WinTV-PVR-USB2
Personal Video Recorder for
USB 2.0 and USB 1.1
Quick Installation
Guide
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QI-PVRUSB-V2.6G-ENG March 15, 2007
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Included with WinTV-PVR-USB2:
•
WinTV-PVR-USB2 device with 125 channel cable ready TV tuner,
FM radio receiver, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 hardware audio/video
compressor
•
Remote control transmitter and batteries
•
Wall mounted power supply (6 volt)
•
1 meter USB cable
•
FM radio antenna
•
WinTV-PVR-USB2 Installation CD-ROM
•
WinTV-PVR-USB2 Quick Installation Guide (this guide)
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
window to remove toolbars.
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.
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).
Rescanning for channels
Click the Menu button and click on Suite Manager and then Auto
scan. Make sure you select cable or antenna in Broadcast / cable.
Chose the correct Video format for your region and then click Scan.
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
The time is specified in a Hour:Minute:Second format. When Recording, the
time of the recording will be displayed. On playback, the current position time
and the total time in the video being played will be displayed.
Record button:
Clicking the Record button will automatically generate a file name and
start recording your audio/video program. The quality of the video
recording and the directory where the files are stored are set in the
MPEG Configuration Menu by clicking the PREF button / Movies / MPEG
(see the section entitled "Configuring the format for MPEG compres-
sion") .
N
ote: it takes about 20 seconds for the recorder to
initialize. Do not click any WinTV buttons while the
record mode is initializing.
While recording:
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Live video continues to play in the WinTV window
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The Counter will display the length of your recording
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If you had started recording with the OTR button, and had clicked it
more than once, the total time for the recording will 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.
The quality of the recording is configured from the MPEG Configuration
Menu (see the section entitled "Configuring the format for MPEG com-
pression"). There are several video qualities: VCD plus MPEG-2 2.0, 4.0,
6.0 MBit/sec, etc. The highest quality is MPEG-2 6.0 MBit/sec, and the
least is VCD.
Clicking the Stop button will stop your recording, and then saves the
recorded audio/video file to disk using the automatically assigned file
name. The Counter will be reset to 00:00:00 after the file is saved.
VCD Record button:
Clicking the VCD Record button will automatically generate a file name
and start recording your audio/video program using the VCD record
quality. This button makes it easy to save VCD quality video, for burning
later on to a Video CD (CD-R or CD-RW). To burn a Video CD, see the
section entitled "Creating Video CD's".
Stop button:
Clicking the Stop button will stop the video you are recording or play-
Installing the WinTV-PVR-USB2
The WinTV-PVR-USB2 is a USB device designed for Microsoft®
Windows98, WindowsME, Windows2000 and WindowsXP.
Installation overview
To install WinTV-PVR-USB2, follow these steps:
✓
Plug your TV antenna or cable TV cable into the WinTV-PVR-
USB2's TV Connector. Plug the supplied USB cable into the
WinTV-PVR-USB2 and into one of your PC's USB ports.
✓
Boot your PC.
✓
After Windows is running, plug the supplied Power Supply into
WinTV-PVR-USB2's power input. The Found New Hardware
Wizard will then load the WinTV-PVR-USB2 driver from the
WinTV-PVR-USB2 Installation CD-ROM.
✓
After the WinTV-PVR-USB2 driver is installed, install the WinTV
application software by running SETUP .EXE from the
WinTV-PVR-USB2 Installation CD-ROM.
Step 1: Connect the WinTV-PVR-USB2 cables
Plug your TV antenna or cable TV cable into the WinTV-PVR-usb's
TV Connector. Plug the supplied Radio aerial into the FM radio
connector. This may not be necessary if your TV aerial or cable net-
work supplies FM.
The S-Video and Composite video inputs and the L&R audio inputs
can be used to bring audio/video from a VCR, camcorder, DVD play-
er or satellite TV receiver.
Plug one end (the square end) of the supplied USB cable into the
WinTV-PVR-USB2's USB Cable connector. The WinTV-PVR-USB2
is compatible with both USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 (high speed USB). If
you are using USB 2.0, the WinTV-PVR-USB2 can create videos at
higher quality.
