Compro Technology VideoMate U680F Startup Manual

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VideoMate U680F

DVB-T/DAB/DAB+/FM

USB 2.0 TV Stick

Start Up Guide

Compro Technology, Inc.

www.comprousa.com

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Compro, VideoMate and the Compro logo are trademarks of Compro Technology, Inc. Other names and marks are trademarks of their respective owners.

Compro makes no warranties with respect to this documentation and disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability, quality, or fitness for any particular purpose. The information in this document is subject to change without notice. COMPRO reserves the right to make revisions to this publication without obligation to notify any person or entity of any such changes. The product specifications maybe vary without further notice.

Compro Technology, Inc.

Tel. +886 2 2918 0169, Fax +886 2 2915 2389 4/F, No.12, Alley 6, Lane 45, Pao Shin Road Hsintein City, Taipei, Taiwan. www.comprousa.com

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Table of Contents

VideoMate U680F DVB-T Stick ..................................... 4

VideoMate U680F Contents .......................................... 5

Software Installation ..................................................... 5

Windows Media Center Remote for U680F ................. 7

ComproDTV Gadget Tool for Vista/Win 7 ................. 10

ComproDTV 4.5 ........................................................... 13

ComproFM 2 ................................................................ 21

Troubleshooting .......................................................... 22

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VideoMate U680F DVB-T Stick

VideoMate U680F lets you watch/record digital TV broadcast on your PC. VideoMate U680F features a TV tuner for either digital TV/DAB/DAB+ broadcast or analog FM signals reception, Digital Video Recording (DVR) functions, scheduled recording at anytime, crystal video quality, intelligent TV viewing and multi-functional WMC Remote Control.

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Your PC must meet or exceed the following system requirements to watch TV on your PC.

 PIII 1.7 GHz CPU for TV viewing  512 MB RAM  Available USB 2.0 port  Sound card or on-board sound chip  Graphics Card or on-board graphics supports DirectX 9.0  CD-ROM for software installation.  Windows XP SP3 or above installed.

RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

To use all the features of VideoMate U680F, your PC should meet the

following requirements.

 2.6 GHz CPU with SSE 2 support for DVD recording and timeshifting  3.0 GHz CPU with SSE 2 support for HDTV/TS viewing/recording and PIP  Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz CPU for H.264 viewing/recording and PIP  1GB RAM  Sound card or on-board sound chip  Available USB 2.0 port  CD-ROM for software installation  Graphics Card or on-board graphics supports DirectX 9.0  Windows XP SP3 / Vista SP1 / Windows 7 x86 / x64  Update the latest drivers of VGA, motherboard, and soundcard from

vendors.

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VideoMate U680F Contents

Note

In order to receive digital terrestrial TV broadcast, you have to have your own antenna which is crucial. Digital terrestrial TV broadcast uses about the same wave (UHF) as analog TV. It’s recommended to have a fishbone-like antenna on the roof for receiving. More details can be found in the troubleshooting chapter of this manual.

Digital TV broadcast is different than normal analog TV. You will see no picture instead of noisy or blurred picture when the signal is too weak. Make sure you have a good antenna and strong digital TV signal in your location. Or you will have no TV picture at all.

Note

The VideoMate U680F TV stick built-in Compro logo style LED light to indicate the TV stick is working. While the TV signal is weak, the LED will flash and the LED will off if no signal. It’s more convenient to understand the TV reception quality.

VideoMate

U680F

WMC Remote

Digital TV antenna

FM antenna

Batteries

Start Up Guide

USB 2.0 cable

Installation CD

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Software Installation

Start the computer. Make sure VideoMate U680F is connected to your computer and insert the installation CD into your CD drive.

Step 1. After restarting, Windows will detect a new device and start the

Add/Remove Hardware Wizard, please press Cancel and go to the next step.

Step 2. Insert the installation CD into your CD drive. If you have Autorun

enabled, the installer will start automatically. (If Autorun is disabled, double-click on “setup.exe” on the installation CD.) You can choose Complete to install all necessary software (VideoMate U680F drivers, ComproDTV, and ComproFM) or choose Custom to select item by item. Compro recommends you choose Complete.

Step 3. Press Next to install ComproDTV, Windows Media Format 9 Series

Runtime Step 4. After each program is successfully installed, press Finish to proceed. Step 5. When installation completes, press Finish to restart computer. Step 6. When computer is restarted, please start up ComproDTV. The

installation Wizard will guide you through the setup process.

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Windows Media Center Remote for U680F

Compro VideoMate U680F bundles the easy-to-use Microsoft certified remote control to controls the Windows Media Center and also ComproDTV, ComproFM software. Some keys are special designed for Windows 7/Vista Home Premium/Professional/Ultimate, it may not be used in Windows XP system.

