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WinTV -USB Installation and Reference Manual Copyright (c) Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 2000 Hauppauge Computer W orks, Inc. T elephone: 631-434-1600 91 Cabot Court Fax: 631-434-3198 Hauppauge, NY 1.
FCC Statement Radio Interference Statement: The WinTV USB have been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a resi- dential installation.
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Introduction This manual covers all of the WinTV USB models: WinTV -USB WinTV -USB FM References to the WinTV USB apply to all models. The Windows98 driver for all of the WinTV USB models will be referred to as the WinTV -USB driver , and the installation CD-ROM will be referred to as the WinTV Installation CD - ROM .
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Installing the WinTV USB N ote: DO NOT PLUG THE WinTV-USB into your PC until your PC has fully booted.. T o install WinTV USB under Windows 98 or 2000, you will follow these steps: ✓ Plug the WinTV .
Contents of the WinTV -USB package: WinTV -USB or WinTV -USB-FM unit 1 meter audio cable - sound cable for connecting between the WinTV -USB and your sound card S- Video to composite adapter FM radio .
Then plug the WinTV -USB into one of the USB connectors on the back of your PC, not a USB hub or keyboard. Installing the driver under Windows98 or Windows2000 After the WinTV -USB is installed, the Add New Hardware Wizard will appear . Select Search for the best driver for your device (Recommended) .
N ote: Be sure to use the exact version of Windows 98 CD- ROM that is installed on your system. If you are using Windows98 SE, do not use a Windows98 Gold CD-ROM. Also if Plug-n-Play does not correctly load the driver, you may manually load the driver from the WinTV-USB CD-Rom.
T o connect the audio from your VCR or camcorder , use an 1/8” stereo minijack extension cable (1/8” male minijacks on one end, and RCA onthe other end) and connect the “ Audio Output” RCA ” on the VCR or camcorder to the Audio LineIn jack on the WinTV USB .
application is started by clicking either: Start/Programs/Accessories/Multimedia/V olumeControl or Start/Programs/Accessories/Entertainment/V olumeControl or Double click the speaker icon in System tray (found normally in the lower right hand corner of your computer screen).
2-1 The WinTV2000 Application Running the WinTV application After installing the WinTV application from the WinTV USB Installation CD - ROM , you will see icons on your Windows background. Start WinTV -2000 or WinTV -32 by double clicking on its icon .
2-2 W inTV -USB Installation and Reference Manual Previous channel V olume level Channel indicator Mono / Stereo indicator TV image size T oolbar Video source Channel Suites Full screen TV mode Freeze.
If you are using a cable TV connection, in the Broadcast/Cable menu item, select Cable . In Video F ormat , in North America choose NTSC M . In South America , choose P AL M or P AL N . After the scan is complete, you will have a list of TV channels which are active in your area.
Still Frame Image Capture mode With W inTV -32, you can switch into the high quality image capture mode by clicking on the Still Frame Image Capture Mode button on the toolbar .
T o reduce the effects of motion in the video image, but with lower image resolu- tion, in the Fields Captured option choose 1 (Motion) . Motion Video Capture mode Y ou can switch the WinTV -32 application into the motion video capture mode by clicking on the Motion Video Capture Mode button on the toolbar (see page 2-2 for its location).
For best performance when capturing, set the Image F ormat to YUY2 or BTYUV , and the Image Dimensions to 320x240 . Although you can cap- ture larger than 320x240, the file size will be larger and the video capture quality will be down graded.
Move the WinTV window in TitleMode by clicking and holding your mouse button on the WinTV Title Bar , holding it down and dragging it to the new posi- tion. Y ou can set a different size and a different place on your VGA screen for the WinTV window in TitleMode and NoTitleMode .
Edit or Delete channels. Y ou can also create Channel Suites , which are subsets of the All Channel suite. For example, you can have a suite of just TV news channels, and name this suite “News”. Channel Suites allow you to create a subset of all the chan- nels, so that you can channel surf through only those channels.
