Hauppauge HVR-1800 User Manual

Installing the WinTV driver and WinTV

v7 application

Install your WinTV products. Turn on your Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 based
PC, and boot into Windows.

For Windows XP installations:

After you install your WinTV device and
boot Windows, a 'Found New Hardware'
wizard will appear.

Please cancel it and allow Windows to
load fully before proceeding. With

some WinTV products, you might see this
message two or three times. Please click

‘

Cancel’ each time you see the New

Hardware Wizard.

Insert the WinTV Installation CD-ROM in
your PC’s CD-ROM drive.

For Windows 7: You will see an AutoPlay

message. Click

Run Setup.exe

For all versions of Windows: The

“Hauppauge WinTV Installation CD-ROM”
window will appear on the screen.

N

ote: if the CD does not

autorun, navigate to the
CD and run the 'Setup.exe'
file.

Step 1. Install the WinTV
driver

Click the button labeled Step 1:
Install Drivers.

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A blue screen will open and begin installing the drivers for your WinTV.

Once the drivers have installed, a message will appear saying ‘Drivers have
been updated successfully’. Click on the bar to exit. You do not need to reboot
your PC until after Step 2

N

ote: the latest driver updates are available at:

www.hauppauge.com in the Support section.

Step 2: Install the WinTV applications

Click the button labeled Step 2: Install WinTV The setup application will then open
and begin automatically installing the WinTV application components. Once com­plete, click OK then Exit.

N

ote: Save your WinTV Installation CD! You will need it if you down-

load new WinTV applications in the future.

Running WinTV for the first time

To run the WinTV v7 application for watching TV, recording
videos and playing them back on your PC, double click on the
WinTV icon on your
Windows desk top.

When you run WinTV for
the first time, the WinTV

Device Setup Wizard

appears. Select the TV
source that you are using.
On some model WinTVs,
you have multiple tuners
and therefore you can
select multiple sources. For
the WinTV-HVR-2250, you
can chose either ATSC or

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Digital QAM and Analog TV. You cannot chose both Digital ATSC and Digital QAM.

N

ote: If you’d like to use the A/V inputs, please see instructions below

in External audio/video sources.

If your TV source is ATSC digital over-the-air TV

Select Digital ATSC and click Next. In the ATSC Setup menu, click Next. You
will see the Digital ATSC
Scan scanning for digital
over-the-air channels.

The digital TV scanning
process will scan from chan­nels 2 to 51. As TV chan­nels are found, they will
appear in the Channel box.

When complete, click

Next /

Next and OK.

N

ote: if you do not

receive any ATSC
digital TV channels, an
antenna signal booster might be needed. After adding a signal booster,
see below for instructions on rescanning and the Troubleshooting section
for information on choosing an antenna.

If your TV source is Clear QAM Digital Cable TV

Clear QAM digital cable TV
channels are those TV chan­nels broadcast on a digital
cable network which are unen­crypted (‘free to view’). If you
are using cable TV with clear

QAM programs, chose

Digital

QAM and Next.

QAM channels which are
detected but are encrypted
are automatically not selected.
The resulting channels in the

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list might be both standard and high definition channels.

If your TV source is Analog cable TV

Select your Country and your
TV Source from the drop

down list. To automatically
scan for channels, click

Next

to continue.

Click the

Scan button and

WinTV will automatically scan
for analog channels. The scan­ning process takes about 10
minutes.

External audio/video
sources

You can bring video into the
WinTV from an external
audio/video source such as a
cable TV or satellite set top box.

In the Device Setup Wizard,
select

External Inputs and

click Next.

You will be presented with the
option to add a

Composite and

an S-Video Input. Please select
your country (if not correct) and
click Next.

If you wish to connect a source not normally designed for operation in your coun­try, you can configure the Video Format manually from the drop down list. Change
the value from “AUTO”.

Note: Pal BGHIDK is the commonly used format in Europe. NTSC is the broad­cast format used in North America.

Rescanning TV channels or adding an external A/V source

If you want to rescan for TV channels or add an A/V source (on those products
with an external A/V input), click the

Configuration menu (Gear button in the

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lower left corner of WinTV v7).

Then click on the

Devices tab. Choose your WinTV device by clicking on it, then

click Tuner setup. Chose the TV format you want to scan, then click Next. Click

Next and a new scan will be started. When the scan is complete, click Next / Next

and OK.

Using the WinTV v7 application

To watch TV, click the Watch TV button.
To see the TV Channel list, click your right mouse button in the TV window to

display the Options menu. Select

Find Channel. You will see the channel list.

To display the channel list all the time, while the channel list is displayed, click the

Channel list display always on button.

Options menu

The Options menu is the main menu where you can select channels, turn on
close captions, open the TV Scheduler, show the TV Guide and many other of the

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Current channel

name and number

Record/Pause/Play

controls

Channel list display always on

TV Channel list

Volume adjust

and mute

Channel
up/down

Fast channel select

numbers

Close WinTV

WinTV source selector

Playback file menu

Watch TV

Program Info

Configuration

menu

(Settings menu)

Close captions

most important TV control functions.

To bring up the Options Menu, click your

right mouse button once in the TV

window .

To see the channel list, click on

Find channel. You will see the list of channels

which have been scanned.
To show the Channel menu as part of the TV window, click the Channel list

always on icon at the top of the channel list.

To turn on Close captions, click on Show Captions.

To manually schedule a TV recording, or to see which programs have been

scheduled, click on

Scheduler.

To turn on the Always on Top mode, click on

Stay on Top.

Watch, Pause and Record TV

WinTV v7 is always recording video to your PC’s hard drive while TV is being dis­played. In this way, you can immediately skip back and replay the TV program
you are watching.

Clicking on the

Pause button will cause the video to pause, while clicking the

Record button will cause the current TV program to be recorded to hard disk.

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Options menu

click your right mouse button to view

Playback menu

Channel list

TV Scheduler

Close captions

Always on top