User manual HAUPPAUGE WINTV V7 QUICK START GUIDE

[. . . ] You will need it if you download new WinTV applications in the future. ote: the latest driver updates are available at: www. hauppauge. com in the Support section. 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. When you run WinTV for the first time, the WinTV Device Setup Wizard appears. Select the TV source that you are using. [. . . ] 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 To rewind the video to the beginning, click the If your video was paused, click the Play button Skip to the beginning button. Skip back 1 minute Play button. - To rewind the video 1 minute, click the button. If your video was paused, click the 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. In the General tab, you can set the Video Renderer which allows WinTV v7 to display video with a wide range of graphics systems. page 8 The 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. IR blaster in WinTV v7 If you would like to use the Hauppauge IR blaster 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 your mouse button in the TV window to see the Options menu. To set up an event for timed watching or recording, click the Add button. The items that need to be set for each event are: Name: you can add a name to the recording. If you do not enter a name, the name will be in the 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 page 9 about 15 seconds to launch the WinTV and start recording. - Duration: number of minutes in the recorded program. 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 set at WinTV to bring up the WinTV at the requested time and on the requested channel. Once these are set, click each event is set. OK. You can add more recordings, clicking OK after When you are finished click Close. The WinTV program does not have to be running for the Schedular to work. [. . . ] To access the learn function in BlastConfig. exe, click on Advanced 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 Message box Send button Key numbers IR receiver and learn sensor as possible - 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 control. 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. [. . . ]