Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 Quick Installation Manual page 2

mode. For example, you can change volume, resize the TV window,
go into "no-title mode", etc.
While in Pause mode, the Video Position bar shows the amount of
the Replay Buffer which is filled with video. For example, if the
Video Position indicator shows halfway, it means that half of the
Replay Buffer is filled. If you find you cannot Pause as many minutes
as you would like, increase the size of the Replay Buffer.
While in Pause mode, the A/V stream is always saved in the Replay
Buffer. To stop saving the A/V stream in the Replay Buffer, you must
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
take a few seconds for the WinTV2000 application to start playing).
You might have to move the Video Position indicator to the left and
right to find the desired spot to start replaying audio/video.
While Replaying, your audio/video program continues to be record-
ed in the Replay Buffer. Therefore, if you have clicked the Replay
button 3 times (so that you are replaying the audio/video seen 30
seconds ago), the video you see in the WinTV window will be 30
seconds behind the "live" audio/video program.
Skip Ahead Button
Clicking the Skip button will skip the video ahead 10 seconds.
Rewind Button:
Clicking the Rewind button while playing video will rewind the recorded
video. Clicking the Rewind button again will continue the playing.
Fast Foward Button:
Clicking the Fast Foward button one time will fast foward your video
at 2X speed. Clicking the Fast Foward button two times will fast
the hour to set the hour, the minute to set the minute and the
second (if you feel this is necessary) to set the minute to start the
program. Note: It takes about 10 seconds to launch the WinTV
and set up for recording, so set the Time to Begin Progam to 10
seconds before the time your TV show actually starts.
- Time to End Program: set to the time to end this event. Note:
you need to leave at least 30 seconds between scheduled pro-
grams to give the recorder time to set up its disk buffers.
- Program Period: one time, daily, weekly
- Date to Begin Program: todays date is the default. Change this
if you want to schedule on another date.
- Source selection: leave set at WinTV2000 to bring up the
WinTV at the requested time and on the requested channel.
- Channel selection: chose one of your scanned channels.
Name
C:\Program Files\WinTV directory.
To install the IR Remote receiver:
- Turn off your computer. Plug the sub-mini jack at the end of the
IR Receiver cable into the Remote control (IR) receiver socket
of the WinTV-PVR.
- Place the IR Receiver on your desktop so that the infrared light
from the IR Remote transmitter can reach the IR Receiver.
- Turn on your computer.
- If you have previously installed the WinTV applications, the IR
software should automatically run, and you will see the WinTV
Remote icon in the Device Tray.
Power
Some remote control but-
Go
button
menu
tons
button
0 - 9 buttons: When playing
back a recording, the "1" button
Quick
will skip to 10%, the "2" button
Jump
0-9
20%, etc. of the length of the
buttons
recording.
Menu
Skip ahead button: holding the
button
skip ahead button advances the
Back
button
video about 5 minues per 10 sec-
OK
onds the button is depressed.
button
Skip back button: pressing and Volume
down Volume
holding the Skip back button
makes the video go back about 5
Mute
minutes for every 10 seconds the TV Full
screen
button is depressed.
Play
Go button: brings up the WinTV Fast
forward
rewind
task list. Allows you to start
Stop
WinTV2000, WinTV32 or WinTV-
Record
Pause
radio.
Skip
Skip
Menu button: brings up the
back ahead
Windows Task list. Use the left
and right arrows to change to
other Widnows tasks.
Green power button: will close
the WinTV application.
Checking the function of WinTV's IR Remote
WinTV's Remote application, IR.EXE, is loaded every time Windows
is booted. You will see a Remote icon in the device tray. To check
the remote control operation, point the Remote transmitter at the
Remote control receiver. When you click the TV button on the
foward your video at 8X speed.
Slow Motion Button:
Clicking the Slow Motion button while playing video will play in Slow Motion.
Clicking the Slow Motion button again, will continue playing normally.
MPEG compression formats &
record directories
To set the directo-
ry where your
video recordings
will be stored,
click the PREF
button
(Preferences
menu) on
WinTV2000, then
Capture and then
on the MPEG tab.
Set the DVCR File
Path to directory
where you would
like to store your
video recordings.
The WinTV-PVR supports several formats for MPEG video compres-
sion, called Quality Levels. The differences in these formats are:
- The higher the datarate, the better the video quality you see
from live TV and your recordings. The higher the datarate, the
more disk space which will be required.
- CPU horsepower required during playback and pause mode.
