Hauppauge WINTV-HVR-1600 Quick Installation Guide

WinTV-HVR-1600

Personal Video Recorder

Quick Installation Guide

© Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 2006-2009

QI-HVR-1600_rev5a-ENG Novermber 3, 2009

The WinTV-HVR-1600 package:

• WinTV-HVR-1600 board

• WinTV-HVR Windows Installation CD-ROM with WinTV v7
application

• DVD MovieFactory CD-ROM, for making video CDs from
your TV recordings

• Hauppauge remote control transmitter with 2 AAA
batteries

• Remote control transmitter/receiver cable

• S-Video to composite adapter

• WinTV-HVR-1600 Quick Install guide (this manual)

• IR Blaster Quick Install guide

What is ATSC digital TV,

and how does the

WinTV-HVR-1600 work?

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
satellite TV. You can receive digital cable TV channels,
called “clear QAM”, if they are broadcast “in the
clear” (contact your local cable operator for the
availability of clear QAM on your cable network).

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.

WinTV-HVR-1600 has built-in analog cable TV and digital
ATSC TV tuners. It uses your PC CPU for displaying both
analog and digital 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 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
Highgain’ antenna is recommended. TitanTV.com has a good
ATSC digital antenna selector which can be found under
Resources.

Installing the

WinTV-HVR-1600

WinTV-HVR-1600 is a TV tuner board with an analog TV tuner, a
separate digital TV tuner for ATSC and clear QAM plus a hardware
MPEG-2 encoder. WinTV-HVR-1600 is designed for WindowsXP,

Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Installat ion overview

✓ Install the WinTV-HVR-1600 board in your PC and con-

nect the TV cables. For the best ATSC digital TV recep­tion, use a high quality roof top antenna.

✓ Run Setup from the WinTV v7 Installation CD-ROM.

Run Step 1: Install device drivers.

✓ After the Windows driver is installed, Run Step 2: Install

WinTV applications and utilities.

Install the WinTV-HVR-1600 board and

connect the cables

Turn the power off on your PC. Install the WinTV-HVR-1600 into a
PCI slot. On some PC’s, the WinTV-HVR needs to be plugged into
the first or second PCI slot. Plug your cable TV into TV Connector.
Plug your ATSC digital TV antenna into the ATSC Digital TV input.

The S-Video/composite video input can be used to bring video
from a VCR, camcorder, camera, DVD player or satellite TV
receiver. If your video device uses composite video instead
of S-Video, use the supplied Composite to S-Video adapter. Plug
your composite video connector (normally yellow) into one end of

WinTV-HVR-1600 Board

connectors

TV Connector

for Cable TV

ATSC/QAM Digital TV

connector

S-Video/Composite video

input connector

Audio input (Line-In)

Remote control (IR)

receiver/blaster socket

the Composite to S-Video adapter and the other end into the S­Video/Composite video input connector on WinTV-HVR-1600.

The Remote control receiver/blaster cable is plugged into
the Remote control socket. Use the Velcro dot (on the back
of the Remote control receiver) to position the Remote control
receiver where it will be able to receive infra-red commands
from the Remote control transmitter. Add the supplied batteries
to the Remote control transmitter.

Installing the WinTV driver and

applications

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the WinTV-HVR Windows device driver.

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

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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the CD and run the 'Setup.exe' file.

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

Install the WinTV driver

Click the
button
labeled Step

1: Install
Drivers.

A 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 automatically
installing the WinTV application components. Once complete,
click OK then Exit.

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section.

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. For the WinTV-HVR-1600, you
can chose either ATSC or Digital QAM and Analog TV. You
cannot chose both Digital ATSC and Digital QAM.

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External audio/video sources.

If your TV source is ATSC digital over-the­air 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 68. As TV
channels are
found, they
will appear
in the
Channel
box.

When complete, click Next / Next and OK.

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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
would like to scan
for clear QAM
channels, chose
Digital QAM and Next.

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

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in North America.

Rescanning TV channels

If you want to rescan for TV channels, click the Configuration
menu (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.

Using the WinTV v7 application

Close WinTV

Channel list display

always on

Channel

name/number

Configuration

menu

(Settings

menu)

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.

Program Info

Playback
file menu

Watch

TV

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 most important TV control
functions.

To bring up the Options Menu, click your right mouse

Fast channel select

numbers

TV Channel list

Record/Pause/Play

controls

Channel
up/down

click your right mouse button to view

Channel list

Volume adjust

Options menu

Playback menu

TV Scheduler

Close captions

Always on top

and mute

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 are
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.

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 recording. 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 schedule 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.

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 list 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.

IR blaster in WinTV v7

If you would like to use the Hauppauge IR blaster to change
the channels on your cable TV or satellite set top box, see
the section entitled “Configuring the remote control for

WinTV v7”.

