Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 User manual

What is ATSC digital TV,
and how does the
WinTV-HVR-1600 work?
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.
WinTV-HVR-1600 cannot receive digital cable 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 resolu-
tion, ATSC digital TV gives sharper pictures than analog cable TV
and near CD quality sound.
WinTV-HVR-1600 has a built-in analog cable TV and digital ATSC TV
tuner. It uses your PC 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 programs depends upon
how fast your PC 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.
For the best ATSC digital TV reception, a roof top ‘Wideband or
Highgain’ antenna is recommended. TitanTV.com has a good ATSC
digital antenna selector which can be found under Resources.
Installing the
WinTV-HVR-1600
WinTV-HVR-1600 is a TV tuner board with an analog TV tuner, a seper-
ate ATSC digital TV tuner plus a hardware MPEG-2 encoder. WinTV-
HVR-1600 is designed for WindowsXP and Windows Vista.
Note: if you are running Windows Media Center application, you only
need to install the WinTV-HVR Windows device driver.
Installation overview
✓Install the WinTV-HVR-1600 board in your PC and connect the
TV cables. For the best ATSC digital TV reception, use a high
quality roof top antenna.
✓After booting Windows, install WinTV-HVR Windows device driv-
er from the WinTV-HVR-1600 Installation CD-ROM.
✓After the Windows driver is installed,install the WinTV applica-
tions from the WinTV-HVR-1600 Installation CD-ROM.
Step 1: Install the WinTV-HVR-1600 board and connect
the cables
Turn the power off on your PC. Install the WinTV-HVR-1600 into a
PCI slot. On some PC’s, the WinTV-HVR needs to be plugged into
the first or second PCI slot. Plug your cable TV into TV Connector.
Plug your ATSC digital TV antenna into the ATSC Digital TV input.
The S-Video/composite video input can be used to bring video from
a VCR, camcorder, camera, DVD player or satellite TV receiver. If
your video device uses composite video instead of S-Video, use the
supplied Composite to S-Video adapter. Plug your composite video
connector (normally yellow) into one end of the Composite to S-
Video adapter and the other end into the S-Video/Composite video
input connector on WinTV-HVR-1600.
The Remote control receiver/blaster cable is plugged into the Remote
control socket. Use the Velcro dot (on the back of the Remote control
receiver) to position the Remote control receiver where it will be able
to receive infra-red commands from the Remote control transmitter.
Add the supplied batteries to the Remote control transmitter.
Step 2: Installing the WinTV-HVR under Windows XP
After installing the WinTV-
HVR in your PC and booting
into Windows, the Found
New Hardware Wizard will
appear.
Click No, not at this time.
Click Next.
Insert the WinTV-HVR-1600
Installation CD-ROM in your
PC’s CD-ROM drive and
make sure Install the software
automatically
(Recommended) is checked.
Click Next.
If the Hardware Installation
dialog box opens, click
Continue Anyway.
The WinTV-HVR driver will be
installed. This takes several
seconds.
Click Finish.
This will complete the driver
installation for Windows XP. Go
to step 3.
Step 3: WinTV-HVR
Software installation
After the WinTV-HVR driver has
been installed, you need to run
WinTV Setup to com-
plete the installation.
Run SETUP from the
WinTV-HVR
Installation CD-ROM.
Click Install to start
the application instal-
lation. The installation
may require a file from
your Windows CD-
ROM, so keep it
handy.
After the Setup pro-
gram is complete, you
will see the
WinTV2000 icon on
your Windows desk-
top.
Running WinTV2000 for the first
time
To run the WinTV2000 application for watching TV, recording videos
and playing them back on your PC, double click on the WinTV
2000 icon on your desk top.
When you run WinTV2000 for the first time, a message says Would
you like to scan for channels now? Click YES.
Click the Scan button and WinTV2000 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 sub-
channels, the channel number is calculated so that channel 22.2
would be listed as 1222. Channel 7.2 would be listed as 1072.
Note: if you do not receive any ATSC digital TV channels, an
antenna signal booster might be needed. After adding a signal
booster, see below for instructions on rescanning and the
Troubleshooting section for information on chosing an ATSC antenna.
