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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 channel lists')
Configuration: Duplicate configuration menus for colour, audio,
MPEG settings, etc.
View: For setting an exact TV window size: 320x240, etc.
Configuring an external A/V source in WinTV v6
When using an external audio/video such as a satellite TV receiver,
VCR, cable TV set top box, camcorder, game console etc, connect
the S-Video input connector 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 WinTV application click
Menu / Suite Manager
Sources
and
Composite source, highlight the entry and then select the
Format
from the drop down list. NTSC is the commonly used
Add
format in North America. Select
to finish. Then click
In WinTV v6, the external A/V source is at the end of the channel list.
Up
To select an external A/V source, click the
nel
buttons to cycle through TV until you get to Composite and S-
Video sources.
Watch and record TV
TV Mode
Pause
Record
Record
Clicking on the
button will cause the Record menu to roll
Playback
down and start recording. Click the
Playback menu. Note: Pause is not supported on WinTV-HVR-
1950.
Recording TV with the WinTV-HVR-1950
When recording ATSC or QAM 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 digital
TV resolution, called "1080i', the recording will consume 5.6
Gigabytes of disk space per hour of recording.
When recording analog cable TV using SoftPVR, the 'DVD'
MPEG-2 format will typically consume 2.8 Gbytes per hour.
Record and Playback
Recording TV
Click the Record button on the WinTV application to open the
Record control bar, automatically generate a file name and start
recording your TV program.
Clicking the Record button again while recording will start an
automatic timer. Click the Record button once for 15 minutes, twice
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minute and the second (if you feel this is necessary) to
set the second to start the program.
-
: set to the time to end this event.
Time to End Program
N
ote: you need to leave at least 30 seconds between scheduled pro-
grams to give the recorder time to set up its disk buffers.
-
: one time, daily, weekly
Program Period
-
: today's date is the default.
Date to Begin Program
Change this if you want to schedule on another date.
-
: leave at WinTV to open WinTV at the
Source selection
requested time and the requested channel.
-
: choose one of the scanned channels.
Channel selection
-
: click on Record to File to record your
Recording options
show. Leave this button unchecked to watch TV at the
requested time. You can also name your file to record.
Set Program
Once these are set, click
. You can add more Events,
Set Program
clicking
after each event is set. When you are
Close
finished click
. The WinTV program does not have to be
running for the to work. If WinTV is not running, it takes about 10
seconds to start Scheduler and to start the recording of TV.
The Hauppauge remote control
The WinTV remote control software is installed automatically during the
installation of the WinTV applications. You will see the WinTV Remote icon
in the Device Tray. The installa-
tion will add a shortcut to IR.EXE
Go button
to the Startup group, so that
IR.EXE is loaded every time after
TV
Windows has booted.
button
If you need to restart the remote
Back/Exit
control, run IR32.EXE from the
button
WinTV directory.
Audio
mute
Some remote control but-
tons
Volume
up/down
TV button: when WinTV is
Record
closed, this button starts the
button
WinTV application. Once WinTV
Play
is running, this button makes TV
button
go full screen, or back to "TV-in-
Fast
rewind
a-window".
Red record button: starts
Skip
back
recording using the parameters
set in the Pref menu.
Pause button: if watching live TV,
will open the record/play menu
box and stop the video. When
recording, this button will pause
the video but WinTV will continue
to record. If playing back video,
this button will pause the video
playback. Click the Pause button
to start playing again.
Stop button (square icon):
CAUTION: RISK OF EXPLOSION IF BATTERY IS REPLACED
BY AN INCORRECT TYPE. DISPOSE OF USED BATTERIES
stops the recording or playback.
ACCORDING TO THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE BATTERIES.
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Skip back 10 sec
for 30 minutes and so on.
Configuring the record formats
When recording analog
TV, WinTV uses your PC
or laptops processor and
Hauppauge's SoftPVR
to make the recording.
The default recording
. To add the S-video or
quality is DVD. To
Video
configure the directory to
store video recordings
Close
.
and to check the analog
recording format, click
Pref button
the
Down chan-
and
Movies
then
Note: since ATSC and QAM digital recording uses the format the
original TV program is broadcast in, there are no other recording
format options.
Time counter
format.
