English Watch and Record TV shows on CD or DVD Hardware User's Guide ADS Tech Instant TV Deluxe USB Instant TV Deluxe USB website: www.adstech.com Support: www.adstech.com/support/support.
Table of Contents Quick Installation Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Driver Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 IR Blaster Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Capture Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Service and Warranty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Quick Installation Guide: This Quick Installation Guide should be used as a reference guide only. It is highly recommended that you read the complete Instant TV Deluxe Manual before using this product to help ensure you get the most of your Instant TV Deluxe. Follow these instructions when using the Instant TV Deluxe for the first time. Instant TV Deluxe Hardware Installation 1) Connect the Coaxial cable or Audio/Video cables from your video source to the Instant TV Deluxe.
Step by Step Driver Installation: Step 1: Insert the Instant TV Deluxe CD into your CD ROM drive, then plug the USB cable from the Instant TV Deluxe to an open USB port on the back. Step 2: After plugging in the USB Instant TV Deluxe into an open USB port on the back of your computer, the “Found New Hardware Wizard” will come up, click “Next” to proceed with the driver installation.
IR Blaster The IR Blaster is an infra-red transmitter and receiver. As an IR Receiver the IR Blaster acts as a receiver for the Instant TV Deluxe remote control. As an IR Blaster the device gives you the power to control external TV receiver devices. The IR Blaster is a very powerful addition to a TV Capture card. Today many people do not receive TV signals over conventional analog cable systems. Many households today get TV content delivered via digital cable or satellite TV receivers.
IR Blaster and the Instant TV Deluxe Remote Once you have programmed the IR Blaster to send TV channel changing codes to your set top box, you can use the Instant TV Remote in conjunction with the IR Blaster to control your set top box. 1) 2) Point the Instant TV Deluxe remote at the IR Blaster – press 4 and Enter – the IR Blaster will receive the code and then transmit the correct code to change to channel 4 on your set top box.
Step 3: You are now finished with the hardware driver install of the ADS IR Blaster, click “Finish” to finalize the installation. This USB device creates a wireless, infrared connection between your cable box or satellite receiver and the PC running Beyond TV. The USB IR Blaster,” allows any USB-equipped PC to exchange infrared signals with common audio/video equipment.
Step One: Open Capture Wizard (Cap Wiz.) Click the Cap Wiz icon on your Desktop Or Click “Start” -> “Programs” -> “ADS Tech Instant TV Deluxe” and click on “Capwiz” Choose worldwide video standard based on country – For Users in North America, you will select NTSC. For Users in Europe and many other countries you will select PAL.
Ready Now you are ready to start viewing and capturing video. You will need to start your camcorder or VCR playing. Press Play on your video source (VCR, DVD player, etc.). Click Finish and the Wizard screen will disappear and you will see the full Capture Wizard interface. Using Capture Wizard Video Capture/Playback tool for the first time: You have just completed the Wizard screens to ensure that you have connected your video cables, selected your video format and now you are ready to capture video.
Ways to begin Recording 1. You can start recording from the Stop or idle status in CapWiz or while you are previewing video. 2. Click the red record( ● ) button to begin recording at any time. 3. To Stop recording, Click the “Stop” ( ■ ) button or the “esc” key on your keyboard. 4. The video will be displayed in the resolution you selected for the video capture: a. VCD 352 x 240 NTSC / 352 x 288 PAL b. SVCD 480 x 480 NTSC / 480 x 576 PAL c.
Channel Number pad – You can click the number pad to change channels. Click the TV channel you want to watch, and then click Enter. Mute – Click the Mute button to mute audio Jump – The Jump button lets you toggle between TV channels. Click Jump and you will tune to the previously tuned station. Close Remote – Click the X at the upper Right of the remote to close the On-Screen Remote Control. Click the Remote Control button on CapWiz to launch the remote again.
Playback List Box The Playback list box shows the file names of your video captures. This list will match the directory location you selected in the Capture Wizard screens. If you are unsure of the location you selected, run the Wizard again. Browse: The Browse button will allow you to browse to other file directories or hard drives. If you select another directory, any MPEG video files located there will appear in the Playback list box.
CapWiz Direct to Disc Direct to Disc Wizard Overview Capture Direct to Optical Disc: CapWiz now includes the ability to capture directly to VCD, SVCD or DVD disc. Burn an MPEG file to Optical Disc: You can also load a previously captured MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video file and burn to disc.
What is Single Session? Single Session means that once you have recorded to the disc, the disc cannot be appended or added to. You can record only one time to a disc, one home movie one video capture session. You can only record video to a blank disc. If there is existing video content or some other type of file on the disc, you cannot capture video to that disc. The disc must be blank.
