User manual HAUPPAUGE WINTV-HVR-1950

[. . . ] WinTV-HVR-1950 Quick Installation Guide for Windows XP and Windows Vista (all versions) Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 91 Cabot Court Hauppauge, NY 11788 Telephone: 631-434-1600 Fax: 631-434-3198 Tech Support: 631-434-3197 techsupport@hauppauge. com ATSC is very processor intensive, and the smoothness of high definition TV programs depends upon how fast your PC or laptop system is. Other PC activities that consume CPU resources might affect the display of ATSC digital TV. Slow video, jerky video and momentary pausing of video are all results of a CPU which is temporarily being used by other activities. [. . . ] You can set the size and posiiton of the window differently in each mode. Minimise Channel up Remove toolbars no title mode Using the WinTV v6 application Full screen Rescanning TV channels If you want to rescan for TV channels, click Menu Pref button Close / Suite Manager. To scan analog cable TV channels, under Sources, highlight Analog source and click Auto scan. To scan for digital ATSC channels, under Input Sources, highlight ATSC source and click Auto scan. To scan for digital QAM channels, under Input Sources, highlight Volume Always on Top Mute Setup Menu CFG Configure Snapshot Snapshot viewer window: Double click on each thumbnail to see image full size. Click and hold your right mouse button to see image options. Snapshot Still capture Channel down Channel surf Last channel Freeze picture Click the Pref button to open the Preferences menu: Click your right mouse button in the TV window to remove toolbars. Click again to restore toolbars. View: These are the settings for the On Screen Display of the TV channel and Audio Volume plus controls for the Toolbar mode (Title mode), NoToolbar mode (No Title) and Full Screen (TV mode). Movies: Here is where you configure the video and audio setting for SoftPVRTM. You can set the movie record directory (DVCR Record File Path), the MPEG Quality settings, and the Audio settings. Snapshot: Set the size of your captured image, and settings for capturing motion or still images. Color: Adjust the color of your TV picture here. Clear QAM Source and click Auto scan. During the scan for ATSC and QAM digital TV channels, the Signal Status will show a quality level and the locked box will be checked if a channel is detected. Current TV channel Click your right mouse button here to see the channel selector TV mode Pause Record Playback Other changes to channel listings If you want to add names or fine tune an analog channel, click Menu / Suite Manager / Sources. Click on the Page 4 Page 5 Menu button Click the Menu button to open the TV setup menu. Here is the Page 6 main control bar for TV channels, and duplicate controls for other functions: Suite Manager: Configure the TV tuner (scanning, naming, channel preset, etc) setting up `favorite channel lists') Configuration: Duplicate configuration menus for colour, audio, MPEG settings, etc. View: For setting an exact TV window size: 320x240, etc. Time counter Record/Playback control bar Pause Clicking the Pause button while Playing will pause your audio/video. Rewind button Clicking the Rewind button will play the video file in reverse. Clicking the Rewind button again will continue the playing of the video. Fast forward button Clicking the Fast Forward button one time will fast forward your video at 2X speed. Clicking the Fast Forward button two times will fast forward your video at 8X speed. Clicking the button again will continue playing back at normal speed. Skip back 10 sec Video-position Skip forward 10 sec Fast rewind Pause Play Fast forward for 30 minutes and so on. Configuring an external A/V source in WinTV v6 When using an external audio/video such as a satellite TV receiver, VCR, cable TV set top box, camcorder, game console etc, connect the S-Video input connector or Composite video input connector for video and the Audio input (Line-In) for the sound. To configure the external A/V source, in the WinTV application click Menu / Suite Manager and Sources. To add the S-video or Composite source, highlight the entry and then select the Video Format from the drop down list. Stop Clicking the Stop button will stop the video you are recording or playing back. Playback TV recordings TV Mode Pause Record Playback Clicking on the Record button will cause the Record menu to roll down and start recording. Note: Pause is not supported on WinTV-HVR1950. Click the Playback button on the WinTV application to open the Playback control bar. File button In the File menu you can: Recording TV with the WinTV-HVR-1950 When recording ATSC or QAM digital TV, the recording format is the same as the digital TV resolution of the TV program. For example, if the TV program is being transmitted at the highest digital TV resolution, called "1080i', the recording will consume 5. 6 Gigabytes of disk space per hour of recording. [. . . ] 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. The Hauppauge remote control The WinTV remote control software is installed automatically during the installation of the WinTV applications. The installaApplication Go button tion will add a shortcut to IR. EXE on/off to the Startup group, so that IR. EXE is loaded every time after TV button Windows has booted. If you need to restart the remote control, run IR32. EXE from the WinTV directory. [. . . ]