Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1250
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1. 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 st EYT TE at WinTV to bring up the Channel amp Time WinTV at the requested time Name and on the requested channel su x Channel 2 21 1 WLIW SD ATSC Once these are set click OK You Start Time 1225 00 can add more recordings clicking Duration minsk 80 OK after each event is set Recurrance When you are finished click Record Once Record Daily Record Weekly Close The WinTV program does Start Date Wednesday Apil 22 2009 not have to be running for the ange Schedular to work If WinTV is not running it takes about 15 sec onds to start WinTV and to start the recording of TV page 10 WinTV v7 keyboard shortcuts Ctrl A Ctrl D Ctrl F Ctrl Z Ctrl O Ctrl S Ctrl W Alt F Alt M Alt P Ctrl Q Aspect ratio Ctrl P Play Display the video and Alt R Record audio fo2. once in the TV window Always on top r NA KV K ay 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 dis played 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 page 6 Skip Skip i Kip Program Playhack Stop back1 back10 Timebar ahead30 Skip info ile minute seconds seconds ahead 1 Settings minute g Record Pause Play 0 1 00 72 a ar a 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 rec
3. 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 IR blaster in WinTV v7 If you would like to use the Hauppauge IR blaster on those WinTV models with IR blaster built in to change the channels on your cable TV or satellite set top box see the section entitled Configuring the remote control for WinTV v7 WinTV v7 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 page 9 your mouse button in the TV WinTV Scheduler window to see the Options menu Click Scheduler To set up an event for timed watching or recording click the Add button A CREATE 4 2 2097 DO0PM MM0 212 CREATE The items that need to be set for each event are Pending Recordings TY Guide Name you can add a name to the recording If you do not enter a name the name will be in the
4. 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 WinTV v7 1021 2 WCBS AD WinTV source selector 2 1 WCBS HD ATSC IPIT 0 Current channel Channel list display always on n ee name and number Fast channel select numbers L eo s4 EG TV Channel list si oe Configuration menu Settings menu Program Info Record Pause Play z controls Playback file menu Volume r and mine Channel up down Close captions Watch TV Options menu click your right mouse button to view Open File Live TV Find Channel Playback menu View Mode Aspect Ratio Audio Stream Scheduler TV Guide Show Captions Channel list TV Scheduler Play Pause Close captions Stop Stay On Top Configuration About Exit ANY 4 S l s most important TV control functions Ji To bring up the Options Menu click your right mouse button
5. 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 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 WinTV Set Hauppauge Wier tne Giga Goneraton General Folders Devices All Channels Favorites Parental Control Advanced Options Version WinTV v7 0 27245 Copyright 1998 2009 Hauppauge Computer Works All Rights Reserved Languages User Interface Language English Preferred Audio Language English Preferred Subtitle Language English y E Show Captions Video Renderer TV Shape Overlay VMR7 VMR9 EvR 43 16 9 Use hardware acceleration when possible V Locked window aspect ratio page 8 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 Selecting FM radio programs On those WinTV
6. 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 Found New Hardware Wizard After you install your WinTV device and Welcome to the Found New boot Windows a Found New Hardware ee wizard will appear Peete bm Please cancel it and allow Windows to e PA EE A load fully before proceeding With re some WinTV products you might see this lt i added message two or three times Please click Cancel each time you see the New Hardware Wizard st Click Next to continue TY DVD Drive D WINTV7_x Insert the WinTV Installation CD ROM in yo ur PC Ss C D RO M d rive Always do this for software and games a Install or run program from ae For Windows 7 You will see an AutoPlay EET Fun setup exe Published by Hauppauge Computer Works message Click Run Setup exe General options For all versions of Windows The L ee Hauppauge Wi nTV Installation CD ROM View more AutoPlay options in Control Panel window will appear on the screen Hauppauge WinTV Installation CD is 3 N ote if the CD does not Hauppauge autorun navigate to the CD and run the Setup exe file Step 1 Install Drivers Step 2 Install WinTV Step 1 Install the WinTV driver Click the button labeled Step 1 Register Install Drivers Browse CD WinTV v7 Exit TV for the d
7. a digital Digital QAM Scan cable network which are unen Hauppauge Scanning physical channel 100 crypted free to view If you a Channel 2096 Unknown 82 96 MPEG2 SD 82 96 encrypted 2082 Unknown 82 82 MPEG2 SD 82 82 encrypted 2085 Unknown 82 85 MPEG2SD 82 85 encrypted 2301 Unknown 82 301 MPEG2 SD 82 301 encrypted 2302 Unknown 82 302 MPEG2 SD 82 302 encrypted 2076 Unknown 82 76 MPEG2 SD 82 76 encrypted 2107 WABC MPEG2SD 83 107 P 2133 CREATE MPEG2SD 83 133 QAM chan n els wh ich are 2707 WABC HD MPEG2 SD 83 707 2721 WLIW SD MPEG2 SD 83 721 d etected but are encrypted 2108 WABCnow MPEG2SD 93 109 2132 WORLD MPEG2 SD 83 132 are automatically not selected ER wanna Hetaa Oaa anrea en as The resulting channels in the ee iia are using cable TV with clear QAM programs chose Digital QAM and Next TRNAS WNOOOOO page 3 list might be both standard and high definition channels If your TV source is Analog cable TV Select your Country and your EE Ce TV Source from the drop down list To automatically scan for channels click Next Hauppauge Please select the country and tuning settings Country USA o Analog Tuner Setup to continue Click the Scan button and WinTV will automatically scan for analog channels The scan ning process takes about 10 minutes Source Cable v Please select how you want to enter your cha
