Hauppauge WinTV-HD User manual

Scanning for channels
When running WinTV2000 for the first time, you will
need to scan for your HDTV channels. The
WinTV-HD board has two coax video connectors: a
UHF/VHF TV antenna connector and a cable TV connec-
tor. You will need to scan for TV channels on each con-
nector.
When scanning the UHF/VHF Antenna
Connector, set the Tuner Format to DTV-ATSC. Make
sure the Broadcast entry is set to Antenna.
When scanning the Cable Connector for HDTV channels,
set the Tuner Format to MN. Make sure the Broadcast
entry is set to Antenna or to Cable for regular cable channels.
Setting up the channels
After you have scanned for channels, you can
add the channel names. To do this, click on the
Suite button on WinTV2000.
Then double click on Input Sources.
ChoseTuner for the Antenna, or Tuner2 for
Cable TV
.
Click on the desired channel, then click on Edit.
Change the ChannelName to the name of the
station. Then click OK.
After the PC reboots the WinTV Application
Setup will be run.
To use the remote control, make sure Install the
Hauppauge IR Remote Control Application is
checked.
Click Install to install the WinTV2000.
After the Setup program is complete, you will see
a WinTV2000 icon on your Windows desktop. To
run the WinTV2000 application, double click on
the WinTV2000 icon. After rebooting your PC,
the Remote Control will be enabled.
WinTV-HD
Quick Installation Guide
for Windows®98/Me/2000
WinTV-HD board
Pod Cable, with A/V inputs, IR connection
and Monitor interface
External Audio cable - 1/8” miniplug to
1/8” miniplug.
S/PDIF cable, to convert LineOut jack to
Phono plug for S/PDIF Applications
Internal Audio Connector, Connect
Analog Audio Internal to your sound card.
Wireless Remote with 2 AAA batteries.
Remote receiver with velcro fastener.
WinTV-HD for Windows Installation
CD-ROM with:
WinTV driver and application
Remote control application
Utilities
Contents of the WinTV-HD package
Switch off the computer.
The manufacturer of your PC sup-
plies instructions on removing the
PC cover.
Remove the cover.
Step 1: Prepare the computer
Locate a free PCI slot (a short
white slot).
Unscrew and remove the metal
cover plate which covers the back
of the empty slot.
Plug the WinTV-HD board into the
PCI slot, and screw the WinTV’s
metal cover plate to the PC.
Replace the computer cover.
Step 2: Install the WinTV-HD board
The WinTV-HD board has two coax video
connectors: one for a UHF/VHF TV antenna
and one for cable TV. Screw your UHF/VHF
antenna (a rooftop antenna is recommended
for digital TV reception in most areas) into the
Antenna connector. Plug your cable TV con-
nection to the Cable TV connector.
One end of the External Audio cable (1/8”
minijack) should be plugged into WinTV-HD’s
Audio LineOutput, and the other end plugged
into the Line-In connector on your PC’s
sound card for stereo speaker sound.
If you are connecting theWinTV-HD to a
Home Theater system which uses a Digital
sound input, the WinTV-HD’s S/PDIF adapter
lets you convert the 1/8” Line-Out jack to a
Digital sound RCA jack. See Step 3a below.
Plug the Pod Cables’ 26-pin male connector
into the WinTV-HD Pod Cable connector.
The yellow VideoIn jack, the 4pin S-Video In
connector and the AudioIn (L) and (R) on the
Pod Cable can be used to input analog
audio/video from a VCR, camcorder, DVD
player or satellite TV receiver.
The Remote receiver (IR) is plugged into the
Pod Cable’s (IR) plug. Use the Velcro dot to
position the Remote Receiver (IR) where it
will be able to receive line of sight, infra-red
commands from the Remote Transmitter.
Step 3: Connect the WinTV-HD cables
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Step 4: Using the S/PDIF & Internal Analog connectors
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Step 6: Install the WinTV driver for Windows
Note: The WinTV-HD requires the latest version of Windows98, known as Windows98-SE,
any version of Windows2000 or WindowsMe.
