Hauppauge WINTV-HVR-1250 User Manual

• WinTV-HVR-1250 board

For the standard WinTV-HVR-1250 products, you will
find:

• WinTV-HVR Windows Installation CD-ROM with

WinTV v7 application with SoftPVR™ and TV Scheduler

•

Hauppauge remote control transmitter with 2 AAA

batteries

•

Remote control receiver cable

For Windows Media Center kits, you will find:

• Media Center Remote Control transmitter and two

AA batteries

•

Media Center Remote control receiver/blaster

•IR transmitter cable (blaster cable)

•

USB cable for the Media Center remote control receiv-

er/blaster box

WinTV-HVR-1250 has a built-in tuner for analog cable TV, digital ATSC and digital clear QAM TV. To
receive ATSC, you will need an antenna. To receive digital clear QAM or analog cable TV, you will
need a cable TV connection.

WinTV-HVR uses your PC or laptop’s CPU for displaying TV programs on your PC screen. The
decoding of high definition ATSC is very processor intensive, and the smoothness of high definition
TV programs depends upon how fast your PC or laptop system is. Other PC activities that consume
CPU resources might affect the display of ATSC digital TV. Slow video, jerky video and momentary
pausing of video are all results of a CPU which is temporarily being used by other activities.

For the best ATSC digital TV reception, a roof top ‘Wideband’ or ‘High gain’ antenna is
recommended. In the U.S., a good ATSC digital antenna selector can be found at

TitanTV.com

under Resources.

S-Video/Composite: Video input connector. For either S-Video or

composite (composite video requires the S-Video to composite
adapter).

Left/right audio input: Stereo audio input using 1/8” mini

stereo jack, from the audio output of your source.

Connecting the remote control receiver cable

Plug the remote control receiver cable into the
Remote control receiver connector on the WinTV-

HVR-1250.

Position the round receiver sensor (at the end of the remote control
receiver cable) where is can be “seen” by the remote control transmitter.
This is normally at the front of your PC.

PC, double click on the WinTV icon on your Windows desk top.

Device Setup Wizard

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-1250, you can
chose either ATSC or Digital QAM and Analog TV.
You cannot chose both Digital ATSC and Digital
QAM.

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ote: If you’d like to use the A/V inputs,
please select External inputs

(Composite/S-Video).

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.

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ote: if you do not receive any ATSC digi-

tal 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.

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 have a
cable operator who transmits clear QAM digital TV
programs, chose Digital QAM and Next.

Encrypted channels are automatically not selected.
The resulting channels in the list might be both
standard and high definition channels.

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ote: Windows Media Center requires TV

Pack 2008 or Windows 7 to support
QAM TV channels. You can also use the
Hauppauge WinTV v7 application, or
SageTV or BeyondTV for QAM TV reception.

Analog cable TV

Select your Country and 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

ATSC digital TV is over-the-air digital TV for North America. ATSC digital TV typically

requires an antenna for reception, and is currently broadcast in 200 cities, with over 1500 TV
stations.

Note: ATSC digital TV is NOT digital cable TV or digital satellite TV. The WinTV-HVR can receive

clear QAM digital cable TV (if you are using WinTV v7 or Windows Media Center with Windows 7 or
TV Pack 2008), but it cannot receive digital satellite TV unless WinTV-HVR-1250 is connected to a
satellite TV set top box.

ATSC digital TV is transmitted in several resolutions, from “standard definition” which is similar to
cable TV, up to high definition which has about 16 times the resolution of normal cable TV. In any
resolution, ATSC digital TV gives sharper pictures than analog cable TV and near CD quality sound.

Clear QAM TV channels are digital cable TV channels which are broadcast “in
the clear”.

These digital cable TV channels are broadcast in various resolutions, from standard

definition up to high definition.

To install, switch off the computer and remove the computer cover. The manufacturer of your PC
supplies instructions on removing the PC cover.

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ote: Your PC could be damaged by electrostatic discharge. Avoid this by
contacting the earthed chassis of your PC, before you open it or touch
the pci card.

• Locate a free PCIe slot. Unscrew and remove the metacover plate which covers the back
of the empty slot.

• Plug the WinTV-HVR-1250 board into the PCIe slot, and screw the WinTV-HVR-1250 metal
cover plate to the PC.

• Replace the computer cover.

TV connector: either cable TV for analog and clear QAM digital or a TV antenna for ATSC TV.

N

ote: clear QAM digital cable TV is only

available in some areas and through some
cable TV operators. Contact your local cable TV
company to see if they support clear QAM digi­tal cable TV. To watch clear QAM digital cable
TV, you need to be using Windows Media
Center TV Pack 2008, Microsoft Windows 7 or
Hauppauge’s WinTV v7.

Remote control receiver connector: to the

Hauppauge Remote Control receiver cable (on some
models).

If you are using an external audio/video
source like a satellite or cable TV set top
box ...

then you will need to connect the S-Video input

connector

or Composite video input connector for video and the Audio input (Line-

In)

for the sound.

1. Contents of the WinTV-HVR-1250 package

3. Installing the WinTV-HVR-1250 board

4. Connecting the cables

TV Connector

for analog or digital TV

Left/Right

audio input (Line-In)

connector

Remote control receiver

connector

(on some models)

S-Video/Composite

video input connector

Turn on your Windows XP or Vista based PC, and boot into Windows.

