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  • Page 1 Handbook (English) 31.05.01...
  • Page 2 Electronic GmbH, 1994- 2001. All rights reserved (31.05.01). All texts and illustrations were developed with the greatest of care. However, the TerraTec Electronic GmbH and their authors can accept neither legal nor any other kind of liability responsibility for possi- ble incorrect details and their consequences that remain.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    The SVHS Input ........................32 And what about a SCART Output?..................33 The TV software........................34 The Station Scan........................ 35 The Remote Control......................37 The Enhanced Settings...................... 40 The Audio Settings......................46 The Video Window......................47 TValue Radio (English)
  • Page 4 The Electronic Program Guide (EPG) ................... 52 The Software used......................... 53 Working with Still Images....................53 Creating Video Sequences ...Your Hard Disc as a Video recorder ........54 The Radio-Software....................... 56 Interesting Internet Offers....................56 The Service at TerraTec....................... 58 TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 5: The Package Contents

    (quick reference) · a registration card · a service dispatch note · this online handbook:-) If something is missing, please, contact us. For information about this please read in chapter “The Service at TerraTec.” on page 58. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 6: A Warm Welcome

    A Warm Welcome. It is nice that you have decided to buy TerraTecs TValue radio. This package you have before you will extend your PC to the most comfortable TV qualities. Watch your favorite TV programs while conveniently reading Teletext and getting your personal program information over the Internet by the touch of a button.

  • Page 7: Key Features

    1 PCI or AGP VGA graphics card with DirectDraw drivers and Video-Overlay- support Note: If you have more than 4 PCI Slots, please make sure that you use a so-called “Master” slot. You should be able to get the informa- tion from the documentation of your main board. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 8: This Is What It Looks Like: The Construction Of The Tv Card

    This is what it Looks Like: The Construction of the TV Card So this is what the TValue Radio looks like. However, it might be the case, that the circuit board of the TV card is slightly different than the illustration seen below. During the produc- tion process and accompanying detail improvements, visible changes are also partially car- ried out - so don't be shocked.

  • Page 9: Off Into The Computer

    9. If you have a sound card, it is practical to connect the line-in of the sound card with the audio output of the TV card. Firstly, you only then need one loudspeaker set for your PC and secondly, you can capture both sound and image at the same time. TValue Radio (English)
  • Page 10 TV card. 12. Then you can finally reconnect the power cable and all other device cables. Make sure that your loudspeakers are set to a low volume. 13. Now switch your computer on again... energy! TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 11: Installation Of The Drivers And Software

    DirectX, you should first get the most current driver for your graphics card and afterwards install the latest DirectX version. The latest version of DirectX at the time when the CD was pressed can be found in directory \DirectX of the CD enclosed. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 12: Installation Under Windows98™ Se

    17. Now select by mouse click the option “Search for the best driver for the device (recom- mended)“ and confirm your selection via the "Next" button. 18. Activate the control box before the menu option "CD-ROM drive". Confirm this setting via the "Next" button. TValue Radio (English)
  • Page 13 21. During the installation, the operating system prompts you to insert the CD of the Windows installation because some system components must still be updated. Please insert the corresponding CD for this and close the window with "OK". Now specify the path to your Windows CD. TValue Radio (English)
  • Page 14 At the end of the installation, Windows displays that all drivers were installed for this device. Confirm this message via the “Finish” button, to activate the drivers for the sys- tem. 24. Wow - ready! Now your device manager should look as follows... TValue Radio (English)
  • Page 15 You access the Device Manager via “Start” > “Settings” > “System Control” > “System” under the register card "Device Manager". TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 16: Installation Under Windows Me

    Windows CD. 5. At the end of the installation, Windows displays that all drivers were installed for this de- vice. Confirm this message via the “Finish” button, to activate the drivers for the system. TValue Radio (English)
  • Page 17 6. Wow - ready! Now your device manager should look as follows ... You access the Device Manager via “Start” > “Settings” > “System Control” > “System” under the register card "Device Manager”. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 18: Installation Under Windows2000

