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WinTV-HVR-950
Quick Installation Guide for Windows XP
and Windows Vista (all versions)
© Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 2006-2007 · QI-WINTV-HVR-950-V1.3B-ENG · 8/01/2007
●
WinTV-HVR-950 Hybrid
NTSC/ATSC stick
●
USB extension cable
●
Portable TV antenna
●
Portable TV antenna
on
some models
●
WinTV-HVR-950 Installation CD-ROM
including the
WinTV
application with SoftPVR™and the
WinTV-
Scheduler
1. Contents of the WinTV-HVR-950
package
Turn on your Windows Vista or Windows XP PC or laptop,
and boot into Windows.
Locate a free USB 2.0 port (normally located at the side or
back on the laptop or desktop). Plug the WinTV-HVR-950
stick into the USB 2.0 port. You can use a USB extender
cable to locate the WinTV-HVR-950 a short distance from
your USB slot.
Note:
if you plug the device into a different USB socket,
you will need to reinstall the WinTV-HVR-950 driver, but you
will not need to reload any WinTV applications.
Note:
Due to power and bandwidth requirements, we do
not recommend connecting WinTV-HVR into a USB Hub.
Plug an antenna for ATSC digital TV reception, or either
cable TV or a TV antenna for analog TV reception, into the
TV connector on WinTV-HVR-950. It is recommended to
connect to a roof top aerial during the first time installation.
This will provide better signal quality then a portable anten-
na.
Connecting an external A/V source
You can also connect
sources via the A/V
input cable (available
on some models of
WinTV-HVR-950).
Plug the
A/V input
cable
into the small
connector on the side of
the WinTV-HVR-950.
Connect your A/V
source using either the
Composite
or
S-Video
connection
and the
audio jacks
.
3. Installing the WinTV-HVR-950 device
ATSC digital TV is a over-the-air digital TV for North
America. ATSC digital TV typically requires an antenna for
reception, and is currently broadcast in 200 cities, with over
1500 TV stations.
Note:
ATSC digital TV is NOT digital
cable TV or digital satellite TV. The WinTV-HVR-950 cannot
receive digital cable TV or digital satellite TV.
ATSC digital TV is transmitted in several resolutions, from
“standard definition” which is similar to cable TV, up to high
definition which has about 16 times the resolution of normal
cable TV. In any resolution, ATSC digital TV gives sharper
pictures than analog cable TV and near CD quality sound.
WinTV-HVR-950 has a built-in analog cable TV and digital
ATSC TV tuner. It uses your PC or laptop’s CPU for displaying
both analog and digital TV programs on your PC screen.
The decoding of high definition ATSC is very processor
intensive, and the smoothness of high definition TV pro-
grams depends upon how fast your PC or laptop system is.
Other PC activities that consume CPU resources might
affect the display of ATSC digital TV. Slow video, jerky video
and momentary pausing of video are all results of a CPU
which is temporarily being used by other activities.
2. What is ATSC digital TV, and how does
the WinTV-HVR-950 work?
4. Installing the WinTV-HVR-950 driver
Windows XP:
Click
Start /
Run
then type your CD-ROM
drive letter (for example:
D:\
)
and then
Setup.exe
Vista:
Click the
Start button,
then click
Computer,
then
locate your CD-ROM drive.
You should see the contents
of the WinTV Installation CD.
Double click on
Setup.
Choose a language, and click
Next
. Click
Install
.
The main applications installed are the WinTV application
for TV watching and recording, and the WinTV Scheduler
for scheduling your TV recordings.
5. WinTV Software Installation
To start the WinTV application,
double click on the
WinTV icon
on your desk top. When you run WinTV for the
first time, a message says
Would you like to scan for
channels now?
Click
YES
.
Click the
Scan
button and WinTV will automatically scan for
both analog and ATSC digital TV channels. The scanning
process takes about 10 minutes. The scanning process for
ATSC will scan from channels 2 to 68.
The ATSC digital channels that are found will appear in the
channel listing box. The
Name
is the name as defined by
the broadcaster. The
Channel number
is created by the
WinTV application. For ATSC digital channels, since each
primary channel might have several subchannels, the chan-
nel number is calculated so that channel 22.2 would be list-
ed as 1222. Channel 7.2 would be listed as 1072.
Note:
if you have attached an antenna and do not receive
any ATSC digital TV channels, either use a stronger anten-
na (a roof top antenna is recommended for best reception)
or reposition your portable antenna. Then rescan for ATSC
channels (see below for instructions on rescanning and the
Troubleshooting
section for information on choosing an
ATSC antenna).
