Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1265 User manual

•WinTV-HVR-1265 PCI e board with 1/2 or full
height bracket
For the WinTV-HVR-1265 with WinTV application:
•WinTV v7 Installation CD-ROM with WinTV v7 appli-
cation with SoftPVR™ and TV Scheduler
•Hauppauge remote control transmitter
•Remote control receiver cable
For Windows Media Center kits, you will find:
•WinTV-HVR Windows Driver CD-ROM
•Media Center Remote Control transmitter and two
AA batteries
•Media Center Remote control receiver/blaster
•IR transmitter cable (blaster cable)
•USB cable for the Media Center remote control
receiver/blaster box
WinTV-HVR uses your PC or laptop’s CPU for displaying 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 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.
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.
Note: The WinTV-HVR-1265 cannot receive digital satellite TV unless it is connected to a satel-
lite TV set top box.
Left/right audio input: Stereo audio input using 1/8” mini
stereo jack, from the audio output of your source.
Connecting the remote control receiver cable
Plug the remote control receiver cable into the
Remote control receiver connector on the WinTV-
HVR-1265.
Position the round receiver sensor (at the end of the
remote control receiver cable) where is can be “seen” by
the remote control transmitter. This is normally at the front of
your PC.
Device Setup Wizard
When you run WinTV for the first time, the WinTV Device Setup Wizard appears. Select
the TV source that you are using. On some model WinTVs, you have multiple tuners and
therefore you can select multiple sources. For the WinTV-HVR-1265, you can chose either
ATSC or Digital QAM and Analog TV. You
cannot chose both Digital ATSC and Digital
QAM.
Note: If you’d like to use the A/V inputs,
please select External inputs
(Composite/S-Video).
ATSC digital over-the-air TV
Select Digital ATSC and click Next. In the
ATSC Setup menu, click Next. You will see
the Digital ATSC Scan scanning for digital
over-the-air channels.
The digital TV scanning process will scan
from channels 2 to 51. As TV channels are
found, they will appear in the Channel box.
When complete, click Next / Next and OK.
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 choosing an antenna.
Clear QAM Digital Cable TV
Clear QAM digital cable TV channels are
those TV channels broadcast on a digital
cable network which are unencrypted (‘free to
view’). If you have a cable operator who
transmits clear QAM digital TV programs,
chose Digital QAM and Next.
Encrypted channels are automatically not
selected. The resulting channels in the list
might be both standard and high definition
channels.
Note: Windows Media Center requires Windows 8 or 7 to support QAM TV chan-
nels. You can also use the Hauppauge WinTV v7
application for QAM TV reception.
Analog cable TV
Select your Country and TV Source from
the drop down list. To automatically scan for
channels, click Next to continue.
Click the Scan button and WinTV will
ATSC digital TV is 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. ATSC digital TV is transmitted in several resolutions, from
“standard definition” 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.
Clear QAM TV channels are digital cable TV channels which are broadcast “in
the clear”. These digital cable TV channels are broadcast in various resolutions, from
standard definition up to high definition.
WinTV-HVR-1265 has a built-in tuner for analog cable TV, digital ATSC and digital clear
QAM TV. To receive ATSC, you will need an antenna. To receive digital clear QAM or
analog cable TV, you will need a cable TV connection.
To install, switch off the computer and remove the computer cover.
Note: Your PC could be damaged by electrostatic discharge. Avoid this by
contacting the earthed chassis of your PC, before you open it or touch
the pci card.
• Locate a free PCIe slot. Unscrew and remove the metacover plate which covers the
back of the empty slot.
• Plug the WinTV-HVR-1265 board into the PCIe slot (a X1 or X16 slot will work), and
screw the WinTV-HVR-1265 metal cover plate to the PC.
• Replace the computer cover.
TV connector: for either cable TV for analog and clear QAM digital, or a TV antenna for
ATSC TV.
Note: clear QAM digital cable TV is only available
through some cable TV operators. Contact your
local cable TV company to see if they support clear
QAM digital cable TV. To watch clear QAM digital
cable TV, you need to be using Windows Media
Center in Windows 7/8 or WinTV v7.
