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  • Page 1 WinTV-USB WinTV-USB-FM Installation and Reference Manual...
  • Page 2 WinTV-USB-FM Installation and Reference Manual Copyright (c) Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 2001- 2003 Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 91 Cabot Court Hauppauge, NY 11788 Hauppauge Computer Works, GmbH Krefelder Straße 673e 41061 Mönchengladbach, Germany Hauppauge Computer Works, Ltd 6 Bank Chambers Borough High Street London, U.K.
  • Page 3 FCC Statement Radio Interference Statement: The WinTV USB 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.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Installing the WinTV-USB...1-2 Installing the WinTV-USB under WindowsXP ...1-2 Installing the WinTV applications ...1-4 Installing a TV antenna and A/V cables to WinTV-USB ...1-4 Connecting audio from WinTV-USB to your PC ...1-5 Enabling live audio over USB...1-5 Connecting WinTV- USB to a Sound Card ...1-6 Connecting WinTV-USB to a VCR, Video Camera or Camcorder ...1-6...
  • Page 5 Warranty ...B-1 Trademarks: WinTV and the Hauppauge logo are registered trademarks of Hauppauge Digital, Inc. Microsoft is a registered trademark and Windows and the Microsoft logo are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. IBM and PC are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation.
  • Page 6 WinTV-USB-FM References to the WinTV USB apply to all models. The Windows98 driver for all of the WinTV USB models will be referred to as the WinTV-USB driver, and the installation CD-ROM will be referred to as the WinTV-USB Installation CD-ROM.
  • Page 8 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...

  • Page 9: Wintv-Usb Connectors

    DO NOT PLUG THE WinTV-USB into your PC until your PC has fully booted.. To install WinTV-USB under Windows XP , 98 or 2000, you will follow these steps: Plug the WinTV-USB into your PC or laptop’s USB port (after booting into...
  • Page 10 PC has fully booted.. Turn on and boot into WindowsXP , Windows98SE, WindowsMe, Windows 2000. Then plug the WinTV-USB into one of the USB connectors on the back of your PC or laptop, not a USB hub or keyboard.
  • Page 11 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual When you see this dialog box, insert the WinTV-USB Windows Installation CD- ROM into your CD-ROM drive and click NEXT. If the the Hardware Installation dialog box appears, click Continue Anyway. Click Finish to complete the driver installation.

  • Page 12: Installing The Wintv Applications

    Complete. Click OK. Connecting the TV antenna and A/V cables Connect a TV aerial or cable TV to the WinTV-USB connector marked TV. If you have a WinTV-USB with FM radio, attach the supplied FM antenna to the connector marked FM.

  • Page 13: Connecting Audio From Wintv-Usb To Your Pc

    USBs’ Line-In jack. Connecting audio from WinTV-USB There are two ways that audio gets into a PC or laptop from the WinTV-usb: use the supplied 1 meter audio cable to bring analog audio from the WinTV- USB into the Line-in jack on your PC or laptop, or by using the USB cable to bring digital audio from the WinTV-usb to your PC or laptop.

  • Page 14: Connecting Wintv- Usb To A Sound Card

    Connecting the WinTV-USB to a Sound Card The WinTV-USB can supply audio over the USB bus. If you would like to connect directly to a set of speakers, a headset, to a stereo system or directly to a sound card, follow these instructions.

  • Page 15: Adjusting The Audio Volume

    Radio Shack stores. Adjusting the Audio Volume If you are using bringing the audio from the WinTV-USB into your PC through the “audio over USB” feature, or connecting to your Sound Card, the WinTV...
  • Page 16 As you adjust the audio volume in the application, you should see the slide bar in the Volume Control window rise and fall. Installing the driver under Windows98 or Windows2000 After the WinTV-USB is installed, the Add New Hardware Wizard will appear. Select Search for the best driver for your device (Recommended). Click NEXT.
  • Page 17 Installation CD-ROM. Open the USB folder and double click the file “USB98.exe” to manually install the driver. Now you need to run the Setup program from the WinTV-USB Installation CD- ROM. Either click on My Computer and select the CD-ROM drive where the WinTV-USB Installation CD-ROM is inserted, and then double click on the program Setup.EXE.
  • Page 18 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual 1-10...

  • Page 19: Wintv-2000 Application

    The WinTV2000 Application Preferences menu Full screen TV Switch video source Remove toolbar Color/Audio config- Close WinTV Minimize uration Channel configuration Click your right mouse button here Mute audio to remove toolbars. Click again to restore toolbar. Configure snapshot Freeze Click and hold your right mouse button to see the Options menu.
  • Page 20 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual If you are using a cable TV connection, in the Broadcast/Cable menu item, select Cable. In Video Format, in North America choose NTSC M. In South America, choose PAL M or PAL N. After the scan is complete, you will have a list of TV channels which are active in your area.

