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  • Page 1 ® WinTV USB Installation and Reference Manual Hauppauge! ®...

  • Page 2: Web Site

    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 resi- dential installation.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Revision 4.8 FCC Statement ... CE Statement... Installing the WinTV-USB Installation overview ...1-1 Board connections ...1-1 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...
  • Page 5 Warranty ...B-1 Trademarks: WinTV and the Hauppauge logo are registered trademarks of Hauppauge Digital, Inc. 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 6 WinTV-USB 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 8: Board Connections

    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 into...

  • Page 9: Installing The Wintv-Usb

    WinTV driver for Windows98 and Windows2000 Microsoft NetMeeting for video conferencing Installing the WinTV-USB ote: DO NOT PLUG THE WinTV-USB into your PC until your PC has fully booted.. Turn on and boot into Windows98 and/or Windows 2000. models equipped with FM radio) WinTV USB-FM...
  • Page 10 Select Search for the best driver for your device (Recommended). Click NEXT. When you see this dialog box, insert the WinTV USB Installation CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive. Select CD-ROM drive and click NEXT. Once the Hauppauge WinTV-USB video driver has been detected, click NEXT.

  • Page 11: Connecting Wintv-Usb To A Vcr, Video Camera Or Camcorder

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual ote: Be sure to use the exact version of Windows 98 CD- ROM that is installed on your system. If you are using 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.

  • Page 12: Connecting Wintv- Usb To A Sound Card

    Adjusting the Audio Volume Once the audio cable is connected to your Sound Card, the WinTV application can change the audio volume coming from the WinTV USB by adjusting the LineInput sound volume of the Volume Control program in Windows.
  • Page 13 If Line-In is muted or not selected, unmute or select it to hear audio from the WinTV USB. In the WinTV application under the Configure/Audio menu (in WinTV200 click on the AUD button), the Mixer ID should be set at Line-In.

  • Page 14: The Wintv32 & Wintv2000 Application

    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 WinTV-2000 or WinTV-32 by double clicking on its icon. Once the WinTV application is initialized, you should see the RED light illu- minate on the WinTV USB.
  • Page 15 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Watch TV Still frame mode Motion video image capture capture mode mode Radio* Toolbar Full screen Previous TV mode TV image Freeze frame channel size Channel Volume Channel surf indicator Video level source Mute Volume up/down Channel Mono / Stereo Suites...
  • Page 16 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual If you are using a cable TV connection, in the Broadcast/Cable menu item, select Cable. In Video Format, in North America choose NTSC M. In South America, choose PAL M or PAL N. After the scan is complete, you will have a list of TV channels which are active in your area.

  • Page 17: Still Frame Image Capture Mode

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Still Frame Image Capture mode With WinTV-32, you can switch into the high quality image capture mode by clicking on the Still Frame Image Capture Mode button on the toolbar. When you click on this button, you will see the Image Capture Toolbar. Click on the Configure icon in the Image Capture Toolbar to set the image capture resolution and to configure for either still or motion video images.

  • Page 18: Motion Video Capture Mode

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual To reduce the effects of motion in the video image, but with lower image resolu- tion, in the Fields Captured option choose 1 (Motion). Motion Video Capture mode You can switch the WinTV-32 application into the motion video capture mode by clicking on the Motion Video Capture Mode button on the toolbar (see page 2-2 for its location).

  • Page 19: Using The Mouse In Wintv

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

  • Page 20: Setting Up Your Tv Channels

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Move the WinTV window in TitleMode by clicking and holding your mouse button on the WinTV Title Bar, holding it down and dragging it to the new posi- tion. You can set a different size and a different place on your VGA screen for the WinTV window in TitleMode and NoTitleMode.

  • Page 21: Setting Preferences In Title Mode

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual 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”. Channel Suites allow you to create a subset of all the chan- nels, so that you can channel surf through only those channels.

  • Page 22: Setting Full Screen Tv Mode

    Setting full screen TV mode Click Display/Preferences/View and then click on the TV Mode tab. Set Allow Resolution Change. Once you have clicked on Allow Resolution Change, if you then click on the TV icon on the WinTV-32 Toolbar, the WinTV will switch to full screen. Image Save, Print and Copy to Clipboard The process to save, print or copy an image starts with the digitizing of a single WinTV-USB...

  • Page 23: Adjusting The Video Image Color

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual 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. Your PC’s processor then converts the digitized video image into a 24-bit DIB image (a format which is used internally in Windows), and then copied back into the VGA memory so that you can see the image which will be printed or saved.

