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WinTV-USB

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Page 2: ...rks GmbH Telephone 02161 694880 Krefelder Stra e 673e Fax 02161 6948815 41061 M nchengladbach Germany BBS 02161 177353 Technical Support 02161 6948840 Hauppauge Computer Works Ltd Phone 0207 378 1997...

Page 3: ...televi sion 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 following measures reorient or relocat...

Page 4: ...nTV USB under Windows98 or 2000 1 8 The WinTV32 WinTV2000 application 2 WinTV 2000 application 2 1 Running the WinTV application 2 1 Video Capture with WinTV2000 2 3 The WinTV 32 application 2 5 Motio...

Page 5: ...blem Bad colors in the TV window 7 2 Problem Poor TV picture quality 7 2 Problem TV picture displays a black screen 7 3 Problem Snapshots don t display correctly 7 3 Updating the WinTV USB driver 8 Up...

Page 6: ...application which is referred to in this manual as the WinTV appli cation will show your TV or video in a window on your PC screen There are two versions the WinTV32 and the WinTV2000 Both application...

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Page 9: ...ter audio cable sound cable for connecting between the WinTV USB and your sound card S Video to composite adapter FM radio antenna on WinTV USB FM models WinTV USB Warranty registration card WinTV USB...

Page 10: ...00 Then plug the WinTV USB into one of the USB connectors on the back of your PC or laptop not a USB hub or keyboard Installing the WinTV USB driver for Windows XP After the WinTV USB is plugged in to...

Page 11: ...TV USB Windows Installation CD ROM into your CD ROM drive and click NEXT If the the Hardware Installation dialog box appears click Continue Anyway Click Finish to complete the driver installation WinT...

Page 12: ...ick Start then Run then E Setup exe Click Install to start the WinTV installation Choose the language you would like and click OK Click Next Next Next After all of the files have been installed you wi...

Page 13: ...e recording This gives the best audio quality If your PC or laptop computer has a sound card with a Line In audio connector Connect audio from WinTV USB s Line Out jack to your sound card s Line In ja...

Page 14: ...The Audio Output would go to your speakers while the Microphone input might go to a microphone if you are using one The LineIn jack is normally indicated on the sound card by the words IN or LineIn st...

Page 15: ...C through the audio over USB feature or connecting to your Sound Card the WinTV application can change the audio volume coming from the WinTV USB by adjusting the LineInput sound volume of the Volume...

Page 16: ...t to hear audio from the WinTV USB In the WinTV application under the Configure Audio menu in WinTV200 click on the AUD button the Mixer ID should be set at Line In As you adjust the audio volume in t...

Page 17: ...oad the driver from the WinTV USB Installation CD ROM Open the USB folder and double click the file USB98 exe to manually install the driver Now you need to run the Setup program from the WinTV USB In...

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Page 19: ...n click on the WinTV2000 or WinTV32 icon The first time you run WinTV you will be asked to scan for TV channels Click OK Freeze Configure snapshot Software remote control Color Audio config uration Pr...

Page 20: ...mes by single clicking on the chan nel then clicking Edit Change the channel name to the name that you would like to have displayed in the WinTV toolbar To set up a External video source go into Chann...

Page 21: ...to set the Name and Location of the file that you want to create for example TEST AVI in C as shown we recommend adding the avi extension at the end of the file name Click on FMT to set the Video For...

Page 22: ...ROM and can be found in the MISC UTILITY directory This program will allow you to capture video files in a Microsoft AVI file format to your hard disk They can be played back to your VGA screen by us...

Page 23: ...ze grab a corner of the WinTV window with your mouse hold down the left mouse button when it is on one of the corners of the win dow and then drag it to the preferred size then release the mouse butto...

Page 24: ...to create a subset of all the chan nels so that you can channel surf through only those channels To set up a new Channel Suite click on Show Suites Then click on Suites in the left col umn then click...

Page 25: ...t and width ratio to 4 3 When turned off it will allow arbitrary aspect ratios Annunciators On display the TV channel on screen when you change chan nels and display the volume when you adjust the vol...

Page 26: ...re digitized can be saved to disk printed to a color or black white printer or copied to the clipboard These functions can be viewed from the File menu There are a few things which need to be noted Fi...

Page 27: ...s on Top mode The Always on Top mode conveniently puts the TV window on top of other Windows windows In this mode you can easily move the TV window to the No Title mode by clicking the right mouse but...

Page 28: ...Full screen TV mode Ctrl T Reset tool bar Alt M Take a snapshot Space bar Right mouse button Title mode No title mode Turns off TV mode Setting up a shortcut You can set up a shortcut to the applicati...

Page 29: ...Then click on NEXT to finish to set up the shortcut WinTV USB Installation and Reference Manual 2 11...

Page 30: ...el Volume level Channel indicator Mono Stereo indicator TV image size Toolbar Video source selector Channel Suites Full screen TV mode Freeze frame Mute Motion video capture mode Still frame image cap...

