Basic operation

Channel changing

You can change channels by using the Channel Up or Channel Down buttons on the WinTV.
You can also type a channel number (for example:27) and WinTV will tune to that channel.

Volume change

With the slide bar on the top left hand side of the WinTV application window you can change the Volume level. Alternatively you can use the keypad on the keyboard <PgUp> for volume up or <PgDn> for volume down.

Sound on / off

To mute the sound on or off click on the green button below the slider bar. Alternatively you can use the keys on the keyboard <CTRL> + <M>.

Last channel

Clicking the “last channel” button will allow you to quickly change to the last viewed channel.

Surf preview

Clicking on the button "Surf" will show up to 16 still image preview of TV channels that you have scanned. The screen will gradually fill and double clicking on one of the preview images will show the selected channel in full screen.

Always on top

With Always on Top, WinTV will always be visible on your Windows desktop on top any applications. To turn on, click the Always on top button. It will turn green. To turn off, 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 quickly from a small window to a larger one by clicking the right mouse button.

TV mode

Click on the button "TV mode", in order to watch television in the full screen TV mode. With one click to the right mouse button or press the <ESC> key to leave TV mode.

To hide the WinTV toolbar (No-title mode)

Click your right mouse button in the WinTV’s video window for the no-title mode. To restore

the toolbars (the title mode), once again click your right mouse button in the video window.

You can set the size of the window differently in each mode.

Freeze picture

Click on the button Freeze, around the picture "to freeze". Clicking on Freeze will un Freeze the picture.

Snapshot

Clicking on the “Camera” symbol will take a snapshot still picture of the Video window that you are viewing. A "Thumbnail" (preview made smaller) of the still image of the video window will appear in the snapshot preview border. Double click on the "Thumbnail", to see it in full size. Now you can save the picture using option in the menu "file"/"save under..." on your hard disk. Clicking the Button CFG allows you to configure the snapshot function.

Saving several snapshots at the same time

Highlight the first image and then hold down the <SHIFT> key on the keyboard and then highlight the subsequent images that you want to save. Once you have selected the images that you want to save release the <SHIFT> key and then right click on a image to select the SAVE to file option.

Channel Menu

To display the channel configuration menu <right> click with the mouse button on the TV window:

The channel configuration allows you to configure using the following options:

• Position the mouse pointer on the channel that you want to select and click the <Left> hand mouse button to select.
• Use the <Up> and <Down> and <Left> and <Right> arrow keys on the keyboard to select the different sub-menu that you want to select and press Enter / Return
• To select a channel list of either TV or Radio you can filter for either TV or Radio channels to be show in the channel list. The channel can also be selected by pressing the 1st letter of the channel name on the keyboard.

On the WinTV v6 application, click on the MENU button.
Click on “Suite Manager” to open the WinTV Channel Manager.
The Channel Manager has tabs for "Scan", "Sources", "Devices" and "Channels".

NOTE: To save your WinTV channel list, you may save the file HcwChanDB_5.mdb (which is located in the C:/users/public/wintv:for vista/windows 7 or C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\WinTV: for XP) into a temporary folder, and copy this file back into the WinTV directory after any re-installation to preserve your channel list.

Scan for Analog channels

This section refers to analog TV from cable TV or a TV antenna.

To scan for analogTV channels, click on the Sources tab.

Under Input Sources, click on Analog Source.

Automatic scanning for channels

Set the Country and Source (i.e. Cable TV, Antenna, HRC), then click Autoscan. WinTV will scan through the possible channels and list those where a video signal is detected.