8. ced Config and Learn You will need to learn the 0 through 9 keys plus Power on and Enter To learn the new keys hold the remote control from your set top box as close to the IR receiver and learn sensor as possible Version 7 1 27107 API 1 0 FW 0 1 0 Region Learning Device Type Send button SettopBx Vendor Model Blaster Port User Learned 1 ne C CodeSet 10000 IR Channel Test Of Test Next Test All 123 Send mo Min Digits to Send 3 0 Tuning Delay ms Inter Digit Delay ms 100 0 Single Power On Delay ms 200 Send Po Key numbers Key Delay ms 0 Load Defaults Save Settings LearnKey 1 Press and hold button again LearnKey 1 succeeded Message box Learning Action Learn in the Blaster config program click the button you would like to learn for example 1 then depress and hold the corresponding key on your set top box remote con trol You will be instructed in the message box when to release the key onyour remote control Do this for the keys 0 to 9 plus On and Enter You should receive a LearnKey key Succeeded message Then move on to the next key If you receive a LearnKey key Failed error this means that the key was either held down too long or not long enough or that the remote was not held close enough to the IR sensor on the HD PVR Try again Once you are finished with the numbers 0 to 9 and On and E
9. he recording or playback page 14 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 Red button at bottom Full screen TV Green button at bot tom not currently used Yellow button at bot tom not currently used Blue button at bottom not currently used Sub CC Sub titles on off Go button TV button Back Exit button Audio mute Volume up dow Record button Play button Fast rewind Skip back page 15 Application on off Stop buttons page 16 Configuring the WinTV HVR 1850 and WinTV HVR 2250 built in IR blaster for use with WinTV v7 The IR Configuration Utility is used to configure the WinTV HVR 2250 and WinTV HVR 1850 s built in remote control IR blaster for use with either WinTV v7 or Windows Media Center ote the remote control is initially configured for Windows Media Center If you want to use the IR blaster with WinTV v7 you must run this utility To run the IR configuration utility go to the WinTV program group and c
10. igital generation page 1 Drivers have been updated Successfully Changes will take effect AFTER YOU RESTART your computer lt lt click to exit gt gt A blue screen will open and begin installing the drivers for your WinTV Once the drivers have installed a message will appear saying Drivers have been updated successfully Click on the bar to exit You do not need to reboot your PC until after Step 2 ote the latest driver updates are available at www hauppauge com in the Support section 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 com plete click OK then Exit ote Save your WinTV Installation CD You will need it if you down load new WinTV applications in the future 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 Device Setup Wizard When you run WinTV for the first time the WinTV Device Setup Wizard Device Setup Wizard Hauppauge The Device Setup Wizard has detected a new device that needs to be setup appears Select the TV Device WinTY HVYR 950Q 000DFE 000000 source that you are using Please select the types of channels you would like to setup On some model WinTVs C Digital ATSC you have multip
11. jerky video display of ATSC digital TV Here are some tips on improving graphics per formance 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 hard ware acceleration when possible This will allow your graphics system to use hardware acceleration for video decode Note graphics hardware acceleration page 12 WinTV Setting mS Mluppauger tortie clone cenermtone Folders Devices All Channels Favorites Parental Control Advanced Options WinTV v7 0 27278 Copyright 1998 2009 Hauppauge Computer Works All Rights Reserved Check online for new versions Languages User Interface Language Use SPDIF Outpu
12. le tuners E Digtal QAM C Analog TY Cable Antenna and therefore you can C Extermal Inputs Composite S Video select multiple sources For the WinTV HVR 2250 you can chose either ATSC or TV for the digital generation page 2 Digital QAM and Analog TV You cannot chose both 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 mvevice setup izere over the air channels Digital ATSC Scan The digital TV scanning Hauppauge ONAIN process will scan from chan i Channel nels 2 to 51 As TV chan Bee 22 Gene Eaa nels are found they will EI MEM G71 WETYDT ATSC Dita Teer appear in the Channel box E M252 252 WAVE ATSC Dia Tarvan Wh t li k Next 1411 41 1 WXTY DT ATSC Digital Television en complete clic Next and OK ote if you do not conte ot V FOR THE DIGITAL GENERATION N 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 chan M Device Setup Wizard nels broadcast on
