Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350 Quick Installation Manual
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Brand: Hauppauge
Category: Cables and connectors , Computer Hardware , DVR , TV Tuner
Type: Quick installation manual
Model: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 , Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350
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Installing the
WinTV-PVR-250/350
The WinTV-PVR-250 and WinTV-PVR-350 are Plug-and-Play devices
designed for Windows98SE, WindowsMe, Windows2000 and
WindowsXP. This guide refers to the WinTV-PVR-250/350 in sections
which are common to both models.
Installation overview
To install WinTV-PVR-250/350, you will follow these steps:
✓ Install the WinTV-PVR-250/350 board in your PC and connect
the TV cables.
✓ After booting Windows, install WinTV-PVR Windows device driv-
er from the WinTV-PVR-250/350 Installation CD-ROM.
✓ After the Windows driver is installed,install the WinTV applica-
tion software from the WinTV-PVR-250/350 Install CD-ROM.
Step 1: Install the WinTV-PVR-250/350 and connect the
cables
Turn the power off on your PC. Install the WinTV-PVR into a PCI
slot. On some PC’s, the WinTV-PVR needs to be plugged into the
first or second PCI slot. Plug your TV antenna or cable TV cable into
the TV Connector.
TV audio from the WinTV-PVR is routed to your PC’s sound card
(Wave) for amplification and mixing.
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 a yellow composite connector instead of S-
Video, use the supplied Composite to S-Video adapter.
On the WinTV-PVR-350, the A/V Output connector is used to dis-
play live or recorded video on a TV set, VCR or camcorder.
The Remote control receiver is plugged into the Remote control
receiver 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-PVR-250 under Windows XP
After installing the WinTV-PVR in your PC and booting into Windows,
the Found New Hardware Wizard will appear. Insert the WinTV-
PVR-250 Installation CD-ROM in your PC’s CD-ROM drive and
make sure Install the soft-
ware automatically
(Recommended) is
checked. Then click Next.
When the Hardware
Installation dialog box
opens, click Continue
Anyway.
Click Finish.
This will complete the driver installa-
tion for Windows XP. Go to step 3.
Step 2a: Installing the
WinTV-PVR driver for
Windows 98SE, Me,
and Windows2000
Turn the power on your PC.
When re-starting Windows
for the first time after the
WinTV-PVR board has been
installed, the Add New
Hardware Wizard will
appear.
Click Next. Select Search for the best driver for your device
(Recommended). Click Next.
When you see the dialog box, insert the WinTV Installation-
CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive. Select CD-ROM drive and click
Next.
Once the Hauppauge WinTV
video driver has been detected,
Click NEXT. You will see a num-
ber of files being copied to your
hard disk drive.
Click Finish.
Step 3: WinTV-PVR-
250/350 Software installa-
tion
After the WinTV-PVR driver
has been installed, you need
to run WinTV Setup to com-
plete the installation. Run
SETUP from the WinTV-PVR
Installation CD-ROM.
Click Install to start the appli-
cation installation. The instal-
lation requires two reboots.
The installation may require a file from your Windows CD-ROM, so
keep it handy.
After the Setup program is complete, you will see the WinTV2000
icon on your Windows desktop.
The WinTV2000 application
To run the WinTV2000 application for watching TV, recording videos
and playing them back to your PC screen, double click the
WinTV2000 icon.
Scanning for channels
When running WinTV for the first time, you will need to scan for your
TV channels. If you are using Cable TV, in the Broadcast/Cable box
select Cable (or Cable HRC). Otherwise
select Antenna.
Choose the Video Format for your geo-
graphic region, then click on Start:
North America uses NTSC M
Europe uses PAL B/G
the U.K. uses PAL I
in South America, either PAL M
or PAL N is used
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.
New WinTV2000 application fea-
tures
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).
Rescanning for channels
Click the Menu button and click on Suite Manager and then Auto
scan. Make sure you select cable or antenna in Broadcast / cable.
Chose the correct Video format for your region and then click Scan.
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.
Troubleshooting audio problems
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-PVR 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-PVR 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.
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.
Note: with the WinTV-PVR-350, when VideoOut is turned on the Fast
Forward is limited to 2X 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.
N
ote: It takes about 10 seconds to create a pause buffer. While
the buffer is initializing, do not click any buttons on the WinTV
application.
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
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.
S-Video/Composite video Input
Audio Input (Line-In)
Remote control (IR)
receiver socket
TV Connector
for antenna or Cable TV input
WinTV-PVR-250 / WinTV-PVR-350
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-PVR-250
WinTV-PVR-350
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
FM Radio Connector input
(WinTV-PVR-350 only)
A/V Output connector
(WinTV-PVR-350 only)
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