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WinTV-HVR-1400

Quick Installation Guide

©Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 2007 · QI-WINTV-HVR-EXT-V1.0-ENG · 2007/10/25

WinTV-HVR-1400 Hybrid ExpressCard/54

Audio/Video input cable

Portable TV antenna 
(on some models)

IEC to MCX Aerial Adapter Cable

WinTV-Installation CD-RO 

including:

·

WinTV application

with SoftPVR™

·

WinTV-Scheduler

·

7 Day EPG

· VTPlus

This installation guide

Contents of this WinTV-HVR-1400 package

1. Locate a free ExpressCard/54 (54mm width) slot.

2. Turn on your PC and wait until Windows has completely started.

3. With the label facing up, insert the WinTV-HVR-1400 into the

ExpressCard/54 slot.

1. Installing the WinTV-HVR-1400

Plug your TV antenna or RF output from your cable/satellite box into the
WinTV’s 

TV Connector

.

You can also connect sources via
the A/V input cable as describe
here.

It is recommended to connect to
a roof top aerial as this may pro-
vide a better signal quality then
the provided portable antenna (if
supplied). You will need to ensure
that you are located in a area that
has Digital Terrestrial coverage.

Please visit www.dtg.org.uk/retail-
er/coverage.html
Sweden: www.pts.se
Denmark: www.digi-tv.dk
Finland: www.digitv.fi
Poland: www.emitel.pl

2. Connecting the Aerial and A/V input cable

When you run WinTV for the first
time, a message  will appear ask-
ing you to scan for tuner chan-
nels now; please ensure that the
TV antenna is connected, click

YES

.

To start the WinTV application double click on the 

WinTV icon

.

4. WinTV

®

Application

Select your country location, for instance, select United Kingdom and
then, select Scan.

The scanning process will start by scanning the analogue frequencies
for channels, if any are found they will be added to the channel list.

The scanning process for DVB-T will then scan for channels. When a
DVB-T channel is found, the 

Signal Status

will show a quality level

and the 

locked box

will be checked. The DVB-T digital channels that

are found will appear in the channel listing box.

N

ote: If you have attached an antenna and do not receive any

digital TV channels, either use a stronger antenna (a roof top

antenna is recommended for best reception) or try to add a TV
channel manually (see trouble shooting section).

Click 

Close

when finished.

If you are using a external source like a Hi-8 Camcorder, Video
recorder etc, then you will need to connect via the S-
Video/Composite for the Video picture and Line-Input for the sound.

N

ote: Unless stated most VCR's and STB's only output in com-

posite via SCART', a scart to S-Video lead, in most cases, will

not work correctly and will only yield a black and white picture.

If you are using a Scart to composite (RCA Yellow phono) lead, please
ensure that the signal is being sent in the correct direction from the
Scart lead to the phono connection. 

Configuring a external source in WinTV

In the WinTV application click on Menu then Suite Manager, then click
on the Sources tab. To add the S-Video or Composite channel select
the option on the left and then select the Video Format from the drop
down list.

N

ote: PAL BGHIDK is the commonly used format in Europe.

Type in a channel “

Name

” e.g. Video and a Description and then click

on “

Save

” the channel will now be added and if you click on Close

you will be returned back to the main TV viewing window.

Keyboard shortcuts

Sound up

- Page Up

Sound down

- Page Down

Plus (+)

- Chanel Up

Minus (-)

- Channel Down

Ctrl T

- Frame TV

Ctrl P

- Frame print

Ctrl+M

- Mute on/off

ALT+M

- Re-size TV menu

0-9

- Channel number

Space bar

- Take a snapshot

Ctrl F

- Still image

Using a external source

Snapshot Still

capture

Freeze picture

CFG

Configure Snapshot

Mute

Setup 

Menu

Full screen

Remove toolbars

no title mode

Minimise

Close

Channel surf

Channel down

Channel up

Last channel

Current TV channel

Click your right mouse
button here to see the

channel selector

Click your right mouse button in the

TV window to remove toolbars.

Click again to restore toolbars. 

Record

Playback

Volume

Always on Top

Snapshot viewer win-

dow:

Double click on each

thumbnail to see

image full size.Click

and hold your right

mouse button to see

image options.

Pause

TV-Mode

Watch TV

Changing channels

You can change channels by using the Channel Up or Channel Down
buttons on the WinTV. You can type a channel number (for example:
27) and WinTV will tune to that channel. If the entered channel does
not exist, you will see a black window.

You can also right click in the Current TV channel box, where you will
see a list of channels. Or type letters (for example: BBC) to access to
the list of the channels including these letters.