Note: When initially installed, WinTV-HVR-1600 uses a setting
which does not take advantage of graphics acceleration. If
you experience problems when watching ATSC digital 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.
Setting up the channels
After you have scanned for channels, you can add channel names
and fine tune for better reception. To do this, click the Menu button
on WinTV2000, then click Suite Manager. You can also click and hold
your right mouse button, then click SuiteManager.
Click on the desired channel, then Edit. Change the ChannelName to
the name of the station, change the description or fine tune. Then
click OK.
Selecting an External Video source (VCR, camcorder,
etc.)
Click the green Video source select button to select TV, Composite
and S-Video sources. The video sources will use the TV standard
chosen when you scanned for your TV channels (NTSC or PAL).
Displaying TV full screen
When you click the Full screen TV button, TV will appear full screen.
When finished watching TV full screen, click your right mouse button
in the TV window.
If you see video with a black box to the left and right of the TV
image, 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, the WinTV window can always be visible on
your Windows desktop. To turn on Always-on-Top, simply click the
Always-on-top button. It will turn green. To turn off Always on Top,
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 quick from a small window to a
larger one simply by clicking the right mouse button.
Menu button
Click the Menu button to open the TV Setup menu. Here is the main
control for TV channels, and duplicate controls for other functions:
Suite Manager: configure the TV tuner (scanning, naming, fine tun-
ing, etc.), setting up 'favorite channel lists' and set an external
A/V source to a TV channel.
Configuration: duplicate configuration menus for color, audio,
MPEG settings, etc.
View: for setting the TV window size
Pref button
Click the Pref button to open the Preferences menu. You will have
tabs for:
View: these are the settings for the On Screen Display of the TV
channel and Audio Volume, where you can enable Close
Captions, plus controls 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 settings.
You can set the movie record directory (DVCR Record File
Path), the MPEG Quality settings, and the Audio setings.
Snap Shot: here is where you can set the size of your captured
images, plus single or two field captures.
Audio: your audio settings are configured here.
Color: adjust the color of your TV picture here.
If you cannot hear audio
If you cannot hear audio when the WinTV application is running,
check the following:
- Click on the WinTV applications’ audio configuration button
AUD and make sure the Audio Mixer Input is set to Wave.
- Open the Volume control menu (double click on the small
speaker icon in the lower right hand corner of your PC screen).
Make sure Wave is not muted and the level is about half way up.
- If you do not see a Wave listed in the Volume control menu,
click on Options / Properties in this menu and under Show the
following volume controls put a check mark next to Wave. This
will add Wave to the list of devices. Click OK and then you
should see Wave listed. Once again, make sure Wave is not
muted and the volume is half way up.
- If you do not hear audio when playing back a recorded video file
(or do not hear audio when in the Pause mode), then open up
the Windows Volume Control Mixer and make sure Wave is
listed and not muted.
Watch, Pause and Record TV
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.
The One Touch Pause (OTP) button prepares the WinTV-HVR for
pausing live video (see Pause mode below).
The One Touch Record (OTR) 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 time the OTR button
is clicked. For example, if you click the OTR button 3 times, the
WinTV-HVR will record for 30 minutes.
Quick instructions on recording and pausing your TV
shows
If you want to record a TV show you are watching:
- Click the Record button to lower the record and play menu
- In the Record menu, click the red record button to start recording
- When you are finished recording, click the stop button
- Click the Play button to play the video you just recorded
- To play a video you recorded earlier, click the File button and then
move your mouse and click once on the video you want to play.
Click Open and then the Play button. For more instructions, see the
section entitled Record mode.
If you want to pause a TV show you are watching:
- Click the Pause button to lower the pause menu. After about 15
seconds, your screen will stop and the Time counter will start
counting.
- To start the video from where you paused, click the Play button
- To pause the video again, click the Pause button
- To rewind the video to the beginning, click the Skip to the begin-
ning button. If your video was paused, click the Play button.
- To rewind the video 10 seconds, click the rewind 10 seconds but-
ton. If your video was paused, click the Play button.
For more instructions, see the section entitled Pause mode.
Record Mode
Click on the Record button or the OTR button on the WinTV-2000
application to open the Record and Playback control bar.
Time counter:
The time is specified in a Hour:Minute:Second format.
