User manual HAUPPAUGE WINTV-USB

[. . . ] WinTV-USB WinTV-USB-FM Installation and Reference Manual WinTV-USB WinTV-USB-FM Installation and Reference Manual Copyright (c) Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 91 Cabot Court Hauppauge, NY 11788 Telephone: 631-434-1600 Fax: 631-434-3198 Tech Support: 631-434-3197 Hauppauge Computer Works, GmbH Krefelder Straße 673e 41061 Mönchengladbach, Germany Telephone: 02161-694880 Fax: 02161-6948815 BBS: 02161-177353 Technical Support: 02161-6948840 Hauppauge Computer Works, Ltd Phone: 6 Bank Chambers Fax: Borough High Street Technical Support: London, U. K. SE1 9QQ BBS: 0207-378-1997 0207-357-9171 0207-378-0202 0207-357-6587 Internet addresses: Sales: sales@hauppauge. com Technical Support: techsupport@hauppauge. com www. hauppauge. com WINTV-USB-M1. 1-ENG 04/15/03 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 residential installation. [. . . ] Record Button: Clicking the Record button will automatically generate a file name and start recording your audio/video program. Everytime you record a file, a new file is automatically created and the file name is displayed in the record window. While recording: Live video continues to play in the WinTV window 3-1 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual The Counter will display the length of your recording in hours:minutes:seconds If you had started recording with the OTR button, and had clicked it more than once, the total time for the recording will also be displayed. You can also click OTR after a record has been started, and the record timer will be set. Click the Stop button to stop your recording. The recorded audio/video file is then saved to disk using the automatically assigned file name. Play Button: Clicking the Play button will playback from disk the last video file created. In the File menu you can: Rename your recorded video file, Play a video file previously recorded, Delete recorded video files. If you have problems with audio: If you find that there is no audio while playing back your AVI files, this is because the sound card has not been setup to record audio from its 'Line-in' socket. To enable audio recording, open the Recording Control panel by clicking Start / Run and then SNDVOL32 /REC This will open the Recording Control panel. Make sure that 'Line-in' is enabled (this is sometimes called 'Line' or 'Aux'). Overview of WinTV 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 and 2000. WinTV-Capture creates a file type called AVI (Audio/Video Interleaved) on your hard disk. WinTV USB gives high quality captured video by storing uncompressed digitized video in an AVI file. This compares with compression methods such as JPEG and MPEG, where some loss of video quality is accepted in order to reduce the amount of data stored. Uncompressed video capture creates high quality digital video movies, but requires optimized system performance to avoid lost video frames (called "dropped frames". ) 3-2 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual To create the best quality digital videos, use the following steps: · · Compress/Edit, etc. by using the appropriate 3rd party software with these functions Edit the raw video. using one of the popular digital video editing programs such as Adobe Premiere, MGI VideoWave or U-Lead MediaStudio. For example, if you are creating a video to be used in a multimedia presentation, compress with either Intel's Indeo or Supermac's Cinepak. If you are creating a CD-Video, use MPEG compression to get up to 74 minutes of video on a CD-ROM. · 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. Digital video editing programs such as Adobe Premiere or U-Lead MediaStudio can be used to edit your digital videos. With WinTV-Capture you can set the number of frames per second that are captured and the size of the video image. You need to experiment to determine how much video your PC can store to the disk (in terms of image size and frames per second) because capturing video clips is very CPU and hard disk intensive. [. . . ] This can be changed at any time to "Allow Overlay" by re-running Primary and clicking Allow Overlay or DIB Draw. 7-3 WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual 7-4 Updating the WinTV-USB driver 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. Once you have downloaded the updated WinTV USB driver, you can install the update simply by running the downloaded program. [. . . ]