User manual HAUPPAUGE WINTV-USB2

[. . . ] To run the WinTV2000 application, double click the WinTV2000 icon on your Windows desktop. Click the green Video source select button to select TV, Composite and S-Video sources. The video sources will use the TV standard chosen when you scanned for your TV channels. If you want to add an External video source (S-Video or Composite) of different video format other than your TV standard: click the Menu button, then Suite Manager. Click the Add button and then chose S-Video or Svideo/Composite (depends on your video input) then choose the video format from your video source (NTSC, PAL, etc. ) Scanning for channels When running WinTV for the first time, you will be asked "Would you like to scan for tuner channels now?". [. . . ] During the installation, you might get a Hardware Installation message regarding Page 1 Page 2 Snapshot viewer window Double click on each "thumbnail" to see image full size. Click and hold your right mouse button to see image options. RC: Software remote control Page 3 Page 4 Color: adjust the color of your TV picture here. OTR after a record has been started, and the record timer will be set. 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. WinTV-Scheduler WinTV-Scheduler allows you to schedule the recording of TV shows. WinTV-Scheduler, once it is set, can be closed, and the WinTV application will "wake up" at the desired time and tuned to the desired channel. WinTV-Scheduler can also be run by clicking Start/Programs/Hauppauge WinTV/Scheduler. WinTV-Scheduler works by using the Windows Task Scheduler to launch WinTV at the chosen time. WinTV-Scheduler sets up a command line in Task Scheduler to run WinTV2000, specifying a TV channel and a length of time to record. At the scheduled time, WinTV2000 will open, and the record menu will roll down and start recording. To set up a scheduled recording, run WinTV-Scheduler and click on the Add Program. The items that need to be set for each event are: Time to Begin Program Time to End Program Program Period: one time, daily, weekly Date to Begin Program: todays date is the default. Source selection: leave set at WinTV2000 to bring up the WinTV at the requested time and on the requested channel. You can also name your file to record, in the dialog box below. Quick Troubleshooting Guide Problem: Error message when running WinTV2000 If you receive any of the following error messages, your VGA card does not support Overlay Mode. Run Primary. EXE from the WinTV directory, selecting Primary surface mode: Black screen (no video image) Excessively slow and/or pixelated TV image Error message: "Connecting Preview Pin Direct to Overlay Mixer" Note that if Overlay mode is selected, no live video is displayed during video capture or video streaming (video streaming is used by some Videoconferencing and Video Mail applications). If you receive any of the following error messages, your WinTV-USB2 driver was not loaded correctly: "Error: Cannot Locate Capture Filter (Hauppauge WinTV capture)" "Cannot build filter graph" "Error: connecting VCap and HCWcapt filters" "Error: preview pin direct to overlay mixer" To fix this problem, run HCWCLEAR. EXE which can be found on your WinTV-USB2 Installation CD-ROM. The latest version of the WinTV-USB2 driver can be found on our Web site at http://www. hauppauge. com/pages/support_usb2. html To hide the WinTV toolbar: Simply click your right mouse button in the WinTV's video window for the no-title mode. To restore the toolbars (the title mode), once again click your right mouse button in the WinTV's video window. You can set the size of the window differently in each mode. Enabling WinTV-USB2 audio over USB2 After you complete the WinTV-USB2 driver and software installation, the default Audio setting is: Analog audio input to the PC while watching live TV. This mode requires the use of the audio cable to connect your PC to the WinTV-USB2, and a LineIn jack on your PC. If your PC or laptop does not have a Line-in jack, or if you would like to simplify the installation of the WinTV-USB2, you can enable Digital audio over the USB bus. Run USB2AUD. BAT from the USB directory on your WinTV-USB2 Installation CD. [. . . ] Click the RIGHT mouse button anywhere on the WinTV-radio window to set the Scan mode. CD: Starts your systems Audio CD-Player for playing back Audio-CD´s. 1-10: Preset 1 - 10 Notes on operation of WinTV-usb2 WinTV-USB2 will not run under Windows95, Windows98, Windows2000 or WindowsNT 4. 0 When video is running, Windows will not enter suspend mode. If the live video display freezes when you open other applications, you should reduce the Hardware acceleration of the PC Display Adapter (this may happen only on several specific display adapter cards). [. . . ]