Hauppage WinTV-HVR-1400 Quick Installation Guide for Windows Vista Home Premium & Vista Ultimate
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WinTV-HVR-1400
Quick Installation Guide
©Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 2007 · QI-WINTV-HVR-EXT-V1.0-ENG · 2007/10/25
● WinTV-HVR-1400 Hybrid ExpressCard/54
● Audio/Video input cable
● Portable TV antenna
(on some models)
● IEC to MCX Aerial Adapter Cable
● WinTV-Installation CD-RO including:
· WinTV application with SoftPVR™
· WinTV-Scheduler
· 7 Day EPG
· VTPlus
● This installation guide
Contents of this WinTV-HVR-1400 package
1.Locate a free ExpressCard/54 (54mm width) slot.
2.Turn on your PC and wait until Windows has completely started.
3.With the label facing up, insert the WinTV-HVR-1400 into the
ExpressCard/54 slot.
1. Installing the WinTV-HVR-1400
Plug your TV antenna or RF output from your cable/satellite box into the
WinTV’s TV Connector.
You can also connect sources via
the A/V input cable as describe
here.
It is recommended to connect to
a roof top aerial as this may provide a better signal quality then
the provided portable antenna (if
supplied). You will need to ensure
that you are located in a area that
has Digital Terrestrial coverage.
Please visit www.dtg.org.uk/retailer/coverage.html
Sweden: www.pts.se
Denmark: www.digi-tv.dk
Finland: www.digitv.fi
Poland: www.emitel.pl
2. Connecting the Aerial and A/V input cable
When you run WinTV for the first
time, a message will appear asking you to scan for tuner channels now; please ensure that the
TV antenna is connected, click
YES.
To start the WinTV application double click on the WinTV icon.
4. WinTV®Application
Select your country location, for instance, select United Kingdom and
then, select Scan.
The scanning process will start by scanning the analogue frequencies
for channels, if any are found they will be added to the channel list.
The scanning process for DVB-T will then scan for channels. When a
DVB-T channel is found, the Signal Status will show a quality level
and the locked box will be checked. The DVB-T digital channels that
are found will appear in the channel listing box.
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ote: If you have attached an antenna and do not receive any
digital TV channels, either use a stronger antenna (a roof top
antenna is recommended for best reception) or try to add a TV
channel manually (see trouble shooting section).
Click Close when finished.
If you are using a external source like a Hi-8 Camcorder, Video
recorder etc, then you will need to connect via the SVideo/Composite for the Video picture and Line-Input for the sound.
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ote: Unless stated most VCR's and STB's only output in com-
posite via SCART', a scart to S-Video lead, in most cases, will
not work correctly and will only yield a black and white picture.
If you are using a Scart to composite (RCA Yellow phono) lead, please
ensure that the signal is being sent in the correct direction from the
Scart lead to the phono connection.
Configuring a external source in WinTV
In the WinTV application click on Menu then Suite Manager, then click
on the Sources tab. To add the S-Video or Composite channel select
the option on the left and then select the Video Format from the drop
down list.
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ote: PAL BGHIDK is the commonly used format in Europe.
Type in a channel “Name” e.g. Video and a Description and then click
on “Save” the channel will now be added and if you click on Close
you will be returned back to the main TV viewing window.
Keyboard shortcuts
Sound up - Page Up
Sound down- Page Down
Plus (+) - Chanel Up
Minus (-) - Channel Down
Ctrl T - Frame TV
Ctrl P - Frame print
Ctrl+M - Mute on/off
ALT+M - Re-size TV menu
0-9 - Channel number
Space bar - Take a snapshot
Ctrl F - Still image
Using a external source
Snapshot Still
capture
Freeze picture
CFG
Configure Snapshot
Mute
Setup
Menu
Full screen
Remove toolbars
no title mode
Minimise
Close
Channel surf
Channel down
Channel up
Last channel
Current TV channel
Click your right mouse
button here to see the
channel selector
Click your right mouse button in the
TV window to remove toolbars.
Click again to restore toolbars.
Record
Playback
Volume
Always on Top
Snapshot viewer win-
dow:
Double click on each
thumbnail to see
image full size.Click
and hold your right
mouse button to see
image options.
