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Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 Installation And Reference Manual

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  • Page 1 WinTV-PVR-pci WinTV-PVR-250 WinTV-PVR-350 Installation and Reference Manual...

  • Page 2: Fcc Statement

    FCC Statement Radio Interference Statement: The WinTV boards 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 residential installation.
  • Page 3 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 91 Cabot Court, Hauppauge, NY 11788 USA Phone: (+1) 631.434.1600 Fax: (+1) 631.434.3198 Tech support: (+1) 631.434.3197 www.hauppauge.com Hauppauge Computer Works GmbH Krefelder Straße 669 41066 Mönchengladbach, Germany Hotline: (+49) 2161/69 48 840...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    CE Statement ..................Installing the WinTV boards Installation overview ................1-1 WinTV-PVR-pci & WinTV-PVR-250 board diagram ......1-2 Installing the WinTV-PVR driver in your PC ........1-3 Installing the WinTV-PVR driver under Windows 98SE ....1-4 Installing the WinTV-PVR driver under Windows Me ......1-5 Installing the WinTV-PVR driver under Windows XP ......1-6...
  • Page 5 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Pause button ...................4-2 Replay button ..................4-2 Rewind button .................4-2 Fast Forward button ................4-3 Slow Motion button .................4-3 Tips on improving pause performance...........4-3 Record Mode Time counter ...................5-1 Record timer..................5-1 Record button .................5-1 VCD record button ................5-2 Play button ..................5-2 Pause button ...................5-3 Rewind button .................5-3...
  • Page 6 Warranty Warranty..................B-1 Trademarks: WinTV and the Hauppauge logo are registered trademarks of Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. Microsoft is a registered trademark and Windows and the Microsoft logo are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. ©2002 Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. All rights reserved.
  • Page 7 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual...
  • Page 8 MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 compression. It covers, but is not limited to, the following models: WinTV-PVR-pci, WinTV-PVR-250 and WinTV-PVR-350 References to the WinTV-PVR apply to all models. The Windows driver for all of the WinTV boards will be referred to as the WinTV driver, and the installation CD-ROM will be referred to as the WinTV Installation CD-ROM.

  • Page 9: Installation Overview

    Installing the WinTV-PVR board The WinTV-PVR is a Plug & Play device designed for Microsoft ® Windows ® 98SE/Me/2000/XP . Plug & Play simplifies the installation and hardware setup of WinTV by having hardware settings assigned by Windows. This section describes how to install these boards using the Plug &...
  • Page 10 The following diagram shows the main functions and connectors of the WinTV-PVR board. Since there are several different models with differ- ent features and functions, your board may not have all of the compo- nents installed. WinTV-PVR-250/350 board connectors FM radio connector TV Connector...

  • Page 11: Installing The Wintv-Pvr Driver In Your Pc

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Installing the WinTV-PVR in your PC Switch off the computer. The manufacturer of your PC supplies instruc- tions on removing the PC cover. Remove the cover. Locate a free PCI slot (a short white slot). Unscrew and remove the metal cover plate which covers the back of the empty slot.

  • Page 12: Installing The Wintv-Pvr Driver Under Windows 98Se

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Installing the PVR driver under Windows 98SE When re-starting Windows for the first time after the WinTV board has been installed, the Add New Hardware Wizard will open. Click Next. Insert the WinTV Windows Installation CD-ROM into your CD- ROM drive.

  • Page 13: Installing The Wintv-Pvr Driver Under Windows Me

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Note: If a message stating “Windows was unable to locate a driver for this device”, you did not wait long enough for the WinTV Installation CD- ROM to be read. Click Back and then click Next again for the CD to be recognized.
  • Page 14 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual This completes the WinTV-PVR driver installation for Windows Me. Continue to chapter 2 to install the WinTV Application software. Note: On those WinTV models equipped with remote control, after rebooting your PC the Remote Control will be enabled. Installing the PVR driver under Windows XP After installing the WinTV- PVR in your PC and boot-...