Record timer:
A timed record is started by clicking the OTR button. Each time you
click OTR, the Record Timer is incremented by 15 minutes. At the
end of the time specified by the Record timer, the record will stop.
Also, clicking the Stop button will stop a timed record. The time is
specified in a Hour:Minute:Second format.
Record Button:
Clicking the Record button will automatically generate a file name and
start recording your audio/video program.
The quality of the video recording and the directory where the files
are stored are set in the MPEG Configuration Menu (see the sec-
tion entitled “Configuring the format for MPEG compression”).
Click the PREF button on the WinTV2000 application, then clicking
Capture / MPEG. In Quality Levels, 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 displayed
The recorded video file is saved in the DVCR Recorded File Path which
can be configured from the MPEG Configuration Menu. Everytime you
record a file, a new file is automatically created. The first file will be
_dvcr001.mpg. The second file will be _dvcr002.mpg and so on.
Click the Stop button to stop your recording. The recorded audio/video
file is then saved to disk using the automatically assigned file name. The
Time counter is reset to 00:00:00 after the recording is saved.
VCD Record Button:
Clicking the VCD Record button will automatically generate a file name
and start recording your program using the VCD record quality. All other
characteristics are the same as in the Record mode. This button makes
it easy to save VCD quality video, for burning later on to a Video CD.
Stop Button:
Clicking the Stop button will stop the video you are recording or play-
ing back. Once the video is stopped, live TV will be displayed.
Play Button:
Clicking the Play button will playback from disk the last video file
created. When playing a video, you can rewind, fast forward, replay
10 sec or skip forward 10 sec using the buttons on the control bar.
When playing video files, you can quickly skip to sections of your
video by hitting the 0 to 9 buttons on the remote (or your keyboard).
When you hit ‘1’ you will skip to 10% of the length of the video.
When you hit ‘2’ you will skip to 20% of your video.
Pause Button:
Clicking the Pause button while Playing will pause your audio/video
file. Clicking the Pause button again will continue the playing.
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 Foward Button:
Clicking the Fast Foward button one time will fast foward your video at
2X speed. Clicking the Fast Foward button two times will fast foward
your video at 8X speed. Clicking the button again will continue play-
ing back at normal speed.
Slow Motion Button:
Clicking the Slow Motion button will play video at 1/2 speed. Click the
Slow Motion button again to play your video at normal speed.
File Button:
Clicking the File button opens the File menu. The last file recorded
is listed in the File name box. In the File menu you can:
- Rename your recorded video file. To rename a video file, find
the file you would like to rename (remember, the automatically
generated file names start with _dvcr), highlight it with your
mouse, and click and hold the right mouse button. Go down
to Rename and then you can type in a new name. Remember:
you must keep the MPG extension on the file.
-Play a video file previously recorded: find the file you would
like to play, highlight it with your mouse (one click of the mouse
button) and click Open. Then click the Play button.
- Delete recorded video files which you no longer want (and
which consume hard disk space). Click your right mouse button
on the video file once, go down the menu and click on Delete.
Pause mode
Clicking the Pause button or OTP button on the WinTV-2000 appli-
cation starts the Pause mode. The Pause Menu will drop down.
Note: It takes about 10 seconds to create a pause buffer..
Pause buffer:
The Pause buffer is space on your hard disk where video is stored
during the Pause mode. The maximum amount of time which your
TV program can be delayed is dependent upon how much storage
space you have set for the Pause buffer and which type of MPEG
format you have chosen. Both of these can be set in the MPEG set-
tings menu (see the section entitled “Configuring the format for
MPEG compression”).
To catch up to the "live" audio/video program, you can either exit the
Pause mode by clicking the TV mode button, you can click the Skip
button, which skips ahead 10 seconds per click, or you can grab the
Video Position indicator and move it to the right until it is at the end
of the Video Position bar.
The Limit Pause Mode buffer size sets the maximum size of the
Pause buffer. Here are some suggested sizes:
- If you are using MPEG1 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
ATSC Digital TV
connector
Audio input (Line-In)
Remote control (IR)
receiver/blaster socket
TV Connector
for Cable TV
WinTV-HVR-1600
Board connectors
Record Play
Pause
Stop
File menu
(Save/Open/Burn)
Time
counter
Skip to End
Skip back
10 sec.
