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Radio Interference Statement:
The WinTV products have been tested and found to comply with the limits
for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These
limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful
interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses,
and can radiate radio frequency energy and cause harmful interference to
radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference
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
measures: reorient or relocate the receiving antenna,increase the separa-
tion between the equipment and receiver, connect the equipment into an
outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected,
consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
FCC ID: H90WINTV
CE Statement: This equipment has been tested and complies with EN
FCC Statement
N
ote: the latest WinTV-HVR-950Q software can be found at
http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_hvr950Q.ht
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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 having 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 format, and 90% of the
Keyboard shortcuts
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 Close 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.
Image capture
To capture still images from video, click the Snapshot button.
To configure the formats for still image capture, click the
Settings menu button, then click on the Capture folder. You
will see the settings for image capture under Snapshots. You
can chose between BMP and JPEG formats. The name of the
files will be:
capture_’date’_’time’.jpg or capture_’date’_’time’.bmp
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 will “wake up” at the desired time and tuned
to the desired channel.
N
ote: your PC needs to be turned on for scheduled recording
to work.
Ctrl A Aspect ratio
Ctrl D Display the video
and audio format
of the TV program
Ctrl F Freeze the video
Ctrl Z Open TV
Scheduler
Ctrl O View program
details (digital TV
program, where
provided in the
broadcast)
Ctrl S Display subtitles
Ctrl W Full screen toggle
Alt F Open File menu
for playback
Alt M Open the Task
Menu
Alt P Previous channel
Ctrl Q Pause
Ctrl P Play
Alt R Record
Alt S Stop
Alt T Start TV
Ctrl C Catch up
Ctrl > Skip ahead
Ctrl < Skip back
TV Tuner set up in Windows Media Center
Run the Windows Media Center application. Cursor down to
Tasks. Cursor left to Settings. Click Enter.
Cursor down to TV. Click Enter.
Cursor down to Set up TV Signal. Click Enter. Click Next.
In Confirm your Region, make sure your region is selected.
Click Next.
You will see a message which says Download TV Setup
options. This takes about 5 minutes to complete. Click Next
when this download is complete.
At TV Signal, click 'I will configure my TV signal manually'
and click Next.
You will then see: Cable / Satellite / Antenna. Chose the
source of your TV signal (Cable for use with analog cable TV,
Satellite for use with a satellite set top box and Antenna for
use with ATSC digital over the air TV) and click Next.
At this point, Media Center will set up the TV tuner. This might
take a minute or so.
N
ote: Windows 7 Media Center supports QAM TV channels.
You can also use the Hauppauge WinTV v7 application, or
SageTV or BeyondTV for QAM TV reception,
You will then see a message saying Exami ning cable TV,
antenna or set top box connection.
After determining the type of signal, you will see You are Done!
Click through the rest of the settings, set up your Guide
listings and click Finish.
Then return to the main menu. Go to TV + Movies and then
Live TV to watch and record TV.
Install the Media Center Remote control
(available in WinTV Media Center Kits)
Record
Playback
file
Program
info
Skip back
1 minute
Skip back
10 seconds
Pause/Play
Stop
Skip
ahead 1
minute
Skip
ahead 30
seconds
Settings
menu
button
Time bar
CPU when playing ATSC 1080i, the highest definition 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 indicate 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
‘tweaked’ 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 WinTV v7 Video Renderer settings to optimize
graphics performance: The Video Renderer is found in the
General tab of WinTV v7, and is used to change the display
mode of a graphics card for TV watching. This setting does not
affect any other Windows program.
The default mode is EVR. The other modes are VMR9, VMR7
and Overlay. Each mode uses a different process to render
video. Try each mode and use the one which gives you the best
results.
To use hardware graphics acceleration, put a check in the
tick box Use hardware acceleration when possible. This will
allow your graphics system to use hardware acceleration for
video decode. Note: graphics hardware acceleration does not
work on all systems.
Troubleshooting
When a
scheduled
record event
takes place,
the WinTV v7
application
records “in
background”
so that you
can continue
to watch your
live TV
program, even
as the
recording
progresses.
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, but your PC needs to be turned on. If WinTV
is not running, it takes about 15 seconds to start WinTV and to
start the recording of TV.
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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 go
back to settings and uncheck “use hardware acceleration” and
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-850 is not getting a signal. This is most often
due to poor reception. See “Only some channels are found
Options menu
click your right mouse button to view
Playback menu
Channel list
TV Scheduler
Close captions
Always on top