Remote control
Left &Right
Composite
receiver
Audio Inputs
video input
TV Connector
FM radio
USB Cable
for antenna or
antenna
Connector
Cable TV
connector
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.
Close
A convenient way to use Always-on-Top is to make the TV
Minimize
WinTV
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.
Remove toolbars
Menu button
Click the Menu button to open the TV Setup menu. Here
is the main control for TV channels, and duplicate con-
trols for other functions:
Suite Manager:
configure the TV tuner (scanning,
naming, fine tuning, etc.), setting up 'favorite channel lists'
One Touch
and set an external A/V source to a TV channel.
Record
Record
open the record
Configuration: duplicate configuration menus for color,
controls
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.
Snap Shot: here is where you can set the size of your captured
images, plus single or two field captures.
Audio: your audio settings are configured here.
Color:
adjust the color of your TV picture here.
If you cannot hear audio
If you cannot hear audio when the WinTV application is running,
check the following:
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On the WinTV2000, click Pref / Audio. Make sure the Audio
Mixer Input is set to WinTV Wave.
ing back. Once the video is stopped, live TV will be displayed in the
WinTV window.
Play button:
Clicking the Play button in Record mode will play the last video file
created. When playing back a video, you can rewind, fast forward,
replay 10 sec or forward 10 sec using the buttons on the time slider.
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).
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.
Pause button:
Clicking the Pause button while Playing will pause your audio/video
file. Clicking the Pause button again will continue the playing.
Rewind button:
Clicking the Rewind button while playing will play the video file in
reverse at 1x speed. Clicking the Rewind button again will continue
the playing.
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.
Slow Motion button:
Clicking the Slow Motion button while playing will play the video in
Slow Motion. To start playing your video file at the normal speed,
click the Slow Motion button again.
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:
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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
Step 2: Boot your PC.
Step 3: Plug the power supply into WinTV-PVR-USB2
Plug the supplied Power Supply into the Power Supply input on
WinTV-PVR-USB2.
DO NOT PLUG THE POWER INTO WINTV-PVR-USB2 UNTIL YOUR PC
HAS COMPLETELY BOOTED!
Step 4: Installing the WinTV-PVR-USB2 driver for
Windows XP and Windows2000
After booting into Windows, plug the WinTV-PVR-USB2 in your USB
port. The Found New Hardware Wizard will appear. Insert the
WinTV Installation CD-ROM in your PC's CD-ROM drive and make
sure Install the soft-
ware automatically
(Recommended) is
checked. Then click
NEXT.
When the Hardware
Installation dialog box
opens, click Continue
Anyway. Click Finish.
This will complete the
driver installation for
Windows XP . Now go to
step 5 to install the
WinTV-PVR applications.
Step 5: WinTV-PVR-USB2 applications installation
To start the WinTV-PVR software
installation, click Start / Run then
type your CD-ROM drive letter (for
example: E:\) and then Setup.exe.
Chose a language, and click Next.
S-Video
input
The standard applications
are selected, ready to be
installed.
Click Install to start the
application installation.
After the Setup program is
complete, you will need to
reboot your PC. After
Power Supply
input: 6V@1.7A
rebooting, you will see the
WinTV2000 icon on your
Windows desktop.
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Open the Volume con-
trol 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.
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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.
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If you do not hear audio when playing back a recorded video
file, open up the Windows Volume Control Mixer and make
sure Wave is listed and not muted. The WinTV-PVR-USB2 uses
your PC or laptop's sound card Wave device for audio volume.
Watch TV, Pause and Record
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-PVR 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-PVR will record for 30 minutes.
One Touch
Pause
TV mode
button
to Rename and then you can type in a new name. Remember:
you must keep the MPG extension on the file.
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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.
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Delete recorded video files which you no longer want (and
which consume hard disk space). Click your right mouse but-
ton on the video file once, go down the menu and click on
Delete.
Pause mode
Clicking the Pause button on the WinTV2000 application starts the
Pause mode. The Pause Menu will drop down.
N
ote: It takes about 10 seconds to create a pause
buffer. While the buffer is initializing, do not click any
buttons on the WinTV application.