- The compatibility when creating Video CD's or S-VCD's.
To configure the MPEG Quality Level, on WinTV2000 click the PREF
button (Preferences menu), then Capture and then the MPEG tab.
Here are the video formats and the amount of disk space per hour
used:
MPEG1 VCD .65 Gigabytes/hour
MPEG2 2.0MBits/sec (Full D1) .9 Gigabytes/hour
MPEG2 2.0MBits/sec (Half D1) .9 Gigabytes/hour
MPEG2 12.0 MBits/sec (Full D1) 5.4 Gigabytes/hour
MPEG2 12.0 MBits/sec (CBR) 5.4 Gigabytes/hour
DVD Standard Play 8.0Mbits/sec 3.1 Gigabytes/hour
DVD Long Play 6.2Mbits/sec 2.4 Gigabytes/hour
DVD Extra Long Play 2.5 Mbits/sec 1.2 Gigabytes/hour
- Recording options: click on Record to File to record your show.
Leave this button unchecked to watch TV at the requested time.
You can also name your file to record, in the dialog box below.
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 run-
ning, it takes about 10 seconds to start WinTV-PVR and to start the
recording of TV.
WinTV MPEG Editor
The Hauppauge MPEG Editor is an MPEG1/MPEG-2 cut and join
editor. You can cut segments from videos, or combine videos (of the
same MPEG format) together. The MPEG editor makes its cuts on
what are called "MPEG I-frames". These types of cuts do not require
a re-encode, and therefore preserves the quality of the original video.
This version of the MPEG has these features:
- Edit (cut) MPEG1 and MPEG2 files.
- Join MPEG files of the same resolution and bit rate
- Remultiplex Video CD compatible files so they can be "burnt"
into VCD's
File
Remote transmitter, after 3-4 seconds the Remote icon should flash,
indicating that the Remote application is running. After the Remote
icon flashes, the WinTV application will be run.
Making DVDs from your
WinTV-PVR recordings
DVD players which are compatible with CD's and MP3's can also
read DVD's burned using MPEG video files created with the WinTV-
PVR.
If you plan to burn a DVD with MovieFactory or any other DVD
authoring software package, you should use either the "DVD
Standard Play", the "DVD Long Play" or "DVD Extra Long Play".
These formats will allow you to make DVD's with the following
recording lengths:
DVD Standard Play: 1 hour 30 minutes on DVD+R/RW disks
DVD Long Play: 1hour 50 minutes on DVD+R/RW disks
DVD Extra Long Play: 4 hours on DVD+R/RW disks
Tips on System Optimization:
These are tips that will help you improve capture and playback per-
formance of video files on you PC.
1.) Do not use DoubleSpace or any other disk compression
up
scheme! This severely slows down your hard disk.
2.) Make sure DMA is checked for your Hard disk drives in Device
Manager. Right click your mouse on the My Computer icon on
Fast
your desktop, and click on Properties. Click on the Device
Manager tab and double click on Disk Drives. Highlight
GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE and click on Properties. Click on
Settings. Make sure DMA is selected.
3.) Defragment your Hard Disk. To Defragment your hard disk, in
Windows click on Start /
Programs / Accessories / System
Tools and click on Disk
Defragmenter.
4.) You can use 7200 RPM disk
drives. Also, there are several hard
disks on the market which are
designed for higher performance
video captures. These drives use
1:1 interleaving and track caching
SVCD Standard Play 2.5Mbits/sec .8 Gigabytes/hour
Note: CBR is constant bit rate, VBR is variable bit rate.
Which record format should you use?
If you would like to burn a DVD, then chose either DVD Standard Play,
DVD Long Play or DVD Extra Long Play. DVD formats record at
720x480 (720x576 with PAL video sources) using 48.0 kHz stereo audio.
If you want to watch the recorded video on your PC, for the best
video quality chose MPEG2 12.0MB/sec or DVD Standard Play. If
you do not have much disk apace, try the MPEG-2 2.0MB/sec.
SVCD is a nice compromise between video quality and hard disk
space. Video is recorded at 480x480 (480x576 for PAL video) at a
datarate up to 2.5Mbits/sec.
For creating Video CD's for playback on your home DVD player,
chose the MPEG1 VCD format.
Once chosen, the Quality Level format is set for both the Pause and
Record modes. The format cannot be changed while Recording or
while in the Pause mode.
