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Hauppauge WinTV-USB Installation And Reference Manual

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  • Page 1 ® WinTV Installation and Reference Manual Hauppauge! ®...
  • Page 2 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Copyright (c) Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 2000 Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 91 Cabot Court Hauppauge, NY 11788 Hauppauge Computer Works, GmbH Krefelder Straße 673e 41061 Mönchengladbach, Germany Hauppauge Computer Works, Ltd 6 Bank Chambers Borough High Street London, U.K.

  • Page 3: Fcc Statement

    FCC Statement Radio Interference Statement: The WinTV USB have 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 reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residen- tial installation.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    WinTV-USB board diagram ...1-2 Installing the WinTV-USB...1-2 Installing the WinTV-USB under Windows98 ...1-3 Primary Surface mode ...1-5 Connecting WinTV-USB to a VCR, Video Camera or Camcorder...1-5 Connecting WinTV- USB to a Sound Card ...1-6 Adjusting the Audio Volume...1-6 The WinTV32 & WinTV2000 application The WinTV32 window...2-1...
  • Page 5 Problem: TV picture displays a black screen ...7-3 Problem: Snapshots don’t display correctly...7-3 Updating the WinTV-USB driver Updating the WinTV-USB Driver...8-1 Removing the WinTV-USB driver with HCWCLEAR ...8-2 Restarting the WinTV-USB driver with HCWRESET ...8-4 Technical Support Technical support telephone ...A-1 Service ...A-1...
  • Page 6 Trademarks: WinTV and the Hauppauge logo are registered trademarks of Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. Intercast and the Intercast logo are trademarks of Intel Corp. Microsoft is a registered trademark and Windows and the Microsoft logo are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. IBM and PC are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation.
  • Page 8 WinTV-USB FM References to the WinTV USB apply to all models. The Windows98 driver for all of the WinTV USB models will be referred to as the WinTV-USB driver, and the installation CD-ROM will be referred to as the WinTV Installation CD-ROM.

  • Page 10: Board Connections

    Installing the WinTV USB ote: DO NOT PLUG THE WinTV-USB into your PC until your PC has fully booted.. To install WinTV USB under Windows 98 or 2000, you will follow these steps:  Plug the WinTV USB into your PC or laptop’s USB port(After booting...

  • Page 11: Installing The Wintv-Usb

    Installation and Reference Manual Contents of the WinTV-USB package. WinTV-USB or WinTV-USB-FM unit 1 meter audio cable - sound cable for connecting between the WinTV-USB and your sound card S-Video to composite adapter FM radio antenna (on WinTV USB-FM models equipped with FM radio)
  • Page 12 Then plug the WinTV-USB into one of the USB connectors on the back of your PC, not a USB hub or keyboard. Installing the driver under Windows98 or Windows2000 After the WinTV-USB is installed, the Add New Hardware Wizard will appear.

  • Page 13: Connecting Wintv-Usb To A Vcr, Video Camera Or Camcorder

    Windows98 SE, do not use a Windows98 Gold CD-ROM. Also if Plug-n-Play does not correctly load the driver, you may manually load the driver from the WinTV-USB CD-Rom. Open the USB folder and double click the file “USB98.exe” to manually install the driver.

  • Page 14: Connecting Wintv- Usb To A Sound Card

    If you need a female RCA to 1/8” minijack adapter, these adapters can be found at most Radio Shack stores. Connecting the WinTV-USB to a Sound Card The board's audio output should be connected to a sound card using the supplied...
  • Page 15 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual The VolumeControl application is started by clicking either: Start/Programs/Accessories/Multimedia/VolumeControl Start/Programs/Accessories/Entertainment/VolumeControl Double click the speaker icon in Systray You should see Line-In balance as one of the selections. If not, then click on Options/Properties and under Show the following volume controls check Line-In.

  • Page 16: The Wintv32 & Wintv2000 Application

    The WinTV2000 Application Close Mute Source Full screen TV Color/audio configuration Remove toolbar Channel configuration Minimize Click your right mouse Freeze button here to remove toolbars. Click again to restore toolbar. Configure snapshot Snapshot button Snapshot viewer window - Current TV channel or Software remote double click on each video source...
  • Page 17 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Watch TV Still frame image mode Motion video capture mode capture mode * Radio* Toolbar Dolby ProLogic On/Off * Full screen Previous TV mode TV image channel Freeze frame size Channel Volume Channel surf indicator...

  • Page 18: Running The Wintv Application

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Running the WinTV application After installing the WinTV application from the WinTV USB Installation CD-ROM, you will see icons on your Windows background. Start WinTV32 by double clicking on its icon. Once the Application is initialized, you should see the RED light illuminate on the WinTV USB.

