User manual TERRATEC CINERGY1400DVB-T HARDWARE 1.3

[. . . ] Manual (English) Version: 1. 2 from: 6/27/05 CE Declaration We: TerraTec Electronic GmbH, Herrenpfad 38, D-41334 Nettetal, Germany hereby declare that the product: ReceiverSystem TerraTec Cinergy 1400 DVB-T, to which this declaration refers is in compliance with the following standards or standardizing documents: 1. The following are the stipulated operating and environmental conditions for said compliance: residential, business and commercial environments and small-company environments. This declaration is based on: test report(s) of the EMC testing laboratory The information in this document is subject to change without notice and shall not be deemed as a warranty by the seller. No warranties, express or implied, are made with regard to the quality, suitability or accuracy of this document. [. . . ] Align the holder at the rear of the TV card in the expansion slot in such a way that the card's connectors are directly in line with the slot's socket. Push the TV card firmly into the slot, ensuring good contact. Fasten the TV card with an appropriate screw. Reconnect the antenna cable, the AC power cable as well as all other cables. Make sure that your speakers are set to low volume. Switch your computer on again to begin installing the software. Cinergy 1400 DVB-T (English) 9 Installing the drivers WHQL-certified. A few advance remarks before we get into the details. To make the installation of the Cinergy as pleasant an experience as possible, we spared no trouble or bureaucratic hurdles and had the Windows drivers certified by the Microsoft Windows Hardware Qualification Lab (WHQL). That means that if you do not have a current copy of the Cinergy CD, Windows will download the drivers from a Microsoft server via the Internet, and that the drivers will be integrated in future Windows versions, wherever possible. Nevertheless, we suggest that you follow the instructions below. The reason for this recommendation is that the operating system sees the Cinergy as several individual devices. The installation--including downloading, decompressing, security checks, etc. --would therefore take an unnecessarily long time. And, as can be found out there in the far reaches of the Internet, many users have concerns--well-founded or not--that Microsoft may be obtaining more information from them than absolutely necessary for the installation of these specific drivers. Either way, let's get started! Driver installation under Windows 2000 As we already pointed out above, the operating system sees the various components of the Cinergy as individual devices. This means repeating the following installation steps until Windows stops recognizing new devices. That may seem a bit tiresome, but necessary to ensure that the driver installation is complete and correct. We recommend using VirtualDub for recording via the combined S Video and Video input. VirtualDub is an open-source project being pursued by a number of developers worldwide. And the best thing about it: you can download and use it free of charge. If you really like it, please visit the website below for more information on making a donation to thank the developers for their generous efforts. Standard recording drivers leave your options open. VirtualDub is simply an example of the applications that communicate with the Cinergy via its standard interface. [. . . ] Once you have settled on a final format for the material, it's best to already select it for the capture-- changing it later usually results in an avoidable quality loss due to the repeated conversion. Select the audio and video compressors in the 'Compression' menu under 'Audio' and 'Video'. It's becoming rarer as a system performance bottleneck, but it can't hurt to keep it in mind: if you repeatedly have problems with dropped frames, check the performance of your hard drive. If a number of programs are continuously reading and writing data in the background, the data throughput for VirtualDub may become so low that these omissions result. [. . . ]