Video CD
record
video position
WinTV-HVR-1600
Personal Video Recorder
Quick Installation
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Pause mode button
TV mode
button
One Touch
Pause One Touch
Record
Record mode
button
Fast Foward
2X 8X
Slow
Motion
Rewind
Skip ahead
10 sec.
Skip to
beginning
Record timer
after clicking OTR button
Pause
Skip ahead
10 seconds
Replay 10
seconds Skip to
the end
Skip to the
beginning Skip ahead
10 seconds
Replay 10
seconds
Delay
counter
Video
Position bar
Play
Play forward
slow motion
Fast Foward
2X, 8X
Rewind
S-Video/Composite video
input connector
Snap
Snapshot
Button
Freeze
video
CFG
Configure
Snapshot
Pref
Preferences
menu
Menu
Setup Menu
Always-on-top
Full screen TV
Remove toolbars
"no toolbar" mode
Minimize
Record
open the record
controls
Channel surf
Video source select
Channel down
Channel up
Previous channel
Close
WinTV
Snapshot viewer
window
Double click on
each "thumbnail" to
see image full size.
Click and hold your
right mouse button
to see image
options.
Current TV channel
or video source
Click your right mouse
button here to see the
channel selector
Remove toolbars
Click your right mouse button in the TV
window to remove toolbars.
Click again to restore toolbars.
One Touch
Record
One Touch
Pause
Analog
Source
ATSC
source

hour is used for the Pause buffer. So for a 30 minute buffer, then
set the Limit Pause Mode Buffer Size to 1000 MBytes.
Delay counter:
The Delay counter displays how much time you are behind the live
video. For example, if the delay counter says 00:01:23, then the video
window is showing video 1 minute and 23 seconds behind live video.
Pause button:
Clicking the Pause button or OTP button causes WinTV to start
recording into WinTV's Replay Buffer. It takes about 10 seconds for
the Replay Buffer to be initialized and for Pause to become effective.
Unclicking the Pause button will cause the audio/video program to
start playing from the point where the button was originally pushed.
Most WinTV functions are active while in the Pause or Pause Live
mode. For example, you can change volume, resize the TV window,
go into "no-title mode", etc.
While in Pause mode, the Video Position bar shows the amount of
the Replay Buffer which is filled with video. For example, if the
Video Position indicator shows halfway, it means that half of the
Replay Buffer is filled. If you find you cannot Pause as many minutes
as you would like, increase the size of the Replay Buffer.
While in Pause mode, the A/V stream is always saved in the Replay
Buffer. To stop saving the A/V stream in the Replay Buffer, you must
exit the Pause mode by clicking the TV mode button.
Replay button:
While in the Pause mode, hitting the Replay button acts like the Instant
Replay you see on TV broadcast sporting events: the audio/video
goes back in time and you repeat what you have previously seen.
Each click of the Replay button causes audio/video to go back 10
seconds. 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.
For extended replay times, you might find it more convenient to grab
the Video Position indicator control bar and move it to the left.
Once you let the control bar go, audio/video starts to play (it might
take a few seconds for the WinTV2000 application to start playing).
You might have to move the Video Position indicator to the left and
right to find the desired spot to start replaying audio/video.
While Replaying, your audio/video program continues to be record-
ed in the Replay Buffer. Therefore, if you have clicked the Replay
button 3 times (so that you are replaying the audio/video seen 30
seconds ago), the video you see in the WinTV window will be 30
seconds behind the "live" audio/video program.
Skip Ahead Button
Clicking the Skip button will skip the video ahead 10 seconds.
Rewind Button:
Clicking the Rewind button while playing video will rewind the recorded
video. Clicking the Rewind button again will continue the playing.
Fast Foward Button:
Clicking the Fast Foward button one time will fast foward your video
at 2X speed. Clicking the Fast Foward button two times will fast
foward your video at 8X speed.
Slow Motion Button:
Clicking the Slow Motion button while playing video will play in Slow Motion.
Clicking the Slow Motion button again, will continue playing normally.
MPEG compression formats &
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 directory where you
would like to store your video recordings.
