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MediaMVP-HD brings digital media to your HD TV 

MediaMVP-HD is installed at your TV set and plays digital media (digital music, digital
videos and digital pictures) from your PC or a USB thumb drive onto the TV set.

When the digital content is on the PC, MediaMVP-HD connects to your PC over your home
Ethernet (wired) network.  You can also put digital media on a USB thumb drive, plug the
USB thumb drive into the MediaMVP-HD and then play the content onto your HD TV set.

MediaMVP-HD plays digital audio (MP3), high definition digital video (MPEG-2 as recorded
by the WinTV-PVR or WinTV-HVR series of Hauppauge TV tuners, plus H.264 as recorded
by the Hauppauge HD PVR and DivX) and digital pictures (JPEG, PNG, BMP and GIF). 

Play WinTV and HD PVR recordings on your HD TV set

MediaMVP-HD can play all recordings which can be made with a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR,
WinTV-HVR or HD PVR.  The video formats which can be played by the MediaMVP-HD are
MPEG-2 and H.264, both standard definition and high definition (up to 1080p). You can
also play standard and high definition Divx and standard definition Windows Media files.

USB thumb drives can be a source for media, too

In addition to connecting to a PC to play digital media, MediaMVP-HD also has a USB port
where you can plug in a USB thumb drive and play digital media.  If you have a external
USB hard drive, you might need to use a powered USB hub since the USB port on the
MediaMVP-HD is designed for thumb drives.

Access PC media with shared folders or uPnP

There are two ways the MediaMVP-HD can access media on a PC: you can set up 

Shared

Folders 

on your PC, or you can use 

Universal Plug and Play 

(called ‘uPnP’) to access

media folders on your PC.

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Overview of MediaMVP-HD

Summary of Contents for MediaMVP-HD

Page 1: ...h This uses RJ 45 connectors and is 1 5 meters long HDMI video cable to connect the MediaMVP to your HDMI equipped TV set If you have a TV set which does not use HDMI you will need to supply your own cables Hauppauge remote control transmitter with 2 AAA batteries Note you can purchase longer Ethernet and HDMI cables at most computer retail stores 1 MediaMVP HD Installation Guide Contents of the M...

Page 2: ...our HD TV set MediaMVP HD can play all recordings which can be made with a Hauppauge WinTV PVR WinTV HVR or HD PVR The video formats which can be played by the MediaMVP HD are MPEG 2 and H 264 both standard definition and high definition up to 1080p You can also play standard and high definition Divx and standard definition Windows Media files USB thumb drives can be a source for media too In addi...

Page 3: ... 8655 processor runs the Linux operating system and has built in multimedia hardware for decoding high definition MPEG 2 and H 264 videos digital audio and digital pictures The MediaMVP HD application can be reloaded through it s Setup menu MediaMVP HD is a client for uPnP where the server can be a Windows 7 or Windows Vista PC Some Windows XPs have third party uPnP servers installed and can be us...

Page 4: ...ther the left and right audio connec tors or the Optical Audio output connector SPDIF All video outputs are active at the same time This allows you to use HDMI and com posite video for example on two TV sets at the same time The S Video and Composite video outputs always output standard definition video without regard for the original format of your video media The Hauppauge remote control The rem...

Page 5: ...he Back exit button to exit the video adjustments FastSkip buttons 0 to 9 when you are playing a video the video will move to 10 20 etc of the video Hitting the 0 button brings you to the beginning of your video program Skip forward skip back these but tons will move you through your video program 30 seconds at a time Videos Music and Pictures buttons moves you to these main menus Volume up down t...

Page 6: ...e set the video format on the MediaMVP HD manually 4 Attach MediaMVP HD to your network Plug a network cable into the MediaMVP HD and then plug this cable into your router 5 Setup your PC for file sharing or for uPnP There are two ways to get access to media on your PC you can either use uPnP or you can set up shared folders If you already have shared folders enabled on your PC then you can simply...