Stop Clicking the Stop button will stop the video you are
recording or playing back.
Playback TV recordings
Playback
Click the Playback button on the WinTV application to open the
Playback control bar.
File button
button to open the
●
Play a video file previously recorded
would like to play, highlight it with your mouse (one click
of the mouse button) and click Open . Then click Play .
Rename your recorded video file
●
on the video filename click once with your right mouse
button, click Rename and then type in a new name.
Remember: you must keep the MPG extension on the file.
Delete recorded video files which you no longer want
●
your right mouse button on the video file once, go down
the menu and click Delete .
Play 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.
Hit the 0 to 9 keyboard keys to quickly move to 10%, 20% etc. of
your video.
If in Pause mode, will exit pause.
Play button: plays the last video recorded.
Back/Exit button: will close the record, play or pause menus.
0 - 9 buttons: When in "live" TV mode, is used to directly enter channel
numbers. When playing back a recording, the "1" button will skip to 10%,
the "2" button 20%, etc. of the length of the recording.
Troubleshooting
N
ote: the latest WinTV-HVR-1950 software can be found at
www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_hvr1950.html
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 processor 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 or 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
Application
datarates of ATSC TV.
on/off
Many times, improving the performance of the graphics display 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
Menu
the Dell website for the latest graphics driver.
Channel
- Use Hauppauge's Primary program to optimize graphics
up/down
performance: Primary.exe is used to change the display mode of
Stop
button
a graphics card for TV watching. This does not affect any other
Fast
Windows program. Primary.exe is found in the Hauppauge WinTV
forward
program group. The default mode
Skip
ahead
used by WinTV is Force Primary.
Force Primary uses your
Pause
button
processor to move the digital TV
0 - 9
image into the graphics memory. It
"Quick
Skip"
is more CPU intensive but often
buttons
fixes display problems on some
laptops. Note: Snapshot does not
work in 'Force Primary' mode.
To use hardware graphics
acceleration, close WinTV, then run
Primary. Click
Primary and rerun WinTV. The
Record/Playback control bar
Time counter
Pause
Skip forward 10 sec
Fast rewind
Play
Fast forward
Video-position
and
.
- the time is specified in a Hour:Minute:Second
In the File menu you can:
: Find the file you
: To rename a video file,
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Allow VMR
. Close
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Pause Clicking the Pause button while Playing will pause your
audio/video. Click again to start playing.
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.
Fast forward button Clicking the Fast Forward button 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 continue playing back at normal
speed.
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.
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 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 Scheduler makes a conversion so that correct ATSC digital
channels will tuned. For example, if the EPG wants to record digital
channel 22.2, you will see the recording 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.
WinTV Scheduler
works by using
the Windows
Task Scheduler to
launch WinTV at
the chosen time.
: Click
WinTV Scheduler
sets up a command line in Task Scheduler to run WinTV, specifying
a TV channel and a length of time to record.
To set up an event for timed watching or recording, run Scheduler
Add Program
and click on the
each event are:
-
: set to the desired start time. The
Time to Begin Program
default time is about 3 minutes from the current time.
Click on the hour to set the hour, the minute to set the
Allow VMR setting will allow your graphics system to use hardware
acceleration for video decode. Note: graphics hardware
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 system
cannot use hardware graphics acceleration.
In this case, run Primary. Click '
WinTV.
Only some channels 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-1950 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 hcwclear.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 computer you will be at Step
4 of the installation.
Keyboard shortcuts
Sound up
- Page Up
Sound down
- Page Down
Plus (+)
- Channel Up
Minus (-)
- Channel Down
Ctrl T
- Frame TV
Ctrl P
- Frame Print
Ctrl F
- Still image
FCC Statement
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 residential installation. This equipment generates, uses,
and can radiate radio frequency 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 interference to radio or television 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 following measures: reorient or relocate the receiving anten-
na,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.
© Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 2008 · QI-WINTV-HVR-1950-V2-ENG · 4/28/2008
Clicking the Slow Motion button
. The items that need to be set for
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Force Primary
' then rerun
Ctrl+M
- Mute on/off
ALT+M
- Re-size TV menu
0-9
- Channel number
F1
- Launch Help
SHIFT+F1 - Online Help
Space bar - Take a Snapshot
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