The WinTV-HVR supports several formats for MPEG video compres-
sion, called Quality Levels. The differences in these formats are:
- The higher the datarate, the better the video quality you see
from live TV
and your
recordings.
The higher
the datarate,
the more disk
space which
will be
required.
- CPU horsepower required during playback and pause mode.
- The compatibility when creating Video CD’s or S-VCD’s.
To configure the MPEG Quality Level, on WinTV2000 click the PREF
button (Preferences menu), then Capture and then the MPEG tab.
Here are the video formats and the amount of disk space per hour
used:
MPEG1 VCD .65 Gigabytes/hour
MPEG2 2.0MBits/sec (Full D1) .9 Gigabytes/hour
MPEG2 2.0MBits/sec (Half D1) .9 Gigabytes/hour
MPEG2 12.0 MBits/sec (Full D1) 5.4 Gigabytes/hour
MPEG2 12.0 MBits/sec (CBR) 5.4 Gigabytes/hour
DVD Standard Play 8.0Mbits/sec 3.1 Gigabytes/hour
DVD Long Play 6.2Mbits/sec 2.4 Gigabytes/hour
DVD Extra Long Play 2.5 Mbits/sec 1.2 Gigabytes/hour
SVCD Standard Play 2.5Mbits/sec .8 Gigabytes/hour
Note: CBR is constant bit rate, VBR is variable bit rate.
Which record format should you use?
If you would like to burn a DVD, then chose either DVD Standard Play,
DVD Long Play or DVD Extra Long Play. DVD formats record at
720x480 (720x576 with PAL video sources) using 48.0 kHz stereo audio.
If you want to watch the recorded video on your PC, for the best
video quality chose MPEG2 12.0MB/sec or DVD Standard Play. If
you do not have much disk apace, try the MPEG-2 2.0MB/sec.
SVCD is a nice compromise between video quality and hard disk
space. Video is recorded at 480x480 (480x576 for PAL video) at a
datarate up to 2.5Mbits/sec.
For creating Video CD’s for playback on your home DVD player,
chose the MPEG1 VCD format.
Once chosen, the Quality Level format is set for both the Pause and
Record modes. The format cannot be changed while Recording or
while in the Pause mode.
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 application will “wake up” at the desired time and tuned to
the desired channel.
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. WinTV-Scheduler sets up a com-
mand line in Task Scheduler to run WinTV2000, specifying a TV
channel and a length of time to record.
To set up an event for timed watching or recording, run WinTV-
Scheduler and click on the Add Program.
The items that need to be set for each event are:
- Time to Begin Program: set to the desired start time. The
default time is about 3 minutes from the current time. Click on
the hour to set the hour, the minute to set the minute and the
second (if you feel this is necessary) to set the minute to start the
program. Note: It takes about 10 seconds to launch the WinTV
and set up for recording, so set the Time to Begin Progam to 10
seconds before the time your TV show actually starts.
- Time to End Program: set to the time to end this event. Note:
you need to leave at least 30 seconds between scheduled pro-
grams to give the recorder time to set up its disk buffers.
- Program Period: one time, daily, weekly
- Date to Begin Program: todays 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.
- Channel selection: chose one of your scanned channels.
- Recording options: click on Record to File to record your show.
Leave this button unchecked to watch TV at the requested time.
You can also name your file to record, in the dialog box below.
Once these are set, click Set Program. You can add more Events,
clicking Set Program after each event is set.
When you are finished click Close. The WinTV program does not
have to be running for the Schedular to work. If WinTV is not run-
ning, it takes about 10 seconds to start WinTV-HVR and to start the
recording of TV.
WinTV-HVR remote control
The WinTV-HVR’s remote control software is installed automatically
during the installation of the WinTV applications. You will see the
WinTV Remote icon in the Device Tray. The installation will add a
shortcut to IR.EXE to the Startup group, so that IR.EXE is loaded
every time after Windows has booted.
If you need to restart the remote control, run IR32.EXE from the
C:\Program Files\WinTV directory.
To install the IR Remote receiver:
- Turn off your computer. Plug the sub-mini jack at the end of the
IR Receiver cable into the Remote control (IR) receiver socket
of the WinTV-HVR.
