User manual HAUPPAUGE WINTV V7 QUICK START GUIDE

[. . . ] When you run WinTV for the first time, the WinTV Device Setup Wizard appears. On some model WinTVs, you have multiple tuners and therefore you can select multiple sources. For the WinTV-HVR-2250, you can chose either ATSC or Digital QAM and Analog TV. You cannot chose both page 2 Digital ATSC and Digital QAM. N ote: If you'd like to use the A/V inputs, please see instructions below in External audio/video sources. If your TV source is ATSC digital over-the-air TV Select Digital ATSC and click will see the Digital ATSC Scan scanning for digital over-the-air channels. [. . . ] For analog cable TV using the built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder, the quality of the video recording is set to 6Mbits/sec. This will be a configurable setting in a future version of WinTV v7. If you want to pause a TV show you are watching: page 7 - Click the Pause button. To start the video from where you paused, click the To rewind the video to the beginning, click the If your video was paused, click the Play button Skip to the beginning button. Skip back 1 minute Play button. - To rewind the video 1 minute, click the button. If your video was paused, click the 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. Configuration menu The WinTV v7 Configuration menu is accessed by clicking the gear button in the lower left hand corner of WinTV v7. In the General tab, you can set the Video Renderer which allows WinTV v7 to display video with a wide range of graphics systems. page 8 The Devices tab allows is where you can re-scan for TV channels and set up the TV sources in WinTV v7. Parental control tab is where you can set the Parental Control level. IR blaster in WinTV v7 If you would like to use the Hauppauge IR blaster to change the channels on your cable TV or satellite set top box, see the section entitled "Configuring the remote control for WinTV v7". WinTV v7 TV Scheduler WinTV v7's built-in TV Scheduler allows you to schedule the recording of TV shows. 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. When a scheduled record event takes place, the WinTV v7 application records "in background" so that you can continue to watch your live TV program, even as the recording progresses. Right click your mouse button in the TV window to see the Options menu. To set up an event for timed watching or recording, click the Add button. The items that need to be set for each event are: Name: you can add a name to the recording. If you do not enter a name, the name will be in the channel/date format. - Channel: chose one of your scanned channels. Start time: set to the desired start time. Note: It takes page 9 about 15 seconds to launch the WinTV and start recording. - Duration: number of minutes in the recorded program. Note: If you set for Record Weekly, you must also specify the Day of the Week for the recording. Change this if you want to schedule on another date. - - Source selection: leave set at WinTV to bring up the WinTV at the requested time and on the requested channel. Once these are set, click each event is set. OK. You can add more recordings, clicking OK after When you are finished click Close. The WinTV program does not have to be running for the Schedular to work. If WinTV is not running, it takes about 15 seconds to start WinTV and to start the recording of TV. page 10 WinTV v7 keyboard shortcuts Ctrl A Ctrl D Aspect ratio Display the video and audio format of the TV program Freeze the video Open TV Scheduler View program details (digital TV program, where provided in the broadcast) Display subtitles Full screen toggle Open File menu for playback Open the Task Menu Previous channel Pause Ctrl P Alt R Alt S Alt T Ctrl C Ctrl > Ctrl < Play Record Stop Start TV Catch up Skip ahead Skip back Ctrl F Ctrl Z Ctrl O Ctrl S Ctrl W Alt F Alt M Alt P Ctrl Q page 11 Troubleshooting Some notes on system compatibility Decoding high definition ATSC TV is very CPU intensive. A graphics card with at least 64MBytes of memory and the latest graphics driver from the manufacturer makes the decoding task easier. Typically a 2. 2 GHz Pentium 4 processor or equivalent with a graphics card having 64MBytes of memory is required to properly decode ATSC digital TV on your PC. A 1. 6GHz AMD Sempro laptop computer tested in the Hauppauge lab used 50% of the CPU for playing ATSC 640i format, and 90% of the CPU when playing ATSC 1080i, the highest definition ATSC format. [. . . ] Run BlasterCfg. EXE page 17 To set up the IR Blaster, see the guide IRRemoteBlaster Quick Installation Guide for WinTV v7. Learning remote control codes for your set top box First make sure the WinTV IR transmitter is positioned over the remote sensor on your set top box. Remember, the WinTV IR transmitter has a very short transmission distance and needs to be positioned over the remote sensor on your set top box. To access the learn function in BlastConfig. exe, click on Advanced Config and Learn. You will need to `learn' the 0 through 9 keys, plus Power on and Enter. [. . . ]