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WinTV-USB ® Installation and Reference Manual Copyright (c) Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 2000 Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc.
FCC Statement Radio Interference Statement: The WinTV USB 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.
Table of Contents WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Revision 4.8 FCC Statement ........................................................................................ CE Statement............................................................................................. Installing the WinTV-USB 1 Installation overview...............................................................................1-1 Board connections ...............................................................................
Setting the number of frames per second captured....................................3-3 Preview Video ......................................................................................3-5 Using Audio with WinTV-Capture ......................................................3-5 Suggestions on capturing video ...............................................................3-5 Tips on improving capture performance ..................................................
Trademarks: WinTV and the Hauppauge logo are registered trademarks of Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. Intercast and the Intercast logo are trademarks of Intel Corp. Microsoft is a registered trademark and Windows and the Microsoft logo are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. IBM and PC are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. Some WinTV models are manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories. "Dolby," "Pro Logic" and the double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.
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Introduction This manual covers all of the WinTV USB models: WinTV-USB WinTV-USB FM References to the WinTV USB apply to all models. The Windows98 driver for all of the WinTV USB models will be referred to as the WinTV-USB driver, and the installation CD-ROM will be referred to as the WinTV Installation CD-ROM. The WinTV application, which is referred to in this manual as the WinTV application, will show your TV or video in a window on your PC screen. There are two versions: the WinTV32 and the WinTV2000.
Installing the WinTV USB N ote: DO NOT PLUG THE WinTV-USB into your PC until your PC has fully booted..
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Contents of the WinTV-USB package.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Then plug the WinTV-USB into one of the USB connectors on the back of your PC, not a USB hub or keyboard. Installing the driver under Windows98 or Windows2000 After the WinTV-USB is installed, the Add New Hardware Wizard will appear. Select Search for the best driver for your device (Recommended). Click NEXT. When you see this dialog box, insert the WinTV USB Installation CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive. Select CD-ROM drive and click NEXT.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual ote: Be sure to use the exact version of Windows 98 CDROM that is installed on your system. If you are using Windows98 SE, do not use a Windows98 Gold CD-ROM. Also if Plug-n-Play does not correctly load the driver, you may manually load the driver from the WinTV-USB CD-Rom. Open the USB folder and double click the file “USB98.exe” to manually install the driver. Once the driver is finished, you must manually run the SETUP.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual To connect the audio from your VCR or camcorder, use an 1/8” stereo minijack extension cable (1/8” male minijacks on one end, and RCA onthe other end) and connect the “Audio Output” RCA” on the VCR or camcorder to the Audio Line In jack on the WinTV USB. ote:. If you need a female RCA to 1/8” minijack adapter, these adapters can be found at most Radio Shack stores.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual The VolumeControl application is started by clicking either: Start/Programs/Accessories/Multimedia/VolumeControl or Start/Programs/Accessories/Entertainment/VolumeControl or Double click the speaker icon in Systray You should see Line-In balance as one of the selections. If not, then click on Options/Properties and under Show the following volume controls check Line-In. Then click OK. You should now see a selection for Line-In.
The WinTV2000 Application Mute Close Source Color/audio configuration Full screen TV Remove toolbar Channel configuration Freeze Configure snapshot Minimize Click your right mouse button here to remove toolbars. Click again to restore toolbar.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Motion video capture mode * Still frame image capture mode Watch TV mode Radio* Toolbar Dolby ProLogic On/Off * Previous channel Freeze frame Channel indicator Channel surf Volume up/down Channel name Mute Full screen TV mode TV image size Volume level Mono / Stereo indicator Channel Suites Video source selector * on some model ’s 2-2
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Running the WinTV application After installing the WinTV application from the WinTV USB Installation CD-ROM, you will see icons on your Windows background. Start WinTV32 by double clicking on its icon. Once the Application is initialized, you should see the RED light illuminate on the WinTV USB. You can also click on Start/Programs/HauppaugeWinTV and then click on the WinTV32 icon. The first time you run WinTV, you will be asked to scan for TV channels. Click OK.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual You can modify the channel names by single clicking on the channel, then clicking Edit. Change the channel name to the name that you would like to have displayed in the 32 toolbar. Still Frame Image Capture mode You can switch the 32 application into the high quality image capture mode by clicking on the Still Frame Image Capture Mode button on the toolbar. When you click on this button, you will see the Image Capture Toolbar.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual You can capture images up to 1600x1200 pixels. To reduce the effects of motion in the video image, but with lower image resolution, in the Fields Captured option choose 1 (Motion). Motion Video Capture mode You can switch the 32 application into the motion video capture mode by clicking on the Motion Video Capture Mode button on the toolbar (see page 3-1 for its location).