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No.

ComproDTV 4

ComproFM 2

WMC

0-9

Number Key

Preset stations

Number Key

Into sleep mode

Videos (WMC)

Radio (WMC)

Music (WMC)

Pictures (WMC)

Recorded TV (WMC)

Recorded TV

WMC Guide

Live TV (WMC)

DVD Menu (WMC)

Sleep function

Clear

Up arrow or select Mono/Stereo/SAP

Up arrow

Replay

or switch TV format

Scan channel(Down)

Left arrow

Down arrow

or snapshot

Down arrow

Advance in

Timeshifting

Scan channel(Up)

Right arrow

Playlist

EPG (US only)

Open on-line help

Back

Media Center

Zoom In/Out

Max/Min

Volume up

Volume down

Mute

Channel up

Channel down

Record

Stop/Live

Stop/LIVE

Replay/Rewind

Rewind

Timeshift Play/Pause

Play/Pause

Advance/Fast forward

Fast forward

The last channel

Skip rewind

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Remote Power Off

There are two situations for this operation.

When not watching TV, i.e. no ComproDTV 4.5 running:

Just press the “CLEAR” button on the lower-left corner on the remote keypad; you will see a dialog as shown below. Program will countdown 20 seconds to

shutdown the computer. If you don’t want to shut down the computer, please

press the CLEAR button again, in other words, pressing the CLEAR key a second time is the same as pressing the “Cancel” button. You may also use your mouse to press the cancel button. Press OK to immediately shutdown the computer.

When watching TV, i.e. ComproDTV 4.5 is running:

Just press the CLEAR button on the lower-left corner on the remote keypad repeatedly, you will see the text on the screen turns to SLEEP OFF, SLEEP ON

- 30 MINUTES, SLEEP ON - 1 HOUR, SLEEP ON - 2 HOURS, and SHUTDOWN. When the text shows SHUTDOWN, it will countdown 20 seconds to shutdown your computer. If you don’t want to shutdown the computer, please press the CLEAR button again.

Note

Make sure you save all open files before using remote shutdown function.

Playlist

Enter

Change scale of screen

-----

Skip Forward

-----

Enter frequency

-----

Channel surf

-----

C.C Language

-----

Red

ComproDVD

Green

ComproDTV

Yellow

ComproFM

Blue

Setup

Teletext on/off

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ComproDTV Gadget Tool for Vista/Win 7

The Compro gadget tool is designed to provide the more convenient TV experience in Windows Vista/7. It will be installed from the Compro installation CD, and you can delete and add it from gadget setup.

Note

1. Gadget Tool is meant for Vista/Win 7 32 bit operation system only.

2. Vista Gadget Tool needs the channel table from ComproDTV 4.5. Please

autoscan all the available digital channels in ComproDTV 4.5. Then you can use the Gadget Tool.

3. If there is no picture when you click the live TV button, please right-click the

mouse button and select the video source you want.

UI Control

DTV Gadget has three modes including Live TV mode, display playlist, and display scheduled list.

The buttons from left to right sides are:

Channel down in live TV mode

Start/Stop Live TV, Play/pause from playlist

Channel Up in live TV mode

Start/stop record live TV

Mute

Playlist mode: It just displays first eight files in the list you recorded, if there are more than eight files in folder, the ninth file or rest of files will not be display. The figure in below shows the playlist style:

5 files and 3 empty items in list

Press the button to load device and start to play live TV

This button can change modes between Live TV, display playlist and schedule list

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If clicking any files, the gadget will change to play mode from playlist mode, then playing the file you clicked. Scheduler list mode: This mode will display the top 5 of your current scheduled list, you can click any of the scheduled item and check the detail information of it. The last mode is schedule view which has two different parts. First, there is a table that has five rows; it means that schedule view will allow the first five schedules in the list. Second, if clicking the item, it will change to another part, which show in detail about the schedule you clicked. Clicking again will go back to first part. The process showed as below:

Dock and Undock Gadget Window:

Only docked gadget has three modes, the undocked gadget only support live TV/playback video mode, and its size is bigger than docked one. You can direct drag the gadget window to the other place out the sidebar and shows the bigger undock window to watch TV or playback recorded video files.

Because undocked gadget lacks playlist, if you wants to play a file in undocked mode, you can drop a file into the window of gadget to play a file .(in docked

mode, you can also play a file by dropping a file into gadget) The control of button in undocked mode is the same as docked mode.

Pop Menu

Click the right mouse button on the gadget window; it will open the pop menu for selection. You can return to last channel, autoscan available channels, select channel to watch from channel list, select video source, adjust audio volume, or snapshot TV screen.

