVR-1600 into a
PCI slot. On some PC's, the WinTV-HVR needs to be plugged into
the first or second PCI slot. Plug your cable TV into TV Connector.
Plug your ATSC digital TV antenna into the ATSC Digital TV input.
The S-Video/composite video input can be used to bring video from
a VCR, camcorder, camera, DVD player or satellite TV receiver. If
your video device uses composite video instead of S-Video, use the
supplied Composite to S-Video adapter. Plug your composite video
connector (normally yellow) into one end of the Composite to S-
Video adapter and the other end into the S-Video/Composite video
input connector on WinTV-HVR-1600.
The Remote control receiver/blaster cable is plugged into the Remote
control socket. Use the Velcro dot (on the back of the Remote control
receiver) to position the Remote control receiver where it will be able
to receive infra-red commands from the Remote control transmitter.
Add the supplied batteries to the Remote control transmitter.
Step 2: Installing the WinTV-HVR under Windows XP
After installing the WinTV-
HVR in your PC and booting
into Windows, the Found
New Hardware Wizard will
appear.
Click No, not at this time.
Click Next.
Insert the WinTV-HVR-1600
Installation CD-ROM in your
PC's CD-ROM drive and
Selecting an External Video source (VCR, camcorder,
etc.)
Click the green Video source select button to select TV, Composite
and S-Video sources. The video sources will use the TV standard
chosen when you scanned for your TV channels (NTSC or PAL).
Displaying TV full screen
When you click the Full screen TV button, TV will appear full screen.
When finished watching TV full screen, click your right mouse button
in the TV window.
If you see video with a black box to the left and right of the TV
image, click the Pref button then click TV mode tab. Check the box
which says "Allow resolution change".
"Always-on-Top" mode:
With Always on Top, the WinTV window can always be visible on
your Windows desktop. To turn on Always-on-Top, simply click the
Always-on-top button. It will turn green. To turn off Always on Top,
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 quick from a small window to a
larger one simply by clicking the right mouse button.
Menu button
Click the Menu button to open the TV Setup menu. Here is the main
control for TV channels, and duplicate controls for other functions:
Suite Manager: configure the TV tuner (scanning, naming, fine tun-
ing, etc.), setting up 'favorite channel lists' and set an external
A/V source to a TV channel.
Configuration: duplicate configuration menus for color, audio,
MPEG settings, etc.
View: for setting the TV window size
Pref button
Click the Pref button to open the Preferences menu. You will have
tabs for:
View: these are the settings for the On Screen Display of the TV
channel and Audio Volume, where you can enable Close
Captions, plus controls 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 settings.
You can set the movie record directory (DVCR Record File
Path), the MPEG Quality settings, and the Audio setings.
Play Button:
Clicking the Play button will playback from disk the last video file
Skip ahead
10 sec. 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.
When playing video files, you can quickly skip to sections of your
video by hitting the 0 to 9 buttons on the remote (or your keyboard).
Skip to End
When you hit '1' you will skip to 10% of the length of the video.
When you hit '2' you will skip to 20% of your video.
File menu
(Save/Open/Burn) Pause Button:
Fast Foward
Clicking the Pause button while Playing will pause your audio/video
2X 8X
file. Clicking the Pause button again will continue the playing.
Rewind Button:
Clicking the Rewind button will play the video file in reverse at 1x
speed. Clicking the Rewind button again will continue the playing.
Fast Foward Button:
Clicking the Fast Foward button one time will fast foward your video at
2X speed. Clicking the Fast Foward button two times will fast foward
your video at 8X speed. Clicking the button again will continue play-
ing back at normal speed.
Slow Motion Button:
Clicking the Slow Motion button will play video at 1/2 speed. Click the
Slow Motion button again to play your video at normal 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:
- Rename your recorded video file. To rename a video file, find
the file you would like to rename (remember, the automatically
generated 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 on the file.
- 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.
- Delete recorded video files which you no longer want (and
make sure Install the software
automatically
(Recommended) is checked.
