Hauppage WinTV-USB2-Stick Quick Installation Guide

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WinTV-USB2-Stick

Quick Installation Guide

© 2007 Hauppauge Computer Works · QI-WINTV-USB2-STICK-V1.0-ENG · 2007/06/28

● WinTV-USB2-Stick

● USB extension cable

● Audio/Video input cable

● SCART to Audio/Video cable.

● IR remote control transmitter

and 2 batteries.

● WinTV Installation CD-ROM including

the following software components:

· WinTV application with SoftPVR™

· WinTV-Scheduler

· WinTV Utilities

● Ulead MovieFactory 4.0 SE CD-ROM

● This installation guide

Included in this package

1.Locate a free USB 2.0 port (normally located at the side or back on
the computer). Due to power and bandwidth requirements, we do
not recommend connecting the unit into a USB Hub.

2.Turn your PC on, wait until Windows has completely started.

3.Plug the WinTV-USB2-Stick stick into the USB 2.0 port. You can use
a USB extender cable to locate the WinTV-USB2-Stick a short
distance from the USB slot.

1. Connecting the WinTV-USB2-Stick

To install the WinTV application,
browse back to the files on your
Installation CD-ROM, double click
on the file called Setup.

Select your language for the
installation, English is default,
and click Next.

It is recommended to leave the
default components ticked and
select Install and follow the on
screen instructions.

Once the installation is complete
the WinTV Icon will appear on
the desktop.

Installing the Ulead MovieFactory application (optional)

To start installing the Ulead MovieFactory application, insert the Ulead
MovieFactory installation CD-ROM and browse to the files on the disc,
double click on the file called Setup.

Follow the on screen instructions, once the installation is complete you
may need to restart your computer.

To use Ulead MovieFactory 4.0, please refer to the electronic manual
from Start / All Programs / Ulead.

3. Install the WinTV®application

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To start the WinTV application double click on the WinTV icon. When
you run WinTV for the first time, a message will appear asking you to
scan for tuner channels now.

4. Scanning for channels

Select your country
location, for instan­ce, select United
Kingdom and then,
select Scan.Once
the scanning has
finished click on
Close.

Insert your WinTV Installation
CD-ROM and browse to the files
on the disc. Double click on the
file called HcwDriverInstall.

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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 WinTV­USB2-Stick, the Found New
Hardware Wizard will appear,
Click on Cancel.

You will then be presented with a blue screen which will begin
installing and updating the drivers for your product.

Snapshot Still

capture

Freeze picture

CFG

Configure Snapshot

Pref: Configuration

Mute

Setup Menu

TV Mode

Remove toolbars

no title mode

Minimise

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

window:

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

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 WinTV application, while clicking on the Record
button will cause the Record menu to roll down.

Record and Pause

TV Mode One Touch Pause One Touch Record

The One Touch Pause button prepares the WinTV pausing live video.
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 button 3 times, the WinTV will
record for 30 minutes.

Click on the One Touch Record button on the WinTV application to
open the Record and Playback control bar.

Record and Playback

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

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.

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.

Rewind

Record

Pause Play

Stop

Display Counter

Forward

File

Video-Position

Play forward slow

One Touch Record

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.

One Touch Pause

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

PlayPaus e

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 makes 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.

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

2. Install the WinTV Stick driver

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 button

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 Button

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.

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

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.

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ote: if you plug the device into a different USB socket, you
will need to reinstall the WinTV-USB2-Stick driver, but you
will not need to reload any WinTV applications.

Plug your TV antenna into the WinTV’s TV Connector.

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To uninstall the Driver and Software

To uninstall the software simply run the hcwclear application from
the installation CD-ROM and select remove all wintv software and
applications, also select search all inf files “search all INF files etc”.
Click OK then wait for the black window to close, once closed the
software will have been removed.

Error during installation

This is caused by a failure to load the WinTV-USB2-Stick drivers.
Uninstall the software (as above) and then follow the instructions
from page 3. If this still give you an error message move the WinTV­USB2-Stick to a different USB port and re-install the drivers again.

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 / All Programs / Hauppauge WinTV) there is a utility called
“Primary”. Set it to one of the other options and then close using the
“X” and re-start WinTV. If it is still the same try another option.

Under Windows Media Centre application, I get the
error message “Decoder Error”

This message is normally caused by incorrectly installed MCE compa­tible software decoders or VGA display drivers. Please check that you
have the latest MCE certified decoder/ drivers installed with the soft­ware or hardware manaufacturer.

Troubleshooting

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)

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

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 / All Programs / Hauppauge WinTV.

To set up an event for timed watching or recording, click on the Add
Program.

7. WinTV-Scheduler

Sound up - Page Up
Sound down - Page Down
Plus (+) - Chanel Up
Minus (-) - Channel Down
Ctrl T - Frame TV
Ctrl P - Frame Print

Ctrl F - Still image
Ctrl M - Default settings
Alt M - Re-size TV menu
0-9 - Channel number
Space bar - Take a Snapshot

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
purchased 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.

6. Keyboard shortcuts

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 box 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 trans­mitted 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 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: today date is the default. If you have selected Every

day or Weekly option, you must change this date. Typically, the TV
show programming change at summer, so do not enter a Date to
End in years (except for the 8:00 PM News).

● Channel selection: chose 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 you PC need to be turn
on. If WinTV is not running, it takes about 10 seconds to start WinTV
and to start the recording of TV.

To use the remote control, follow these steps:

1.Insert the batteries into the Infrared Remote control.