  • Page 15: Installing The Wintv-Pvr Driver Under Windows 2000

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual When the window Completing the Found New Hardware Wizard opens, click Finish. This completes the PVR driver installation for Windows XP . Continue to Chapter 2 to install the WinTV Application software. On those WinTV models equipped with remote control, after rebooting your PC the Remote Control will be enabled.
  • Page 16 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Next, the Locate Driver Files win- dow will open. Make sure the CD-ROM Drives is checked. Click Next. The Driver Files Search Results window will open. Click Next. Note: If the Digital Signature Not Found window opens, it will ask you if you want to continue the driver installation Click Yes.
  • Page 17 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual This completes the PVR driver installation for Windows 2000. Continue to Chapter 2 to install the WinTV Application software. On those WinTV models equipped with remote control, after rebooting your PC the Remote Control will be enabled.
  • Page 18 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Device Manager for 98SE/Me/XP/2000 for the WinTV-PVR-250 Windows 98SE Windows Me Windows XP Windows 2000 1-10...

  • Page 19: Installing The Application Software

    Installing the Application Software How to install the application software for Windows98SE & WindowsMe After the WinTV driver has been installed, you need to run WinTV Setup to complete the installation.. Double Click on the My Computer icon on your desktop and then click on your CD-ROM drive letter.
  • Page 20 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Next, the Components window will open. Click, Install Note: Radio application will only appear if you purchased a WinTV with FM radio. Next, the Welcome window will appear. Click, Next Next, select the destina- tion directory. Click, Next to install the application to the default directory.
  • Page 21 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual You are now ready to install the application software. Click, Next The Copying Files window will open and you will see a number of files being copied to your hard disk drive. Click, Finish to com- plete the WinTV2000 application software installation.

  • Page 22: How To Install The Application Software For Windowsxp

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual How to install the application software for WindowsXP After the WinTV driver has been installed, you need to run WinTV Setup to complete the installation. Click on the My Computer icon on your desktop and then click on your CD- ROM drive letter.
  • Page 23 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Next, the components window will open. Click, Install Next, the Welcome win- dow will open. Click, Next Next, Select destination directory. Click, Next to install the application to the default directory. C:\program files\WinTV...
  • Page 24 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual You are now Ready to Install the application software. Click, Next The Copying Files window will open and you will see a number of files being copied to your hard disk drive. Click, Finish to com- plete the WinTV 2000 application software installation.
  • Page 25 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual How to install the application software for Win 2000 After the WinTV driver has been installed, you need to run WinTV Setup to complete the installation. Click on the My Computer icon on your desktop and then click on your CD-ROM drive letter.
  • Page 26 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Next, the compo- nents window will open. Click, Install Next, the Welcome window will appear. Click, Next Next, Select destination directory. Click, Next to install the application to the default directory. C:\program files\WinTV...
  • Page 27 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual You are now Ready to Install the application software. Click, Next The Copying Files window will open and you will see a number of files being copied to your hard disk drive. Click, Finish to com- plete the WinTV2000 application software installation.
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  • Page 29: Running The Wintv Application

    After installing the WinTV application from the WinTV Installation CD- ROM, you will see WinTV icons on your Windows background. Start WinTV2000 by double clicking on its icon. You can also click on Start/Programs/Hauppauge WinTV and then the WinTV2000 icon to start WinTV.

  • Page 30: Setting Up Your Tv Channels

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Setting up your TV channels The first time you run WinTV, you will be asked to scan for TV channels. Click OK. Choose the Video Format for your Geographic region: North America uses NTSC(M) Most of Europe uses PAL B/G U.K.

  • Page 31: Setting Up An External Source

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual In the Edit channel window, click your mouse in the Channel name box, then type in your desired name. You can also add a description. When finished, click OK. Setting up an External video source Click the Suite button (Channel configuration) on the WinTV2000 and click on Add.

  • Page 32: The Channel Suite Manager

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual The Channel Suite Manager From the Channel Manager, you can Add, Edit or Delete channels. You can also create channel suites, which are subsets of the All Channels suite. For example, you can have a suite of just TV news channels, and name this suite “News”.

  • Page 33: Adjusting The Video Image Color

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual The One Touch Record button will start a record session. If you click OTR more than once, a record timer will be set and the recording will be done for 15 minutes for each additional time the OTR button is clicked. For example, if you click the OTR button 3 times, the WinTV-PVR will record for 30 minutes.

  • Page 34: Adjusting Your Captured Images

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Adjusting your captured images You can capture images with image resolutions from 320x240 up to 1600x1200 pixels. To open the iamge capture settings menu, click on the PREF button, click the Capture tab and then the SnapShot tab. The capture resolution is set in Capture Resolutions.

  • Page 35: Using The Mouse In Wintv

    Then let it go! Move the TV window in TitleMode by clicking and holding your mouse button on the Title Bar (where it says Hauppauge WinTV2000), holding it down and dragging it to the new position. You can set a different size and a different place on your VGA screen for the WinTV window in TitleMode and NoTitleMode.