Delay
Video Position
counter
bar
Replay 10
seconds
Skip to the
beginning
Rewind
Pause
Play forward slow
motion
Pause buffer:
The Pause buffer is a circular buffer on your hard disk. The maxi-
mum 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 settings menu (see the section enti-
tled "Configuring the format for MPEG compression").
The Limit Pause Mode buffer size sets the maximum size of the
Pause buffer. Here are some suggested sizes:
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if you are using MPEG-1 - 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.
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if you are using MPEG-2 4.0MB/sec, about 2 Gigabytes per
The WinTV2000 application
To run the WinTV2000 application for watching TV, recording videos
and playing them back to your PC screen, double click the
WinTV2000 icon.
Scanning for channels
When running WinTV for the
first time, you will need to
scan for your TV channels. If
you are using Cable TV, in the
Broadcast/Cable box select
Cable (or Cable HRC).
Otherwise select Antenna.
Choose the Video Format for
your geographic region, then
click on Start:
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North America uses
NTSC M
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Europe uses PAL B/G
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the U.K. uses PAL I
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in South America, either PAL M or PAL N is used
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.
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:
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Click the Pause button to lower the pause menu. After about 15
seconds, your screen will stop and the Time counter will start
counting.
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To start the video from where you paused, click the Play button
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To pause the video again, click the Pause button
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To rewind the video to the beginning, click the Skip to the begin-
ning button. If your video was paused, click the Play button.
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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.
Click on the Record button on the WinTV2000 application to open
the Record and Playback control bar:
Time counter
Skip to
beginning
Video CD
One Touch
record
Record
Record
Record mode
button
Pause mode button
Time counter
hour is used for the Pause buffer. So for a 30 minute buffer, then
set the Limit Pause Mode Buffer Size to 1000 MBytes.
Delay counter:
The Delay counter displays the amount of time the video window is
currently delayed from live video. For example, if the delay counter
says "00:01:23", then the video window is showing video 1 minute
and 23 seconds behind live video.
Pause button:
Clicking the Pause button causes WinTV to start saving a audio and
video stream (referred to as an A/V stream) into the WinTV's Replay
Buffer. It takes about 15 seconds for the Replay Buffer to be initial-
ized and for Pause to become effective.
Unclicking the Pause button will cause the audio/video program to
start playing from the point where the button was originally pushed.
Most WinTV functions are active while in the Pause or Pause Live mode.
For example, you can change volume, resize the TV window, go into "no-
title mode", etc. If you are in the Pause mode though, the video image in the
Skip ahead 10
WinTV window is frozen so you will not see the function change. For exam-
seconds
ple, in Pause mode if you change volume you will not hear the volume
change.
Skip to the
While in Pause mode, the Video Position bar shows the amount of
end
the Replay Buffer which is filled with video. For example, if the
Video Position indicator shows halfway, it means that half of the
Skip ahead 10
Replay Buffer is filled. If you find you cannot Replay or Pause as
seconds
many minutes as you would like, there is a setting in the Preferences
Replay 10
menu where you can increase the size of the Replay Buffer.
seconds
Play
While in Pause mode, the A/V stream is always saved in the Replay
Fast Forward 2X,
Buffer. To stop saving the A/V stream in the Replay Buffer, you must
8X
exit the Pause mode by clicking the TV mode button.
Replay button:
While in the Pause mode, hitting the Replay button acts like the Instant
Replay you see on TV broadcast sporting events: the audio/video goes
back in time and you repeat what you have previously seen.
Each click of the Replay button causes audio/video to go back 10
seconds. For example, if you want to repeat the audio/video you saw
10 seconds ago, you would click the Replay button once. If you
want to see the video you saw one minute ago, you would need to
click the Replay button six times.
For extended replay times, you might find it more convenient to grab
the Video Position indicator control bar and move it to the left.
Once you let the control bar go, audio/video starts to play (it might
Record Mode
Skip back
Skip ahead
video position
10 sec.
bar
10 sec.
Skip to End
File menu
Play
(Save/Open/Burn)
Rewind
Stop
Slow Motion
Fast Forward 2X
Pause
8X
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