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ew: If a 'Found New Hardware' wizard appears, please cancel it and allow windows to
load fully before proceeding.

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

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ote: if the CD does not autorun, navigate to the CD and run the 'Setup.exe' file.

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

Install the WinTV driver

Click the button labeled

Step 1: Install drivers.

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

Once the drivers have installed, click on the

Finish bar to exit.

Install the WinTV applications

Click the button labeled Step 2: Install

WinTV

The setup application will then open and begin automattically installing the WinTV application
components.

Once complete, click

OK then Exit.

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ote: the latest driver updates are available at: www.hauppauge.com

To run the WinTV v7 application for watching TV, recording videos and playing them back on your

6. Running WinTV for the first time

5. Installing the WinTV driver and applications

WinTV-HVR-1250 and

WinTV-HVR-1250 MC-Kits

Quick Installation Guide

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2. What is ATSC digital TV?

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

If you want to rescan for TV channels, click the Setup menu (the gear button in the 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.

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 closed captions,
open the TV Scheduler and many other of the 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.

Using the WinTV v7 application

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 Closed 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

To p

mode, click on Stay on

To p.

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.

Recording your TV shows

If you want to record a TV show you are watching:

- Click the Record button. The recorded file name will popup on the video for a few sec-

onds as the recording starts.

- When you are finished recording, click the

Stop button.

- Click the

Playback file button and select the last file recorded to play the video you

just recorded

- To play a video you recorded earlier, click the

Playback File button and then move

your mouse and click once on the video you want to play. Click

Open and the file will

start playing.

The recorded video file is saved in the directory set in Recordings directory. The default
directory is

MyVideos. To change this directory, click the Settings button and then the Folders

tab. Every time you record a file, a new file is automatically created. The file will be formatted as
(ChannelNumber)_(ChannelName)YearMonthDay_TIme.

For digital TV programs, the quality level recorded is the same as it is transmitted by the TV station.

For example, if the TV station is transmitting a high-definition program, WinTV will record the
program in high-definition.

Close captions, parental control information and SAP audio is recorded with digital TV programs.

For analog cable TV using the built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder, the quality of the video recording
is set to 6Mbits/sec. This will be a configurable setting in a future version of WinTV v7.

If you want to pause a TV show you are watching:

- Click the Pause button. Your TV video will stop and the Time counter will start counting.

- To start the video from where you paused, click the

Play button

- To rewind the video to the beginning, click the

Skip to the beginning button. If your

video was paused, click the

Play button.

- To rewind the video 1 minute, click the

Skip back 1 minute

button. If your video was paused, click the Play button.

The Delay counter displays how much time you are behind the live video. For example, if the delay
counter says 00:01:23, then the video window is showing video 1 minute and 23 seconds behind
live video.

Selecting FM radio programs

On those WinTV products which support FM radio, if you have
scanned for FM radio staions in the section entitled “Using WinTV
for the first time” you can change the WinTV v7 application to FM
by clicking FM radio in the Source selector, found in the upper right
hand corner of the WinTV application.

Configuration menu

The WinTV v7 Configuration menu is

accessed by clicking the gear
button in the lower left hand
corner of WinTV v7.

General tab: you can set the

Video Renderer which allows
WinTV v7 to display video with
a wide range of graphics sys­tems.

Devices tab: allows is where

you can re-scan for TV chan­nels and set up the TV sources
in WinTV v7.

Parental control tab: is

where you can set the Parental Control level.

Advanced options: you can set options such as Convert TV recordings to .MPG file

type and Game mode here.

TV Scheduler

WinTV v7’s built-in TV Scheduler allows you to
schedule the recording of TV shows. Once a
record event is set, WinTV v7 can be closed and
the WinTV application will “wake up” at the desired
time and tuned to the desired channel.

When a scheduled record event takes place, the
WinTV v7 application records “in background” so
that you can continue to watch your live TV
program, even as the recording progresses.

The TV Scheduler can be found in the

WinTV v7
Options menu. Right click your mouse
button in the TV window to see the
Options menu.

Click Scheduler. To set up an event for timed watching or recording, click the Add button.

The items that need to be set for each event are:

- Name: you can add a name to the record-

ing. If you do not enter a name, the name
will be in the channel/date format.

-

Channel: chose one of your scanned

channels.

-

Start time: set to the desired start time.

Click on the hour to set the hour, the
minute to set the minute. Note: It takes
about 15 seconds to launch the WinTV and
start recording.

-

Duration: number of minutes in the

recorded program.

-

Recurrance: one time, daily, weekly.

Note: If you set for Record Weekly, you
must also specify the Day of the Week for the recording.

-

Date to Begin Program: today's date is the default. Change this if you want to sched-

ule on another date.

-

Source selection: leave set at WinTV to bring up the WinTV at the requested time and

on the requested channel.

Once these are set, click OK. You can add more recordings, clicking OK 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. If WinTV is not running, it takes about 15 seconds to start WinTV and to start the
recording of TV.

Options menu

click your right mouse button to view

Playback menu

Channel list

TV Scheduler

Close captions

Always on top

Record

Playback

file

Program

info

Skip back

1 minute

Pause/Play

Stop

Skip

ahead 1

minute

Skip back 10

seconds

Skip ahead
30 seconds

Settings

Time bar

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)