TV Mode

When you click the Full screen TV button, TV will appear full

screen on your PC monitor. When finished watching TV full screen,
click your right mouse button in the TV window. If you see video with
a black box around it, click the Pref button then click TV mode tab.
Check the box which says “Allow resolution change”.

"Always on top" Mode

The WinTV application will remain in view over any other applica-

tions even if it is not selected. To turn on, click the Always on top but-
ton. It will turn green. To turn off, click this button again.
A convenient way to use Always-on-top is to make the TV window in
the no-title mode small, and to make the TV window in the title mode
larger. Then you can switch from a small window to a larger one by
clicking the right mouse button.

Pref

Click the 

Pref button

to open the preferences menu:

View:

These are the settings for the On Screen Display of the TV

channel and Audio Volume, where you can enable Close Captions (if
supported in your system configuration), plus controls for the Toolbar
mode (Title mode), NoToolbar mode (No Title) and Full Screen (TV
mode).

Movies:

Here is where you configure some video and audio settings.

You can set the movie record directory (DVCR Record File Path).

Snapshot:

Set the size of your captured images, plus single or two

field captures for capturing motion or still image video.

Audio:

Your audio settings are configured here.

Menu

Click the Menu button to open the TV setup menu. Here is the main
control bar for TV channels, and duplicate controls for other functions:

Suite-Manager:

Configure the TV tuner (scanning, naming, channel

pre set, etc..) and setting up favourite channel lists.

Configuration:

Duplicate configuration menus for colour, audio, etc.

View:

For settings an exact TV window size: 320x240, 640x480 etc.

There are four buttons to control the watching, recording, pausing and

playback of TV. Clicking on the Pause button will cause the Pause
menu to roll down from the WinTV application, while clicking on
either the Record or Playback button will cause the Record menu to
roll down. Click the TV button will close the roll down menus to close
and for live TV to be displayed in the WinTV video window.

Pause, Record and Playback TV

TV Mode

One Touch Pause

One Touch Record

The 

Pause

button prepares the WinTV pausing live video.

The 

Record

button will start a record session. If you click 

Record

but-

ton more than once, a record timer will be set and the recording will
be done for 15 minutes for each time the 

Record

button is clicked.

For example, if you click the button 3 times, the WinTV will record for
30 minutes.

Pause mode

The pause mode allow you to pause the Live TV picture and allows
you to use the TimeShift function to rewind and fast forward the TV.

Clicking the 

Pause

button on the WinTV application starts the 

Pause

mode

. The Pause Menu will drop down.

Record and Playback

Click the Playback button on the WinTV application to open the
Record and Playback control bar. Clicking the Record will automatical-
ly generate a file name and start recording your audio/video program.

If you click Record button more than once, a record timer will be set
and the recording will be done for 15 minutes for each time the
Record button is clicked. For example, if you click the button 3 times,
the WinTV will record for 30 minutes.

Functions:

When recording TV, the record button will depressed

A time counter will be shown indicating the lenght of time of the
recording

If you click 

Stop

the time counter will revert back to 00:00:00 

The time is specified in a 

Hour:Minute:Second

format.

Stop

Clicking the 

Stop

button will stop the video you are recording or

playing back.

Play

Clicking the 

Play

button will playback from disk the last video file

created. When playing a video, you can rewind, fast forward, replay
10 sec or skip forward 10 sec using the buttons on the control bar.

Pause

Clicking the 

Pause

button while Playing will pause your

audio/video.

Rewind

Clicking the 

Rewind

button will play the video file in reverse.

Clicking the Rewind button again will continue the playing of the video.

Rewind

Record

Pause

Play

Stop

Display Counter

Forward

File

Video-Position

Play forward slow

Record and Playback modes

Fast Forward

Clicking the 

Fast Foward

button one time will fast foward your

video at 2X speed. Clicking the Fast Foward button two times will fast
foward your video at 8X speed. Clicking the button again will continue
playing back at normal speed.

Slow Motion

Clicking the 

Slow Motion

button during playback will cause the

video to play in slow motion (at 1/2 speed). Clicking the Slow Motion
button again will return the video to normal playback speed.

File button

Clicking the File button opens the File menu. The last file record-

ed is listed in the File name box. In the File menu you can: 

Rename your recorded video file:

To rename a video file, find the

file you would like to rename, highlight it with your mouse, and click
and hold the right mouse button. Go down to Rename and then you
can type in a new name. Remember: you must keep the MPG
extension on the file.

Play a video file previously recorded:

Find the file you would like to

play, highlight it with your mouse (one click of the mouse button)
and click Open. Then click the Play button.

Delete recorded video files which you no longer want:

Click your

right mouse button on the video file once, go down the menu and
click Delete.

