COMPRO ideoMate U620F User guide

VideoMate U620F
DVB-T / FM
USB 2.0 TV Stick
Start Up Guide
Compro Technology, Inc.
www.comprousa.com

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Table of Contents
VideoMate U620F DVB-T Stick.....................................3
VideoMate U620F Contents..........................................4
Software Installation ..................................................... 5
ComproDTV Gadget Tool for Vista/Win 7................... 5
ComproDTV 4.5 .............................................................8
ComproFM 2 ................................................................ 15
Troubleshooting..........................................................16
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VideoMate U620F DVB-T Stick
VideoMate U620F lets you watch/record digital TV broadcast on your PC.
VideoMate U620F features a TV tuner for either digital TV broadcast or analog
FM signals reception, Digital Video Recording (DVR) functions, scheduled
recording at anytime, crystal video quality and intelligent TV viewing.
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Your PC must meet or exceed the following system requirements to watch TV
on your PC.
PIII 1.7 GHz CPU for TV viewing
512 MB RAM
Available USB 2.0 port
Sound card or on-board sound chip
Graphics Card or on-board graphics supports DirectX 9.0
CD-ROM for software installation.
Windows XP SP3 or above installed.
RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
To use all the features of VideoMate U620F, your PC should meet the
following requirements.
2.6 GHz CPU with SSE 2 support for DVD recording and timeshifting
3.0 GHz CPU with SSE 2 support for HDTV/TS viewing/recording and PIP
Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz CPU for H.264 viewing/recording and PIP
1GB RAM
Sound card or on-board sound chip
Available USB 2.0 port
CD-ROM for software installation
Graphics Card or on-board graphics supports DirectX 9.0
Windows XP SP3 / Vista SP1 / Windows 7 x86 / x64
Update the latest drivers of VGA, motherboard, and soundcard from
vendors.

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VideoMate U620F Contents
Note
In order to receive digital terrestrial TV broadcast, you have to have your own
antenna which is crucial. Digital terrestrial TV broadcast uses about the same
wave (UHF) as analog TV. It’s recommended to have a fishbone-like antenna
on the roof for receiving. More details can be found in the troubleshooting
chapter of this manual.
Digital TV broadcast is different than normal analog TV. You will see no
picture instead of noisy or blurred picture when the signal is too weak. Make
sure you have a good antenna and strong digital TV signal in your location. Or
you will have no TV picture at all.
Note
The VideoMate U620F TV stick built-in Compro logo style
LED light to indicate the TV stick is working. While the TV
signal is weak, the LED will flash and the LED will off if no
signal. It’s more convenient to understand the TV
reception quality.
VideoMate
U620F
FM antenna
Start Up Guide
USB 2.0 cable
Installation CD

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Software Installation
Start the computer. Make sure VideoMate U620F is connected to your
computer and insert the installation CD into your CD drive.
Step 1. After restarting, Windows will detect a new device and start the
Add/Remove Hardware Wizard, please press Cancel and go to the
next step.
Step 2. Insert the installation CD into your CD drive. If you have Autorun
enabled, the installer will start automatically. (If Autorun is disabled,
double-click on “setup.exe” on the installation CD.) You can choose
Complete to install all necessary software (VideoMate U620F drivers,
ComproDTV, and ComproFM) or choose Custom to select item by
item. Compro recommends you choose Complete.
Step 3. Press Next to install ComproDTV, Windows Media Format 9 Series
Runtime
Step 4. After each program is successfully installed, press Finish to proceed.
Step 5. When installation completes, press Finish to restart computer.
Step 6. When computer is restarted, please start up ComproDTV. The
installation Wizard will guide you through the setup process.
ComproDTV Gadget Tool for Vista/Win 7
The Compro gadget tool is designed to provide the more convenient TV
experience in Windows Vista/7. It will be installed from the Compro installation
CD, and you can delete and add it from gadget setup.
Note
1. Gadget Tool is meant for Vista/Win 7 32 bit operation system only.
2. Gadget Tool needs the channel table from ComproDTV 4.5. Please
autoscan all the available digital channels in ComproDTV 4.5. Then you
can use the Gadget Tool.
3. If there is no picture when you click the live TV button, please right-click the
mouse button and select the video source you want.