  • Page 36: Setting Preferences In Title Mode

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual size and location on screen for NoTitleMode. Every time you select the NoTitleMode by right clicking in the WinTV window, the window will resize and move to the saved position. To select which bars and indicators are shown when in the TitleBar and NoTitleBar modes, click on Preferences.

  • Page 37: Setting Full Screen Tv Mode

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Annunciators On : display the TV channel on screen when you change channels, and display the volume when you adjust the volume. Allow Screen Saver : On, will allow your system to use your default screen saver when WinTV is open or to use the live TV as a screen saver.

  • Page 38: Keyboard Shortcuts

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Watch, Pause and Record TV buttons There are three buttons to control the Watching, Recording and Pausing of TV. Clicking on the Pause button will cause the Pause menu to roll down from the WinTV2000 application, while clicking on the Rec button will cause the Record menu to roll down.
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  • Page 40: Pause Mode

    Pause Mode Clicking the Pause button or OTP button on the WinTV2000 applica- tion starts the Pause mode. The Pause Menu will drop down. (shown above) Note: It takes about 10 seconds to create a pause buffer. While the buffer is initializing, do not click any buttons on the WinTV application. Video Delay Skip ahead...

  • Page 41: Delay Counter

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual if you are using MPEG-1 VCD format, 650 MBytes per hour are used. So if you want a 1/2 hour buffer, then set the Limit Pause Mode Buffer Size to 325 MBytes. if you are using MPEG-2 4.0MB/sec, about 2 Gigabytes per hour is used for the Pause buffer.

  • Page 42: Rewind Button

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual onds. 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.
  • Page 43 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Turn off screen savers and do not connect to a local area network. There are several hard disks on the market which are designed for high- er performance video captures. These drives use 1:1 interleaving and track caching to eliminate gaps caused by a hard disk drive seeking to the next track.

  • Page 44: Record Mode

    Record Mode Click on the Record button or the OTR button on the WinTV2000 appli- cation to open the Record and Playback control bar. Record timer Time after clicking OTR button counter Skip back Skip ahead 10 sec. 10 sec. video position Skip to beginning...

  • Page 45: Vcd Record Button

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual There are several video qualities: VCD plus MPEG-2 2.0, 12.0 MBit/sec, DVD and SVCD. The highest quality is MPEG-2 12.0 MBit/sec, and the lowest quality is VCD. While recording: Live video continues to play in the WinTV window the Counter will display the length of your recording if you had started recording with the OTR button, and had clicked it more than once, the total time for the recording will also be dis-...

  • Page 46: Rewind Button

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Rewind Button: Clicking the Rewind button will play the video file in reverse at 1x speed. Clicking the Rewind button again will continue the playing. Fast Forward Button: Clicking the Fast Forward button one time will fast forward your video at 2X speed.
  • Page 47 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual...
  • Page 48 Configuring MPEG compression formats and record directories To set the directory where your video recordings will be stored, click the PREF button (Preferences menu) on WinTV2000, then Capture and then on the MPEG tab. Set the DVCR File Path to your video directory. The default path is C:/My Documents\My Videos The WinTV-PVR supports several formats for MPEG video compres- sion, called Quality Levels.

  • Page 49: Mpeg-1

    , but the format while Recording or while Pause mode cannot be changed in the Pause mode. WinTV-PVR-250 and PVR-350 video formats: MPEG-1: VCD MPEG-2: 2.0MB/sec (Full D1) MPEG-2: 2.0MB/sec (Half D1) MPEG-2: 12.0 MB/sec (Full D1) MPEG-2: 12.0 MB/sec (CBR)

  • Page 50: Dvd

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual DVD Standard Play: Datarate 8.0Mb/sec, 720x480, 48.0 kHz stereo DVD Long Play: Datarate 6.2Mbits/sec, 720x480, 48.0 kHz stereo DVD Extra Long Play: Datarate 4.4Mbits/sec, 720x480 48.0 kHz stereo SVCD Standard Play: Datarate 2.5Mbits/sec, 480x480 pixels Note: CBR is constant bit rate, VBR is variable bit rate.
  • Page 51 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual...