The channel frequencies will scan from 1 to 69 for antenna, or 1 to 125 for cable. When channels are found they will be listed and the scanning will continue. After the completion of the channel scan a new window of an overview of the scanned frequencies and the number of found programs are will be displayed.
With an analog source, you may uncheck the AFT box to disable "automatic fine tune", and control fine tuning of the channels frequency by moving the slider (this control has a range of +127 to -128 db). Once you complete your fine tuning settings, you must click the Add button, which will add this frequency as a new channel into the WinTV suite manager. You can then delete the original channel if you are replacing it with the newer fine tuned one.
Tuning Mode provides two settings - one lists channels by country; the other lists all channels. The Broadcast/Cable item selects the appropriate Tuner mode for your input signal. Video Format and Country items select area of operation; WinTV provides all major video formats

Note: WinTV will be unavailable during the scan process.

You can track progress at the Channel Dialog's upper right corner. When the process is finished, all available channels will be displayed in the Channel Dialog.

Unwanted Channels may be deleted from an input source by simply selecting them and pressing the Delete key from the channel list menu.

Manual channel search

You can shorten the channel scan if you know the channel numbers for your local transmitter by entering the numbers into the channel number and click on Tune.

Scan for ATSC or Clear QAM digital TV channels

Note: This section refers to products with an ATSC/Clear QAM tuner (WinTV-HVR series).

Under Input Sources, select the ATSC Source or Clear QAM Source. ATSC is the digital TV format from "over-the-air" digital TV in North America. Clear QAM is unencrypted digital cable TV.

Automatic channel search

Click the <Autoscan> button to start the search for ATSC channels, ensure that you have selected your country location. The channel search will count from 1 to 125 and when a signal is found the box locked will have a tick.

Manual channel search

You can shorten the channel scan if you know the Multiplex Channel Numbers for your local digital transmitter by entering the numbers into the Channel Number and click on Tune

NOTE: To save your WinTV channel list, you may save the file HcwChanDB_4.mdb (which is located in the C:\Program Files\WinTV directory) into a temporary folder, and copy this file back into the WinTV directory after any re-installation to preserve your channel list.

The Location Manager also has a QAM channel mapper, which allows you to map QAM channels to the channel list from TitanTV. For example, let's say you scan for QAM channels and find that channel number 2703 is really CNN. You can use the QAM channel mapper to tell the Scheduler that when you click on CNN in TitanTV, that CNN is found on QAM channel 2703.

To install:

• Download the Location Manager and run it.
• Open WinTV v6.
• Click on the Menu button. You will see the Location Manager and QAM Mapper which is the QAM channel mapper.

To use the QAM channel mapper

• Open WinTV v6 and click on the Menu button.
• Click on QAM Mapping
• Enter your Zip code (currently the QAM mapper only works in the U.S.) When you click 'OK', the QAM mapper will retrieve the channel listings for your Zip code. This takes about 1 minute.
• You then need to select the service type (satellite, digital cable, etc.) and the cable TV provider you are using.
• Then click the Mapping button.

You will see two columns. The left column is the channels as they have been scanned by WinTV v6. The right column are the channels which are used in the TitanTV Electronic Program Guide.

Now you can associate the scanned channels to the TitanTV EPG channels so you can use TtitanTV to schedule recordings on QAM channels. For example, let's say that WinTV v6 channel 'qam-605' is really QVC, and you want to schedule QVC recordings from TitanTV.

You would then find QVC in the TtitanTV column, drag and drop it on qam-605. Then, click Save.

Now, when you schedule a recording on QVC using TtitanTV, the Hauppauge WinTV Scheduler will switch to QAM channel 605 for the recording.

Configuration a Video Input

When connecting a external source to the WinTV, please ensure that the cables are connected in the correct order.
Note: This section refers to WinTV products with Video Input.

Connecting WinTV to a VCR, camcorder, or a satellite or cable TV set top box

If your VCR or Set top box, such as a satellite TV set top box such as a DirecTV box or a SkyTV box, has a S-video output and your WinTV product has S-video input ,then you can use a S-video to S-video cable. This connection will give you the best video quality for analog video.