Directly drag gadget windows out the sidebar and shows the bigger window

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Gadget Settings

Settings of gadget have four parts included:  Capture device: to select capture devices.

(when running gadget first time or having more than one device, this item is needed)

 Quality setting : to select recording quality

Normal, Better, Best Quality

 Record folder: a directory to place recorded files.  Snapshot folder: a directory to place picture.

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ComproDTV 4.5

Control Panel

The DTV 4.5 control panel provides button controls for TV channel selection, video recording, image capture and more.

The table below describe the functions of the buttons of DTV 4.5 control panel

Windows Control

Help (H)

Docking (D)

Minimize (G)

Maximize (Z)

Exit (CTRL+X)

Volume

Increase Volume (+)

Decrease Volume (-)

Mute (M)

TV Channel Control

Channel Up (Page Up)

Channel Down (Page Down)

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Channel Return (N)

Repeat Recorded Files

(CTRL+P)

Options / Video Recoder Function

Options (O)

Rewind (Left Arrow)

Stop (S)

Play (P)

Fast Forward (Right Arrow)

Pause (U)

Record (R)

Record Option (Ctrl+R)

Special Function

EPG (E)

Channel Surfing (F)

Closed Caption (C)

Snapshot (Space)

Timeshift (T)

Teletext (X)

Schedule (B)

Video Source (V)

Add Windows (F3)

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Note

Please note that not all options are available at all times, and may be grayed out or inaccessible depending on your hardware setup and TV services available. The following figure gives you the function of the button with (Hot key)

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Start ComproDTV 4.5 and watch TV

After installation, just press the remote or double click the ComproDTV 4.5 icon on the desktop, you will be able to watch TV. Same as operating a normal TV set. Watch TV programs on your PC, in full-screen mode or in a window. Channel up and down. Close ComproDTV 4.5 and even shutdown the computer with the full function remote control keypad.

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Options

Press the Options button to open the Options dialog box. You can change detail settings of ComproDTV 4.5 here.

TV Settings

This option gives you the way to manually select TV system and set the method of scanning TV programs.

Choose ” Input Type” Check the ”Device List” Country /Region Autoscan

Autoscan

The first time you start ComproDTV 4.5, Autoscan will automatically scan for available TV channels for TV signals. You can rescan the channels at any time by pressing the Autoscan button. Also, you can enable the advanced autoscan for more precision scan result.

When Autoscan is finished, detected channels are automatically enabled and marked with the green check mark

. Channels, where a valid signal could not be detected, are disabled and marked with a blank. However, you can interrupt the scanning process by pressing the Stop button.

After you are finished scanning for available channels, you may select OK to return to the display window, or customize the channel orders according to your preferences.

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Listen to DAB/DAB+ digital audio broadcasting

After you scan all the available DAB/DAB+ channels in the setup, you can

listen to the digital audio channels by click the video source button .

Channel Naming

You can customize the channel names by double-click on the CH Name field of the channel you wish to rename.

Import and Export current channel list

If you have edited the channel name, fine tune channel, or customize channel settings. You can export the current channel list to text file and save it to other place. When you reinstall the ComproDTV 4.5 or your system, you can import the previous channel list and save your time for resetting it.

Custom Settings for each channel

You can customize each channel properties by click the icon in “Custom Settings” filed and edit it. In the channel property settings, you can setup video

color and noise reduction level, de-interlacing level for each channel (noise reduction level, de-interlacing level, and sharpness setting are not suitable for digital TV).

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Using my favorite channel list

Options ChannelArrange List

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Channel Surfing

While watching TV, the channel surfing feature gives you an overview of available programs. Double click the channel screen can direct jump to the

channel you want.

PIP/POP mode

You can watch 1 main live digital TV and 3 sub digital TV channel, and also playback recorded video file at the same time.

You can press the Add/Reduce Window / button to open a slave window for that. Main window has all features while slave window has limited

functions only. Double-click on the slave window can switch the TV program to

the main window. Alignment Window button will put slave window(s) into main window which is convenient for you to watch multiple

programs on full screen mode. The buttons on the upper-left corner slave

window are Channel Up, Channel Down, Mute, Windows Alignment, and Close respectively. Slave window can be resized by mouse

dragging lower-left corner to any ratio.

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Video Desktop

While watching TV, you may right-click on the TV screen and select video on desktop or press the hotkey (F7) to activate Video Desktop mode. This mode makes the video source as your desktop screen. It is similar with full screen but the desktop icons and taskbar will remain on top. The following picture shows the TV on the desktop.

For the Video Desktop feature, you need to enable the “Use Overlay

Surface” feature. OptionsVideo/AudioSelect “Use Overlay Surface”

Right-Click Mouse Menu

If using mouse to right-click on the TV screen, you can see a menu pop up. There are many useful options for your convenience.

