WinTV USB ® Installation and Reference Manual Hauppauge! ®
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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 ........................................................
Teletext Data Reception using VTPlus 4 Installation of the VTPlus software ..............................................................4-2 Running VTPlus ...........................................................................................4-2 Quikselect....................................................................................................4-4 Dynamic Data Link to Teletext .....................................................................
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 CDROM. 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 or WinTV-USB-FM unit 1 meter audio cable - sound cable for connecting between the WinTV-USB and your sound card S-Video to composite adapter FM radio antenna (on WinTV USB-FM models equipped with FM radio) WinTV-USB Warranty registration card WinTV-USB Installation CD-ROM with: WinTV2000 application WinTV driver for Windows98 and Windows2000 Microsoft NetMeeting for video conferencing Installing the WinTV-USB N ote:
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 LineIn 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 application is started by clicking either: Start/Programs/Accessories/Multimedia/VolumeControl or Start/Programs/Accessories/Entertainment/VolumeControl or Double click the speaker icon in System tray (found normally in the lower right hand corner of your computer screen). 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.
The WinTV2000 Application Preferences menu Full screen TV Switch video source Remove toolbar Color/Audio configuration Minimize Close WinTV Channel configuration Click your right mouse button here to remove toolbars. Click again to restore toolbar. Mute audio Configure snapshot Freeze Click and hold your right mouse button to see the Options menu.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Motion video capture mode Previous channel Channel indicator Still frame image capture mode Watch TV mode Full screen TV mode Freeze frame Channel name TV image size Mute Mono / Stereo indicator Channel Suites * on some model ’s 2-2 Toolbar Volume level Channel surf Volume up/down Radio* Video source
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual If you are using a cable TV connection, in the Broadcast/Cable menu item, select Cable. In Video Format, in North America choose NTSC M. In South America, choose PAL M or PAL N. After the scan is complete, you will have a list of TV channels which are active in your area. 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 WinTV toolbar.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Still Frame Image Capture mode With WinTV-32, you can switch 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. Click on the Configure icon in the Image Capture Toolbar to set the image capture resolution and to configure for either still or motion video images.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual 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 WinTV-32 application into the motion video capture mode by clicking on the Motion Video Capture Mode button on the toolbar (see page 2-2 for its location). In WinTV-32, to configure motion image capture, click the 422/YUV (configuration) button.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual For best performance when capturing, set the Image Format to YUY2 or BTYUV, 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, or by clicking the FILE button in WinTV-2000.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Move the WinTV window in TitleMode by clicking and holding your mouse button on the WinTV Title Bar, 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 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. Then click on Suites (in the left column), then click Add.
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. Once you have clicked on Allow Resolution Change, if you then click on the TV icon on the WinTV-32 Toolbar, the WinTV will switch to full screen.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual 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. Your PC’s processor then converts the digitized video image into a 24-bit DIB image (a format which is used internally in Windows), and then copied back into the VGA memory so that you can see the image which will be printed or saved. This becomes a “frozen” image in the window.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual 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. Always-on-Top mode The Always-on-Top mode conveniently puts the TV window “on top of” other Windows windows. In this mode, you can easily move the TV window to the NoTitle mode by clicking the right mouse button in the middle of the TV screen.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Mute Channel Up Channel Down Print a Frame Copy to Clipboard Copy from Clipboard Freeze Frame Full screen TV mode Reset tool bar Take a snapshot Right mouse button = = = = = = = = = = = Ctrl+M Plus (+) Minus (-) Ctrl+P Ctrl+C Ctrl+V Ctrl+F Ctrl+T Alt +M Space bar Title mode/No title mode/Turns off TV mode Setting up a shortcut You can set up a shortcut to the application at any time. To do this, click your right mouse button on your Windows background.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Then click on NEXT to finish to set up the shortcut.
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 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. Capturing audio along with video puts a greater strain on your PC than capturing video alone.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual image size frames/second bytes per second 160x120 15 frames/sec 425 Kbytes/sec 1 minute video 26 Mbytes 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 WinTV-USB 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 functions 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 mouse button. 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 WinTV-USB-FM, 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 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. Scan: Searches for new stations until you click on Stop. Click the RIGHT mouse button anywhere on the -radio window to set the Scan mode. Min:Minimizes the -radio window.
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 Your WinTV-USB contains a 125 channel cable ready TV tuner, a video digitizer, a video compression engine and a USB bus controller. WinTV-USB displays video and audio in the following way: Under software control, the WinTV-USB either tunes to a TV channel or selects the external audio/video input source. The audio from the chosen source is passed to the LineOut jack on the WinTV-USB, while the video from the selected source is digitized and compressed.
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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 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. A poor video picture might also indicate a bad signal. To verify a bad signal, try one or more of these: Move your antenna or check your cable connection. Move possible interference sources, such as other computers or television sets, away from your PC.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual patibility 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. Click on Force Primary or DIB Draw then close the program by clicking on the X.
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Updating the WinTV-USB 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.
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 Run HCWCLEAR by double clicking on its icon: Click OK. You will then see the following message: Click Yes. If there are any errors which come up during the running of HCWCLEAR, then it means that there is an application running which is using the drivers.
WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual 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. In general, to make sure the re-installation is done correctly, all applications using the WinTV USB driver should be stopped before HCWCLEAR is run.
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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