User manual HAUPPAUGE HD PVR

[. . . ] Placement of the IR transmitter is important!The IR transmitter only works over a 2 inch distance, so you need to make sure it is placed over the remote sensor in your set top box. Some set top boxes have the position of the remote receiver indicated on the plastic front of the set top box. With others, you might need to look carefully at the set top box for what looks like a round or square area underneath the plastic front panel. [. . . ] This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: reorient or relocate the receiving antenna, increase the separation between the equipment and receiver, connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected, consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. Audio from the set top box is connected where you have connected the video input: either to the optical audio in (rear), composite audio in (rear) or composite audio in (front). Running Arcsoft TotalMedia Extreme To start the ArcSoft Total Media Extreme application, double click on the TotalMedia Extreme icon on your desktop. During recording, the Capture button will turn green and the button will change to a Stop button. The recording will be saved in the default directory of My Documents\ My Videos. The default name of the video will be the date and time (i. e. You can make a recording of a specified time duration by entering a value in the Capture duration box. The recording will start and continue until the time duration. To edit videos and burn a Blu-ray disc From the main menu of the TotalMedia Extreme, click Create disk. This will open the Arcsoft TotalMedia Studio application, which can be used to author a DVD disk plus edit your videos. Playing back your video recordings To play back a file, close the Arcsoft Capture Module recording window and click on the Play Video icon. The program will open to this initial screen which has four icons along the top. Manually Record Video Click on the video cassette icon to open the Arcsoft Capture Module recording function. Make sure the Source is set to Hauppauge HD PVR Capture. Choose the Video and Audio inputs you are using to setup up the recording: If you are using Component video from your set top box, choose Component. If you are using S-Video or Composite video from your set top box, choose SVideo or Composite. Adjust the bitrate by clicking on Format Settings. You can set the bitrate from 1Mbit/sec to 13 Mbits/sec. The higher the bitrate, the more disk space is used but the higher the video quality of the recording. When recording high definition videos, we recommend a bitrate of 5Mbits/sec or higher. The format created by the HD PVR is a H. 264 . TS file using AAC audio. Start the recording by clicking on the Capture button: This will open Arcsoft TotalMedia Theater. In Arcsoft TotalMedia Theater, click on the folder icon and choose Open media file. Click on the file you wish to play and then click on the Open button. Video playback will begin automatically. The Get Media screen in TotalMedia Studio screen shows what your DVD disk will look like after it is `burnt' onto a DVD disk. The The Arcsoft MediaConverter application will allow you to convert your HD PVR captured . TS files into an Apple (. MP4) format, Microsoft (. WMV) format, Panasonic (. WMV) format , Philips (. WMV) playable format, a Sandisk (. MOV) playable format, or a Sony (. WMV) playable format Select the file you wish to convert by clicking the add file button, and select the Manufacturer & Device model options for the format you wish to convert to. . The default disk setting for Disc: is a 4. 7 GByte DVD disk. If you have made HD recordings at 5Mbits/sec, this disk will hold about 2 hours of video. [. . . ] You should see the IR transmitter blink after each click of the Power On/Off button. If your set top box turns on or off, then this code is the correct one for your set top box. Continue to click Test Next until your set top box turns on or off, at which time you have found the correct code. Use your mouse to highlight the Channel box and type in the Channel number you wish to record. In the Save To box type in the name of the program (or use the default). [. . . ]