Setting full screen TV mode Click Display/Preferences/View and then click on the TV Mode tab . Set Allow Resolution Change . Once you have clicked on Allow Resolution Change, if you then click on the TV icon on the WinTV -32 T oolbar , the W inTV will switch to full screen.
video frame. When one of these functions are clicked on, the next video frame is moved into your PC’s main system memory instead of the VGA display .
Options Menu The Options Menu has settings for Always-on- T op mode and Aspect ratio mode plus duplicates buttons found on the toolbar for operation without a mouse. Always-on- T op mode The Always-on- T op mode conveniently puts the TV window “on top of ” other Windows windows.
Mute = Ctrl+M Channel Up = Plus (+) Channel Down = Minus (-) Print a Frame = Ctrl+P Copy to Clipboard = Ctrl+C Copy from Clipboard = Ctrl+V Freeze F rame = Ctrl+F Full screen TV mode = Ctrl+T Reset to.
Then click on NEXT to finish to set up the shortcut. W inTV -USB Installation and Reference Manual 2-13.
Creating Digital Video movies with WinTV -USB Overview of Video Clip Capture Live video which is digitized by the video digitizer (see “How WinTV USB works”) can be “captured” as a video sequence (or “video clip”) by using the WinTV Capture program.
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 A VI file to your VGA screen. WinTV -Capture can capture and playback video clips, but does not provide video editing capabilities.
The WinTV -Capture program can use several different types of color formats when capturing video clips. For highest capture performance, choose the YUY2 OR RGB formats. These give excellent capture image quality and frame rate, but will give slow performance on playback of 320x240 image size videos.
b) Make sure the LineInput volume for recording is set correctly and not muted. Open the V olume control panel, then click on Options / P r operties . In the panel Adjust volume for recor ding set for Recording .
image size frames/second bytes per second 1 minute video 160x120 15 frames/sec 425 Kbytes/sec 26 Mbytes 320x240 15 frames/sec 850 Kbytes/sec 52 Mbytes 320x240 30 frames/sec 1.
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T eletext Data Reception using VTPlus ( I n Europe ONL Y) T eletext is used in Europe and other parts of the world to transmit digital data along with a television picture. T eletext data is transmitted in an invisible part of the TV picture called the "V ertical Blanking Interval" or VBI.
Starting VTPlus If the VTPlus application is provided on CD-ROM, then it will automatically be installed from the WinTV -USB Installation CD -ROM . T o start VTPlus, click on the VTPlus button in WinTV32 or click on the TELE button in WinTV2000 . This will close the TV application and launch VTPlus.
VTPlus toolbar *Note: These functions are not applicable in the UK. 1. Reception indicator: when this symbol is red, your requested page is being received. 2. Script: shortcut for Options/Script. See Help for information on program- ming the Script. 3.
Quickselect T eletext pages By using the Ctrl+N key a Create and Receive page pops up requesting a page number . T ype the requested page number . If this page is to be received continu- ously (every time the page is received, the page is automatically updated), click the Update Continuously box.
Then click on Edit/Copy option from the Edit menu and click the left mouse button . The information is now in the PC memory . T o create a link to the DDE supported applications (such as your spreadsheet), select “edit past special” in your application and choose the past link option.
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Using the Radio Application If you have purchased the WinTV -USB-FM, in addition to watching TV you can also tune in radio stations on the FM band. The radio device has two aerial inputs, one for TV and one for FM radio.
T une: Fine tune the current radio channel. Seek: Search for the next active FM radio channel. Mem: Sets a FM radio channel preset. T o assign the current station to a preset, click on Mem and then on one of the Preset buttons (1-10). Mute: T urn off the sound.
1. Scan Mode: Presets - When Presets is chosen and the Scan button is clicked, -radio tunes in only the stations which are assigned to the Preset buttons. 2. Scan Mode: All - When All is chosen and the Scan button is clicked, - radio tunes in all radio stations.