13. lick on HCWCIRConfig_Tool exe this file can also be found on the WinTV V7 installation CD in the MISC folder To configure the IR blaster for use with WinTV v7 remove the check from the box labeled Hauppauge WinTV To configure as a Windows Media Center remote control put a check in the One Media Center remote control receiver has been detected Select it to enable remote control of Media Center M Hauppauge WinTY H R 2250 8891 OK Save Changes Cancel Discard Changes box labeled Hauppauge Consumer Infrared Receiver Click OK to save the changes N your computer must be restarted for the changes to take effect Setting up the IR Blaster for use with WinTV v7 In WinTV v7 the IR RemoteBlaster lets the WinTV HVR board change the chan nel on a satellite or cable TV set top box by transmitting channel change com mands to the box via an Infra Red IR transmitter page 17 Region North America v Device Type Satellite Vendor Model Alphastar Blaster Port CodeSet 0 IR Channel Test Test Next 123 Send TestAll Advanced Config ios Bich Nee You will need the remote control from your set top box to com plete the configuration in this section N this proceedure is only necessary if you are using WinTV v7 If you are using Windows Media Center it will configure the IR blaster automatically The WinTV HVR s IR blaster function consists of tw
14. llation The Hauppauge Remote Control optional on some models The WinTV remote control software is installed automatically during the installa tion 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 and a menu will appear Use the scroll up and down button to select WinTV and press OK to select Remote control buttons Go button launches WinTV Power button green close WinTV or launches Windows Media Center TV button when WinTV is running hitting the TV button causes WinTV v7 to go to live mode and turns off recording or pause Red record button starts recording using the parameters set in the Pref menu Pause button if watching live TV will pause the video When recording this but ton 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 t
15. nnels Channels Scan For Channels w Add Composite S Video inputs as channels TV FOR THE DIGITAL GENERATION Next gt Cancel 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 ETT aTe E ease select your country ana the inputs to enable External Inputs Setup Country United States AUTO X 7 auto z 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 coun try 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 broad cast format used in North America TV for the digital generation Rescanning TV channels or adding an external A V source If you want to rescan for TV channels or add an A V source on those products with an external A V input click the Configuration menu Gear button in the page 4 lower left corner of WinTV v7 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
16. nter you can test page 19 the learning by clicking the Send button in the Blaster Configuration program It will send the numbers 123 to your set top box Your set top box should now be on channel 123 Close the Blaster Configuration program and your configuration will be saved page 20
17. o components 1 IR Blaster cable This cable has an IR cable jack and an IR transmitter The IR cable jack plugs into the back of the WinTV board and the IR transmitter needs to be positioned over the IR receiver on your set top box using the self stick tape supplied on the front of the transmitter IR Blaster Config program BlastCfg EXE for configuring the codes for the IR transmitter During the installation of the WinTV applications from the Installation CD ROM the Hauppauge IR Blaster applications will be automatically installed Every time you boot Windows the IR32 application should automatically run You will notice a small IR icon in your system device tray The IR Blaster Configuration program The IR Blaster Configuration program allows you to choose the cable TV or satel lite set top box to control or to learn a new set top box The IR Blaseter Configuration program can be found in the Program Groups Hauppauge WinTV Run BlasterCfg EXE page 18 To set up the IR Blaster see the guide iIRRemoteBlaster Quick Installation Guide for WinTV v7 Learning remote control codes for your set top box First make sure the WinTV IR trans mitter is positioned over the remote sensor on your set top box Remember the WinTV IR transmit ter has a very short transmission dis tance and needs to be positioned over the remote sensor on your set top box To access the learn function in BlastConfig exe click on Advan
18. orded 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 direc tory which can be found in the Configuration menu The default directory is MyVideos To change this 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 page 7 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 tf your video was paused click the Play button To rewind the video 1 minute click
19. rmat of the TV program Alt S Stop Alt T Start TV Freeze the video Open TV Scheduler Ctrl C Catch up View program details Ctrl gt Skip ahead digital TV program Ctrl lt Skip back where provided in the broadcast Display subtitles Full screen toggle Open File menu for playback Open the Task Menu Previous channel Pause page 11 Troubleshooting 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 proper ly 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 for mat 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 sys tem which cannot keep up with the high datarates of digital TV Many times improving the performance of the graphics display will fix the
20. t Show Captions Overlay VMR7 VMR9 EVR 5 43 16 9 E Use hardware acceleration when possible V Locked window aspect ratio ok J _ Cance 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 accel eration In this case go back to settings and uncheck 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 anten na 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 If analog channels are displayed correctly but you see a black window when selecting an ATSC channels this means that WinTV is not getting a signal This is most often due to poor reception See Only some channels are found during ATSC channel scan above page 13 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 insta
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