    3. After the start up, Windows detects that a new hardware component has been installed. 4. Your TV card is identified as a “Video controller for Multimedia”. Now select by mouse click the option “Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended)” and confirm your selection via the “Next” button. TValue Radio (English)
  • Page 19 5. Activate the control box before the option “CD-ROM drives” and confirm the setting via the “Next” button. 6. Windows now displays that the driver for the TV card has been found. Confirm this mes- sage via the “Next” button. Windows then copies and installs all the necessary driver files. TValue Radio (English)
  • Page 20 7. Now the warning message shown below is displayed, because a digital signature of the TerraTec driver is missing. You can close the window with “Yes” without hesitation. The function of your operating system or that of the TV card will not be adversely affected in any way whatsoever.
  • Page 21 10. Wow - ready! Now your computer management should look as follows ... You access the Device Manager via “Start” > “Settings” > “System Control” > “Computer Management”, “System” under the entry “Device Manager”. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 22: Installation Of The Radio And Tv Software

    In the same way please also install the software for the RDS – Radio Receiver ActiveRadio. After you have called the setup of the TV software via the auto-starter, please follow the in- structions on the screen and everything will be Ok. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 23: Update? Tidy Up The System? The Deinstallation

    “TerraTV WDM Video Capture” entry in the same way, too. The remaining TerraTV entries should also have disappeared now. Now click on "Remove"... You access the Device Manager via “Start” > “Settings” > “System Control” > “System” under the Register Card “Device Manager”. TValue Radio (English)
  • Page 24 To remove the driver files once and for all, please open the software area in the system control and mark the option “TerraTV Drivers” and click on “Add/Remove”. Now click on "Add/Remove"... TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 25: Deinstallation Of The Software Under Windows 98 Se / Me

    To remove the TV software, please open the software area in the system control and mark the option “TerraTV Software” and click on “Add/Remove”. Now click on "Add/Remove"... After you have chosen the language, only still choose the option “Remove”, “Next” and then you are ready. Now click on "Remove” and “Next” ... TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 26: Deinstallation Of The Drivers Under Windows 2000

    "Hardware" and on the button “Device Manager...”. To remove the driver files once and for all, please open the software area in the system control and mark the option “TerraTV Drivers” and click on “Add/Remove”. Select the entry "TerraTV Drivers" ... TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 27: Deinstallation Of The Software Under Windows 2000

    “TerraTV Software” and click on “Add/Remove”. Select the entry "TerraTV Software“ ... After you have chosen the language, only still choose the option “Remove”, then “Next” and you are ready. Now click on “Remove” and “Next” ... TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 28: What? Where? The Connections Of The Tv Card

    For this reason look at the following illustrations ... TV-antenna-Out Video-Out / Composite SVHS-Out > Video-In > SVHS-In > TV-antenna-In Radio-antenna output Scart-Out > Radio- antenna-In Video: > Video-In > SVHS-In Audio: > Audio-In TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 29: The Tv Antenna-In

    SAT-receiver. Here is the antenna output of a video recorder. Such a plug is connected to the TV card. To set the transmitter later in the software please read page 42 in the chapter “ TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 30: The Radio Antenna Input

    Such a plug is connected to the TV card. To adjust the transmitter in the software later or to record from a radio station, please read more in the chapter “The Radio-Software.” on page 67. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 31: The Audio Input

    In-input of the sound card can vary from model to model. In the following section you will read how to send the line input of your sound card with another external line-signal – so stick at it... TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 32: The Video Input (Fbas)

    SVHS input. This means that if you connect external devices to the TV card via these inputs, you also need another cable for the sound. So connect the audio output of these devices to the Line-In or to your sound card. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 33: And What About A Scart Output

    You carry out the connection of the SCART- video output to the video input of the TV card as already described in the chapter entitled “The Video Input (FBAS).” on page 32 or in the chap- ter entitled “The SVHS”. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 34: The Tv Software

    Now let us study the central control unit of your card, the TV software. Here you can conven- iently adjust all settings and use the extensive functions. In the following we would like to explain to you the individual windows and their details step by step. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 35: The Station Scan

    “New channels found”. These can now be individually transferred to your channel list (“Channels saved”), in which you select the entry required and then press [<], or you can transfer the entire list by clicking on [<<]. You can individually remove the channels by TValue Radio (English)
  • Page 36 – to do this keep the left mouse button pressed when marking a channel and drag the entry onto the position required. Everything Ok? Great ... to close the dialog, please select “OK“. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 37: The Remote Control

    With these two buttons you select one of the external video sequences, either the SVHS or the video-input. You can learn how to connect devices to these proc- esses in the chapter “The Video Input (FBAS).“ on page 32 or in the chapter “The SVHS”. TValue Radio (English)
  • Page 38 With the up arrow and down arrow you can browse through the sub- pages of a page. These can only be selected if the current sub-pages of the page are available. TValue Radio (English)
  • Page 39 Teletext page – unfortunately there are none there. You can find out about the functions of the EPG button in the chapter “The Electronic Program Guide (EPG)” on page 52. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 40: The Enhanced Settings