Page 7: ... connect to a home stereo system If your HD TV uses component video S Video or composite use the appropriate cables not included with the MediaMVP HD pack age and connections from the back of MediaMVP HD Turn on the MediaMVP HD Once you have made a connec tion to the HD TV set plug in the power to the MediaMVP HD and push the power button on the front of the MediaMVP HD You should see a green ligh...

Page 8: ...MI video to your HD TV at the same time If you do this you can see the MediaMVP HD screen using composite video You can then quickly switch back and forth between Composite and HDMI to see if you have chosen the correct settings you can use the Component video connections which are also high definition but do not attempt to use automatic settings and therefore will connect more easily Use the Medi...

Page 9: ... set you will see the format listed in the upper right hand corner of your TV picture Make a note of these for mats and then use the manual HDMI format setup to chose one of these formats Plug an Ethernet network cable into the back of MediaMVP HD and connect the other end to a router or Ethernet hub If you want to see if your MediaMVP HD has connected to your home network go to Setup System Infor...

Page 10: ...ld like to share and then click your Right mouse button select Properties and click the Sharing tab Click the button which says Share this folder on the network Click OK and now your directory is shared You need to do this for each folder you would like to share For example if you have a folder with digital pictures you will need to share this folder too When you are finished setting up the shared...

Page 11: ... Network for the first time follow the steps to com plete the configuration Enable the media you would like to share typically Music Videos Pictures Next launch Windows Media Player by clicking Start All Programs Windows Media Player Under the Stream tab click Automatically allow devices to play my media ...

Page 12: ...ould be enabled If not click Allow all You have now enabled uPnP on your Windows 7 PC and have enabled your PC to share files with other uPnP devices such as the MediaMVP HD If you now look in the Music Videos or Pictures on MediaMVP HD you will see the uPnP computer listed ...

Page 13: ...enus where you can see lists of your digital media MediaMVP HD menus Once you have setup the MediaMVP HD TV connection and the connection to your PC you can now navigate through your digital media and play them on your HD TV set uPnP computers available on your network Step 6 Watch media on your HD TV through Media MVP HD ...

Page 14: ...nu click the i Menu button You can start and stop background music here You can also scan for Shared Folders To scan for shared folders move your cursor down to the item Scan for shared folders and hit OK It takes about a minute to find the shared folders on your Ethernet network will then be listed If there are no passwords set to access your shared folders simply hit Next Music Videos Pictures V...

Page 15: ...MEDIA Win7 64 i Menu button When you are in the Videos menu the i button shows a menu where you can Sort by name Sort by date Play all and Scan for shared folders If you click Sort by name or Sort by date a second time it sorts in the reverse order Z to A or last date first When you are playing a video hit the i button to see the progress of your video ...

Page 16: ...the playback at the beginning of the program Pictures Use a digital picture for your MediaMVP HD menu background You can set the background of your menus To do this choose the picture you want to use as the background and click the i menu and select Use image as background This picture will then be used on all of the menu backgrounds except for the Main menu Running a slide show with background mu...

Page 17: ...ad the new appli cation from the Hauppauge website www hauppauge com site support mediamvp hd html Next unzip the new MediaMVP HD application to a USB thumb drive There are two files mvphd md5 and mvphd The firmware update program requires that these two files be in the root directory on the USB thumb drive Plug the USB thumb drive into the USB port on the front of MediaMVP HD Wait a few sec onds ...

Page 18: ...rror message make sure the two files are in the root directory If you continue to receive error messages try another USB thumb drive Sometimes the file systems on USB thumb drives become corrupt and cannot be read by MediaMVP HD ...

Page 19: ... on the remote control 4 times Then click the OK button This will run an HDMI test which sets all HDMI video modes When you see a good image on your HD TV set you will know which mode to set MediaMVP HD for a good picture on your TV set If your TV image needs contrast briteness or color adjustment You can click the Guide button on the MediaMVP HD remote control to put the display set tings on your...

Page 20: ...re is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular instal lation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the fol lowing measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between ...

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