  • Page 21: Video Capture With Wintv2000

    Capturing both still images (BMP , GIF, JPEG etc) and motion videos (AVI) is sim- ple with the WinTV-USB. To configure and activate these functions, use the inte- grated software remote control by clicking the RC button in the WinTV2000 application.

  • Page 22: Using The Mouse In Wintv

    SNDVOL32 /REC This will open the Recording Control panel. Make sure that 'Line-in' is enabled (this is sometimes called 'Line' or 'Aux'). Note: You can use AMCAP as an alternate to capture AVI files with WinTV-USB. The program is called AMCAP on the WinTV-USB Installation CD-ROM, and can be found in the MISC\UTILITY directory.

  • Page 23: Setting Up Your Tv Channels

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual and menu bars and to turn off the full screen TV mode. These modes are called TitleMode and NoTitleMode. You can toggle back and forth between TitleMode and NoTitleMode by simply clicking your right mouse button when your mouse is inside the video window.
  • Page 24 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual In WinTV-2000, click the Suite button. You’ll see the Channel Manager. From the Channel Manager, you can Add, Edit or Delete channels. You can also create Channel Suites, which are subsets of the All Channel suite.

  • Page 25: Setting Preferences In Title Mode

    Annunciators On display the TV channel on screen when you change chan- nels, and display the volume when you adjust the volume. Setting full screen TV mode Click Display/Preferences/View and then click on the TV Mode tab. WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...

  • Page 26: Image Save, Print, Copy To Clipboard

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Set Allow Resolution Change. Once you have clicked on Allow Resolution Change, if you then click on the TV icon on the WinTV-32 Toolbar, the WinTV will switch to full screen. Image Save, Print and Copy to Clipboard The process to save, print or copy an image starts with the digitizing of a single video frame.

  • Page 27: Adjusting The Video Image Color

    Ratio setting in the Options menu, you can change the TV window to any size you want! Make it tall, short or any size. With Aspect Ratio turned on, the win- dow size will always be forced to a 4:3 ratio. WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...

  • Page 28: Keyboard Control Of The Wintv Application

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Keyboard control of the WinTV application Convenient keyboard controls duplicate the functions of the toolbar. Volume Up Volume Down Mute Channel Up Channel Down Print a Frame Copy to Clipboard Copy from Clipboard Freeze Frame...
  • Page 29 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Then click on NEXT to finish to set up the shortcut. 2-11...

  • Page 30: The Wintv32 Application

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual The WinTV32 application Motion video capture mode Previous channel Channel Channel surf indicator Volume up/down Channel name 2-12 Still frame image capture Watch TV mode Full screen TV mode Freeze frame Volume level Mute Mono / Stereo indicator * on some model ’s...
  • Page 31 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Still Frame Image Capture mode on WinTV32 With WinTV-32, you can switch into the high quality image capture mode by clicking on the Still Frame Image Capture Mode button on the toolbar. When you click on this button, you will see the Image Capture Toolbar.
  • Page 32 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual tion, in the Fields Captured option choose 1 (Motion). The WinTV-32 application Motion Video Capture mode with WinTV32 You can switch the WinTV-32 application into the motion video capture mode by clicking on the Motion Video Capture Mode button on the toolbar (see page 2-2 for its location).
  • Page 33 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual For best performance when capturing, set the Image Format to YUY2 or BTYUV, and the Image Dimensions to 320x240. Although you can cap- ture larger than 320x240, the file size will be larger and the video capture quality will be down graded.
  • Page 34 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual 2-16...
  • Page 35 The first file name will be _dvcr001.mpg. The second file will be _dvcr002.mpg and so on. While recording: Live video continues to play in the WinTV window WinTV-USB...
  • Page 36 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual The Counter will display the length of your recording in hours:min- utes:seconds 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.
  • Page 37 PC can store to the disk (in terms of image size and frames per second) because capturing video clips is very CPU and hard disk intensive. -Software Remote Capture window: Found in WinTV 2000 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...

  • Page 38: Setting The Video Image Size

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Setting the video image size The maximum suggested video image capture size is 320x240. When playing back the video on slower PC’s, a smaller image size might be needed. To set the image size, click on FMT Button: The WinTV-Capture program can use several different types of color formats when capturing video clips.

  • Page 39: Using Audio With Wintv-Capture

    320 x 240 image. With a 166MHz processor MMX (or better) and a reasonably fast hard disk drive, you should be able to capture 30 frames per second using the YUY2 OR RGB format. WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...

  • Page 40: Tips On Improving Capture Performance

    The consumption of hard disk space is dependent upon the size of the video image while capturing, the image format plus the number of frames/second. Using the YUY2 OR RGB image format, the following chart shows hard disk space consumed: image size frames/second bytes per second 160x120...