Note:
When initially installed, WinTV-HVR-950 uses a set-
ting which does not take advantage of graphics accelera-
tion. If you experience problems when watching ATSC digi-
tal TV channels, see the
Troubleshooting
section.
Rescanning TV channels
If you want to rescan for TV channels, click
Menu / Suite
Manager.
To scan analog cable TV channels, under
Sources
, highlight
Analog source
and click
Auto scan
.
To scan for
digital ATSC channels,
under
Input
Sources
, highlight
ATSC source
and click
Auto scan
.
During the scan for ATSC digital TV channels, the
Signal
Status
will show a quality level and the
locked box
will be
checked if a channel is detected.
The WinTV application
Changing channels
You can change channels by clicking the
Channel Up
or
Channel Down
buttons on the WinTV application. You can
also type a channel number (for example: 27 or 1021) 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.
Changing the TV window size
You can change the size of the WinTV window by grabbing
any corner and dragging the video window to the desired
size.
Displaying TV full screen
When you click the
Full screen TV
button, TV will appear
full screen on your PC monitor. When finished watching TV
full screen,
right click your mouse button
.
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
With
Always on Top
, WinTV will always be visible on your
Windows desktop on top of any applications. To turn on,
click the
Always on top button
. 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 very quickly from a small window to a larger
one by clicking the right mouse button.
To hide the WinTV toolbar (No-title mode)
Click your right mouse button in the WinTV’s video window
for the no-title mode. To restore the toolbars (the title
mode), once again click your right mouse button in the
video window. You can set the size of the window differently
in each mode.
Pref button
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 plus con-
trols for the Toolbar mode (Title mode), NoToolbar
mode (No Title) and Full Screen (TV mode).
Movies
: Here is where you configure the video and
audio setting for SoftPVR
TM
. You can set the movie
record directory (DVCR Record File Path), the MPEG
Quality settings, and the Audio settings.
Snapshot
: Set the size of your captured image, and
settings for capturing motion or still images. Note:
VMR must be the graphics setting to enable snapshot.
Audio
: Your audio settings are configured here.
Color
: Adjust the color of your TV picture here.
Menu button
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 preset,etc) setting up ‘favorite chan-
nel lists’)
Configuration
: Duplicate configuration menus for
colour, audio, MPEG settings, etc.
6. Running WinTV
®
for the first time
Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc.
Telephone:
631-434-1600
91 Cabot Court
Fax:
631-434-3198
Hauppauge, NY 11788
Tech Support: 631-434-3197
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The supplied portable antenna is designed primarily for
ATSC digital TV reception, and will work within 10 miles of
an ATSC transmitter (reception might be limited by obstruc-
tions such as steel buildings).
For the best ATSC digital TV reception, a roof top
‘Wideband’ or ‘High gain’ antenna is recommended. In the
U.S., a good ATSC digital antenna selector can be found at
TitanTV.com
under
Resources
.
Other changes to channel listings
If you want to add names or fine tune an analog channel,
click
Menu / Suite Manager / Sources
. Choose
Analog
Source
. You will see a list of your analog channels. Click
on the
desired channel
. Click the
Tune button
to change
channel. You can change the
Name
to the name of the sta-
tion. To fine tune an analog channel, unclick
AFT
and then
use the
Finetune slide bar
. When finished, click
Close
.
ATSC
source
Analog
Source
Tune
button
N
ote: the latest WinTV-HVR-950 software can be found at
www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_hvr950.html
N
ote: You may need to disable your antivirus programs during the
installation only.
Installing the WinTV-HVR-950 Windows Vista driver
After installing the WinTV-HVR-950 in your PC, boot
Windows Vista. The
Found New Hardware
window will
appear.
Insert the
WinTV-
HVR Installation
CD-ROM
in your
PC’s CD-ROM
drive.
Click
Locate and
install driver soft-
ware (recom-
mended)
. Then
click
Don’t search
on-line
. Click
Next
. When the driver is installed, click
Close
.
Installing the WinTV-HVR-950 Windows XP driver
When your PC is booted, the
Found New Hardware
Wizard
will appear. Insert the Hauppauge Installation CD
into your CD-ROM drive. Select
No, not at this time
. Click
Next
. Select
Install software automatically
. Click
Next
.
Once the driver component is installed, click
Finish
.
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
window:
Double click on each
thumbnail to see
image full size.Click
and hold your right
mouse button to see
image options.
Pause
TV-Mode