Click Next.
TV Connector
If the Hardware Installation
for Cable TV
dialog box opens, click
Continue Anyway.
ATSC Digital TV
connector
The WinTV-HVR driver will be
installed. This takes several
seconds.
input connector
Click Finish.
Audio input (Line-In) This will complete the driver
installation for Windows XP . Go
to step 3.
Remote control (IR)
receiver/blaster socket
Step 3: WinTV-HVR
Software installation
After the WinTV-HVR driver has
been installed, you need to run
WinTV Setup to com-
plete the installation.
Run SETUP from the
WinTV-HVR
Installation CD-ROM.
Click Install to start
the application instal-
lation. The installation
may require a file from
your Windows CD-
ROM, so keep it
handy.
After the Setup pro-
gram is complete, you
will see the
WinTV2000 icon on
your Windows desk-
top.
To run the WinTV2000 application for watching TV, recording videos
and playing them back on your PC, 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
Snap Shot: here is where you can set the size of your captured
Audio: your audio settings are configured here.
Color:
If you cannot hear audio
If you cannot hear audio when the WinTV application is running,
check the following:
-
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There are three buttons to control the Watching, Recording and
Pausing of TV. Clicking on the Pause button will cause the Pause
menu to roll down from the WinTV2000 application, while clicking on
the Rec button will cause the Record menu to roll down.
The One Touch Pause (OTP) button prepares the WinTV-HVR for
pausing live video (see Pause mode below).
The One Touch Record (OTR) 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 time the OTR button
is clicked. For example, if you click the OTR button 3 times, the
WinTV-HVR will record for 30 minutes.
One Touch
TV mode
Clicking the Pause button or OTP button on the WinTV-2000 appli-
cation starts the Pause mode. The Pause Menu will drop down.
N
Pause buffer:
The Pause buffer is space on your hard disk where video is stored
during the Pause mode. The maximum amount of time which your
TV program can be delayed is dependent upon how much storage
space you have set for the Pause buffer and which type of MPEG
format you have chosen. Both of these can be set in the MPEG set-
tings menu (see the section entitled "Configuring the format for
Position bar
Replay 10
seconds
Skip to the
beginning
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 the end
of the Video Position bar.
The Limit Pause Mode buffer size sets the maximum size of the
Pause buffer. Here are some suggested sizes:
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Running WinTV2000 for the first
time
images, plus single or two field captures.
adjust the color of your TV picture here.
Click on the WinTV applications' audio configuration button
AUD and make sure the Audio Mixer Input is set to Wave.
Open the Volume control menu (double click on the small
speaker icon in the lower right hand corner of your PC screen).
Make sure Wave is not muted and the level is about half way up.
If you do not see a Wave listed in the Volume control menu,
click on Options / Properties in this menu and under Show the
following volume controls put a check mark next to Wave. This
will add Wave to the list of devices. Click OK and then you
should see Wave listed. Once again, make sure Wave is not
muted and the volume is half way up.
If you do not hear audio when playing back a recorded video file
(or do not hear audio when in the Pause mode), then open up
the Windows Volume Control Mixer and make sure Wave is
listed and not muted.
Watch, Pause and Record TV
One Touch
Pause
Record
Record mode
button Pause mode button
button
which consume hard disk space). Click your right mouse button
on the video file once, go down the menu and click on Delete.
Pause mode
ote: It takes about 10 seconds to create a pause buffer..
MPEG compression").
Delay
Skip ahead
Video
counter
10 seconds
Skip to
the end
Skip ahead
10 seconds
Rewind Replay 10
Pause seconds
Play
Fast Foward
Play forward
2X, 8X
slow motion
If you are using MPEG1 VCD format, 650 MBytes per hour are
used. So if you want a 1/2 hour buffer, then set the Limit Pause
Mode Buffer Size to 325 MBytes.
If you are using MPEG-2 4.0MB/sec, about 2 Gigabytes per