Note: We recommend a PII 600 or better for recording transport streams to you hard disk.
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Step 7: WinTV Software installation
Step 8: The new WinTV2000 application
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This board and remote are subject to change
Pod Cable
Wireless
Remote
Remote
receiver (IR)
VGA to
Y-Pr-Pb
Adapter
Internal Audio
Connector S/PDIF
Cable
Audio LineOutput
or S/PDIF
Antenna connector
Cable TV connector
Pod Cable connector
WinTV-HD
Connections Pod Cable A/V Connectors
Remote
Receiver (IR)
S-Video In
VideoIn AudioIn
(L)
AudioIn
(R)
S/PDIF Jumper setting
To configure the WinTV-HD for an exter-
nal S/PDIF decoder, place the 2 Shunt
jumpers vertically on the top half of
jumper JP4. This routes the S/PDIF
output to the Audio LineOutput mini
stereo connector. Then connect the
supplied S/PDIF cable between the
Audio Line-Out jack on the WinTV-HD
back panel connector and a Digital
input on your Home Theater sys-
tem.
Internal Analog Audio Connector
When using the S/PDIF output for audio from
your digital channels, audio from your analog TV
channels comes from the Internal Analog Audio
connector.
- Connect one end of the supplied internal
audio cable to connector JP2 on the
WinTV-HD
- Connect the other end to your sound card’s
black internal audio input connector.
Internal Analog
Audio connector
(JP2)
S/PDIF Shunt
Jumpers (JP4)
Analog audio setting
JP4
(Factory default)
S/PDIF audio setting
JP4
Step 5: Single and Dual Monitor Setup
Single Monitor mode (SMS)
In Single Monitor mode, you can watch analog
and digital TV-in-a-window plus see Hi-Def TV
full screen on your VGA monitor.
Remove your VGA monitor cable from your
VGA card and connect it to the short leg of the
Pod cable labeled “MONITOR”.
Now, connect the long leg of the Pod cable
labeled “VGA” to your VGA card.
Dual Monitor mode (DMS)
In Dual Monitor mode, you can watch analog
and digital TV-in-a-window on your VGA
screen, plus at the same time see Hi-Def TV
full screen on another Hi-Def monitor or anoth-
er VGA monitor. Connect your high definition
monitor to the short leg of the Pod cable
labeled “MONITOR”. Leave your VGA monitor
connected to your VGA card. During operation
you need to tell the software you are in DMS.
Right click the mouse button on the TV screen
and keep the right mouse button depressed
for a few seconds until you’ll see the Settings
menu pop up. Then go to Hi-Def Options and
click Dual Monitor.
If you are using the supplied VGA to Y-Pr-Pb
adapter, check YPrPb Primary display as
your Primary display.
You can choose the Hi-Def output resolution by
clicking one of the Set resolutions settings.
to the WinTV-HD
board
to VGA card
to VGA or HiDef
monitor
5a. When re-starting Windows for the first time
after the WinTV-HD board has been
installed, the Add New Hardware Wizard will
appear.
Click Next. Select Search for the best dri-
ver for your device Recommended Click
Next.
5b. When you see the above dialog box, insert the
WinTV Windows Installation CD-ROM into your
CD-ROM drive. Select CD-ROM drive and
click Next.
5d. You will see a number of files being copied to
your hard disk drive.
5e. Click Finish. You will need to reboot your
system for the changes to take effect.
5f. The WinTV-HD will be listed in Device Manager
in Sound Video and Game
controlers as Janus Video Capture
Snapshot button
Freeze TV
Software remote
control & Video
controls
Color/audio
configuration
Preferences
menu Full screen TV Minimize
Close WinTV
Channel
configuration
Snapshot viewer window
Double click on each
“thumbnail” to see
image full size
Current TV channel
or video source
Click your right mouse button
here to remove toolbars. Click
again to restore toolbars.
Click and hold your right
mouse button to see the
Options menu.
Remove toolbar
Channel Up & Channel Down
Volume Up
& Down

Basic audio setup
To configure the WinTV-HD audio for
your speaker configuration, click on
Configure / Audio.
