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WinTV USB
Installation and Reference
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® WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Copyright (c) Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 2000 Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. Telephone: 631-434-1600 91 Cabot Court Fax: 631-434-3198 Hauppauge, NY 11788 Tech Support: 631-434-3197 Hauppauge Computer Works, GmbH Telephone: 02161-694880 Krefelder Straße 673e Fax: 02161-6948815 41061 Mönchengladbach, Germany BBS: 02161-177353 Technical Support: 02161-6948840 Hauppauge Computer Works, Ltd Phone: 0207-378-1997 6 Bank Chambers Fax: 0207-357-9171 Boro
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FCC Statement Radio Interference Statement: The WinTV USB have been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a resi- dential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio fre- quency energy and, cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a p
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Table of Contents WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Revision 4.8 FCC Statement ............................................................................................... CE Statement.................................................................................................... Installing the WinTV-USB 1 Installation overview ....................................................................................1-1 Board connections .............................................
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Teletext Data Reception using VTPlus 4 Installation of the VTPlus software ..............................................................4-2 Running VTPlus...........................................................................................4-2 Quikselect....................................................................................................4-4 Dynamic Data Link to Teletext.....................................................................4-4 Using the WinTV-radio Application
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Introduction This manual covers all of the WinTV USB models: WinTV-USB WinTV-USB FM References to the WinTV USB apply to all models. The Windows98 driver for all of the WinTV USB models will be referred to as the WinTV-USB driver, and the installation CD-ROM will be referred to as the WinTV Installation CD- ROM. The WinTV application, which is referred to in this manual as the WinTV applica- tion, will show your TV or video in a window on your PC screen. There are two versions: the WinTV32 and t
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Installing the WinTV USB ote: DO NOT PLUG THE WinTV-USB into your PC until your PC has fully booted.. N To install WinTV USB under Windows 98 or 2000, you will follow these steps: Plug the WinTV USB into your PC or laptop’s USB port (after booting into Windows) Install the drivers from the WinTV USB Installation CD-ROM After the WinTV USB driver is installed, you will then install the WinTV application software from the WinTV Installation CD-ROM Diagram The following diagram shows the mai
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WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Contents of the WinTV-USB package: WinTV-USB or WinTV-USB-FM unit 1 meter audio cable - sound cable for connecting between the WinTV-USB and your sound card S-Video to composite adapter FM radio antenna (on WinTV USB-FM models equipped with FM radio) WinTV-USB Warranty registration card WinTV-USB Installation CD-ROM with: WinTV2000 application WinTV driver for Windows98 and Windows2000 Microsoft NetMeeting for video conferencing Installing the WinTV-US
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WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Then plug the WinTV-USB into one of the USB connectors on the back of your PC, not a USB hub or keyboard. Installing the driver under Windows98 or Windows2000 After the WinTV-USB is installed, the Add New Hardware Wizard will appear. Select Search for the best driver for your device (Recommended). Click NEXT. When you see this dialog box, insert the WinTV USB Installation CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive. Select CD-ROM drive and click NEXT. Once the Ha
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WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual ote: Be sure to use the exact version of Windows 98 CD- ROM that is installed on your system. If you are using NWindows98 SE, do not use a Windows98 Gold CD-ROM. Also if Plug-n-Play does not correctly load the driver, you may manually load the driver from the WinTV-USB CD-Rom. Open the USB folder and double click the file “USB98.exe” to manually install the driver. Once the driver is finished, you must manually run the SETUP.EXE on the WinTV-USB root d
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WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual To connect the audio from your VCR or camcorder, use an 1/8” stereo minijack extension cable (1/8” male minijacks on one end, and RCA onthe other end) and connect the “Audio Output” RCA” on the VCR or camcorder to the Audio LineIn jack on the WinTV USB. ote: If you need a female RCA to 1/8” minijack adapter, these adapters can be found at most Radio Shack stores. N Connecting the WinTV-USB to a Sound Card The board's audio output should be connec
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WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual application is started by clicking either: Start/Programs/Accessories/Multimedia/VolumeControl or Start/Programs/Accessories/Entertainment/VolumeControl or Double click the speaker icon in System tray (found normally in the lower right hand corner of your computer screen). You should see Line-In balance as one of the selections. If not, then click on Options/Properties and under Show the following volume controls check Line-In. Then click OK. You shoul
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The WinTV2000 Application Preferences menu Full screen TV Switch video source Remove toolbar Color/Audio config- Close WinTV Minimize uration Channel configuration Click your right mouse button here Mute audio to remove toolbars. Click again to restore toolbar. Configure snapshot Freeze Click and hold your right mouse button to see the Options menu. Snapshot button Snapshot viewer window - double click on each “thumbnail” Software remote Current TV channel or to see image full size control vide
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WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Watch TV Still frame mode Motion video image capture capture mode mode Radio* Toolbar Full screen Previous TV mode TV image channel Freeze frame size Channel Volume indicator Channel surf Video level source Volume up/down Mute Channel Mono / Stereo Suites Channel name indicator * on some model ’s 2-2
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WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual If you are using a cable TV connection, in the Broadcast/Cable menu item, select Cable. In Video Format, in North America choose NTSC M. In South America, choose PAL M or PAL N. After the scan is complete, you will have a list of TV channels which are active in your area. You can modify the channel names by single clicking on the chan- nel, then clicking Edit. Change the channel name to the name that you would like to have displayed in the WinTV toolb
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WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Still Frame Image Capture mode With WinTV-32, you can switch into the high quality image capture mode by clicking on the Still Frame Image Capture Mode button on the toolbar. When you click on this button, you will see the Image Capture Toolbar. Click on the Configure icon in the Image Capture Toolbar to set the image capture resolution and to configure for either still or motion video images. In WinTV2000, to configure still image capture, click on th
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WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual To reduce the effects of motion in the video image, but with lower image resolu- tion, in the Fields Captured option choose 1 (Motion). Motion Video Capture mode You can switch the WinTV-32 application into the motion video capture mode by clicking on the Motion Video Capture Mode button on the toolbar (see page 2-2 for its location). In WinTV-32, to configure motion image capture, click the 422/YUV (configura- tion) button. In WinTV-2000, to configure
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WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual For best performance when capturing, set the Image Format to YUY2 or BTYUV, and the Image Dimensions to 320x240. Although you can cap- ture larger than 320x240, the file size will be larger and the video capture quality will be down graded. The number of Frames per second captured (up to the limit of 30 fps) is set in the File Folder icon in the Motion Video Capture toolbar, or by clicking the FILE button in WinTV-2000. Using the mouse in WinTV The Win
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WinTV-USB Installation and Reference Manual Move the WinTV window in TitleMode by clicking and holding your mouse button on the WinTV Title Bar, holding it down and dragging it to the new posi- tion. You can set a different size and a different place on your VGA screen for the WinTV window in TitleMode and NoTitleMode. Then by simply clicking with the right mouse button, the window will switch from one saved size and place on the screen to the other! Try clicking your right mouse button severa