Record

Play

Pause

Time counter

Pause

Video-position

Fast forward

Fast forward

Slow motion

Fast rewind

Skip forward 10 sec

TV-Mode

Pause Buffer

The Pause buffer is space on your hard disk where video is stored
during the Pause mode. The maximum amount of time which your TV
program can be delayed is dependent upon how much storage space
you have set for the Pause buffer.

Clicking the Pause button will start recording into WinTV's Replay
Buffer. It takes about 10 seconds for the Replay Buffer to be initialized
and for Pause to become effective.

Unclicking the Pause button will cause the audio/video program to
start playing from the point where the button was originally pushed.

Most WinTV functions are active while in the Pause or Pause Live
mode. For example, you can change volume, resize the TV window,
go into "no-title mode", etc.

While in Pause mode, the Video Position bar shows the amount of the
Replay Buffer which is filled with video. For example, if the Video
Position indicator shows halfway, it means that half of the Replay
Buffer is filled. If you find you cannot Pause as many minutes as you
would like, increase the size of the Replay Buffer.

While in Pause mode, the A/V stream is always saved in the Replay
Buffer. To stop saving the A/V stream in the Replay Buffer, you must
exit the Pause mode by clicking 

TV mode

.

Replay

While in the Pause mode, hitting the 

Replay

button acts like the

Instant Replay you see on TV broadcast sporting events: the
audio/video goes back in time and you repeat what you have previ-
ously seen. Each click of the Replay button causes audio/video to go
back 10 seconds. For example, if you want to repeat the audio/video
you saw 10 seconds ago, you would click the Replay button once. If
you want to see the video you saw one minute ago, you would need
to click the Replay button six times.

For extended replay times, you might find it more convenient to grab
the Video Position indicator control bar and move it to the left. Once
you let the control bar go, audio/video starts to play (it might take a
few seconds for the WinTV application to start playing).

You might have to move the Video Position indicator to the left and
right to find the desired spot to start replaying audio/video.

While Replaying, your audio/video program continues to be recorded
in the Replay Buffer. Therefore, if you have clicked the Replay button 3
times (so that you are replaying the audio/video seen 30 seconds
ago), the video you see in the WinTV window will be 30 seconds
behind the live program.

Skip Ahead

Clicking the 

Skip

button will skip the video ahead 10 seconds.

Rewind

Clicking the Rewind button while playing video will rewind the

recorded video. Clicking the Rewind button again will continue the
playing.

Slow Motion

Clicking the Slow Motion button while playing video will play in

Slow Motion. Clicking the Slow Motion button again, will continue
playing normally.

Fast Forward

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Plug the IEC to MCX cable into

the WinTV’s TV MCX Connector

Plug your roof top

aerial or portable TV
antenna into the IEC

to MCX cable.

Connect your (audio)

source using the

white and red RCA

connectors.

Connect your (video)

source using either

the yellow RCA

Composite or S-Video

connectors.

Plug the A/V

cable into the

WinTV’s AV-In

Connector

N

ote: If you do not receive channels using the portable anten-

na, try connecting a rooftop aerial to the device and scan

again, if channels are now received there may be an issue with sig-
nal strength/quality in your area you may not be able to use the
small antenna.

Clicking the Fast Forward button one time will fast forward your video
at 2X speed. Clicking the Fast Forward button two times will fast for-
ward your video at 8X speed.

Insert your 

WinTV Installation

CD-ROM

, the installation window

will automatically appear.

N

ote: If the autorun does

not start, browse to the

files on the disc and double
click on the file called 'Setup'.

In the installation window click on

Step 1

:

Install WinTV Drivers

.

A blue screen will open which will
begin installing and updating the
drivers for your product.

Once complete, a message
appears in the bar. If this message
is 

Drivers have been updated

Successfully

, click on the bar to

exit. If the message reports an
error, check the connection of
your WinTV, or contact our tech-
nical support.

N

ote: If you have any anti-virus software enabled, please dis-

able it during the installation of the software.

When you attach the WinTV-HVR-
1400, the 

Found New Hardware

Wizard

will appear, Click on

Cancel

.

3. Install the WinTV Drivers and Applications

Next, click on 

Step 2: Install

WinTV

and select your language

from the list. The setup window
should appear and begin to auto-
matically install the WinTV appli-
cations. 

N

ote: During the installati-

on, other installation

wizards may open, we recom-
mend following the instructions
in each of these and installing
with the default options availa-
ble.

N

ote: For advanced users

you can select the 'Custom

Installation' which will allow
you to modify the list of appli-
cations that are  installed by
default.

Once the WinTV installation is complete, click 

OK

then 

Exit

in the win-

dow "Hauppauge WinTV Installation CD". You should now be back at
your Windows desktop.

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