Remote control receiver connector: to the
Hauppauge Remote Control receiver cable (on
some models).
If you are using an external audio/video
source like a satellite or cable TV set top
box ... then you will need to connect the S-
Video input connector or Composite video
input connector for video and the Audio
input (Line-In) for the sound.
S-Video/Composite: Video input connector. For either S-Video or composite (composite
video requires the S-Video to composite adapter).
1. Contents of the WinTV-HVR-1265 package
3. Installing the WinTV-HVR-1265 board
4. Connecting the cables
TV Connector
for analog or digital TV
Left/Right
audio input (Line-In)
connector
Remote control receiver
connector
(on some models)
S-Video/Composite
video input connector
Boot your Windows PC (Windows 7, 8, 8.1, Vista or Windows XP).
New: If a 'Found New Hardware' wizard appears, please cancel it and allow windows to load fully
before proceeding.
Insert the WinTV Installation CD-ROM in your PC’s CD-ROM drive.
Note: if the CD does not autorun, navigate to the CD and run the 'Setup.exe' file.
“Hauppauge WinTV Installation CD” window will appear on the screen.
Install the WinTV driver
Click Step 1: Install drivers.
A blue screen will open and begin
installing the drivers for your WinTV.
Once the drivers have installed, click on
the Finish bar to exit.
Install the WinTV applications
Click Step 2: Install WinTV
The setup application will then open and
begin automattically installing the WinTV
application components.
Once complete, click OK then Exit.
Note: the latest driver updates are available at:
http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_hvr1250.html
To run the WinTV v7 application for watching TV, recording videos and
playing them back on your PC, double click on the WinTV icon on your
Windows desk top.
6. Running WinTV for the first time
5. Installing the WinTV driver and applications
WinTV-HVR-1265 and
WinTV-HVR-1265 MC-Kits
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2. What is ATSC digital TV?

automatically scan for analog channels. The scanning process takes about 10 minutes.
External audio/video sources
You can bring video into the WinTV from an
external audio/video source such as a cable
TV or satellite set top box.
In the Device Setup Wizard, select
External Inputs and click Next.
You will be presented with the option to add a
Composite and an S-Video Input. Please
select your country (if not correct) and click
Next.
If you wish to connect a source not normally
designed for operation in your country, you
can configure the Video Format manually from the drop down list. Change the value from
“AUTO”.
Note: Pal BGHIDK is the commonly used format in Europe. NTSC is the broadcast
format used in North America.
Rescanning TV channels
If you want to rescan for TV channels, click the Setup menu (the gear button in the lower
left corner of WinTV v7).
Then click on the Devices tab. Choose your WinTV device by clicking on it, then click
Tuner setup. Chose the TV format you want to scan, then click Next. Click Next and a
new scan will be started. When the scan is complete, click Next / Next and OK.
To watch TV, click the Watch TV button.
To see the TV Channel list, click your right mouse button in the TV window to
display the Options menu. Select Find Channel. You will see the channel list.
To display the
channel list all the
time, while the
channel list is
displayed, click the
Channel list
display always on
button.
Options menu
The Options menu
is the main menu
where you can
select channels,
turn on closed
captions, open the
Using the WinTV v7 application
TV Scheduler and many other of
the most important TV control
functions.
To bring up the Options Menu,
click your right mouse button
once in the TV window .
To see the channel list, click on
Find channel. You will see the
list of channels which have been
scanned.
To show the Channel menu as
part of the TV window, click the
Channel list always on icon at
the top of the channel list.
To turn on Closed captions, click on Show Captions.
To manually schedule a TV recording, or to see which programs have been scheduled,
click on Scheduler.
To turn on the Always on Top mode, click on Stay on Top.
Watch, Pause and Record TV
WinTV v7 is always recording video to your PC’s hard drive while TV is being displayed.
In this way, you can immediately skip back and replay the TV program you are watching.
Clicking on the Pause button will cause the video to pause, while clicking the Record
button will cause the current TV program to be recorded to hard disk.