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How WinTV -USB W orks Y our WinTV -USB contains a 125 channel cable ready TV tuner , a video digitizer , a video compression engine and a USB bus controller . WinTV -USB displays video and audio in the following way: Under software control, the WinTV -USB either tunes to a TV channel or selects the external audio/video input source.
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T roubleshooting This chapter includes troubleshooting help for solving common problems. Problem: Bad colors in the TV window If your VGA display is running in 256 color mode, the TV picture will be dis- played with only 256 colors. This compares with the 16 million different colors which are in the original TV image.
does not support Windows 98 Direct Draw . In this case, you might consider an upgrade to a new Windows VGA accelerator which has Direct Draw support and is compatible with the USB. A poor video picture might also indicate a bad signal. T o verify a bad signal, try one or more of these: Move your antenna or check your cable connection.
patibility problems, or improving picture quality on some VGA boards when used in some resolutions. T o use Primary Surface mode, run the program "PRIMARY", which is installed with the WinTV application. Click Start/ Programs/W inTV and then, Click on Primary .
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Updating the WinTV -USB driver From time to time, there might be a new WinTV USB driver which is an improve- ment over the existing driver . Driver updates can be downloaded from the Hauppauge Internet Web site (see the front page of this manual for the URL).
Click Next . The Update program now uninstalls the existing WinTV -USB driver , then copies a number of files to your hard disk: After the Driver installation program has copied all of the files over to your disk drive, you will be asked to reboot: Click OK to reboot your PC.
Run HCWCLEAR by double clicking on its icon: Click OK. Y ou will then see the following message: Click Y es. 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.
it means that one of the WinTV USB driver files in use . Y ou can either ignore the error , or can can double check to make sure there are no applications running in the system that might be using the WinTV USB driver .
T echnical Support T echnical support telephone If you have questions regarding installation or compatibility , please contact our technical support staff at: (631) 434-3197 (631) 434-3198 Fax USB F AQ -URL: www .
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The Hauppauge Limited W arranty W arranty Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. warrants the W inTV USB to be free from defects in material and workmanship for a period of 2 years from date of initial retail purchase. We will, at our option, repair or replace a defective product.
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Un point important après l'achat de l'appareil (ou même avant l'achat) est de lire le manuel d'utilisation. Nous devons le faire pour quelques raisons simples:
Si vous n'avez pas encore acheté Hauppauge WinTV USB c'est un bon moment pour vous familiariser avec les données de base sur le produit. Consulter d'abord les pages initiales du manuel d'utilisation, que vous trouverez ci-dessus. Vous devriez y trouver les données techniques les plus importants du Hauppauge WinTV USB - de cette manière, vous pouvez vérifier si l'équipement répond à vos besoins. Explorant les pages suivantes du manuel d'utilisation Hauppauge WinTV USB, vous apprendrez toutes les caractéristiques du produit et des informations sur son fonctionnement. Les informations sur le Hauppauge WinTV USB va certainement vous aider à prendre une décision concernant l'achat.
Dans une situation où vous avez déjà le Hauppauge WinTV USB, mais vous avez pas encore lu le manuel d'utilisation, vous devez le faire pour les raisons décrites ci-dessus,. Vous saurez alors si vous avez correctement utilisé les fonctions disponibles, et si vous avez commis des erreurs qui peuvent réduire la durée de vie du Hauppauge WinTV USB.
Cependant, l'un des rôles les plus importants pour l'utilisateur joués par les manuels d'utilisateur est d'aider à résoudre les problèmes concernant le Hauppauge WinTV USB. Presque toujours, vous y trouverez Troubleshooting, soit les pannes et les défaillances les plus fréquentes de l'apparei Hauppauge WinTV USB ainsi que les instructions sur la façon de les résoudre. Même si vous ne parvenez pas à résoudre le problème, le manuel d‘utilisation va vous montrer le chemin d'une nouvelle procédure – le contact avec le centre de service à la clientèle ou le service le plus proche.