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UI Control
DTV Gadget has three modes including Live TV mode, display playlist, and
display scheduled list.
The buttons from left to right sides are:
Channel down in live TV mode
Start/Stop Live TV, Play/pause from playlist
Channel Up in live TV mode
Start/stop record live TV
Mute
Playlist mode: It just displays first eight files in the list you recorded, if there
are more than eight files in folder, the ninth file or rest of files will not be display.
The figure in below shows the playlist style:
If clicking any files, the gadget will change to play mode from playlist mode,
then playing the file you clicked.
Scheduler list mode: This mode will display the top 5 of your current
scheduled list, you can click any of the scheduled item and check the detail
information of it.
The last mode is schedule view which has two different parts. First, there is a
table that has five rows; it means that schedule view will allow the first five
schedules in the list. Second, if clicking the item, it will change to another part,
which show in detail about the schedule you clicked. Clicking again will go
back to first part. The process showed as below:
5 files and 3 empty items in list
Press the button to load device
and start to play live TV
This button can change modes between
Live TV, display playlist and schedule list

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Dock and Undock Gadget Window:
Only docked gadget has three modes, the undocked gadget only support live
TV/playback video mode, and its size is bigger than docked one. You can
direct drag the gadget window to the other place out the sidebar and shows the
bigger undock window to watch TV or playback recorded video files.
Because undocked gadget lacks playlist, if you wants to play a file in undocked
mode, you can drop a file into the window of gadget to play a file .(in docked
mode, you can also play a file by dropping a file into gadget) The control of
button in undocked mode is the same as docked mode.
Pop Menu
Click the right mouse button on the gadget window; it
will open the pop menu for selection. You can return
to last channel, autoscan available channels, select
channel to watch from channel list, select video
source, adjust audio volume, or snapshot TV screen.
Gadget Settings
Settings of gadget have four parts included:
Capture device: to select capture devices.
(when running gadget first time or having more than one
device, this item is needed)
Quality setting : to select recording quality
Normal, Better, Best Quality
Record folder: a directory to place recorded files.
Snapshot folder: a directory to place picture.
Directly drag gadget windows out the sidebar and shows the bigger window

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ComproDTV 4.5
Control Panel
The DTV 4.5 control panel provides button controls for TV channel selection,
video recording, image capture and more.
The table below describe the functions of the buttons of DTV 4.5 control panel
Windows Control
Help (H)
Docking (D)
Minimize (G)
Maximize (Z)
Exit (CTRL+X)
Volume
Increase Volume (+)
Decrease Volume (-)
Mute (M)
TV Channel Control
Channel Up (Page Up)
Channel Down (Page Down)

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Channel Return (N)
Repeat Recorded Files
(CTRL+P)
Options / Video Recoder Function
Options (O)
Rewind (Left Arrow)
Stop (S)
Play (P)
Fast Forward (Right Arrow)
Pause (U)
Record (R)
Record Option (Ctrl+R)
Special Function
EPG (E)
Channel Surfing (F)
Closed Caption (C)
Snapshot (Space)
Timeshift (T)
Teletext (X)
Schedule (B)
Video Source (V)
Add Windows (F3)
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Note
Please note that not all options are available at all times, and may be grayed
out or inaccessible depending on your hardware setup and TV services
available. The following figure gives you the function of the button with (Hot
key)
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Start ComproDTV 4.5 and watch TV
After installation, just press the remote or double click the ComproDTV 4.5 icon
on the desktop, you will be able to watch TV. Same as operating a normal TV
set. Watch TV programs on your PC, in full-screen mode or in a window.
Channel up and down. Close ComproDTV 4.5 and even shutdown the
computer with the full function remote control keypad.

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Options
Press the Options button to open the Options dialog box. You can
change detail settings of ComproDTV 4.5 here.
TV Settings
This option gives you the way to manually select TV system and set the
method of scanning TV programs.
Choose ”Input Type”Check the ”Device List”Country /Region Autoscan
Autoscan
The first time you start ComproDTV 4.5, Autoscan will automatically scan for
available TV channels for TV signals. You can rescan the channels at any time
by pressing the Autoscan button. Also, you can enable the advanced
autoscan for more precision scan result.
When Autoscan is finished, detected channels are automatically enabled and
marked with the green check mark . Channels, where a valid signal could
not be detected, are disabled and marked with a blank. However, you can
interrupt the scanning process by pressing the Stop button.
After you are finished scanning for available channels, you may select OK to
return to the display window, or customize the channel orders according to
your preferences.
Channel Naming
You can customize the channel names by double-click on the CH Name field of
the channel you wish to rename.