Pause
TV-Mode
Watch TV
Changing channels
You can change channels by using the Channel Up or Channel Down
buttons on the WinTV. You can type a channel number (for example:
27) and WinTV will tune to that channel. If the entered channel does
not exist, you will see a black window.
You can also right click in the Current TV channel box, where you will
see a list of channels. Or type letters (for example: BBC) to access to
the list of the channels including these letters.
TV Mode
When you click the Full screen TV button, TV will appear full
screen on your PC monitor. When finished watching TV full screen,
click your right mouse button in the TV window. If you see video with
a black box around it, click the Pref button then click TV mode tab.
Check the box which says “Allow resolution change”.
"Always on top" Mode
The WinTV application will remain in view over any other applications even if it is not selected. 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 from a small window to a larger one by
clicking the right mouse button.
Pref
Click the Pref button to open the preferences menu:
View: These are the settings for the On Screen Display of the TV
channel and Audio Volume, where you can enable Close Captions (if
supported in your system configuration), plus controls for the Toolbar
mode (Title mode), NoToolbar mode (No Title) and Full Screen (TV
mode).
Movies: Here is where you configure some video and audio settings.
You can set the movie record directory (DVCR Record File Path).
Snapshot: Set the size of your captured images, plus single or two
field captures for capturing motion or still image video.
Audio: Your audio settings are configured here.
Menu
Click the Menu button to open the TV setup menu. Here is the main
control bar for TV channels, and duplicate controls for other functions:
Suite-Manager: Configure the TV tuner (scanning, naming, channel
pre set, etc..) and setting up favourite channel lists.
Configuration: Duplicate configuration menus for colour, audio, etc.
View: For settings an exact TV window size: 320x240, 640x480 etc.
There are four buttons to control the watching, recording, pausing and
playback of TV. Clicking on the Pause button will cause the Pause
menu to roll down from the WinTV application, while clicking on
either the Record or Playback button will cause the Record menu to
roll down. Click the TV button will close the roll down menus to close
and for live TV to be displayed in the WinTV video window.
Pause, Record and Playback TV
TV Mode One Touch Pause One Touch Record
The Pause button prepares the WinTV pausing live video.
The Record button will start a record session. If you click Record button more than once, a record timer will be set and the recording will
be done for 15 minutes for each time the Record button is clicked.
For example, if you click the button 3 times, the WinTV will record for
30 minutes.
Pause mode
The pause mode allow you to pause the Live TV picture and allows
you to use the TimeShift function to rewind and fast forward the TV.
Clicking the Pause button on the WinTV application starts the Pause
mode. The Pause Menu will drop down.
Record and Playback
Click the Playback button on the WinTV application to open the
Record and Playback control bar. Clicking the Record will automatically generate a file name and start recording your audio/video program.
If you click Record button more than once, a record timer will be set
and the recording will be done for 15 minutes for each time the
Record button is clicked. For example, if you click the button 3 times,
the WinTV will record for 30 minutes.
Functions:
● When recording TV, the record button will depressed
● A time counter will be shown indicating the lenght of time of the
recording
If you click Stop the time counter will revert back to 00:00:00
The time is specified in a Hour:Minute:Second format.
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.
Rewind
Record
Pause Play
Stop
Display Counter
Forward
File
Video-Position
Play forward slow
Record and Playback modes
Fast Forward
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
playing back at normal speed.
Slow Motion
Clicking the Slow Motion button during playback will cause the
video to play in slow motion (at 1/2 speed). Clicking the Slow Motion
button again will return the video to normal playback speed.
File button
Clicking the File button opens the File menu. The last file record-
ed 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.
Record
PlayPause
Time counter
Pause
Video-position
Fast forward
Fast forward
Slow motion
Fast rewind
Skip forward 10 sec
TV-Mode
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.
Clicking the Pause button will 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.
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.
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 program.
Skip Ahead
Clicking the Skip button will skip the video ahead 10 seconds.
Rewind
Clicking the Rewind button while playing video will rewind the
recorded video. Clicking the Rewind button again will continue the
playing.
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
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Tech Support: (+44) 0207 378 0202
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Plug the IEC to MCX cable into
the WinTV’s TV MCX Connector
Plug your roof top
aerial or portable TV
antenna into the IEC
to MCX cable.
Connect your (audio)
source using the
white and red RCA
connectors.
Connect your (video)
source using either
the yellow RCA
Composite or S-Video
connectors.