    Video Format. Here you can select the color format and the resolution of the video display. Please note that this setting only applies to the display and not for the capturing. Set the resolution above in which the settings correspond to the following resolutions. TValue Radio (English)
  • Page 41 With the controllers “Brightness”, “Contrast” and “Color” you can influence corresponding parts of the video image. With the button “Standard settings“ you reset the settings. Please note that contrary to the setting for the resolution, the image settings affect the recording. TValue Radio (English)
  • Page 42 About the background: A complete video image always consists of two frames, which are each brought onto the screen with a vertical line offset, making up the complete video image. TValue Radio (English)
  • Page 43 “Off into the Computer ... the Installation of the Card.”. Under “Compression” you can also activate a “miniaturizer” for the audio part. Special settings concerning the se- lected audio compression can be accessed via the button “[>>]”. TValue Radio (English)
  • Page 44 Internet, this is still practical. If you click on the field with the picture of the camera, a still image capture is made. STRG+C would be the corresponding keyboard abbreviation for this. TValue Radio (English)
  • Page 45 Teletext. If you still have a slow PC and the TV-reproduction does not appear fluid, it can be helpful to disenable the Teletext function and thereby give your PC a bit more power for the TV reproduc- tion. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 46: The Audio Settings

    Mode Under the option, you can set the mode of the audio playback of the TV-tuner. Since the TValue radio for the TV part only supports mono, the remaining options are displayed in gray. Input With you define which audio signal is relayed to the input of the sound card. “TV” for the sound of the RV picture, “FM”...

  • Page 47: The Video Window

    “Still image capture” provides you with a still image for the clip- board, or an image file on the hard disk – Details about this are on page 44. With “Close TV window” you fade out the video window. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 48: The Fullscreen

    With a left mouse click you bring the remote control into the picture and with another click it disappears again. However, you also have direct access to the most im- portant functions via the context menu, which you activate with the right mouse button. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 49: Multi-Channelpreview

    (See page 45). Now if you click with the mouse in one of these frames, the channel stays in the “live” view. If you double click, the channel is displayed in fullscreen. Of course, you can also view the multi-channelpre- view in fullscreen. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 50: The Teletext

    (the pointer becomes a hand with extended forefinger) and by a click on the left mouse button you can directly branch there. If you press the right mouse button in the window of the Teletext display, then a context menu appears, which we now want to deal with in more detail. TValue Radio (English)
  • Page 51 (TXT). The “Fullscreen” changes the Teletext window in the full- screen display mode. “Always on top” ensures that your Teletext does not dis- appear behind the windows of other applications. “Close Teletext” closes the window. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 52: The Electronic Program Guide (Epg)

    You can find more information in the actual EPG. To come directly to these pages, you can enter the address http://terratec.tvtv.de in your browser. The EPG is unfortunately only available for Germany. We hope, that we will be able to offer support for other countries in the future.

  • Page 53: The Software Used

    (Scene1- Entrance – the door goes picture1.bmp”, “Scene1- Entrance – the door goes pic- ture2.bmp” ...). It can be as simple as that. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 54: Creating Video Sequences

    Normally we can say, that the more effec- tive the compression is the more complicated it is for the processor. Within the last few years TValue Radio (English)
  • Page 55 Play-button of the remote control, it can happen that the playback jams a little or does not react on some systems. In this case, please fade out the video window and start the playback again. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 56: The Radio-Software

    46 in the chapter “The Audio Settings.”). Please refer to all other piquant details from the convenient Online-help, which you call via the F1-key. When you do this, please make sure that the RDS functions of the software are not available for the TValue Radio. Interesting Internet Offers.
  • Page 57 It is something more for freaks or similarly minded people, but the possibilities are ex- cellent. AVI_IO http://www.nct.ch/multimedia/avi_io/ - (English) – is particularly powerful for managing and processing very large AVI-files. ReelCap http://www.reelware.com/reelcaphome.htm - (English) - another capture program, simple but effective. TValue Radio (English)

  • Page 58: The Service At Terratec

    – then please contact us directly. The first way is via the Internet if possible: On the pages http://www.terratec.net/ you can always find current answers for frequently asked questions (FAQ) as well as the latest driver.

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