Set Audio Mixer Inputs to Wave
Volume.You should hear sound from
a TV channel. If you do not hear
audio, refer to the next section: “Quick
Troubleshooting Guide.”
NOTE: When S/PDIF audio, check
S/PDIF in the dialog box and
Jumper JP4 accordingly (Step 4).
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Quick Troubleshooting Guide
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Step 10: Configuring audio
Recording and playing back HD TV programs
Keyboard shortcuts
+ channel up
- channel down
Page Up Volume Up
Page Down Volume Down
Ctrl M Mute audio
Ctrl P Image print
Ctrl T Full screen TV
Ctrl F Image freeze
Ctrl C Image Copy to the clipboard
HDTV is broadcast over the airwaves. To receive HDTV, a UHF/VHF rooftop antenna is
recommended in most areas of the U.S. In cities, a bowtie antenna can often be used if
positioned near a window facing the Digital TV broadcaster.
Since HDTV is broadcast over the air, it is necessary to position the antenna to point at the
Digital TV transmitter. We have included a utility in the WinTV application to help position
the UHF/VHF TV antenna.
To position the UHF/VHF antenna, do the following:
• use the supplied list of Digital TV stations to find
a HDTV channel which broadcasts in your area.
For example, in Cleveland, WKYC broadcasts
HDTV on channel 2.
• open the Channel Suite Manager. To do this, click
on the Suite button on WinTV2000, or click on
Configure/Channels/SuiteManager on the
WinTV32 application. Then double click on Input
Sources. Click on Tuner to see the Digital TV
antenna configuration.
• Then click Add. Enter the HDTV Channel Number
(for example: 2 for WKYC in Cleveland) and the
Channel Name. Make sure Broadcast is set to
Antenna, and that Tuner Format is set
to DTV-ATSC. Click Add and then OK.
• Now, open the diag-
nostics menu to
help adjust your
UHF/VHF antenna.
Hold the CTRL but-
ton on your key-
board down while
clicking the right
mouse button.
Keep the right
mouse button
depressed for a few
seconds, and you’ll see a menu pop up. Click on the last line, Diagnostics.
• Now slowly rotate your antenna until the Sync Lock and Eq. Lock lights turn green.
This indicates that the UHF/VHF antenna is pointed to the DTV transmitter.
NOTE: A higher (SNR) number means a stronger signal.
Note: Our web site has information on installing the WinTV-HD and software updates.
WinTV-HD software updates can be found at: http://www.hauppauge.com/html/sw_tvhd.htm
Note: The WinTV-HD requires the latest version of Windows98, known as Windows98SE,
any version of Windows2000 or WindowsMe.
Install ERROR 69:
If you receive ERROR 69, see included bulletin.
Incompatible motherboards
We recommend the use of a motherboard with an Intel chipset because some older mother-
boards do not fully support the WinTV-HD.We have software updates on our web site which
will fix incompatibilities found with several VIA and SIS-based motherboards. Please see
http://www.hauppauge.com/html/sw_wcst.htm in the Tips section.
Poor image when running WinTV in 256-color mode
Many VGA’s cannot run WinTV in 256-color mode. Instead, run in 16-bit mode or higher.
No TV audio from your PC’s Left and Right speaker
Be sure your PC’s audio mixer LineIn setting is not muted, and at a reasonable volume level.If
the LineIn setting is not muted, you can verify that the WinTV-HD card is working by connecting
self-amplified speakers directly to the A/V cable’s 1/8” miniplug. Use the supplied Adapter if
necessary.
System lockups or error messages when running WinTV2000
Some VGA cards have memory conflicts with WinTV-HD.To fix this, try switching PCI slots.
Also, you can increase the memory range used by the WinTV-HD board in Device Manag-
er.To do this, look under Sound, video and game controllers, double click on the
Janus Capture section, click on Resources, unclick Use Automatic settings and
double click on Memory range. In the Edit memory range dialog box, there are small
up/down arrows next to Value. Click the little up arrow a couple of times. Make sure there
are no conflicts.Then click OK and then OK again.When it says Created a forced
configuration, click Yes. Then reboot your PC.