For sound input, you will connect the Red and White RCA jacks on your set top box to the WinTV. Some WinTV's have separate Red/White RCA jacks. Others have a 1/8" stereo jack. If your WinTV uses Red and White RCA jacks, use RCA cables (readable available at most electronic resellers). If your WinTV uses a 1/8" stereo input jack, you will need a 1/8" stereo to Red/White RCA jack adapter. This can also be found at most electronic retailers.

Connecting WinTV to Sony PS2, PS3 or XBox360 (or any other game device)

On WinTV products with built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoders, there is a slight lag between the game input and what you will see on your PC screen. If you are recording the video game, this will not matter. But if you intend to use your PC screen to play the video game, you might find this effect to be problematic.

For the video input to the WinTV product, S-Video will give you the best video quality for analog video. For sound input, you will connect the Red and White RCA jacks on your game to the WinTV. Some WinTV's have separate Red/White RCA jacks. Others have a 1/8" stereo jack. If your WinTV uses Red and White RCA jacks, use RCA cables (available at most electronic resellers). If your WinTV uses a 1/8" stereo input jack, you will need a 1/8" stereo to Red/White RCA jack adapter. This can also be found at most electronic retailers.

Configuring WinTV to use the external S-Video or Composite audio/video source

• On WinTV v6, click on the MENU button and then click Suite-Manager to open the WinTV Channel Manager
• Select the Sources tab and highlight the video source you are using to connect to your external source, either Composite or S-video source
• Set the Video Format. In Europe, the video format is Pal-BGHIDK. The video format used in North America is NTSC
• Type a Name for the channel in the field 'Name' and a description
• Click on <Save> and <Close>

When you run WinTV v6, the list of TV channels will now include the name you just created. To see the list of TV channels and sources, either click channel up or channel down until you see your video source listed, or click your left mouse button on the TV window and select Channel list.

Select this channel and you will have audio and video from your external source.

Click on the Button MENU and “Suite-Manager” to open the channel manager. Select the <Channels> tab.

Channel Delete

To delete a channel you can either highlight and channel and the right click and select delete or highlight the name of the channel and press the “DELETE” key on your keyboard. In order to delete the full channel list you can <Select All> and then delete.

Channel Rename

To rename a channel you have to highlight it and then click on the column “Preferred Name”.
You can then edit the name of the channel.

Channel Number Location

1. Highlight the channel that you want to change in the column “Preferred Number”. You can now enter a new number that is not already assigned to another channel.
2. To move a channel up or down the list, highlight the channel and then click on the “Move Channel (UP/DOWN) entry.

Favorite channel list

You have the option of creating a favorites channel list in the order that you want. Simply click on the channel name on the right hand side and drag the channel name to the left on top of the Favorite group on the left hand side window.

Creating a new favorites group

You can also create a new channel suite if you prefer to create a new favorites group. Click on the Add Suite and type in a name for the new suite. If you then highlight “All Channels” you can then drag the channel on the right hand window into the new suite that you have created. This is useful if you only want some channels to be shown in your TV channels list.

Clicking on the “MENU” button will give you the following options:

“4 x 3”
Select the TV picture aspect ratio 4 x 3.

“16 x 9”
Select the TV picture aspect ratio 16 x 9.

“Select Channel”
Select the channel that you want to view.

“Suite Manager”
Opens the channel suite manager where you can scan for channels and configure video input.

"Configuration” Menu
Allows you to configure the “Channels...”, “Audio”, “Snapshots...”, “Preferences...” and “MPEG Settings”.

“View” Menu
Allows you to set the TV image screen size to a pre-defined size (320 x 240, ..., 800 x 600).

“Options” Menu
To select the option ensure that the tick is selected before the name of the option.

“Select suite”
Allows you to select a specific suite (TV, Radio or favorites), you can also select your own created suite.

Options - Always on Top
Always on top will always make WinTV be visible on your windows desktop, it will be on top of any application.

Options - Aspect Radio
This option will force the aspect ratio to 4 x 3.

Options - Mute
Will Mute and un-mute the sound.