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 seconds 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 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 directory which can be found in
the Configuration menu. The default directory is

MyVideos. To change this directory, click the Settings
button and then the Folders tab. Every time you record a

Troubleshooting

Installation tips and software updates can be found at :

http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support_hvr1600.html

Some notes on system compatibility

Decoding high definition ATSC TV is very CPU intensive. A
graphics card with at least 64MBytes of memory and the
latest graphics driver from the manufacturer makes the
decoding task easier. Typically a 2.2 GHz Pentium 4
processor or equivalent with a graphics card having
64MBytes of memory is required to properly decode ATSC
digital TV on your PC. A 1.6GHz AMD Sempron laptop
computer tested in the Hauppauge lab used 50% of the
CPU for playing ATSC 640i format, and 90% of the CPU
when playing ATSC 1080i, the highest definition ATSC
format.

In some cases, either a faster processor or more graphics
memory might be required. Slow or jerky video and a noisy
TV picture indicate system performance problems.

Jerky video with live ATSC digital TV

Jerky or distorted video can be caused by two things in your
PC or laptop: a slow CPU which cannot decode the ATSC
TV signal fast enough, and a graphics system which cannot
keep up with the high datarates of ATSC TV.

Many times, improving the performance of the graphics
display will fix the jerky video display of ATSC digital TV.
Here are some tips on improving graphics performance:

- Use the latest graphics driver for your PC: graphics
drivers are often ‘tweeked’ to improve performance,
especially the built-in graphics on laptops. Check the
Microsoft Windows update site to download the latest
graphics driver for your computer. For Dell computers,
check the Dell website for the latest graphics driver.

- Use WinTV v7 Video Renderer settings to optimize

graphics performance: The Video Renderer is found in the

General tab of WinTV v7, and is used to change the display mode
of a graphics card for TV watching. This setting does not affect
any other Windows program.

The default mode is EVR. The other modes are VMR9, VMR7 and
Overlay. Each mode uses a different process to render video. Try
each mode and use the one which gives you the best results.

To use hardware graphics acceleration, put a check in the tick
box Use hardware acceleration when possible. This will allow
your graphics system to use hardware acceleration for video
decode. Note: graphics hardware acceleration does not work on
all systems.

If this setting does not help, or if you experience WinTV not
responding after a channel change, then your graphics system
cannot use hardware graphics acceleration. In this case go back
to settings and uncheck “use hardware acceleration” and rerun
WinTV.

Only some channels are found during ATSC
channel scan

If you are only receiving some known TV channels when scanning,
it means your TV antenna is not adequate to pick up the channel.
You will need either an antenna signal booster (a Radio Shack
antenna amplifier will work) or a high gain antenna. Here’s a link
to an ATSC antenna selector:
http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/address.aspx

Black window when selecting an ATSC channel

A black window when selecting an ATSC channel means that the
WinTV-HVR-1600 is not getting a signal. This is most often due to
poor reception. See “Only some channels are found during ATSC
channel scan” above.

Uninstalling the WinTV driver and applications

Run the hcwclear.exe from the installation CD. 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
can go to Installing the WinTV driver above.

“Error code 10” during installation

This is caused by a failure to load the WinTV-HVR-1600 drivers.
Uninstall the software (as above) and then follow the instructions
from page 3. If this still give you an error message, move the
WinTV-HVR-1600 to a different slot and re-install the drivers again.

Error: “No common media type between these
pins"

The WinTV-HVR uses your PC’s processor to display the TV
image. If the processor is too slow, or if there is something in the
system which is taking system resources, you might get this
message.

Check the VGA acceleration in Device manager. make sure it is set
to “Full”. Also check your VGA resolution. You might need to bring
the number of Colors down one notch.

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 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.

Conflicts with Intervideo WinDVD

Sometimes we have found that a previously installed version of
WinDVD will conflict with the WinTV-HVR-1600. Symptoms
include: black screen but you can hear audio, failure to scan for
channels, you can’t change MPEG formats without errors, bad
audio/video sync, and others.

Uninstalling WinDVD will fix this problem. You uninstall WinDVD
through the “Add/Remove Programs” in Control Panel. You will
still be able to play DVD movies in MediaPlayer, since the
WinTV-HVR installation provides a MediaPlayer compatible DVD
player.

Problem: Poor Reception or Not detecting all
channels:

Poor TV reception is generally the result of an weak TV signal.
When using a 'roof-top' antenna, an aerial booster may be
required if there is poor TV reception. Also, in some areas using
cable TV, a format called Cable HRC is used. If so, try
rescanning but use CABLE (HRC) instead of cable in the
Broadcast/Cable box.

Configuring the built-in IR

blaster for use with WinTV v7

For instructions on setting up your IR blaster for WinTV v7,
please see the document entitled “IR Remote/Blaster Quick
Install Guide”.

FCC Statement

Supplementary Television Broadcasting Receiving Apparatus - Appareils
supplémentaires de réception de télévision, Canada.

Important note: The screen of the coaxial cable must be connected to
earth (grounded) at the entrance to the building. This should be done in
accordance with applicable national electrical installation codes. In the U.S.,
this is required by Section 820.93 of the National Electrical Code,
ANSI/NFPA 70.

Radio Interference Statement: The WinTV products have been tested and
found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part
15 of the FCC Rules.

FCC ID: H90WINTV

Playback

file

Program

info

Skip
back 1
minute

Pause/Play

Stop

Skip

ahead

1

minute

Skip

back 10

seconds

Skip

ahead

30

seconds

Time bar

Record