- Place the IR Receiver on your desktop so that the infrared light
from the IR Remote transmitter can reach the IR Receiver.
- Turn on your computer.
- If you have previously installed the WinTV applications, the IR
software should automatically run, and you will see the WinTV
Remote icon in the Device Tray.
Some remote control buttons
TV button: when WinTV is closed, this button starts the WinTV appli-
cation. Once WinTV is running, this button makes TV go full screen,
or back to “TV-in-a-window”.
Red record button: starts recording using the parameters set in the
Pref menu.
Pause button: if watching live TV, will open the record/play menu
box and puase the video. When recording, this button will pause the
video but WinTV will continue to record. If playing back video, this
button will pause the video playback. Click the Pause button to start
playing again.
Stop button (square
icon): stops the recording
or playback. If in Pause
mode, will exit pause.
Play button: plays the
last video recorded.
Back/Exit button: will
close the record, play or
pause menus.
0 - 9 buttons: When in
“live” TV mode, is used to
directly enter channel
numbers. When playing
back a recording, the “1”
button will skip to 10%,
the “2” button 20%, etc.
of the length of the
recording.
Skip ahead button: hold-
ing the skip ahead button
advances the video about
5 minutes per 10 seconds
the button is depressed.
Skip back button: press-
ing and holding the Skip
back button makes the
video go back about 5
minutes for every 10 sec-
onds the button is
depressed.
Go button: brings up the
WinTV task list. Allows you to start WinTV2000, WinTV32 or WinTV-
radio.
Menu button: brings up the Windows Task list. Use the left and right
arrows to change to other Windows tasks.
Power button (green): if WinTV is running in “Record” mode, this
button will put WinTV into the “TV” mode” and close the record/play-
back menu. If WinTV is in “TV mode”, this button will close the
WinTV application.
Red button at bottom: closes WinTV Radio and opens WinTV2000.
Green button at bottom: closes WinTV2000 and opens WinTV
Radio (on models with radio).
Yellow button at bottom: no current function.
Blue button at bottom: creates snapshot in live TV, pause, record or
playback modes.
Checking the function of WinTV’s IR Remote
WinTV’s Remote application, IR.EXE, is loaded every time Windows
is booted. You will see a Remote icon in the device tray. To check
the remote control operation, point the Remote transmitter at the
Remote control receiver. When you click the TV button on the
Remote transmitter, after 3-4 seconds the Remote icon should flash,
indicating that the Remote application is running. After the Remote
icon flashes, the WinTV application will be run.
WinTV MPEG Editor
The MPEG Editor is an MPEG1/MPEG-2 cut and join editor. 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.
You will find the WinTV MPEG editor by clicking Start / All Programs /
MPEG Tools for Hauppauge / nanoPEG Editior.
This version of the MPEG editor has these features:
- Edit (cut) MPEG1 or MPEG2 files.
- Join MPEG files of the same resolution and bit rate
- Remultiplex Video CD compatible files so they can be "burnt"
into VCD's
- Remultiplex S Video CD compatible files so they can be "burnt"
into SVCD's
- Split large MPEG videos into pieces, so that these can be
burned onto CD-ROM or DVD media
- Has a "play" option so you can play the file you have just edited
without having to close the editor
How to use the WinTV 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. The WinTV-HVR uses
the c:\My Documents\My Videos directory as the default directory
to save video files created by the WinTV-HVR. When the selected file
is opened, it will start playing back in the video window. Click the
Stop button to stop playback.
Grab the video position slider, and move it to the beginning of the
video segment you want to keep. The video frame will be shown in
the video window. You can also use the controls under the video
window (play, pause, stop and the frame control buttons).
When you have correctly positioned to the video frame you want, click
the In button. This will define the starting point of the video interval.
Grab the video position slider and move it to the end position of
the clip you want to keep, then click the Out button.
Click Add Interval to add the defined clip to the cut list. Repeat until
you have put all the desired video clips in the "cut list".
When you have finished with your cut list, click the Generate output
button. All intervals in the cut list will appear in the final video. The
Generate Output step normally takes awhile.
Your MPEG video is named nanoEDIT.mpg. Be sure to rename this
before cutting another video, otherwise the file will be overwritten!