  • Page 24: Options Menu

    Options Menu The Options Menu has settings for Always-on-Top mode and Aspect ratio mode plus duplicates buttons found on the toolbar for operation without a mouse. Always-on-Top mode The Always-on-Top mode conveniently puts the TV window “on top of” other Windows windows.
  • Page 25 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Mute Channel Up Channel Down Print a Frame Copy to Clipboard Copy from Clipboard Freeze Frame Full screen TV mode Reset tool bar Take a snapshot Right mouse button Setting up a shortcut You can set up a shortcut to the application at any time. To do this, click your right mouse button on your Windows background.
  • Page 26 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Then click on NEXT to finish to set up the shortcut. 2-13...

  • Page 27: Overview Of Video Clip Capture

    Creating Digital Video movies with 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 into Windows 98...

  • Page 28: 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 provide video editing capabilities.

  • Page 29: Setting The Number Of Frames Per Second Captured

    Capture Video icon. 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...

  • Page 30: Suggestions On Capturing Video

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual 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. Make sure LineInput is checked under Show the following volume controls and that the volume for LineInput is not muted and is set at an appropriate level.

  • Page 31: Tips On Improving Capture Performance

    image size frames/second bytes per second 160x120 15 frames/sec 320x240 15 frames/sec 320x240 30 frames/sec Video consumes quite a bit of hard disk space! At 320x240, you will only be able to store about 10 minutes of video on a 1 Gigabyte hard disk! To reduce the amount of hard disk space used by your digital videos, you can edit the video using one of the popular 32-bit digital video editors (such as Adobe’s Premiere or U-Lead’s MediaStudio).

  • Page 33: 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 34 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. The WinTV USB cannot run the application and VTPlus at the same time.
  • Page 35 VTPlus toolbar *Select TV channel Reveal invisible text Next Subpage Previous Subpage Script Reception indicator *Note: These functions are not applicable in the UK. 1. Reception indicator: when this symbol is red, your requested page is being received. 2. Script: shortcut for Options/Script. See Help for information on program- ming the Script.
  • Page 36 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 continu- ously (every time the page is received, the page is automatically updated), click the Update Continuously box.
  • Page 37 Then click on Edit/Copy option from the Edit menu and click the left mouse button. The information is now in the PC memory. To create a link to the DDE supported applications (such as your spreadsheet), select “edit past special” in your application and choose the past link option. VTPlus will now create a direct link to your program.
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  • Page 39: 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 40: Programming The Presets

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Tune: Fine tune the current radio channel. Seek: Search for the next active FM radio channel. Mem: Sets a FM radio channel preset. To assign the current station to a preset, click on Mem and then on one of the Preset buttons (1-10). Mute: Turn off the sound.
  • Page 41 1. Scan Mode: Presets - When Presets is chosen and the Scan button is clicked, -radio tunes in only the stations which are assigned to the Preset buttons. 2. Scan Mode: All - When All is chosen and the Scan button is clicked, - radio tunes in all radio stations.
  • Page 42 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...

  • Page 43: How Wintv Works

    How WinTV-USB Works Your WinTV-USB contains a 125 channel cable ready TV tuner, a video digitizer, a video compression engine and a USB bus controller. WinTV-USB displays video and audio in the following way: Under software control, the WinTV-USB either tunes to a TV channel or selects the external audio/video input source.
  • Page 44 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...

  • Page 45: 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 46: Problem: Tv Picture Displays A Black Screen

    WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual does not support Windows 98 Direct Draw. In this case, you might consider an upgrade to a new Windows VGA accelerator which has Direct Draw support and is compatible with the USB. A poor video picture might also indicate a bad signal. To verify a bad signal, try one or more of these: Move your antenna or check your cable connection.
  • Page 47 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual patibility problems, or improving picture quality on some VGA boards when used in some resolutions. To use Primary Surface mode, run the program "PRIMARY", which is installed with the WinTV application. Click Start/ Programs/WinTV and then, Click on Primary.
  • Page 48 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...

  • Page 49: Updating The Wintv-Usb Driver

    Updating the WinTV-USB driver From time to time, there might be a new WinTV USB driver which is an improve- ment 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).
  • Page 50 WinTV-USB 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 51 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual 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 it means that there is an application running which is using the drivers. For exam- ple, if you see the following error:...
  • Page 52 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual 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. In general, to make sure the re-installation is done correctly, all applications using the WinTV USB driver should be stopped before HCWCLEAR is run.

  • Page 53: Technical Support A

    Our service department is available to repair any Hauppauge product. For completion of repair, the product must be returned to our factory. If this WinTV USB is not in working order, your only recourse is repair or replace- ment, as described above. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES will Hauppauge be...
  • Page 54 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual...

  • Page 55: 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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