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual For best performance when capturing, set the Image Format to YUY2 or RGB , and the Image Dimensions to 320x240. Although you can capture larger than 320x240, the file size will be larger and the video capture quality will be down graded. The number of Frames per second captured (up to the limit of 30 fps) is set in the File Folder icon in the Motion Video Capture toolbar.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual button in the middle of the WinTV window and moving it to the new position. Then let it go! Move the WinTV window in TitleMode by clicking and holding your mouse button on the Title Bar (where it says Hauppauge WinTV32), holding it down and dragging it to the new position. You can set a different size and a different place on your VGA screen for the WinTV window in TitleMode and NoTitleMode.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual You’ll see the Channel Manager. From the Channel Manager, you can Add, Edit or Delete channels. You can also create channel suites, which are subsets of the All Channel suite. For example, you can have a suite of just TV news channels, and name this suite “News”. Channel Suites allow you to create a subset of all the channels, so that you can channel surf through only those channels. To set up a new Channel Suite, click on Show Suites.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Setting full screen TV mode Click Display/Preferences/View and then click on the TV Mode tab. Set Allow Resolution Change. If you then click on the TV icon on the 32 Toolbar, the application will switch the VGA mode to the chosen size (using the Windows Quick Res feature), allowing the image to be viewed full screen.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Image Save, Print and Copy to Clipboard The process to save, print or copy an image starts with the digitizing of a single video frame. When one of these functions are clicked on, the next video frame is moved into your PC’s main system memory instead of the VGA display.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Adjusting the video image’s color You can adjust the brightness, contrast saturation and hue of the live TV image by using the color adjustment menu. Click on Configure/Color to get the adjustment menu: Options Menu The Options Menu has settings for Always-on-Top mode and Aspect ratio mode plus duplicates buttons found on the toolbar for operation without a mouse.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Keyboard control of the 32 application Convenient keyboard controls duplicate the functions of the toolbar.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Click on Browse, then look in the Program Files/ directory. Select WinTV 32.exe. Then click on NEXTto finish to set up the shortcut.
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Creating Digital Video movies with WinTV-USB Overview of Video Clip Capture Live video which is digitized by the video digitizer (see “How WinTV USB works”) can be “captured” as a video sequence (or “video clip”) by using the WinTV Capture program. This program is provided in the WinTV Application and uses Microsoft’s WDM for Windows capability which is built into Windows 98 and 2000. WinTV-Capture creates a file type called AVI (Audio/Video Interleaved) on your hard disk.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Using WinTV Capture The WinTV-Capture program is an easy-to-use program that previews live video, captures an AVI file to disk, and plays back the AVI file to your VGA screen. WinTV-Capture can capture and playback video clips, but does not provide video editing capabilities. Digital video editing programs such as Adobe Premiere or U-Lead MediaStudio can be used to edit your digital videos.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual The WinTV-Capture program can use several different types of color formats when capturing video clips. For highest capture performance, choose the YUY2 OR RGB formats. These give excellent capture image quality and frame rate, but will give slow performance on playback of 320x240 image size videos.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual a) Make sure the audio output of the card is plugged into the LineInput of the sound board. b) Make sure the LineInput volume for recording is set correctly and not muted. Open the Volume control panel, then click on Options/Properties. In the panel Adjust volume for recording set for Recording. Make sure LineInput is checked under Show the following volume controls and that the volume for LineInput is not muted and is set at an appropriate level.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual The consumption of hard disk space is dependent upon the size of the video image while capturing, the image format plus the number of frames/second. Using the YUY2 OR RGB image format, the following chart shows hard disk space consumed: image size 160x120 frames/second bytes per second 15 frames/sec 425 Kbytes/sec 320x240 15 frames/sec 850 Kbytes/sec 52 Mbytes 320x240 30 frames/sec 1.
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Teletext Data Reception using VTPlus Europe ONLY) (In Teletext is used in Europe and other parts of the world to transmit digital data along with a television picture. Teletext data is transmitted in an invisible part of the TV picture called the "Vertical Blanking Interval" or VBI. Teletext data is normally formatted into pages. A master index is also transmitted which lists the various categories that can be received, and which Teletext page they are being transmitted on.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Starting VTPlus If the VTPlus application is provided on CD-ROM, then it will automatically be installed from the Installation CD-ROM. To start VTPlus, click on the VTPlus button in WinTV32 or click on the TELE button in WinTV2000. this will close the TV application and launch VTPlus. The WinTV USB cannot run the application and VTPlus at the same time. You need to create a VTPLUS suite within the WinTV 32 or WinTV 2000 applications.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual VTPlus toolbar *Select TV channel *TOP text select Set Time/Date Current Teletext service Current page number Reveal invisible text Next Subpage Previous Subpage Script Reception indicator *Note: These fuctions are not applicable in the UK. 1. Reception indicator: when this symbol is red, your requested page is being received. 2. Script: shortcut for Options/Script. See Help for information on programming the Script. 3.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Quickselect Teletext pages By using the Ctrl+N key a Create and Receive page pops up requesting a page number. Type the requested page number. If this page is to be received continuously (every time the page is received, the page is automatically updated), click the Update Continuously box. Many Teletext pages have a reference to other pages.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Then click on Edit/Copy option from the Edit menu and click the left button mouse. The information is now in the PC memory. To create a link to the DDE supported applications (such as your spreadsheet), select “edit past special” in your application and choose the past link option. VTPlus will now create a direct link to your program.