Before you click Generate Output, click File / SelectOutputFile to
change the file name of your recorded file.
To cut away an advertisement, click the In button at the beginning of
the video sequence, then click the Out button just before the adver-
tisement starts. Click Add Interval. Then click the In button at the end
of the advertisement, and click the Out button at the end of the video
sequence you want to keep. Then click Add interval.
To cut away advertisements from a movie, you must define all pieces
you want to keep (everything which belongs to the movie) and add
them to the cut list.
Making DVDs from your
WinTV-HVR recordings
Note: The WinTV-HVR’s ATSC digital TV recordings cannot cur-
rently be burnt onto a DVD. This is due to limitations of DVD
media which limit recording formats to standard definition.
DVD players which are compatible with CD’s and MP3’s can also
read DVD’s burned using standard definition MPEG-2 video files cre-
ated with the WinTV-HVR.
If you plan to burn a DVD with MovieFactory or any other DVD
authoring software package, you should use either the “DVD
Standard Play”, the “DVD Long Play” or “DVD Extra Long Play”.
These standard definition formats will allow you to make DVD’s with
the following recording lengths:
DVD Standard Play: 1 hour 30 minutes on DVD+R/RW disks
DVD Long Play: 1hour 50 minutes on DVD+R/RW disks
DVD Extra Long Play: 4 hours on DVD+R/RW disks
Ulead DVD MovieFactory
Start project: Used to author
and burn DVD’s, SVCD’s
and VCD’s. Create chap-
ter menus, mix videos,
JPEGs and music.
Edit disk: Edit videos or
menus from DVD+RW’s.
Direct to disk: not currently
used.
Copy disk: Burn copies of
existing disc images to
CD/DVD.
Troubleshooting
Installation tips and software updates can be found at :
http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support_hvr1600.html
Our FAQ can be found at:
http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support_faq_hvr1600.html
Some notes on system compatibility
Decoding high definition ATSC TV is very CPU intensive. A graphics
card with at least 64MBytes of memory and the latest graphics driver
from the manufacturer makes the decoding task easier. Typically a
2.2 GHz Pentium 4 processor or equivalent with a graphics card hav-
ing 64MBytes of memory is required to properly decode ATSC digital
TV on your PC. A 1.6GHz AMD Sempro laptop computer tested in
the Hauppauge lab used 50% of the CPU for playing ATSC 640i for-
mat, and 90% of the CPU when playing ATSC 1080i, the highest defi-
nition ATSC format.
In some cases, either a faster processor or more graphics memory
might be required. Slow or jerky video and a noisy TV picture indi-
cate system performance problems.
Jerky video with live ATSC digital TV
Jerky or distorted video can be caused by two things in your PC or
laptop: a slow CPU which cannot decode the ATSC TV signal fast
enough, and a graphics system which cannot keep up with the high
datarates of ATSC TV.
Many times, improving the performance of the graphics display will
fix the jerky video display of ATSC digital TV. Here are some tips on
improving graphics performance:
- Use the latest graphics driver: graphics drivers are often ‘tweeked’
to improve performance, especially the built-in graphics on laptops.
Check the Microsoft Windows update site to download the latest
graphics driver for your computer. For Dell computers, check the Dell
website for the latest graphics driver.
- Use Hauppauge’s Primary program to optimize graphics perform-
ance: Primary.exe is used to change the display mode of a graphics
card for TV watching. This does not affect any other Windows pro-
gram. Primary.exe is found in the Hauppauge WinTV program group.
The default mode used by WinTV2000 is Force Primary. Force
Primary uses your processor to move the digital TV image into the
graphics memory. It is more CPU intensive but often fixes display
problems on some laptops. Note: Snapshot does not work in ‘Force
Primary’ mode.
To use hardware graphics accel-
eration, close WinTV2000, then
run Primary. Click Allow VMR.
Close Primary and rerun WinTV.
The Allow VMR setting will allow
your graphics system to use
hardware acceleration for video
decode. Note: hardware acceler-
ation does not work on all sys-
tems.
If this setting does not help, or if
you experience WinTV not
responding after a channel
change, then your graphics system cannot use hardware graphics
acceleration.