  • Page 41: Teletext Data Reception Using Vtplus

    VTPlus for WinTV USB is a sophisticated Teletext software application which runs exclusively on the Hauppauge WinTV. VTPlus allows you to view multiple Teletext pages, save or print Teletext pages and create Dynamic Data Links so that Teletext data can be used in other Windows applications. The WinTV appli- cation does not have to be active while the VTPlus Teletext application is run- ning.
  • Page 42 Starting VTPlus If the VTPlus application is provided on CD-ROM, then it will automatically be installed from the WinTV-USB Installation CD-ROM. To start VTPlus, click on the VTPlus button in WinTV32 or click on the TELE button in WinTV2000. This will close the TV application and launch VTPlus.
  • Page 43 100, the Select next Subpage icon will be light grey. 5. Reveal button: shortcut for Show/HiddenCharacters. When you use this button you might see hidden text, such as VPS time codes or answers from a Quiz. WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual *TOP text select Set Time/Date...
  • Page 44 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Quickselect Teletext pages By using the Ctrl+N key a Create and Receive page pops up requesting a page number. Type the requested page number. If this page is to be received continu- ously (every time the page is received, the page is automatically updated), click the Update Continuously box.
  • Page 45 DDE occur when all subpages are being received and at every update, when the option Update Continuously is marked. ote: For DDE to operate it is necessary for the VTPlus pro- gram to be running and for the specific page to be shown. WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...
  • Page 46 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...

  • Page 47: Using The Wintv-Radio Application

    TV antenna (or cable TV network) carries both TV and FM radio, you can con- nect to the TV antenna connector only: Running the Radio Application Click on Start / Programs / Hauppauge WinTV and then Radio to run the radio application. The radio window...

  • Page 48: Programming The Presets

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Mem: Sets a FM radio channel preset. To assign the current station to a preset, click on Mem and then on one of the Preset buttons (1-10). Mute: Turn off the sound. Mono: Force mono reception.
  • Page 49 2. Scan Mode: All - When All is chosen and the Scan button is clicked, - radio tunes in all radio stations. 3. Frequencies: A list of all frequencies assigned to the preset buttons is shown. 4. Tool Tips: Turn on/off bubble help. 5. Minimize: Minimizes the -radio application window. WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...
  • Page 50 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...

  • Page 51: How Wintv Works

    Typically, you will use the supplied audio cable to carry the audio signal from the LineOut jack on the WinTV-USB to the LineIn jack on your sound subsys- tem. Your sound subsystem will then mix this signal with other audio sources before driving your speakers.
  • Page 52 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...

  • Page 53: Troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting This chapter includes troubleshooting help for solving common problems. Problem: Bad colors in the TV window If your VGA display is running in 256 color mode, the TV picture will be dis- played with only 256 colors. This compares with the 16 million different colors which are in the original TV image.

  • Page 54: Problem: Tv Picture Displays A Black Screen

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual does not support Windows 98 Direct Draw. In this case, you might consider an upgrade to a new Windows VGA accelerator which has Direct Draw support and is compatible with the USB. A poor video picture might also indicate a bad signal. To verify a bad signal, try one or more of these: Move your antenna or check your cable connection.
  • Page 55 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual patibility problems, or improving picture quality on some VGA boards when used in some resolutions. To use Primary Surface mode, run the program "PRIMARY", which is installed with the WinTV application. Click Start/ Programs/WinTV and then, Click on Primary.
  • Page 56 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...

  • Page 57: Updating The Wintv-Usb Driver

    From time to time, there might be a new WinTV USB driver which is an improve- ment over the existing driver. Driver updates can be downloaded from the Hauppauge Internet Web site (see the front page of this manual for the URL). The WinTV USB update is combined with the driver uninstaller and the driver installer.
  • Page 58 Installation and Reference Manual Click Next. The Update program now uninstalls the existing WinTV-USB driver, then copies a number of files to your hard disk: After the Driver installation program has copied all of the files over to your disk drive, you will be asked to reboot: Click OK to reboot your PC.
  • Page 59 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Run HCWCLEAR by double clicking on its icon: Click OK. You will then see the following message: Click Yes. If there are any errors which come up during the running of HCWCLEAR, then it means that there is an application running which is using the drivers. For exam-...
  • Page 60 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual it means that one of the WinTV USB driver files in use . You can either ignore the error, or can can double check to make sure there are no applications running in the system that might be using the WinTV USB driver. In general, to make sure the re-installation is done correctly, all applications using the WinTV USB driver should be stopped before HCWCLEAR is run.

  • Page 61: Technical Support A

    WinTV USB or inability to use it, even if the dealer or Hauppauge has been advised of such liability or other claims.
  • Page 62 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...

  • Page 63: Warranty

    The Hauppauge Limited Warranty Warranty Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. warrants the WinTV USB to be free from defects in material and workmanship for a period of 2 years from date of initial retail purchase. We will, at our option, repair or replace a defective product. The limited warranty does not cover any losses or damage that occur as a result of: •...
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