User manual HAUPPAUGE USB-LIVE2 QUICK INSTALLATION GUIDE

[. . . ] Once complete, click OK then Exit. ote: the latest driver updates are available at: www. hauppauge. com USB-Live2 is a Windows video capture device. It can be used for digitizing and compressing video from video cameras, video tape recorders and other devices which create analog video signals. Included with USB-Live2 are two applications: WinTV v7, which is used for displaying live video on your PC screen and to create video recordings, DVD MovieFactory, which can be used to burn your USBLive2 recordings to DVD or CD. When recording live video with the WinTV v7 application, USBLive2 creates a . TS (transport stream) file. [. . . ] The file will be formatted as: (ChannelNumber)_(ChannelName)YearMonthDay_TIme. For analog video using the SoftPVR encoder, the quality of the video recording is set to 6Mbits/sec. If you want to pause a video you are watching: TV Scheduler Close captions Always on top Click the Pause button. To start the video from where you paused, click the Play - button Watch, Pause and Record Video If you wish to connect a source not normally designed for operation in your country, you can configure the Video Format manually from the drop down list. WinTV v7 is always recording video to your PC's hard drive while TV is being displayed. In this way, you can immediately skip back and replay the video you are watching. Clicking on the Pause button will cause the video to pause, while clicking the Record button will cause the current video to be recorded to hard disk. Recorded video formats: . TS or . MPEG The default recording format is . TS (transport stream). If you have a video editing program which requires files of the type MPEG, click on the Settings menu, click the Advanced Options tab and set Auto convert to MPG. Your recordings will now be made in an MPEG-2 format with the file extension . MPG - To rewind the video to the beginning, click the Skip to the beginning button. If your video was paused, click the Play button. The Delay counter displays how much time you are behind the 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. Using the WinTV v7 application To video, click the Watch TV button. Options menu The Options menu is the main menu where you can select channels, turn on close captions, open the TV Scheduler, show Image capture To capture still images from video, click the `Snapshot' button. The configuration of the formats for still image capture is in the Capture settings. To configure, click the Settings menu button, then click on the Capture folder. You can chose between BMP and JPEG formats. set for Record Weekly, you must also specify the Day of the Week for the recording. Source selection: leave set at WinTV to bring up the WinTV at the requested time and on the requested channel. clicking them while in the timeline bar. When you are finished adding videos, click Next and proceed to creating a DVD menu and then onto DVD burning. Recording videos with WinTV v7 for use in DVD MovieFactory Recordings made with the USB-Live2 in the WinTV v7 application are normally saved in the MyVideos directory, To change this directory, click the Settings menu and then the Folders tab. With the WinTV v7 application, every time you create a recording a new file is automatically created. The file will be formatted as: (ChannelNumber)_(ChannelName)YearMonthDay_TIme. TV Scheduler WinTV v7's built-in TV Scheduler allows you to schedule video recordings. Once a record event is set, WinTV v7 can be closed and will "wake up" at the desired time and tuned to the desired channel. [. . . ] In this case go back to settings and uncheck "use hardware acceleration" and rerun WinTV. Uninstalling the WinTV driver and applications Run the hcwclear. exe from the installation CD. Select OK A black screen will briefly appear and once it has disappeared the software will be removed. If you now re-start the computer you will be at Step 4 of the installation. Jerky video with live video Jerky or distorted video can be caused by two things in your PC or laptop: a slow CPU which cannot decode the video signal fast enough, and a graphics system which cannot keep up with the video decode. [. . . ]