Page 31: ...Toolbar Click on the Configure icon in the Image Capture Toolbar to set the image capture resolution and to configure for either still or motion video images In WinTV2000 to configure still image capt...

Page 32: ...on on the toolbar see page 2 2 for its location In WinTV 32 to configure motion image capture click the 422 YUV configura tion button In WinTV 2000 to configure motion image capture first open the sof...

Page 33: ...ture larger than 320x240 the file size will be larger and the video capture quality will be down graded The number of Frames per second captured up to the limit of 30 fps is set in the File Folder ico...

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Page 35: ...er will be set and the record timer will be set 15 minutes for each time the OTR button is clicked For exam ple if you click the OTR button 3 times the WinTV will record for 30 minutes The recorded vi...

Page 36: ...ound card has not been setup to record audio from its Line in socket To enable audio recording open the Recording Control panel by clicking Start Run and then SNDVOL32 REC This will open the Recording...

Page 37: ...on a CD ROM Using WinTV Capture The WinTV Capture program is an easy to use program that previews live video captures an AVI file to disk and plays back the AVI file to your VGA screen WinTV Capture...

Page 38: ...r MediaStudio and plan to compress the digital videos using Cinepak or Indeo If you do not plan to edit your videos and want good play back performance choose a smaller image size 160x120 Capture and...

Page 39: ...volume for LineInput is not muted and is set at an appropriate level Capturing audio along with video puts a greater strain on your PC than capturing video alone If your PC drops many frames while cap...

Page 40: ...Premiere or U Lead s MediaStudio After editing you can compress the video using a software playback format such as Indeo or Cinepak both of these are supported by Windows98 Typical compression achieve...

Page 41: ...adcaster and can only be received on the WinTV USB if the Hauppauge Teletext decoder is installed An example of a Teletext page follows Each Teletext page has a page number a date and the current time...

Page 42: ...te within the WinTV 32 or WinTV 2000 applica tions Go to ConfigureChannels Suite manager Suites and choose ADD suite and name the new suite VTPLUS Configuring VTPlus The first time that you run VTPlus...

Page 43: ...ndicates when dark that there are subpages after the current subpage When light grey there are no subpages after the current page For example if the current page is 100 and there are no sub pages in p...

Page 44: ...t once If a Teletext page refers to a page sequence such as Share Prices 500 505 mark the first page num ber with a single mouse click click a page number and start the reception with a left Doublecli...

Page 45: ...will now create a direct link to your program When the data changes in the selected field on the Teletext page VTPlus will deliver the data automatically to your DDE supported program Updates through...

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Page 47: ...cable TV network carries both TV and FM radio you can con nect to the TV antenna connector only Running the Radio Application Click on Start Programs Hauppauge WinTV and then Radio to run the radio ap...

Page 48: ...e Audio CD Player for playing back Audio CD s TV Closes the radio application and starts the application OFF Closes the radio application 1 10 Preset 1 10 Programming the Presets To assign a radio sta...

Page 49: ...e Preset buttons 2 Scan Mode All When All is chosen and the Scan button is clicked radio tunes in all radio stations 3 Frequencies A list of all frequencies assigned to the preset buttons is shown 4 T...

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Page 51: ...ay adapter 30 times each second 25 times per second in Europe and other PAL areas Your graphics display adapter then resizes the video image to fill the window size that you have chosen for the WinTV...

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Page 53: ...WIN98 CD Be sure that the directory is correct where windows is looking Your cd rom drive D for example in some cases D win98 if the windows 98 files are locat ed on your harddrive preinstalled on the...

Page 54: ...video signal Channel changing A scrambled channel Changing channels may cause a temporary black screen To fix the problem switch the channel up or down then return to the original channel The audio m...

Page 55: ...the WinTV application Click Start Programs WinTV and then Click on Primary Click on Force Primary or DIB Draw then close the program by clicking on the X The Primary program simply makes a setting in...

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Page 57: ...be downloaded from the Hauppauge Internet Web site see the front page of this manual for the URL The WinTV USB update is combined with the driver uninstaller and the driver installer Once you have dow...

Page 58: ...es place You will see the New hardware Found message After installing a new driver it is advisable to install the latest applications including the WinTV32 WinTV2000 and the radio applications if your...

Page 59: ...the following message Click Yes If there are any errors which come up during the running of HCWCLEAR then it means that there is an application running which is using the drivers For exam ple if you s...

Page 60: ...check to make sure there are no applications running in the system that might be using the WinTV USB driver In general to make sure the re installation is done correctly all applications using the Wi...

Page 61: ...the need arise contact your dealer for on site or repair service Hauppauge s Technical Support and Customer Service staff can aid in solving many problems Our service department is available to repai...

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Page 63: ...r any losses or damage that occur as a result of Improper installation Misuse or neglect or operation with faulty equipment Repair or modification by anyone other than Hauppauge Computer Works or an a...

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