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Black Tornado X800 User Manual

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1 About this manual
This manual provides installation and application software guide information of Black Tornado X800. If you
want to know more Information about product, please refer this manual
1.1 Features:
Uses Conexant 10bit video decoder, 10 bits high quality ADC.
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High-quality 3
generation Silicon tuner, support worldwide TV standards
High-quality SMD capacitance material, 4 layers PCB and power stable design
Support TV/AV/S-video/3.5 Stereo input.
Support Nicam and A2 TV stereo
1.2 Functions:
Full channel scan, up to 125(PAL)/200(NTSC) TV channels receiving
Support TV/AV/S-video/Composite input
Real time recording Mpeg1/2 video and audio files
Video Optimize Technology
Multi-channel preview: You can preview up to 16 channels at one time
Snapshot: Can snapshot the TV program
Video Desktop: Can set the video as the windows desktop background
Window scaling: Can change between the full screen and one window.
Schedule recording: By weekly, daily, monthly, you can set watch and/or recording specified
channel at specified time.
Time shifting: Never lost any your favorable program.
Intelligent Channel search and delete no signal channel automatically
1.3 Application:
Internet Video meeting
Video conferencing
Video and audio E-mail
Video and audio recording and editing.
Create VCD, DVD and website.
Corporation briefing and advertisement short clips
1.4
System requirements
Minimum OS requirements (Only for watching TV)
450 MHz Pentium II CPU or same coequality CPU.
128 MB RAM (minimum)
Support Overlay VGA Card
Sound card for audio
PCI interface
DIRECTX9.0C
CDROM (For install program)
Windows XP, 2000, Me, 98E
Available 30M HDD (install driver and application, e.g. Black Tornado X800), add other room for recording.
Black Tornado X800 User's Manual
Black Tornado X800 User's V1.41

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  • Page 1 128 MB RAM (minimum) Support Overlay VGA Card Sound card for audio PCI interface DIRECTX9.0C CDROM (For install program) Windows XP, 2000, Me, 98E Available 30M HDD (install driver and application, e.g. Black Tornado X800), add other room for recording.
  • Page 2 Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 1.5 Recommended OS system（Watching TV and recording DVD） Above P4-2.4 GHz CPU 256 MB RAM SoundBlaster sound card for audio PCI interface DIRECTX9.0C CD ROM (For install program) Windows XP SP2 Available 30M HDD (install driver and application, e.g. CardTV2), add 600M/h-3G/h for recording.
  • Page 3 Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 2 Black Tornado Connection TV IN TV signal input port。 FM IN FM signal input port。 Multiple function A/V input/ output port Infrared receive port。 2.1 Connection Chart： TV cable, FM antenna and IR receive：...
  • Page 4 Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 1—Sound card line input port 2--- Audio cable ‘s other port 3--- Multiple function cable output port Connect Method: One port of Audio cable connects sound card line input or Microphone input (not recommended), another port connects with multiple cable output.
  • Page 5 Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 3.1 Driver Installation Step 1: Insert the driver CD into CDROM, browse the CD, Click “Driver Install” or run Driver\Setup.exe, then press “next ” to continue. Step2：Click “next” to continue installation Step3：Please install Microsoft DirectX 9.0 at first, choose “I accept” then click “next” to continue.
  • Page 6 Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 Step4：Click “finish ” to install Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Step5：Find the equipment for “PCI 88x Video Capture” and click “still continue ”. Step6：System will inform you to restart PC by click “finish” after installation.
  • Page 7 Step4：Open control panel and select “System” — “System Properties” —“Device Manager” — “Hardware”, then check whether the driver has been installed correctly. PCI 88x Video Capture Install the application for Black Tornado X800 Click “Software Install” or run X800\Steup.exe to install Black Tornado X800. Step1：Click “Yes” to install “Windows Media Tools”...
  • Page 8 Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 Step2：Click “Yes” after install “Windows Media Format9” Step3：After Windows Media please click “Next” to follow the guide of X800 Step4：Choose rote for installation if you want to change the recommended, please click “browse” and click “next” (Recommended is better)
  • Page 9 Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 Step5：Choose installation parts in multiple chooses and click “next” Step6：Click “next” to start installation Step7：Program starts to copy files.

  • Page 10: Software Usage

    Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 Step8：Click “finish” to restart your PC after installation Step9：You will see X800 TVPro icons as bellow 4. Software usage 4.1 Black Tornado X800 User Interface...
  • Page 11 Remark: The function with sign “*”, which is not applicable to X800 4.2 Setting Click on Black Tornado X800 to setting all the Function. 4.2.1 Channel list edit Black Tornado X800 auto scan all channels, you can edit your favorite channels.
  • Page 12 Black Tornado X800 and automatically scan all channels according to your region. You can find the button of automatic scan in channel edit menu. 2、When Black Tornado X800 is scanning channels, the program will mute the volume and show in turn in the channel left.

