Hauppauge WINTV-HVR-1950 Quick Installation Guide for Windows

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WinTV-HVR-1950

Quick Installation Guide for Windows

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. To watch
and record satellite TV, you need a satellite receiver box plus the WinTV­HVR-1950.

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 on cable TV “in the clear”. These digital cable TV
channels are broadcast in various resolutions, from standard definition
up to high definition.

WinTV-HVR-1950 has a built-in tuner for analog cable TV, digital ATSC
and clear QAM digital cable 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.

It uses your PC or laptop’s 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

2. What is ATSC and QAM digital TV, and how
does the WinTV-HVR-1950 work?

1. Included with the WinTV-HVR-1950

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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.

The portable antennas are designed primarily for ATSC digital TV
reception, and will work within 10 miles of an ATSC transmitter
(reception might be limited by obstructions such as steel buildings).

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

TitanTV.com under Resources.

• WinTV-HVR-1950 device with ATSC/NTSC/clear QAM receiver,

125 channel cable ready TV tuner, FM radio receiver and MPEG­2 hardware audio/video compressor for recording analog cable
TV to disk

• Remote control
transmitter and batteries

• IR Blaster cable

• Wall mounted power
supply (6 volt)

• 1 meter USB cable

• FM radio antenna

• WinTV Installation CD-

ROM

• WinTV-HVR-1950 Quick Installation Guide (this guide)

• IR Remote Blaster Quick Installation Guide

The WinTV-HVR-1950 is a USB device designed for Microsoft®
Windows 7, Windows Vista (all versions) and Windows XP SP2. It can
be used with the Hauppauge WinTV application, with Windows Media
Center and other TV tuner applications.

Connect the WinTV-HVR-1950 cables

Plug your TV antenna or cable TV cable into the WinTV-HVR-1950’s

TV Connector. Plug the supplied Radio aerial into the FM radio

connector. Note: this may not be necessary if your TV aerial or cable
network supplies FM.

Plug one end (the square end) of the supplied USB cable into the

WinTV-HVR-1950’s

USB Cable connector. The WinTV-HVR-1950 is

compatible with USB 2.0 (high speed USB) only.

Plug the other end of the USB cable into a USB port on your

computer.

The

S-Video and Composite video inputs and the L&R audio inputs

can be used to bring audio/video from a VCR, DVD player or satellite TV
receiver.

Information on the installation of the IR Blaster Cable can be

found in the

IR Remote Blaster Quick Installation Guide.

Boot your PC.

Plug the power supply into WinTV-HVR-1950.

Plug the supplied Power Supply into the Power Supply input on
WinTV-HVR-1950. The WinTV-HVR-1950 can accept 6V to 12V inputs.

S-Video

input

Remote control

receiver

Composite
video input

Left &Right

Audio Inputs

TV Connector
for antenna or

Cable TV

FM radio

antenna

connector

USB Cable
Connector

IR Blaster

output

Power Supply

input: 6V to 12V

@1.7A

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. You might see this
message two or three times.
Please click ‘Cancel’ each time
you see the New Hardware
Wizard.

For Windows 7:

Insert the WinTV Installation CD-ROM
in your PC’s CD-ROM drive. You will
see an AutoPlay message.

Click

Run Setup.exe

For all versions of Windows:

Insert the WinTV Installation CD-

ROM in your PC’s CD-ROM drive.

“

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.

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.

Please do not lose your WinTV CD-ROM! You will
need to use it each time you upgrade to a new version of
WinTV.

4. Installing the WinTV driver and application

N

ote: the latest driver updates are available at:

www.hauppauge.com in the Support section.

To run WinTV v7 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.

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

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 / 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

click

Next.

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

5. Running WinTV for the first time

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”.

N

ote: 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 Configuration menu
(Gear button in the lower left corner of WinTV v7).

Then click on the

Devices tab. Chose your WinTV device by clicking on

it, then click

Tuner setup. Choose 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.

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”.

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 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.