  • Page 19: Still Frame Image Capture Mode

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual You can modify the channel names by single clicking on the channel, then clicking Edit. Change the channel name to the name that you would like to have dis- played in the 32 toolbar. Still Frame Image Capture mode You can switch the 32 application into the high quality image capture mode by clicking on the Still Frame Image Capture Mode button on the toolbar.

  • Page 20: Motion Video Capture Mode

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual You can capture images up to 1600x1200 pixels. To reduce the effects of motion in the video image, but with lower image resolution, in the Fields Captured option choose 1 (Motion). Motion Video Capture mode...

  • Page 21: Using The Mouse In Wintv

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual For best performance when capturing, set the Image Format to YUY2 or RGB , and the Image Dimensions to 320x240. Although you can capture larger than 320x240, the file size will be larger and the video capture quality will be down graded.

  • Page 22: Setting Up Your Tv Channels

    WinTV window and moving it to the new position. Then let it go! Move the WinTV window in TitleMode by clicking and holding your mouse button on the Title Bar (where it says Hauppauge WinTV32), hold- ing it down and dragging it to the new position.

  • Page 23: Setting Preferences In Title Mode

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual You’ll see the Channel Manager. From the Channel Manager, you can Add, Edit or Delete channels. You can also create channel suites, which are subsets of the All Channel suite. For example, you can have a suite of just TV news channels, and name this suite “News”.

  • Page 24: Setting Full Screen Tv Mode

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Setting full screen TV mode Click Display/Preferences/View and then click on the TV Mode tab. Set Allow Resolution Change. If you then click on the TV icon on the 32 Toolbar, the application will switch the VGA mode to the chosen size (using the Windows Quick Res feature), allowing the image to be viewed full screen.

  • Page 25: Image Save, Print, Copy To Clipboard

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Image Save, Print and Copy to Clipboard The process to save, print or copy an image starts with the digitizing of a single video frame. When one of these functions are clicked on, the next video frame is moved into your PC’s main system memory instead of the VGA display.

  • Page 26: Adjusting The Video Image Color

    Options menu, you can change the TV window to any size you want! Make it tall, short or any size. With Aspect Ratio turned on, the window size will always be forced to a 4:3 ratio. WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual 2-11...

  • Page 27: Keyboard Control Of The Wintv Application

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Keyboard control of the 32 application Convenient keyboard controls duplicate the functions of the toolbar. Volume Up Volume Down Mute Channel Up Channel Down Print a Frame Copy to Clipboard Copy from Clipboard Freeze Frame...
  • Page 28 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Click on Browse, then look in the Program Files/ directory. Select WinTV 32.exe. Then click on NEXTto finish to set up the shortcut. 2-13...
  • Page 29 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual 2-14...

  • Page 30: Overview Of Video Clip Capture

    Creating Digital Video movies with WinTV-USB Overview of Video Clip Capture Live video which is digitized by the video digitizer (see “How WinTV USB works”) can be “captured” as a video sequence (or “video clip”) by using the WinTV Capture program. This program is provided in the WinTV Application and uses Microsoft’s WDM for Windows capability which is built...

  • Page 31: Setting The Video Image Size

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Using WinTV Capture The WinTV-Capture program is an easy-to-use program that previews live video, captures an AVI file to disk, and plays back the AVI file to your VGA screen. WinTV-Capture can capture and playback video clips, but does not pro- vide video editing capabilities.

  • Page 32: Setting The Number Of Frames Per Second Captured

    Using Audio with -Capture To capture audio along with video, the WinTV USB must be connected to a sound board capable of saving sound clips. To connect the USB to a sound board do the following: WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...

  • Page 33: Suggestions On Capturing Video

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual a) Make sure the audio output of the card is plugged into the LineInput of the sound board. b) Make sure the LineInput volume for recording is set correctly and not muted. Open the Volume control panel, then click on Options/Properties. In the panel Adjust volume for recording set for Recording.

  • Page 34: Tips On Improving Capture Performance

    These drives use 1:1 interleaving and track caching to elim- inate gaps caused by a hard disk drive seeking to the next track. They are available with both IDE and SCSI interfaces. WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual 1 minute video...