Video output (WinTV-PVR-350)
The WinTV-PVR-350 can output your "live" and recorded video to an
external video monitor or video recorder. With the Video Output fea-
ture of the WinTV-PVR-350, you can:
- Watch your TV shows on an external TV set, pausing or record-
ing just as you could when watching TV on your VGA monitor
- You can record a TV show, and then play it back to your TV set.
- Record your home videos, edit them with WinTV Editor, and
then watch them on your home TV set.
A/V output
cable
S-Video
output
Composite
Audio out
video output
Audio out
9-pin DIN
right
(yellow)
left
connector
(red)
(white)
- Remultiplex S Video CD compatible files so they can be "burnt"
into SVCD's
- Split large MPEG videos into pieces, so that these can be
burned onto CD-ROM or DVD media
- Has a "play" option so you can play the file you have just edited
without having to close the editor
How to use the WinTV Editor:
Click on the Add source button or click on File / Add source to bring
the file you want to edit into the MPEG editor. The WinTV-PVR uses
the c:\My Documents\My Videos directory as the default directory
to save video files created by the WinTV-PVR. When the selected file
is opened, it will start playing back in the video window. Click the
Stop button to stop playback.
Grab the video position slider, and move it to the beginning of the
video segment you want to keep. The video frame will be shown in
the video window. You can also use the controls under the video
window (play, pause, stop and the frame control buttons).
When you have correctly positioned to the video frame you want, click
the In button. This will define the starting point of the video interval.
Grab the video position slider and move it to the end position of
the clip you want to keep, then click the Out button.
Click Add Interval to add the defined clip to the cut list. Repeat until
you have put all the desired video clips in the "cut list".
When you have finished with your cut list, click the Generate output
button. All intervals in the cut list will appear in the final video. The
Generate Output step normally takes awhile.
Your MPEG video is named nanoEDIT.mpg. Be sure to rename this
before cutting another video, otherwise the file will be overwritten!
Before you click Generate Output, click File / SelectOutputFile to
change the file name of your recorded file.
To cut away an advertisement, click the In button at the beginning of
the video sequence, then click the Out button just before the adver-
tisement starts. Click Add Interval. Then click the In button at the end
of the advertisement, and click the Out button at the end of the video
sequence you want to keep. Then click Add interval.
To cut away advertisements from a movie, you must define all pieces
you want to keep (everything which belongs to the movie) and add
them to the cut list.
Remultiplex File for VCD
Note: If you have an VCD file open, when you click on Generate
Movie, the file will be saved as a "burnable" VCD file. But if you have
a VCD file on your PC and would like to simply make it burnable, use
this option.
to eliminate gaps caused by a hard disk drive seeking to the next
track. They are available with both IDE and SCSI interfaces.
Troubleshooting
Installation tips and software updates can be found at :
http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support_pvr250-350.html
http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support_pvr150.html
Our FAQ can be found at:
http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support_faq_pvr250-350.html
Error: "No common media type between these pins"
The WinTV-PVR uses your PC's processor to display the TV image. If
the processor is too slow, or if there is something in the system
which is taking system resources, you might get this message.
Check the VGA acceleration in Device manager. make sure it is set
to "Full". Also check your VGA resoution. You might need to bring
the number of Colors down one notch.
Error: "Error code 10" during installation
This is caused by a failure to load the WinTV-PVR drivers. Run
HCWClear from the WinTV-PVR Installation CD-ROM, then reboot
and reinstall the WinTV-PVR. If this still gives you an error message,
move the WinTV-PVR to another PCI slot and reinstall the drivers.
Conflicts with Intervideo WinDVD
The WinTV-PVR uses a version of WinDVD to display video in the
WinTV window. Sometimes we have found that a previously installed
version of WinDVD will conflict with the version of WinDVD which is
installed with the WinTV-PVR. Symptoms include: black screen but
you can hear audio, failure to scan for channels, you can't change
MPEG formats without errors, bad audio/video sync, and others.
Uninstalling WinDVD will fix this problem. You uninstall WinDVD
through the "Add/Remove Programs" in Control Panel. You will still
be able to play DVD movies in MediaPlayer, since the WinTV-PVR
installation provides a MediaPlayer compatible DVD player.
Problem: Poor Reception or Not detecting all channels:
Poor TV reception is generally the result of an Weak TV signal. When
using a 'roof-top' antenna, an aerial booster may be required if there
is poor TV reception. If you find that some or all of the channels have
not been detected, you can insert channels manually. Also, in some
areas using cable TV, a format called Cable HRC is used. If so, try
rescanning but use CABLE (HRC) instead of cable in the
Broadcast/Cable box.
