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WinTV Reference Manual
Date to Begin Program: Today's date is the default. Change this if you want to schedule on
another date.
Source selection: Leave set at WinTV to bring up the WinTV at the requested time and on the
requested channel.
Channel selection: Choose one of your scanned channels.
Recording options: Click on Record to File to record your show. Leave this button unchek-
kked to watch TV at the requested time. You can also name your file to record.
Record in background: The background recorder (BG recorder) allows you to record your
program with out the WinTV application running. If you have a Dual Tuner product you can
record from 1 channel while watching another.
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.
You must make sure Windows Task Scheduler is running properly:
For both Windows 2000 and XP , you must have the Windows task scheduler started and run-
ning correctly, or WinTV-Scheduler will not work. For XP , you must also have a password
assigned to log into Windows, which is a requirement for Windows task scheduler.
To be sure Windows task scheduler is running, go to Start/Run and enter services.msc, click
ok. when the Services window appears, find Task Scheduler in the right column and be sure
it is set to started and automatic. If it is not started, you can start it manually. If it is started,
and scheduler is still not working correctly, you can try stopping the service, and restarting it.
You must have a password set to log into Windows XP:
WindowsXP will not run any scheduled events without a username and password the first
thing you should do is create them. You may want refer to the following Microsoft
Knowledge Base article regarding this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316434&Product=winxp
If you Schedule something and it doesn't run at specific time check the following:
Make sure that your time and time zone are correct. If you are in the East coast you could have
the correct time but wrong time zone. If you are running Windows XP Home or Pro, and
Windows 2000, please make sure that you have given your User account a password to log in.
According to Microsoft, Services require that a user must have a logging password to start.
If you already have a password and it still won't work, please double check the Task
Scheduler service and restart it. Do the following to do this. Go to Start/Run and type servi-
ces.msc and click ok. The Services window will open. Search for the Task Scheduler service.
Right click on the Task Scheduler and click on stop. Then, right click on the Task Scheduler
and click on start to restart the service, and then restart your computer to take effect. After all
this try WinTV-Scheduler again.
You should also make sure that you have all Microsoft WindowsXP updates applied to your
system as this can also correct issues with the task scheduler in WindowsXP .
Also, make sure your system is not set to go into hibernate or sleep mode as the scheduler
cannot wake up Windows to start the recording.
The scheduler writes a command line to Windows Scheduled Task so if the WinTV is failing
to launch at the specified time you may want, go into Windows Scheduled Tasks (Start,
Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Scheduled Tasks) and see if you can schedule any
event to occur at a specific time. If you cannot get any other program to begin at a specific
time then the problem is with Windows Scheduled Tasks. You can also check to see if the
command line is being written correctly to Scheduled Tasks. Create a schedule recording in
the WinTV-Scheduler. Then go into Windows Scheduled Tasks and find the job file for the
recording you created. Right mouse click on it and go to Properties. In the Run field you will
see the command line for the recording, it will look something like this:
C:\PROGRA~1\WinTV\WinTV.EXE -c7 -ntod -startr: WinTV_(0).mpg -qdef -limit:3600 -mute
"C:\PROGRA~1\WinTV\WinTV.EXE": Obviously the path to the WinTV application.
"-c#": The channel number you want the WinTV to open up on.
"-ntod": No tip of the day dialog window.
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