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

Using the WinTV v7 application

Options menu

click your right mouse button to view

Playback menu

Channel list

TV Scheduler

Close captions

Always on top

Current channel name

and number

Record/Pause/Play con-

trols

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)

3. Installing the WinTV-HVR-1950

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N

ote: the latest WinTV-HVR-1950 software can be found at
www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_hvr1950.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 Sempro 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 or QAM 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 digital 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: graphics drivers are often ‘tweaked’ 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

Troubleshooting

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. 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

CE Statement: This equipment has been tested and complies with EN 55013, EN 55020 and IEC
801-3 part 3 standards.

FCC Statement

© Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 2008-2010 · QI-WINTV-HVR-1950-V3.2a-ENG · 12/27/2010

The Hauppauge remote control

The WinTV remote control software is installed automatically during the
installation of the WinTV applications.

You will see the WinTV Remote icon in the Device Tray. The installation
will add a shortcut to

IR.EXE to the Startup group, so that IR.EXE is

loaded every time after Windows has booted.

If you need to restart the remote control, select

Restart IR from the Start

\ All Program Files\WinTV

directory.

Please ensure the following before trying to use this option:

1. Infrared Remote control - has batteries inserted

2. Infrared-Receiver, is fully connected to the IR socket of the
WinTV-Card

3.

Infrared software is started - The IR icon is on the start bar

To start WinTV, press the GO button.

Remote control buttons

TV button: when WinTV is running, this button will start live TV (if in
playback mode).

Red record button: starts recording using the parameters set in the
Pref menu.

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 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 which can be found in the Configuration menu. The

default directory is MyVideos. To change the default 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 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.

Selecting FM radio pro-

grams

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
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 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.

Keyboard shortcuts

Ctrl A Aspect ratio

Ctrl D Display the video and audio

format of the TV program

Ctrl F Freeze the video

Ctrl Z Open TV Scheduler

Ctrl O View program details (digital

TV program, where provided
in the broadcast)

Ctrl S Display subtitles

Ctrl W Full screen toggle

Alt F Open File menu for playback

Alt M Open the Task Menu

Alt P Previous channel

Ctrl Q Pause

Ctrl P Play

Alt R Record

Alt S Stop

Alt T Start TV

Ctrl C Catch up

Ctrl > Skip ahead

Ctrl < Skip back

Pause button: if watching live
TV, will pause the video. When
recording, this button will
pause the video but WinTV will
continue to record. If playing
back video, this button will
pause the video playback.

Stop button (square icon):

stops live TV, the recording or
playback.

Play button: plays the last
video recorded.

Back/Exit button: will close
the current menu or exit full
screen mode.

0 - 9 buttons: When in “live”
TV mode, is used to directly
enter channel numbers. When
playing back a recording, the
“1” button will skip to 10%, the
“2” button 20%, etc. of the
length of the recording.

Skip ahead button: skip ahead
30 seconds.

Skip back button: skip back
30 seconds.

Go button: Start WinTV.

Menu button: opens channel

list.

Power button (green): close WinTV or Windows Media Center.

Red button at bottom: Full screen TV

Green button at bottom: not currently used

Yellow button at bottom: not currently used

Blue button at bottom: not currently used

Sub/CC (#): Sub-titles on / off

Record
button

Playback

file

button

Program

info

button

Skip back 1

minute

button

Pause/Play

button

Stop button

Skip ahead 1

minute button

Time bar

Application

on/off

0 - 9

“Quick

Skip”

buttons

Audio

mute

Back/Exit

button

Menu

Channel
up/down

Volume

up/down

Fast
forward

Fast

rewind

Stop

button

Pause
button

Play

button

Skip
ahead

Skip

back

Go button

TV

button

Record
button

CAUTION: RISK OF EXPLOSION IF BATTERY IS REPLACED
BY AN INCORRECT TYPE. DISPOSE OF USED BATTERIES
ACCORDING TO THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE BATTERIES.

“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 WinTV­HVR-1950 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 will be at Step 4 of the
installation.