Options - No-Title
This option will remove the TV applications borders, so you will only have the TV picture.

Options - TV Mode
This option will change the TV picture to Full Screen mode, so the TV picture will cover the whole of the desktop.

“Display” Menu

Display - Freeze
Will stop the TV picture from moving. You can also press: <CTRL> + <F>.

Display - Preferences...
Allows you to configure the “WinTV Preferences”.

“File” Menu

File - Save as
After using the “Snap” button you will be able to save that still image snapshots to different file formats (e.g. Jpeg, BMP etc).

File - Print...
Allows you to print out the still image snapshot.

File - Print setup
Allows you to configure the printer settings.

File - Copy
Allows you to copy the still image snapshots to the clipboard of Windows.

File - Exit
Will close down the TV application. You can also press <Alt> + <F4> on the keyboard.

“Help” Menu
Help - Help Topics
Opens the online help menu.

Help - Tip of the Day
Shows the tip of the day for useful information about the application.

Help - About
Shows information about the application version files and hardware.

Click the Configuration button on WinTV to see the WinTV Settings menus. There are three tabs: View, Movies and Snapshot.

View menu

On Screen Display
The “On Screen Display” allows you to set the amount of time the information bar will be displayed on the screen. The annunciator font allows you to change the font type and color that will be used.

Tab - Title mode (TV picture with application Menu)
4:3 Aspect Ratio
The option "4:3 aspect ratio" determines whether this is automatically selected, if you re-size the WinTV window with the mouse.

Enforce Aspect ratio
When checked, the image's aspect ratio is preserved as the WinTV window is scaled. Selecting Enforce Aspect ratio will round off the height and width dimensions of the television image in order to maintain the proper aspect ratio. WinTV can operate as a Screen Saver, or can retain your current Screen Saver. If Allow Screen Saver is checked, choosing the "Use System Screen Saver" option uses any current screen saver configuration on your computer. Choosing TV Mode uses WinTV (in full-screen mode) as the system screen saver.

Tab - No Title mode (TV picture only)
No Title Mode Displays the Television inside the application window, without Title and Menu bars. This configuration dialog provides Aspect Ratio and Screen Saver settings as described in Title Mode (above).

Tab - TV Mode (Full screen TV)
TV Mode displays the television image using the entire height and width available to the monitor screen.

DVCR Record File Path
Refers to the folder of the recorded video files.

Pause Mode Record Path
Refers to the temporary path of the file that is buffered during the pause mode.

Pause Buffer
This sets the maximum size of the Pause Buffer.

Quality Level
Allows you to set the quality level of the recorded MPEG files files, example “DVD 6Mb” for analog recordings.
Note: For digital TV recordings of ATSC, clear QAM, DVB-T, etc. WinTV records using the actual digital format. You will see "DVD 2048 bytes" which refers to the native video quality.

Clicking on the CFG icon allows you to configure the Snapshot settings:

Capture resolution
Capture Resolution Images in WinTV are captured at the maximum resolution. When the image is saved to a file name (below), you select a resolution for the snapshot, from 320 x 240 (minimum) to 1600 x 1200 (actual size).

Fields Captured
Fields Captured Broadcast video uses an interlaced format, in which the odd-numbered scan lines and even-numbered scan lines are displayed separately; the eye combines them into a smooth image. On the computer monitor output,, both fields are displayed at once. When taking a snapshot of a video image with little motion, Capture 2 Fields produces the most data and the clearest image. However, when taking a snapshot of a video image containing motion, capturing both fields may result in a blurred image. Therefore, use Capture 1 Field for best results. Experiment with these settings to achieve the desired results.

Default
Button Resets Snapshot Configuration to factory defaults.

Note: This option is only available on a WinTV product that supports this feature and will only be displayed if you are tuned into a channel or video input that supports this feature.

Audio Mixer Inputs
Click on this item to display a list of possible selections: WinTV WAVE should be selected.