  • Page 36: Teletext Data Reception Using Vtplus

    Teletext page they are being transmitted on. Teletext data must be inserted into the VBI by your TV broadcaster, and can only be received on the WinTV USB if the Hauppauge Teletext decoder is installed.
  • Page 37 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Starting VTPlus If the VTPlus application is provided on CD-ROM, then it will automatically be installed from the Installation CD-ROM. To start VTPlus, click on the VTPlus button in WinTV32 or click on the TELE button in WinTV2000. this will close the TV application and launch VTPlus.
  • Page 38 100, the Select next Subpage icon will be light grey. 5. Reveal button: shortcut for Show/HiddenCharacters. When you use this button you might see hidden text, such as VPS time codes or answers from a Quiz. WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual *TOP text select Set Time/Date...
  • Page 39 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Quickselect Teletext pages By using the Ctrl+N key a Create and Receive page pops up requesting a page number. Type the requested page number. If this page is to be received continuous- ly (every time the page is received, the page is automatically updated), click the Update Continuously box.
  • Page 40 DDE occur when all subpages are being received and at every update, when the option Update Continuously is marked. ote: For DDE to operate it is necessary for the VTPlus pro- gram to be running and for the specific page to be shown. WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...
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  • Page 42: Using The Wintv-Radio Application

    TV antenna (or cable TV network) carries both TV and FM radio, you can con- nect to the TV antenna connector only: Running the Radio Application Click on Start / Programs / Hauppauge WinTV and then Radio to run the radio application. The radio window...

  • Page 43: Using The Wintv-Radio Buttons

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Using the Radio Buttons Volume: The audio volume is adjusted by setting the LineIn level in the Volume Control applet. Tune: Fine tune the current radio channel. Seek: Search for the next active FM radio channel.
  • Page 44 3. Frequencies - A list of all frequencies assigned to the preset buttons is shown. 4. Tool Tips - Turn on/off bubble help. 5. Minimize - Minimizes the -radio application window. WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...
  • Page 45 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...

  • Page 46: How Wintv Works

    How WinTV-USB Works Video Overlay mode of operation Live TV can be displayed on your VGA screen by using either the Video Overlay or the Primary Surface mode. The mode which is used is dependent upon your PC’s hardware and software. If your PC:...
  • Page 47 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Also, because the video is moved directly onto the Primary Surface, features such as close captioning and full-screen TV in resolutions greater than 640x480 will be disabled.

  • Page 48: Troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting This chapter includes troubleshooting help for solving common problems. Problem: Bad colors in the TV window If your VGA display is running in 256 color mode, the TV picture will be dis- played with only 256 colors. This compares with the 16 million different colors which are in the original TV image.

  • Page 49: Problem: Tv Picture Displays A Black Screen

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual enough video RAM to hold the TV image. In this case, resorts to Primary Surface mode, which lowers image quality. A memory upgrade on your VGA dis- play adapter might fix this problem. Another possible cause of this problem could be that your VGA display adapter does not support Windows 98 Direct Draw.
  • Page 50 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Primary Surface mode & DIB Draw It is sometimes useful to use a mode of operation of your VGA card known as Primary Surface mode or DIB Draw. This can be helpful in eliminating VGA compatibility problems, or improving picture quality on some VGA boards when used in some resolutions.
  • Page 51 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...
  • Page 52 From time to time, there might be a new WinTV USB driver which is an improvement over the existing driver. Driver updates can be downloaded from the Hauppauge Internet Web site (see the front page of this manual for the URL). The WinTV USB update is combined with the driver uninstaller and the driver installer.
  • Page 53 Installation and Reference Manual Click Next. The Update program now uninstalls the existing WinTV-USB driver, then copies a number of files to your hard disk: After the Driver installation program has copied all of the files over to your disk drive, you will be asked to reboot: Click OK to reboot your PC.
  • Page 54 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual The HCWCLEAR application can be found in the MISC/UTILITY directory: Run HCWCLEAR by double clicking on its icon: Click OK. You will then see the following message: Click Yes. If there are any errors which come up during the running of HCWCLEAR, then...
  • Page 55 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual it means that there is an application running which is using the drivers. For exam- ple, if you see the following error: it means that one of the WinTV USB driver files in use . You can either ignore the error, or can can double check to make sure there are no applications running in the system that might be using the WinTV USB driver.

  • Page 56: Technical Support A

    Hauppauge be liable for consequential damages, including any lost savings, lost profits, or any other damages, caused by the use of the WinTV USB or inability to use it, even if the dealer or Hauppauge has been advised of such liability or other claims.
  • Page 57 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...

  • Page 58: Warranty

    The Hauppauge Limited Warranty Warranty Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. warrants the WinTV USB to be free from defects in material and workmanship for a period of 2 years from date of initial retail purchase. We will, at our option, repair or replace a defective product. The limited warranty does not cover any losses or damage that occur as a result of: •...
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