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Using the Radio Application If you have purchased the -radio device, in addition to watching TV you can also tune in radio stations on the FM band. The radio device has two aerial inputs, one for TV and one for FM radio. If your TV antenna (or cable TV network) carries both TV and FM radio, you can connect to the TV antenna connector only: FM radio antenna TV antenna Running the Radio Application Click on Start / Programs / Hauppauge WinTV and then Radio to run the radio application.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Using the Radio Buttons Volume: The audio volume is adjusted by setting the LineIn level in the Volume Control applet. Tune: Fine tune the current radio channel. Seek: Search for the next active FM radio channel. Mem: Sets a FM radio channel preset. To assign the current station to a preset, click on Mem and then on one of the Preset buttons (1-10). Mute: Turn off the sound. Mono: Force mono reception.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual 1. Scan Mode: Presets - When Presets is chosen and the Scan button is clicked, -radio tunes in only the stations which are assigned to the Preset buttons. 2. Scan Mode: All - When All is chosen and the Scan button is clicked, radio tunes in all radio stations. 3. Frequencies - A list of all frequencies assigned to the preset buttons is shown. 4. Tool Tips - Turn on/off bubble help. 5. Minimize - Minimizes the -radio application window.
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How WinTV-USB Works Video Overlay mode of operation Live TV can be displayed on your VGA screen by using either the Video Overlay or the Primary Surface mode. The mode which is used is dependent upon your PC’s hardware and software.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Also, because the video is moved directly onto the Primary Surface, features such as close captioning and full-screen TV in resolutions greater than 640x480 will be disabled.
Troubleshooting This chapter includes troubleshooting help for solving common problems. Problem: Bad colors in the TV window If your VGA display is running in 256 color mode, the TV picture will be displayed with only 256 colors. This compares with the 16 million different colors which are in the original TV image. The colors in the TV window will change depending upon which Windows programs are being run, and what color palettes are being used.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual enough video RAM to hold the TV image. In this case, resorts to Primary Surface mode, which lowers image quality. A memory upgrade on your VGA display adapter might fix this problem. Another possible cause of this problem could be that your VGA display adapter does not support Windows 98 Direct Draw. In this case, you might consider an upgrade to a new Windows VGA accelerator which has Direct Draw support and is compatible with the USB.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Primary Surface mode & DIB Draw It is sometimes useful to use a mode of operation of your VGA card known as Primary Surface mode or DIB Draw. This can be helpful in eliminating VGA compatibility problems, or improving picture quality on some VGA boards when used in some resolutions. To use Primary Surface mode, run the program "PRIMARY", which is installed with the WinTV application. Click Start/ Programs/WinTV and then, Click on Primary.
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Updating the driver From time to time, there might be a new WinTV USB driver which is an improvement over the existing driver. Driver updates can be downloaded from the Hauppauge Internet Web site (see the front page of this manual for the URL). The WinTV USB update is combined with the driver uninstaller and the driver installer. Once you have downloaded the updated WinTV USB driver, you can install the update simply by running the downloaded program. You will see the following message: Click Next.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Click Next. The Update program now uninstalls the existing WinTV-USB driver, then copies a number of files to your hard disk: After the Driver installation program has copied all of the files over to your disk drive, you will be asked to reboot: Click OK to reboot your PC. After rebooting Windows98, an automatic installation of the new driver takes place. You will see the New hardware Found message.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual The HCWCLEAR application can be found in the MISC/UTILITY directory: Run HCWCLEAR by double clicking on its icon: Click OK. You will then see the following message: Click Yes.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual it means that there is an application running which is using the drivers. For example, if you see the following error: it means that one of the WinTV USB driver files in use . You can either ignore the error, or can can double check to make sure there are no applications running in the system that might be using the WinTV USB driver.
Technical Support Technical support telephone If you have questions regarding installation or compatibility, please contact our technical support staff at: (631) 434-3197 (631) 434-3198 Fax USB FAQ-URL www.hauppauge.com/html/faqusb.htm Service If you should need assistance with the installation, operation, or application of your Hauppauge WinTV USB, there are several options available to you. Your primary source for information and problem assistance is always your dealer.
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The Hauppauge Limited Warranty Warranty Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. warrants the WinTV USB to be free from defects in material and workmanship for a period of 2 years from date of initial retail purchase. We will, at our option, repair or replace a defective product.
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