Current TV Audio preferences
This area enables you to select audio preferences, from the source dependent Available

Modes listing at the bottom of the dialog box.

Current TV Available Modes
The actual (active) setting is highlighted.

Note: This option is only available on a WinTV product that supports this feature and will only be displayed if you are tuned into a channel or video input that supports this feature. Not available for ATSC or Clear QAM channels.

Here the brightness, the contrast, the saturation and hue can be changed for improving the picture quality for analog sources. Selecting default changes the settings back to default settings.

There are four 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 WinTV application, while clicking on the Record button will cause the Record menu to roll down.
Clicking on the Record will start a recording of the channel that you are watching. If you click on the button once, it will record for 15 Minutes, clicking twice will record for 30 minutes, clicking a third time will record for 45 minutes. Each click will record for another 15 minutes
(So 3 clicks will record for 45 minutes).

Background Recording

The background recorder (BG recorder) allows you to record your program without the WinTV application opened on your desktop. When the background record starts; a red bullet icon close to the Windows clock starts. You can end the recording by right clicking on this icon and selecting terminate recording.

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Time counter
The time is specified in a Hour:Minute:Second format..

Record

Clicking the Record button will automatically generate a file name and start recording your audio/video program.

• The Live TV window will be shown in the TV window
• The time counter will indicate the length of recording
• When recording using One Touch Record then length of the recording will be shown.

The quality of the recording and the hard disk space can be specified by clicking the symbol
Preferences//Movies/MPEG. If you click on "stop", the timer counter is put back to 00:00:00.

Stop

Clicking the Stop button will stop the video you are recording or playing back.

Play

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

Clicking the Pause button while Playing will pause your audio/video.

Rewind

Clicking the Rewind button will play the video file in reverse. Clicking the Rewind button again will continue the playing of the video.

Fast-Forward

Clicking the Fast Forward button one time will fast Forward your video at 2X speed. Clicking the Fast Forward button two times will fast Forward your video at 8X speed. Clicking the button again will continue playing back at normal speed.

Slow Motion

Clicking the Slow Motion button during playback will cause the video to play in slow motion. Clicking the Slow Motion button again will return the video to normal playback speed.

File

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, 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: Click your right mouse button on the video file once, go down the menu and click Delete

The pause mode allows you to pause the TV or Video window. Clicking the Pause button on the WinTV application starts the Pause mode. The Pause Menu will drop down.

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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. To change the default pause buffer location licking the symbol spanner//Movies/MPEG.

Delay counter

The delay counter indicates the amount of time that the Live video window has been paused.
If the delay counter indicates 00:01:23 then the Live video window has been paused for 1 minute and 23 seconds.

Rewind

Clicking the Rewind button while playing video will rewind the recorded video. Clicking the Rewind button again will continue the playing.

Pause

Clicking the Pause 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. Un-clicking the Pause button will cause the audio/video program to start playing from the point where the button was originally clicked.
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 TV mode.

Slow Motion

Clicking the Slow Motion button while playing video will play in Slow Motion. Clicking the Slow Motion button again, will continue playing normally.

Fast-Forward

Clicking the Fast Forward button one time will fast forward your video at 2X speed. Clicking the Fast Forward button two times will fast forward your video at 8X speed.

Replay

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 WinTV 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 recorded 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

Clicking the Skip button will skip the video ahead 10 seconds.

Note: Only available on supported products (PVR / HVR that use a "hardware encoder")

The WinTV supports several formats for MPEG video compression, 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 WinTV click the Preferences button, then Capture and then the MPEG tab. Here are the video formats and the amount of disk space per hour used:

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.
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.
DVD players which are compatible with CD’s and MP3’s can also read DVD’s burned using MPEG video files created with the WinTV.

If you plan to burn a DVD using a authoring software package, you should use either the “DVD Standard Play”, the “DVD Long Play” or “DVD Extra Long Play”. These 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

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