Plug the A/V
cable into the
WinTV’s AV-In
Connector
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ote: If you do not receive channels using the portable anten-
na, try connecting a rooftop aerial to the device and scan
again, if channels are now received there may be an issue with signal strength/quality in your area you may not be able to use the
small antenna.
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.
Insert your WinTV Installation
CD-ROM, the installation window
will automatically appear.
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ote: If the autorun does
not start, browse to the
files on the disc and double
click on the file called 'Setup'.
In the installation window click on
Step 1: Install WinTV Drivers.
A blue screen will open which will
begin installing and updating the
drivers for your product.
Once complete, a message
appears in the bar. If this message
is Drivers have been updated
Successfully, click on the bar to
exit. If the message reports an
error, check the connection of
your WinTV, or contact our technical support.
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ote: If you have any anti-virus software enabled, please dis-
able it during the installation of the software.
When you attach the WinTV-HVR1400, the Found New Hardware
Wizard will appear, Click on
Cancel.
3. Install the WinTV Drivers and Applications
Next, click on Step 2: Install
WinTV and select your language
from the list. The setup window
should appear and begin to automatically install the WinTV applications.
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ote: During the installati-
on, other installation
wizards may open, we recommend following the instructions
in each of these and installing
with the default options available.
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ote: For advanced users
you can select the 'Custom
Installation' which will allow
you to modify the list of applications that are installed by
default.
Once the WinTV installation is complete, click OK then Exit in the window "Hauppauge WinTV Installation CD". You should now be back at
your Windows desktop.
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To uninstall the Driver and Software
To uninstall the software simply run hcwclear.exe from the installation
CD-ROM and select the last 2 options 'remove all WinTV drivers and
applications (total removal)' and 'search all INF files'. If you now
select OK a black screen will briefly appear and once it has disappeared the software will be removed. If you now re-start the computer you will be at Step 3 on page 2 of this document and can now reinstall the software.
Only some channels are found during DVB-T channel
scan
Check if there are transmitter works on your local transmitter here:
www.bbc.co.uk/reception/transmitters/today.shtml as this could
effect the reception of certain channel.
Adding a TV channel manually
If the scan did not succeed, you can add a channel manually by entering the LCN number for your local transmitter. Enter your post code in
this link: www.wolfbane.com/cgi-bin/tvd.exe? to be presented with
information on your local transmitters.
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ote: Your local transmitter should be the closest transmitter
with a H in the 'Pol' column. You need to write down the LCN
numbers.
Troubleshooting
Radio Interference Statement:
WinTV 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 separation 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
CAUTION: Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the
party responsible for compliance to the FCC Rules could void the
user's authority to operate the equipment.
CE Statement: This equipment has been tested and complies with
EN 55013, EN 55020 and IEC 801-3 part 3 standards.
FCC Statement
The device may not be disposed of with household rubbish. This
appliance is labeled in accordance with European Directive
2002/96/EG concerning used electrical and electronic appliances
(Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment - WEEE). The guideline
determines the framework for the return and recycling of used appliances as applicable throughout the EU. To return your used device,
please use the return and collection systems available to you.
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
(WEEE)
TV display has problems (e.g. no picture but with
sound or blurred image)
With the WinTV application closed click on the WinTV program group
(Start / Programs / Hauppauge WinTV) there is a utility called “Primary”.
Within Primary, select a different option from the main list of four items
(Allow VMR/Allow Overlay/Force Primary/DIB Draw), close the application using the X in the top right hand corner then restart the TV program.
Repeat this process for all four options to determine the best option for
your computer.
Under Windows XP Media Center application, I get the
error message “Decoder Error”
This message is normally caused by missing or incorrectly installed MCE
compatible DVD Decoder software. Please insure you have the latest MCE
compatible DVD Decoder from one of the following recommended vendors: Cyberlink, Nvidia, Intervideo.
Under the Media Center application I am unable to setup
myTV from analogue source.
This problem occurs as the WinTV-HVR-1400 does not have a built in
hardware encoder which is required by Media Center, you will need to
install the MCE Soft Encoder from our installation CD-ROM or software download.
What is 7 Day EPG for WinTV
Certain digital DVB-T channels, along with their TV programmes, contain a TV channel guide. This guide is a listing of the programs being
shown for the next 7 days, and includes the TV programme name,
programme start times and length. The 7 Day EPG for WinTV extracts
TV guide data from a DVB-T channel which contains this data. It creates a database on your computer.
