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Recording 

ComproDTV is a digital video recorder and save the digital TV program which 
is MPEG-II format to your hard disk.   
To instantly start recording: 

Press the 

Record

 button 

. ComproDTV starts recording the video source 

currently showing in the display window. It will save it to a file on your disk. 

Press the Stop button 

 to stop recording. ComproDTV will save it 

automatically and show the file name on the screen. 

You can also use the schedule recording by press 

Schedule

 button 

 on 

control panel of ComproDTV. 

Note 

The default folder of recorded file is on “My Document”, you can change to 
another folder by entering the Options of ComproDTV.   

Digital TV program is a fixed MPEG-II file format from TV station. ComproDTV 
will directly save them into your hard disk and can’t transfer them to another 
format. 

Playback  

Press the 

Play

 button 

  to open the 

Play

 dialog box.   

Timeshifting 

Timeshifting temporarily saves the video to your hard disk for a specified 
period of time so that you can pause, replay, or skip commercials during live TV, 
without interrupting an ongoing recording session.   

Press the

 Timeshifting

 

  button and the Time Monitoring bar will appear.   

You may also press the 

Advance 

(for commercial skip) and 

Replay 

(for instant 

replay) buttons on the control panel or remote control to navigate through the 
program. When you return to your seat, you can resume viewing the program 
from the point when you left. 

Summary of Contents for S350 - STARTUP

Page 1: ...VideoMate S350 DVB S PCI TV Tuner Card Start Up Guide Compro Technology Inc www comprousa com...

Page 2: ...respective owners Compro makes no warranties with respect to this documentation and disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability quality or fitness for any particular purpose The information in...

Page 3: ...ontents 1 About This Guide 2 About VideoMate S350 DVB S Tuner Card 2 VideoMate S350 PCI Card Contents 3 Software Installation 8 Remote Wake Up 9 Remote Control Key Definition and Use ComproDTV 10 Comp...

Page 4: ...capture function so that you can transfer videos from video devices such as video cameras to your PC MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Your PC must meet or exceed the following system requirements to watch...

Page 5: ...om vendors z 50 MB free space for software installation z 600 MB VCD quality to 3 GB DVD quality per hour of recorded video z ATX power supply and a computer case with a separate power switch cable fr...

Page 6: ...nalog video capture only 5 External Audio Out Use the supplied audio cable to the Line In port of your sound card 6 S Video In Use an S Video patch cable to connect to a video source 7 Composite In Us...

Page 7: ...h pins on your computer case and trace the wires to the power switch connector on your mainboard The ATX power switch cable is normally a twisted pair cable with a two pin connector as shown above Not...

Page 8: ...If you don t want to use Power Up Scheduling from the Windows Shut down state you can skip the power switch circuit connections in other words you can skip Power Up Connections in steps 3 through 6 Yo...

Page 9: ...e requires z An ATX power supply in your PC z Motherboard support for PCI version 2 2 in order to have 3 3V standby power z An ATX power switch cable which is a pair of twisted wires with a two wire c...

Page 10: ...ive If you have Autorun enabled the installer will start automatically If Autorun is disabled double click on setup exe on the installation CD You can choose Complete to install all necessary software...

Page 11: ...l see a dialog as shown below Program will countdown 20 seconds to shutdown the computer If you don t want to shut down the computer please press the SLEEP button again in other words pressing the SLE...

Page 12: ...18 Last channel Last chapter 19 Stop Stop 20 Tab function Next chapter 21 EPG Main manual 22 Audio channels Setup dialog 23 Up arrow or select audio Up arrow 24 Replay Left arrow 25 Down arrow or sna...

Page 13: ...e available at all times and may be grayed out or inaccessible depending on your hardware setup and TV services available The following pages describe the ComproDTV control panel functions and tips fo...

Page 14: ...nel surfing button to multiple channel watching the channel surfing feature displays a 4x4 grid of channel images to give you an overview of available programming Right Click Mouse Menu If using mouse...

Page 15: ...r by entering the Options of ComproDTV Digital TV program is a fixed MPEG II file format from TV station ComproDTV will directly save them into your hard disk and can t transfer them to another format...

Page 16: ...Autoscan to scan channels 2 Single Single mode and rest of the mode are for user who wants to have advance settings like LNB DiSEqC1 2 motor control and etc It also has two other scanning modes like...

Page 17: ...nels 3 2 ports 22KHz switch 2 ports mini DiSEqC switch 4 ports DiSEqC1 0 switch 4 ports DiSEqC1 2 switch These four settings are similar to Single mentioned above The difference is these four settings...

Page 18: ...specific satellite TV only Free to Air Only Free to Air channels Radio Only radio channels Scrambled Only scrambled channels Note After one of above selection made only the selected list will be used...

Page 19: ...cess all available channels A Parental Control feature allows you to restrict the viewing of certain channels altogether or during limited times You can lock a channel by clicking in the column labele...

Page 20: ...dow has all features while sub window has limited functions only Double click on the sub window can switch the TV program to the main window Alignment Window button will put sub window s into main win...

Page 21: ...ndow s at any time However main window audio can t be muted separately from sub window s Video Desktop ComproDTV provides the new feature of Video Desktop you can click right mouse button on the TV sc...

Page 22: ...7130 Capture Device drivers in the Sound video and game controllers section of Windows Device Manager If these drivers are not there uninstalling and reinstalling the VideoMate S350 PCI card drivers c...

Page 23: ...some motherboards BIOS have an option Wake up by PME or PCI This option must be ENABLED to use Power Up function Finally it is possible that your power supply doesn t provide the standard 3 3V standb...

Page 24: ...s Please check if there are any microwaves or lights that may be doing this And make sure as few cables as possible are crossing the IR receiver Contacting Compro Technical Support Before you submit a...

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