Recording your TV shows
If you want to record a TV show you are watching:
- Click the Record button. The recorded file name will popup on the video for a few
seconds as the recording starts.
- When you are finished recording, click the Stop button.
- Click the Playback file button and select the last file recorded to play the video
you just recorded
- To play a video you recorded earlier, click the Playback File button and then move
your mouse and click once on the video you want to play. Click Open and the file
will start playing.
The recorded video file is saved in the directory set in Recordings directory. The
default directory is MyVideos. To change this directory, click the Settings button and
then the Folders tab. Every time you record a file, a new file is automatically created.
The file will be formatted as (ChannelNumber)_(ChannelName)YearMonthDay_TIme.
For digital TV programs, the quality level recorded is the same as it is transmitted by the
TV station. For example, if the TV station is transmitting a high-definition program, WinTV
will record the program in high-definition.
Close captions, parental control information and SAP audio is recorded with digital TV
programs.
For analog cable TV using the built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder, the quality of the video
recording is set to 6Mbits/sec. This will be a configurable setting in a future version of
WinTV v7.
If you want to pause a TV show you are watching:
- Click the
Pause button. Your TV video will stop and the Time counter will start
counting.
- To start the video from where you paused, click the Play button
- To rewind the video to the beginning, click the Skip to the beginning button. If
your video was paused, click the Play button.
- To rewind the video 1 minute, click the Skip back 1 minute
button. If your video was paused, click the Play button.
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.
Selecting FM radio programs
On those WinTV products which support FM radio, if you
have scanned for FM radio staions in the section entitled
“Using WinTV for the first time” you can change the WinTV
v7 application to FM by clicking FM radio in the Source
selector, found in the upper right hand corner of the
WinTV application.
Configuration menu
The WinTV v7 Configuration menu is accessed by clicking the gear button in the lower
left hand corner of WinTV v7.
General tab: you can set the Video Renderer which allows WinTV v7 to display
video with a wide range of graphics systems.
Devices tab: this is where you can select your Hauppauge TV tuner, set up the
tuner, re-scan for TV channels and set up the TV sources.
Parental control tab: is where you can set the Parental Control level.
Advanced options: you can set options such as Convert TV recordings to .MPG
file type and Game mode here.
TV Scheduler
WinTV v7’s built-in TV Scheduler allows you
to schedule the recording of TV shows.
Once a record event is set, WinTV v7 can be
closed and the WinTV application will “wake
up” at the desired time and tuned to the
desired channel.
The TV Scheduler can be found in the
WinTV v7 Options menu. Right click your
mouse button in the TV window to see
the Options menu.
Click Scheduler. To set up an event for
timed watching or recording, click the Add button.
The items that need to be set for each event are:
-Name: you can add a name to the recording. If you do not enter a name, the name
will be in the channel/date format.
-Channel: chose one of your scanned channels.
-Start time: set to the desired start time. Click on the hour to set the hour, the minute
to set the minute. Note: It takes about 15 seconds to launch the WinTV and start
recording.
-Duration: number of minutes in the recorded program.
-Recurrance: one time, daily, weekly. Note: If you set for Record Weekly, you must
also specify the Day of the Week for the recording.
-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 WinTV to
bring up the WinTV at the requested time
and on the requested channel.
Once these are set, click OK. You can add
more recordings, clicking OK 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
running, it takes about 15 seconds to start
Options menu
click your right mouse button to view
Playback menu
Channel list
TV Scheduler
Close captions
Always on top
Record
Playback
file
Program
info
Skip back
1 minute
Pause/Play
Stop Skip
ahead 1
minute
Skip back 10
seconds
Skip ahead
30 seconds
Settings
Time bar
Current channel
name and number
Record/Pause/Play
controls
Channel list display always on
TV Channel list
Volume adjust
and mute
Channel
up/down
Fast channel select
numbers
Close WinTV
WinTV source selector
Playback
file menu
Watch
TV
Program Info
Configuration
menu
(Settings
menu)