When the Hauppauge 7 Day EPG opens up with its chart of times and
TV programs, it reads the EPG database and formats the 7 Day EPG
guide window. If you would like to record one of these TV programmes listed in the 7 Day EPG for WinTV window, you simply click
the "Record" button and at the correct time your TV show will be
recorded on your PC.
6. The 7 Day EPG
2. Select Open Client Tool to see
the EPG Service window: It shows
the status of the EPG service.
The buttons below the window
give you the following controls:
• Start/stop the EPG Service
• Modify the current settings
• Open the EPG help file
• Exit the EPG application
To view the EPG guide click 'View
EPG' See Step 4 for more information.
3. Viewing the EPG information
From the EPG application window, click 'View EPG' this will open a
web page showing the EPG information, initially the application will
need to scan and update the EPG information. The amount of time it
takes to read the data is related to the number of channels in your
DVB-T transmission area. The more channels, the longer it takes to
read all of the data, this may take several minutes:
Once the scanning is complete you will be able to see the EPG guide:
4. Scheduling a recording
To schedule a recording, simply
click on the Program title, this will
give you more information about
that program, from there you can
click on 'Schedule for recording',
When you click a "record" button,
the 7 Day EPG schedules a task to
record your TV show from a DVB-T
channel. The scheduled task is
added to Windows Scheduled
Tasks.
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ote: You need to have a
user name and password
on your PC in order for the
scheduled recordings to record
through Windows Sheduled
Tasks.
The scheduled recordings can be viewed and modified through the
WinTV-Scheduler.
The format of the file name is [Programme title]_[Time]_[Date].mpg
In the WinTV Channel Manager, click on Sources then DVB-T Source,
enter the LCN numbers into the space under Channel Number and
click on the Tune button. The channel number will then be scanned
and any channels found will be listed in the channel list below.
How to use 7 Day EPG for WinTV
1. You should see an icon of a
globe close to the Windows
clock. Right click on this icon to
give a list of options.
The items that need to be set for each event are:
● Source selection: leave set at WinTV to bring up the WinTV at the
requested time and on the requested channel. Select Reminder to
just pop-up a text file as reminder.
● Time to Begin Program: set to the desired start time. The default
time is about 3 minutes from the current time. Click on the hour to
set the hour, the minute to set the minute to start the program.
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ote: It is always possible that your TV show will be transmit-
ted in advance or late, and it takes about 10 seconds to launch
the WinTV and set up for recording. Please set the Time to Begin
Progam few minutes before the time your TV show should starts.
● Program Duration: set the duration of this event, using the arrows
(steps of 30 minutes) or directly the keyboard. This will update the
Time to End Program window.
● Date to Begin: today's date is the default. Change this if you want to
schedule on another date.
● Program Period: One Time Only, Every day or Weekly are the choic-
es. If you select the Weekly option, select the day you would have
the show recorded too.
● Date to End: If you have selected the Every Day or Weekly option,
you can specify the date at which it will stop this task.
● Channel selection: choose one of your scanned channels.
● Recording options: click on Record to File to record your show.
Leave this button unchecked to watch TV at the requested time. You
can also name your file to record.
Once these are set, click Set Program. You can add more Events,
clicking Set Program 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 either turned on, in Standby or in
Hibernate Mode, but you should not be logged off. If WinTV is not
running, it takes about 10 seconds to start WinTV and to start the
recording of TV.
WinTV-Scheduler allows you to schedule the recording of TV shows.
WinTV-Scheduler, once it is set, can be closed, and the WinTV application will “wake up” at the desired time and tuned to the desired channel.
After installation, WinTV-Scheduler can be found by going to
Start / Program files / Hauppauge WinTV.
To set up an event for timed watching or recording, click on the Add
Program.
5. WinTV-Scheduler
WinTV-Scheduler works by using the Windows Task Scheduler to
launch WinTV at the chosen time. WinTV-Scheduler sets up a command line in Task Scheduler to run WinTV, specifying a TV channel
and a length of time to record.
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ote: You cannot access the Wing settings until you have pur-
chased the optional transcoder software, for more informations
see www.hauppauge.com/wing. Please refer to the Wing manual
for information on using the Wing settings.
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