2.Ensure the IR icon is on the start bar - IR.exe is loaded when

Windows starts only if your WinTV is connected.

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ote: If you don’t see the WinTV Remote icon in the system
tray or if you need to reset the remote control application,
select “Restart IR” from the Start / All Programs /

Hauppauge WinTV directory. You should restart the IR program
each time you plug your WinTV.

Checking the function of the IR Remote

Point the Remote transmitter at the Remote control receiver (the little
eye on your WinTV Stick) and press the “Go” button. This should
open the “WinTV Remote” menu. Press the “OK” button to start the
WinTV application.

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ote: The WinTV application only responds to the remote
control, if it is the active window. If the WinTV application is
not the active Window, press the TV button on the remote,

to bring the WinTV window into the foreground.

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ote: If you have a Windows Media Center PC and you do
not have a Media Center Remote you can use the
Hauppauge Remote instead (the remote is not Media Center

certified and some functionality may not be available).

8. Installing the Remote Control

When watching live TV

Go: Open the “WinTV Remote” menu, allowing
you to start the WinTV application

Power: Exit the WinTV application (as the
Green button)

TV: Start WinTV (as the Red button) / Full
screen TV mode on/off

Videos: No Function (reserved for the
MediaMVP)

Music: No Function (reserved for the
MediaMVP)

Pictures: No Function (reserved for the
MediaMVP)

Guide: No function
Radio: No function (reserved for products with

FM radio support)
Arrows & OK: Select and confirm options in

the WinTV Remote menu or the Windows task
list.

Back/Exit: Stop a recording / Exit pause mode
and close the PVR tray (as the Stop button)

i-Menu: Brings up the Windows task list. Use
the left and right arrows to change to other
Windows tasks, and click OK. i-Menu is an
always active button.

Vol+ and Vol- buttons: Control the audio volume
Mute: Audio on/off
Ch+ and Ch- buttons: Select the next/previous channel
Prev.Ch: Swap to last viewed channel
Record button: Open the PVR tray & start a recording. See section

Remote Control Buttons during a Recording
Stop button: Stop a recording / Exit pause mode and close the PVR

tray (as the Back/Exit button)
Play button: Open the PVR tray & play back the last recording. If you

have not recorded any TV shows recently, it will open the MyVideos
folder. See section Remote Control Buttons during Pause TV or Playback

<< (Rewind): Swap between Title and No-Title mode
>>: Turn to Full screen TV mode
Pause button: Open the PVR tray & pause live TV (pause mode).

Clicking again will play from the point where the button was originally
pushed

Remote Control Buttons

>I (Skip): Surf Mode on/off
I< (Replay): Swap to previous channel (as the Prev.Ch button)
0-9: Direct access to channel number
Text (*): Start VTPlus teletext application (if installed)
Sub/CC (#): Sub-titles / Closed Caption on/off - if available on the

channel - (as the Yellow button)

Red button: Start the WinTV application (as the TV button)
Green button: Close the WinTV application (as the Power button)
Yellow button: Sub-titles / Closed Caption on/ off - if available on the

channel - (as the # button)
Blue button: Make a Snapshot

During a Recording

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ote: Most WinTV functions and remote buttons are disabled
when recording

Record button: Set the duration of the recording, by steps of 15 min­utes up to 2 hours, then by steps of 30 minutes up to 4 hours (like the
OTR button). Clicking again will disable recording duration. This infor­mation is displayed in the PVR tray.

Stop button: Stop recording and close the PVR tray (as the Back/Exit
button)

Pause button: Freeze the video. Press the Play or Pause button again
to unfreeze the video. The Pause button has no effect on the record­ing itself. While the video is frozen, the recording is continued in the
background, there is no Rewind, Forward, Skip, Replay function.

When Pausing TV or Playing a Video

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ote: You cannot change channels when Pausing TV

Record button: Stop current action and start a recording
Stop button: Stop playing or Exit pause mode and close the PVR tray

(as the Back/Exit button)
Play button: Play the recorded TV or TV from the pause buffer (if PVR

tray opened). Play and Pause button have alternatively the same function.
<< (Rewind): Play backwards at 8x speed. Clicking again will play

paused TV or recorded TV at 1x
>> (Forward): Play forward at 2x speed. Clicking again will play for-

ward at 8x, then back to 1x
Pause button: Start Pause-Mode (TimeShift). Press Play or Pause

again to continue watching from where you left off

>I (Skip): Skips ahead in the Pause buffer by 10 seconds per click.
Holding the Skip button will auto-repeat, and advances the video
about 10 minutes per 15 seconds the button is depressed

I< (Replay): Skips backward in the Pause buffer by 10 seconds per
click. Holding the Replay button will auto-repeat, and advances the
video about 10 minutes per 15 seconds the button is depressed

Quick Jump 0 to 9 buttons: When playing a video, you can quickly
skip through the video by pressing the 0-9 buttons. When you press
one of these buttons, you will skip to, for example, 10% of the video
file when you press '1', 20% of the video file when you press '2' and so
forth (% of the length of the file).

During Pause-Mode, any key skips ahead in the Pause buffer to -2 sec­onds.

If you are using a external source like a Hi-8 Camcorder, Video recor­der etc, then you will need to connect via the Audio Video Input
cable.

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ote: Unless stated most VCR's and STB's only output in
composite via Scart', a Scart to S-Video lead, in most cases,
will not work correctly and will only yeild a black and white

picture.

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.

5. Using a external source

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.