Hauppauge WinTV v7 Installation Guide
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. 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.
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.
A blue screen will open and begin installing the drivers for your WinTV.
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Once the drivers have installed,
click on the Finish bar to exit.
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 download new WinTV applications in the future.
N
ote: the latest driver updates are available at:
www.hauppauge.com in the Support 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.
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
Digital QAM and Analog TV.
You cannot chose both
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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
list might be both standard
and high definition channels.
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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
If you want to rescan for TV channels, click the Configuration menu (Gear button in the lower left corner of WinTV v7).
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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
most important TV control functions.
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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)
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.
Recording your TV shows
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Options menu
click your right mouse button to view
Playback menu
Channel list
TV Scheduler
Close captions
Always on top
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