Poor TV Reception or Not detecting all channels:
Poor HDTV reception is generally the result of an weak TV signal. When using a 'roof-top'
antenna, an aerial booster may be required. If you find that some or all of the channels have not
been detected, you can insert channels manually. See Step 8.
Step 9: Manually Adding HDTV channels
High definition digital TV is broadcast in a format called the MPEG2 Transport Stream.
The MPEG 2 Transport Stream is the complete digital information from the broadcast trans-
mission, and includes video, audio and any data broadcast with the show (close captioning
data, program guide data, etc.).
When you record a High Definition TV show to your PC’s hard disk, you are actually record-
ing the entire MPEG2 Transport Stream. Once
recorded to disk, this Transport Stream can be
played back through the WinTV-HD, where the
video is decoded and displayed on your monitor.
Note: We recommend a PII 600 or better for record-
ing transport streams to you hard disk. Also, while
recording HD TV programs, we recommend running
the WinTV-HD full screen.
Recording an HD TV program to disk
To record a HD TV program to your hard disk:
1. Right click the mouse button on the TV
screen and hold it depressed for a few sec-
onds until the Settings menu pops up.
Then highlight Transport Capture and
click on Start Transport Capture.
2. The Select Stream to Play dialog box
will open. You can change the default file
name and change the directory where you
want the file recorded. Click Save and you
will start recording.
3. To stop recording, right click the mouse
button on the TV screen and hold it
depressed for a few seconds until the Settings menu pops up. Then highlight Trans-
port Capture and click on Stop Transport Capture.
Recording HD-TV consumes a lot of disk space. Every 10 minutes of HD uses about 2 Giga-
bytes of hard disk space. The WinTV-HD creates new file names approximately every 10
minutes (every 2 Gigabytes) of recording. On play-
back, the WinTV-HD automatically plays these files
uninterrupted so you see smooth playback.
Playing back a HD TV program
To play back your recorded file:
1. Right click the mouse button on the TV
screen and hold it depressed for a few sec-
onds until the Settings menu pops up. Then
highlight Transport Stream Playback and
click on Open File For PlayBack.
2. The Select Stream to Play dialog box will
open. The last recorded program will be
listed in the file name box. If this is the pro-
gram you want to playback, click open and
your recorded file will play. Otherwise,
select the program from the file list and
then click open.
3. To stop the playback, right click the
mouse button on the TV screen and hold
it depressed for a few seconds until the
Settings menu pops up. Then highlight
Transport Stream Playback and click
on Stop PlayBack Mode.
Note: If your recorded .tp file exceeds 1.96gig, the recording program will automatically start
a new file with the extension xxxxx.#1.mpg xxxxx#2.mpg and so on.
Tips on optimizing your PC system for HD recording and playback
The HD transport stream has a datarate of 19.4 million bits per second, and therefore record-
ing and playing back High Definition TV is very system intensive. Here are some tips on opti-
mizing your system for recording and playing back HD TV without dropping video frames:
- use a PC with a Pentium II 600MHz or faster. Though while recording and playback the
CPU does not do the actual encoding or decoding of HD video (this would require a
very fast CPU), it still needs to manage the disk drive
- defragment your hard disk driver before recording, or use a second disk drive just for
HD recording.
- use a 7200 RPM disk drive for recording (many old hard disk drives spin at 5400 RPM)
- make sure your hard disk drive has DMA enabled in Windows
- minimize the number of background applications running
- if you have a newer model VGA card which supports VIP1 (some of the recent NVidea
and ATI cards support this), then use the internal flat ribbon cable to connect the WinTV-
HD to the VGA card. By doing this, you eliminate moving the transport stream over the
PCI bus, thereby improving capture performance. When using the internal VGA cable,
you need to make a system registry change. See our website for more information:
http://www.hauppauge.com/html/sw_wintvhd.htm
- if your VGA card does not support VIP1 and cannot use the internal connector fromthe
WinTV-HD to the VGA card, then while recording we recommend running WinTV full
screen.