User manual COMPRO H900F START UP GUIDE

[. . . ] VideoMate Vista H900F PCI TV Tuner Card Start Up Guide Compro Technology, Inc. www. comprousa. com Table of Contents VideoMate Vista H900F PCI Tuner Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 VideoMate Vista H900F Package Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 VideoMate Vista H900F Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Hardware Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Software Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Remote Wake Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Windows Media Center Remote for Vista H900F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 ComproDTV Vista Gadget Tool for Vista. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 ComproDTV Windows Media Center Add-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 HID (Human Interface Device) for Compro Remote. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Open and close the ComproDTV 4 control panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 ComproDTV 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 ComproFM 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Copyright © 2001-2008. No part of this document may be copied or reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of Compro Technology, Inc. Compro, VideoMate, Poladyne, Play with Power, and the Compro logo are trademarks of Compro Technology, Inc. [. . . ] Watch TV programs on your PC, in full-screen mode or in a window. Close ComproDTV 4 and even shutdown the computer with the full function remote control keypad. Options Press the Options button to open the Options dialog box. You can change detail settings of ComproDTV 4 here. TV Settings This option gives you the way to manually set the method of scanning TV programs. Select your choice here or use default channel table to do the scanning. Autoscan The first time you start ComproDTV 4, Autoscan will automatically scan for available TV channels for TV signals. You can rescan the channels at any time by pressing the Autoscan button. When Autoscan is finished, detected channels are automatically enabled and marked with the green check mark . Channels, where a valid signal could not be detected, are disabled and marked with a blank. However, you can interrupt the scanning process by pressing the Stop button. 19 After you are finished scanning for available channels, you may select OK to return to the display window, or customize the channel list according to your preferences, as described below. Channel Naming You can customize the channel names by double-click on the Description field of the channel you wish to rename. You can do more changes on the channel's property by right-click the mouse on the Description field of the channel you wish to edit. Custom Settings for each channel You can customize each channel properties by click the icon in "Custom Settings" filed and edit it. Using my favorite channel list You can click to select using my favorite channel list from option window. And exit the list by yourselves to makes channel switch more convenient. Channel Surfing While watching TV, the channel surfing feature displays a 4x4 grid of channel 20 images to give you an overview of available programming. Double click the channel screen can direct jump to the channel you want. PIP/POP mode ComproDTV 4 in H900F TV card supports watch 1 live analog TV show and playback recorded video file at once. Just click the playback button and it will popup the recorded video files list, and you can click the file you want to instant play it. Main window has all features while slave window has limited functions only. Double-click on the slave window can switch the TV program to the main window. Alignment Window button will put slave window(s) into main window which is convenient for you to watch multiple programs on full screen mode. The buttons on the upper-left corner slave window are Channel Up, Channel Down, Mute, Windows Alignment, and Close respectively. Slave window can be resized by mouse dragging lower-left corner to any ratio. Advanced Multiple Video Display Mode ComproDTV 4 also supports 2 or above Compro products connect and watch it at the same time. If you have more than one Compro analog or digital TV cards and USB TV box, you can use it to watch the live TV from different devices. When Starting PIP mode, there will be two option for you to choose; 1. "Digital Sub Window" If any one of connected products have digital TV feature. "VideoMate xxx (another installed product name) Video Capture" Other analog or digital TV cards/USB box. (Pictures below show the H900 for example of the second device) Choosing the "Digital Sub Window" will open a new window to view the digital sub channels in the same frequency of the main window. [. . . ] Therefore, the recorded file cannot be played since an incompatible CODEC is being used for playback. Uninstalling the CODEC software will help. Also reinstalling DirectX usually solves the problem. (See our website for how to reinstall DirectX) Can I playback recorded video in main window? Yes, you may deselect "Playback in PIP mode" in "Video/Audio" tab which can be found under "Options" of ComproDTV 4. [. . . ]