The right-click menu also provides SmartZoom feature to auto-fit or customize video screen for different type monitors, the Aspect Ratio setting provides 4:3, 16:9, 1.85:1, 2.35:1 and customize for different resolutions.

Still Image Capture

Click on the capture icon on the control panel or hit the "Space Bar" of

the keyboard shortcut to capture an image of the display window. You can see the screen capture dialog as below. You can setup to save it as jpg or bmp format.

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Recording

ComproDTV 4.5 supports H.264/ MPEG-2/TS formats recording in digital TV. To instantly start recording:

Press the Record button .ComproDTV 4.5 starts recording the video source currently showing in the display window. It will save it to a file on your

disk. If you already start recording, you still can click the record button to

setup 30, 60, 90, and 120 minutes recording immediately. Thus, you can go out without worry about the record still ongoing.

Press the Stop button to stop recording. ComproDTV 4.5 will save it automatically and show the file name on the screen.

You can also use the schedule recording by press Schedule button on control panel of ComproDTV 4.5.

Timeshifting

Timeshifting temporarily saves the video to your hard disk for a specified period of time so that you can pause, replay, or skip commercials during live TV, without interrupting an ongoing recording session.

Press the Timeshifting button and the Time Monitoring bar will appear.

You may also press the Advance (for commercial skip) and Replay (for instant replay) buttons on the control panel or remote control to navigate through the program. When you return to your seat, you can resume viewing the program from the point when you left.

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ComproFM 2

Introduction

ComproFM lets you enjoy FM radio programs on your PC. Listen to music or other programs while you work or browse the Internet.

Note

The hardware needs to have FM tuner in order to use ComproFM. This section provides basic information for ComproFM. For more details,

please check the help file of ComproFM or the manual in the installation CD.

Control Panel

The following describe the ComproFM control panel functions, and tips for using ComproFM. The following figure gives you the function of the button with (Hot Key.)

Options

(S)

(CTRL+W)

Last Channel

(N)

Backward

()

Schedule

Record (B)

Frequency

(K)

Channel Down

(Page down)

Volume

(+, -)

Minimize

(Z)

Mute

(M)

Record

(R)

Channel Up

(Page Up)

Always on top

(CTRL+A)

Help

Progress bar

Pause

(Space)

Forward

()

Stop

(O)

Stereo/Mono

(CTRL+S)

Play

(Space)

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Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting steps

If you have problem installing or running VideoMate U680F, please check the following by step:

1. USB 2.0 issue: you need to check your computer has USB 2.0 or not.

Usually you will see “USB 2.0 Root Hub” device in the "Sound, video and game controllers" section of Windows Device Manager.

2. Driver issue: You should see "VideoMate U680F" drivers, in the "Sound, video and game controllers" section of Windows Device Manager. If these

drivers are not there, reinstalling the VideoMate U680F drivers can help.

3. Power Issue: VideoMate U680F takes power from the USB port. Note: PCMCIA and USB hub won’t provide enough power so that you have to use the kind of PCMCIA and USB hub which has power adapter included.

Sometimes plugging in another USB port may help. Some motherboards and notebook’s USB ports do not meet the USB standard providing the standard 5V 500mA power. In these cases, VideoMate U680F will not have enough power to work. Please contact computer vendor for the issue.

4. Video OK / No Audio: Make sure the audio device is “Your sound card device” in the System

Device in Settings of ComproDTV. Also, you have to select the audio source to be “WAVE” in the System Device in Settings of ComproDTV.

Check that the sound is not muted or volume too low in the Windows Volume Control dialog. (Double-click on the speaker icon in the system tray.)

Sometimes updating the sound card driver from vendor or VideoMate U680F’s software from www.comprousa.com may help as well.

5. Other issue: Please go to our website for the latest software update. Many problems may be fixed on the newer software version. You are welcome to visit our website at http://www.comprousa.com/support

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Why does the remote control fail?

Verify that the IR icon (ComproRemote) is in the system tray on the lower-right corner of the screen. If you don't have ComproRemote on the system tray, start the following program:

C:\Program Files\ Common Files\VideoMate\ComproRemoteDTV.exe

Then you should see the icon on the system tray. The IR icon should turn bright when you press buttons on the remote.

If you see no response, please move your mouse cursor on the IR icon. If you

see it shows “No Device,” your drivers may not be not properly installed.

Please remove ComproDTV 4 using "Add/Remove programs" in the Control Panel and reinstall it.

Contacting Compro Technical Support

Before you submit an email for support, please check support FAQs on our web site. http://www.comprousa.com.

When contacting Compro for technical support, please use the Compro Feedback (http://www.comprousa.com/feedback/index_en.php) or directly email to [email protected].

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