Clicking the Direct to Disc button launches the Direct to Disc (DTD) Wizard. The DTD Wizard can be launched while CapWiz is idle (no video preview) or wheil video is being previewed. You cannot start the DTD Wizard while you are recording to the hard drive or if you are playing back a previously recorded video file. Splash Screen: The splash screen introduces the user to the DTD capabilities. This splash screen can be disabled so it will not appear again.
These settings over-ride any capture setting you have previously selected in CapWiz. However, If you choose “Custom” - the DTD Wizard will use the custom capture settings you have selected in CapWiz. Select Disc Drive: If you have more than one Optical drive you can select the drive you want to use for disc burning. The DTD Wizard will examine the drive and show the type of media supported by the drive. This will show the capabilities of your drive.
Error Proof :if you select a drive with a CD-R inside the video format will automatically change to the best video format for this media, which would be SVCD. You cannot capture DVD to a CD-R disc. You cannot capture VCD to a DVD disc. These are formats that are incompatible with the media type and we don’t want you to make a mistake…..so we will try our best to make you Error Proof.
You can also click the Stop button on CapWiz or press the Escape key (ESC) on your keyboard to stop recording at any time. Please BE AWARE that if or when you stop recording, the disc will be finalized and you will have a CD or DVD with a background menu and a video file recorded on the disc even if you stop capture after a few seconds. The disc will have been written to and will no longer be recordable.
Click the Record to Disc button to begin the recording process. Before actual direct to disc recording can take place, the CD-R or DVD disc must be initialized. The initialization process can take from a couple of seconds or up to a minute depending upon your disc drive and media type. When you click the Record to Disc button you will be presented with the “Disc Initialization Advisory” message. This message is to advise you of the initialization process.
Menu Options This section will describe all settings and choices for all of the menu options along the top of the CapWiz Interface. • Video Inputs/Outputs: This dialog box allows you to quickly change your video input choices. Here you can choose between RCA, S-video These settings can also be changed by running the Capture Wizard Screens. • Video Format: The Video format dialog box allows you to quickly change your video format for NTSC or PAL.
Home Theatre Profile – 640 x 480 resolution - To capture DivX files in the Home Theatre profile your PC needs to have a CPU speed of 2.4 GHz or faster. If your CPU does not meet this requirement, you will not be able to capture DivX at the higher resolution. If your system meets the minimum requirement you should be able to capture very nice quality DivX video files in real time Custom User Defined video settings: CapWiz lets you set custom capture settings.
Video Bit Rate: You will notice that you have the ability to select a video capture rate of up to 15 Mb/sec. You will also notice that any bit rate over 9 Mb/sec. is red in color. This is because any bit rate above 9 Mb/sec. is not supported by DVD players and DVD burners. We allow you to capture at higher rates because some users may want to have the capability to capture at the highest rate possible and don’t have DVD burning as a project goal.
Format VCD SVCD DVD Video Bit Rates 1.15 Mb/sec. 1.5 Mb/sec. - 2.5 Mb/sec. 2 Mb/sec. – 5 Mb/sec. Audio Bit Rates 224 kbits/sec. 128-384 kbits/sec. 192 – 448 kbits/sec. Audio Bit Rates The audio format is always compressed in MPEG-1 Layer 2 audio. CapWiz also automatically sets the audio sampling rate to 44.1 Khz for VCD and SVCD settings and 48 Khz for DVD video. We give you the choice to select the audio bit rate for your custom video captures in the range from 192 kbits/sec to 384 kbits/sec.
determine if you want to preview with de-interlacing enabled or disabled. Setting Custom Capture Settings 1) 2) 3) 4) Click Custom Settings button When the custom settings dialog box opens, make your selections. Click OK to save Click “Use Custom Format” to capture with the settings selected. • Brightness/Color Here you can make changes to Brightness, Chroma, Contrast, Hue and Saturation. You can make changes to the Brightness/Color settings only while Previewing or recording video. 1.
Playback… This will allow you to playback captured video at any standard playback resolution regardless of the capture resolution: 1) Click Options at the top of the screen. 2) Click Advanced 3) Click Playback Options 4) Select the desired playback resolution. 5) if you select Full Screen, then you can manually drag the playback window to any size. Selecting this will open a dialog box that allows you to change the playback resolution of captured video.
Record Duration You can set a time limit for your recording. If you know you want to record for exactly 1 hour, you can set the record duration, hours, minutes and seconds exactly. Start recording and walk away knowing that the recording will stop at the time limit you determine. You can use Record delay and Record duration in combination. VCR Style Event Timer The VCR style event timer allows you to set a date, start and end time for a recording event. • Set start date and start time.
Service and Warranty: If you require assistance with the installation, operation, or application of your ADS Technologies, Inc. product there are several options available to you as described in the technical support section of this manual. Your primary source for information and assistance is always your computer store or computer parts dealer. If your ADS product needs repair or replacement, contact your dealer for on-site repair service.
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