In this case, run Primary. Click ‘Force Primary’ then rerun WinTV.
Only some channels are found during ATSC channel
scan
If you are only receiving some known TV channels when scanning, it
means your TV antenna is not adequate to pick up the channel. You
will need either an antenna signal booster (a Radio Shack antenna
amplifier will work) or a high gain antenna. Here’s a link to an ATSC
antenna selector: http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/address.aspx
Black window when selecting an ATSC channel
A black window when selecting an ATSC channel means that the
WinTV-HVR-1600 is not getting a signal. This is most often due to
poor reception. See “Only some channels are found during ATSC
channel scan” above.
Uninstalling the WinTV driver and applications
Run the hcwclear.exe from the installation CD. Select OK A black
screen will briefly appear and once it has disappeared the software
will be removed. If you now re-start the computer you will be at Step
4 of the installation.
“Error code 10” during installation
This is caused by a failure to load the WinTV-HVR-1600 drivers.
Uninstall the software (as above) and then follow the instructions
from page 3. If this still give you an error message, move the WinTV-
HVR-1600 to a different slot and re-install the drivers again.
Error: “No common media type between these pins"
The WinTV-HVR uses your PC’s processor to display the TV image. If
the processor is too slow, or if there is something in the system
which is taking system resources, you might get this message.
Check the VGA acceleration in Device manager. make sure it is set
to “Full”. Also check your VGA resoution. You might need to bring
the number of Colors down one notch.
Conflicts with Intervideo WinDVD
Sometimes we have found that a previously installed version of
WinDVD will conflict with the WinTV-HVR-1600. Symptoms include:
black screen but you can hear audio, failure to scan for channels,
you can’t change MPEG formats without errors, bad audio/video
sync, and others.
Uninstalling WinDVD will fix this problem. You uninstall WinDVD
FCC Statement
Supplementary Television Broadcasting Receiving Apparatus - Appareils
supplémentaires de réception de télévision, Canada.
Important note: The screen of the coaxial cable must be connected to
earth (grounded) at the entrance to the building. This should be done in
accordance with applicable national electrical installation codes. In the
U.S., this is required by Section 820.93 of the National Electrical Code,
ANSI/NFPA 70.
Radio Interference Statement:
The WinTV products have been tested and found to comply with the lim-
its for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules.
These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harm-
ful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates,
uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and cause harmful interfer-
ence to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that inter-
ference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does
cause harmful interference to radio or television 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 meas-
ures: reorient or relocate the receiving antenna,increase the separation
between the equipment and receiver, connect the equipment into an out-
let on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected, con-
sult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
FCC ID: H90WINTV
CE Statement: This equipment has been tested and complies with EN
55013, EN 55020 and IEC 801-3 part 3 standards.
CAUTION: Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party
responsible for compliance to the FCC Rules could void the user's
authority to operate the equipment.
through the “Add/Remove Programs” in Control Panel. You will still
be able to play DVD movies in MediaPlayer, since the WinTV-HVR
installation provides a MediaPlayer compatible DVD player.
Problem: Poor Reception or Not detecting all channels:
Poor TV reception is generally the result of an weak TV signal. When
using a 'roof-top' antenna, an aerial booster may be required if there
is poor TV reception. Also, in some areas using cable TV, a format
called Cable HRC is used. If so, try rescanning but use CABLE
(HRC) instead of cable in the Broadcast/Cable box.
How do I configure the Audio for the WinTV-HVR?
Your PC’s sound card is used to amplify the audio during “live” TV,
record and playback. The WinTV2000 application’s Volume Adjust
slidebar adjusts the volume by raising and lowering the WaveOut
volume control in the sound card.
File
Name
Application
on/off
0 - 9
“Quick
Skip”
buttons
Audio
mute
Back/Exit
button
Menu
Channel
up/down
Volume
up/down
Fast
forward
Fast
rewind
Stop
button
Pause
button
Play
button
Skip
ahead
Skip
back
Go button
TV
button
Record
button
CAUTION: RISK OF EXPLOSION IF BATTERY IS REPLACED
BY AN INCORRECT TYPE. DISPOSE OF USED BATTERIES
ACCORDING TO THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE BATTERIES.