  • Page 13: Color Control

    Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 Channel TV audio setting: Select the specified channel, press the right key on mouse, four states: Mono, Stereo, Language single A and Language double B. The default is Mono. Remark: If stereo, the signal source must support this function.

  • Page 14: Recording Option

    Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 4.2.3 Recording option Format: DVD/SVCD/VCD/AVI/MPEG4/WMV/WMA/MP3 Size: Recording size from 352x240 (NTSC) 352x288 (PAL) to 720x480 (NTSC) 720x576 (PAL). Video bit rate: Bigger bit rates will cause more disk space usage, but will bring better video quality.
  • Page 15 Show version and copyright. 4.3.13 Exit: Exit Black Tornado X800. 5.Black Tornado X800 software usage 5.1 Recoding: Black Tornado X800 support MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 format 5.1.1 Recording: Press when watching TV program to recording. Press to stop recording. You can name this file or save as default.
  • Page 16 Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 5.1.3 Recording file space requirements Desk space required depend on the format when you recording. There is some information for you reference. Format Video bit rate (Mbps) Audio bit rate (Kbps) Desk space Resolution NTSC DVD 720*480 2.6GB/hr...
  • Page 17 Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 Duration: The recording duration time of task. Minimize: 2mins. Default as 30mins. 5.2.3 Click ”Next” to choose recording format. 5.2.4 Click ”Next” to date and time setting. (Time format is 24 Hours) Only once: Only one times every task.
  • Page 18 Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 5.2.6 After record setting, click “Next”, then system will promote “Finish” message automatically, please click ”finish”. 5.2.7 If OS send this message as follow when add one more tasks, which mean have conflict on time of other task. Please revise task time setting.
  • Page 19 Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 5.3.2 While playing, control panel will show time information and functions about playing. 5.4 Snapshot 5.4.1 When watching TV press button to capture the picture and save as .bmp format. 5.4.2 After pressing snapshot button, system will promote you to save this picture, double click this picture you will interview and edit.
  • Page 20 In Time-shift, you are recording to and playing back from the same video file or buffer. You can playback from various locations in that buffer. Similar to video playback, you can pause, fast-forward, and rewind. A major difference, however, is that X800 software is simultaneously recording live television while playing back from the buffer.
  • Page 21 Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 5.6.3 Exit Time-shift function Press button to exit time-shift function. 5.7 TELETEXT Press button, activation TELETEXT function. The function let user to receive TELETEXT TV. Remark: This function must have TeleText TV signal to support. Not all the TV program has...
  • Page 22 Press to stop the scan channel in any time. 二、Click “ ” in Channel setting menu to search. If you want stop channel scan, please click “ ”. Black Tornado X800 FM can automatic scan broadcasting and shown channel list.
  • Page 23 Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 6.2.3 Channel Rename You define channels name as follows: Step 1 Show the important channel; Step 2 Press the right key on mouse; you can change the channel name; Step 3 Input the new name If you want to change other channel’s name, please repeat Step 1 to Step 3.
  • Page 24 Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 Input your Channel Name Input the Frequency Value Press “Confirm” to finish the Channel addition, there is addition channel in channel list. 1.3 Recording Setting Record format option Two format can be chose: MP3 and WMA Save location Click “Browse”...
  • Page 25 Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 7 FM application You can use FM application to listen to the FM radio and record the FM radio into WMA, MP3 and WAV files and store in your hard disk. 7.1 Record 7.1.1 Recording: Press when watching TV program to recording.
  • Page 26 Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 7.3 Channel Before using channel related functions, you must do the channel scanning first. 7.3.1 When listening FM, press to switch fast forward or back forward channel. 7.3.2 By using Page Up and Page Down keys on keyboard, you can change the channel rapidly, or IR Remote provides the same functions.

  • Page 27: Remote Control Handset

    Q2：Why do the drive not be installed? A2：1.Please check if the name of Facility Management is PCI 88x Video Capture. 2.Please make sure you installed DIRECTX9.0C which is in the CD bundled with the X800 Q3： Why cannot see the image (black screen)? A3：1.Try to restart application software.
  • Page 28 2. Maybe the problem is caused by Sound card, some low cost sound card has recording problem but playing no problem. Q10：Cannot find video capture hardware “There are no HD equipment or no video capture hardware” A10：If the problem is appearing when you start Black Tornado X800, it means driver program didn’t installed successfully. Please re-install.
  • Page 29 Black Tornado X800 User’s V1.41 Q11：Remote controller is not functional A11：1.Please check if battery were installed correct. 2.Please check if you need new battery. 3.IR receiver is not right direction or too far away from the sender...