  • Page 52: Creating Video Cd's

    On the WinTV-PVR-pci and the WinTV-PVR-usb, the VCD MPEG files themselves need to have the audio and video remultiplexed before a Video CD can be recorded onto CD-ROM. The WinTV-PVR-250 and the WinTV-PVR-350, when recording using the VCD format, have correctly multiplexed audio and video and therefore these files can be directly “burnt”...
  • Page 53 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Step 2: Creating a “burnable” VCD Movie With VCD files created with WinTV-PVR-250 and WinTV-PVR-350, once the files are recorded, they can be immediately “burnt” onto a CD-ROM for playback in a VCD player. For the WinTV-PVR-pci and the WinTV-PVR-usb, after you have record- ed using the MPEG-1 VCD setting, it is still not in format which can be burnt onto a CD-RW and played in a DVD player.
  • Page 54 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual ated with the WinTV-PVR can be found on our web site: www.hauppauge.com/dvdplayers Sometimes a version of MediaPlayer cannot “see” the Video CD movie file. If this is the case, you can manually select a video to be played by opening the Video CD using Windows Explorer, and looking in the MPEGAV directory on the Video CD.
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  • Page 56: Wintv Mpeg Editor

    WinTV MPEG Editor The Hauppauge MPEG Editor is an MPEG-1/MPEG-2 cut and join edi- tor. You can cut out segments from videos, or combine videos (of the same MPEG format) together. The MPEG editor makes its cuts on what are called "MPEG I-frames". These types of cuts do not require a re- encode, and therefore preserves the quality of the original video.

  • Page 57: How To Use The Editor

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Has a “play” option so you can play the file you have just edited with- out having to close the editor How to use the editor: Click on the Add source button or click on File / Add source to bring the file you want to edit into the MPEG editor.

  • Page 58: Options Menu

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Options menu General Options Temporary files: Specify location of temporary files Use SOURCE directory for SOURCE temp files: Temporary files for the source file will be stored in the same directory as the source file. Use destination directory for destination temp files: Temporary files for the output file will be stored in the same directory as the output file.
  • Page 59 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual (=50*1024*1024) here. Overlapping: Number of frames, for which the start and end of the sec- tions will overlap. If you enter the GOP (Group Of Pictures) length, no pictures will be missed (12 = typical GOP length). Also write unsplit file: In addition to splitting the output file, also write the complete file unsplit.

  • Page 60: Using Wintv-Scheduler

    Using WinTV-Scheduler WinTV-Scheduler allows you to schedule the recording of TV shows. WinTV-Scheduler, once it is set, can be closed, and the WinTV applica- tion will “wake up” at the desired time and tuned to the desired chan- nel. After installation, WinTV-Scheduler can be found on your desktop. WinTV-Scheduler works by using the Windows Task Scheduler to launch WinTV at the chosen time.

  • Page 61: Program Period

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual Program Period: one time, daily, weekly Date to Begin Program: today's date is the default. Change this if you want to schedule on another date. Source selection: leave set at WinTV2000 to bring up the WinTV at the requested time and on the requested channel.

  • Page 62: Troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting Installation tips and software updates can be found at: www.hauppauge.com/html/sw_pvr_pci.htm (WinTV-PVR pci only) Note: Our FAQ on the Hauppauge web site provides up to date Troubleshooting tips, which can be found at: www.hauppauge.com/html/faq.htm Problem: Poor image when running in 256-color mode Many VGA’s cannot run WinTV in 256-color mode.

  • Page 63: How Do I Configure The Audio For The Wintv-Pvr

    WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual How do I configure the Audio for the WinTV-PVR? While watching live TV and while recording video, the WinTV-PVR board amplifies the audio signal. When you adjust the audio volume slide bar in the WinTV2000 application, the WinTV-PVR adjusts the audio volume accordingly.

  • Page 64: Tips On System Optimization

    Tips on System Optimization These are tips that will help you improve capture and playback perfor- mance of video files on you PC. 1.) Do not use DoubleSpace or any other disk compression scheme! This severely slows down your hard disk. 2.) Make sure DMA is checked for your Hard disk drives in Device Manager.
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  • Page 66: Technical Support

    Hauppauge be liable for consequential damages, including any lost savings, lost profits, or any other damages, caused by the use of the WinTV board or inability to use it, even if the dealer or Hauppauge has been advised of such liability or other claims.
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  • Page 68: Warranty

    The Hauppauge Limited Warranty Warranty Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. warrants the WinTV board 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.
  • Page 69 WinTV-PVR Installation and Reference Manual...

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