Connecting the A/V cable to a TV set:
1. Plug the 9-pin DIN connector on the A/V output cable into the
A/V output connector on the WinTV-PVR-350. This connector is
"keyed" so you cannot plug it in backwards.
2. The A/V cable has an S-Video output connector (black) and a
Composite output connector (yellow). Some TV sets have S-
Video inputs, and others use Composite connectors. Chose the
correct one for your TV set, and connect a video cable (not sup-
plied) between your TV set and the A/V output cable.
3. The A/V cable has Audio out left (white) and a Audio out right
(red) jack. Connect these to the audio input jacks on your TV
set (not supplied).
4. Turn on the video output
feature in the WinTV2000
application by clicking
and holding your
RIGHT mouse button
on the WinTV window,
clicking on Video Output
and then clicking On.
Note: some TV sets do not
have S-Video or Composite
jacks. To connect to a TV set,
it MUST have S-Video or
Composite video inputs, plus
audio input jacks.
Note: with the WinTV-PVR-350, when VideoOut is turned on the Fast
Forward is limited to 2X speed.
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.
After installation, WinTV-Scheduler can be found on your desktop.
WinTV-Scheduler works by using the Windows Task Scheduler to
launch WinTV at the chosen time. WinTV-Scheduler sets up a com-
mand line in Task Scheduler to run WinTV2000, specifying a TV
channel and a length of time to record.
To set up an event for timed watching or recording, run WinTV-
Scheduler and click on the Add Program.
The items that need to be set for each event are:
- Time to Begin Program: set to the desired start time. The
default time is about 3 minutes from the current time. Click on
You will be prompted for a File name. Enter the name of a file which
has VCD characteristics (MPEG-1, datarate not exceeding
1.1Mbits/sec, etc.). Next, enter the name of the "burnable" VCD file to
be written. The file will be remultiplexed into a "burnable" VCD for-
mat.
Note: If you enter the name of a file which is not VCD compliant, an
error message will pop up.
Remultiplex File for SVCD
If you have a SVCD file on your PC and would like to make it burn-
able onto a SVCD, use this option.
You will be prompted for a File name. Enter the name of a file which
has SVCD characteristics (MPEG-2 with 2.2Mbits/sec datarate,
44.1KHz audio and 480x480 image sizes for NTSC video sources).
Next, enter the name of the "burnable" SVCD file to be written. The
file will be remultiplexed into a "burnable" SVCD format.
Note: If you enter the name of a file which is not SVCD compliant, an
error message will pop up.
Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2SE
Start project: Used to author and burn DVD's, SVCD's and VCD's.
Create chapter menus, mix videos, JPEGs and music.
Edit disk: Edit videos or menus from DVD+RW's.
Direct to disk: not used.
Copy disk: Burn copies of existing disc images to CD/DVD.
WinTV-
PVR
remote
control
The WinTV-PVR's 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 installation will add a shortcut to IR.EXE to the
Startup group, so that IR.EXE is loaded every time after Windows
has booted.
If you need to restart the remote control, run IR32.EXE from the
Problem: Live TV program and video playback has a
"Jerky" effect and/or lip synchronization during play-
back.
Make sure that DMA is enabled for IDE hard disks. See the section
entitled "Tips on System Optimization" #2.
Problem: WinTV-2000 has display problems on the
screen, e.g. blurred image.
In the WinTV program group (Start / Programs / Hauppauge WinTV)
there is a utility called "Primary". Set it to "Allow Overlay". If it is on
"Allow Overlay", try it on "Force Primary". Some VGA cards need to
upgrade from the latest drivers in order for it to support Overlay mode.
Try to upgrade your VGA drivers from the manufacturer web site.
How do I configure the Audio for the WinTV-PVR?
Your PC's sound card is used to amplify the audio during "live" TV,
record and playback. The WinTV2000 application's Volume Adjust
slidebar adjusts the volume by raising and lowering the WaveOut
volume control in the sound card.
FCC Statement
Radio Interference Statement:
The WinTV-PVR has 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 rea-
sonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equip-
ment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and cause harmful inter-
ference 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 follow-
ing measures: Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. 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 experi-
enced radio/TV technician for help.
CAUTION: Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for
compliance to the FCC Rules could void the user's authority to operate the equipment.
CE Statement:
This equipment has been tested and complies with EN 55013, EN 55020 and IEC 801-3
part 3 standards.