Hauppauge WinTV-USB Bedienungsanleitung

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W inTV -USB Installation and R eference Manual Copyright (c) Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 2000 Hauppauge Computer W orks, Inc. T elephone: 631-434-1600 91 Cabot Court Fax: 631-434-3198 Hauppauge, NY 11788 T ech Support: 631-434-3197 Hauppauge Computer W orks, GmbH T elephone: 02161-694880 Krefelder Straße 673e Fax: 02161-6948815 41061 Mönchengl[...]

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 har mful inter ference in a residen- tial installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate [...]

T able of Contents WinTV -USB Installation and Reference Manual Revision 4.8 FCC Statement ........................................................................................ CE Statement............................................................................................. Installing the WinTV -USB 1 Installation over view .............[...]

Setting the number of frames per second captured ....................................3-3 P review Video ......................................................................................3-5 Using Audio with W inTV -Capture ......................................................3-5 Suggestions on capturing video ..................................[...]

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Introduction This manual covers all of the WinTV USB models: W inTV-USB W inTV-USB FM References to the WinTV USB apply to all models. The W indows98 driver for all of the WinTV USB models will be refer red to as the W inTV-USB driver , and the installation CD-ROM will be refer red to as the WinTV Installation CD-ROM . The WinTV application, which [...]

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Installing the WinTV USB N ote: DO NOT PLUG THE WinTV-USB into your PC until your PC has fully booted.. T o install W inTV USB under Windows 98 or 2000, you will follow these steps: ✓ Plug the W inTV USB into your PC or laptop’s USB port(Af ter booting intoWindows) ✓ Install the drivers with the W inTV USB Installation CD-ROM ✓ A fter the W[...]

Contents of the WinTV -USB package. W inTV-USB or W inTV-USB-FM unit 1 meter audio cable - sound cable for connecting between the WinTV -USB and your sound card S-V ideo to composite adapter FM radio antenna (on W inTV USB -FM models equipped with FM radio) W inTV-USB W ar ranty registration card W inTV-USB Installation CD-ROM with: WinTV2000 appli[...]

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 A fter 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, inse[...]

N ote: Be sure to use the exact version of Windows 98 CD- ROM that is installed on your system. If you are using Windows98 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 manual[...]

T o connect the audio from your VCR or camcorder , use an 1/8” stereo minijack exten- sion 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 Line In jack on the WinTV USB . N ote:. If you need a female RCA to 1/8” minijack adapter, these adapters ca[...]

The V olumeControl application is started by clicking either : Start/P rograms/Accessories/Multimedia/V olumeContr ol or Start/P rograms/Accessories/Entertainment/V olumeContr ol or Double click the speaker icon in Systray Y ou should see Line-In balance as one of the selections. If not, then click on Options/P roperties and under Show the followin[...]

2-1 The WinTV2000 Application Snapshot button F reeze Configure snapshot Software remote control Color/audio configuration Full screen TV Remov e toolbar Minimize Close Snapshot view er window - double clic k on each “thumbnail” to see image full size Current TV channel or video source Click y our right mouse button here to remo v e toolbars. C[...]

2-2 W inTV -USB Installation and R eference Manual P revious channel Dolby P roLogic On/Off * V olume level Channel indicator Mono / Stereo indicator TV image size T oolbar Video source selector Channel Suites F ull screen TV mode F reeze frame Mute Motion video capture mode * Still frame image capture mode W atch TV mode R adio* Channel sur f V ol[...]

Running the WinTV application A fter installing the WinTV application from the WinTV USB Installation CD-ROM , you will see icons on your Windows background. Start W inTV32 by double clicking on its icon. Once the Application is initialized, you should see the RED light illuminate on the WinTV USB. Y ou can also click on Start/P r ograms/HauppaugeW[...]

Y ou can modif y the channel names by single clicking on the channel, then clicking Edit . Change the channel name to the name that you would like to have dis- played in the 32 toolbar . Still Frame Image Capture mode Y ou can switch the 32 application into the high quality image capture mode by clicking on the Still F rame Image Capture Mode butto[...]

Y ou can capture images up to 1600x1200 pixels. T o reduce the effects of motion in the video image, but with lower image resolution, in the Fields Captured option choose 1 (Motion) . Motion Video Capture mode Y ou can switch the 32 application into the motion video capture mode by clicking on the Motion V ideo Capture Mode button on the toolbar (s[...]

F or best per formance when capturing, set the Image F ormat to YUY2 or RGB , and the Image Dimensions to 320x240 . Although you can capture larger than 320x240 , the file size will be larger and the video capture quality will be down graded. The number of F rames per second captured (up to the limit of 30 fps) is set in the File F older icon in th[...]

button in the middle of the WinTV window and moving it to the new position. Then let it go! Move the WinTV window in T itleMode by clicking and holding your mouse button on the Title Bar (where it says Hauppauge W inTV32), hold- ing it down and dragging it to the new position. Y ou can set a different size and a different place on your VG A screen [...]

Y ou’ll see the Channel Manager . F rom the Channel Manager , you can A dd, Edit or Delete channels. Y ou can also create channel suites, which are subsets of the All Channel suite. F or example, you can have a suite of just TV news channels, and name this suite “News”. Channel Suites allow you to create a subset of all the channels, so that [...]

Setting full screen TV mode Click Display/P refer ences/View and then click on the TV Mode tab. Set Allow Resolution Change . If you then click on the TV icon on the 32 T oolbar , the application will switch the VG A mode to the chosen size (using the Windows Quick Res feature), allowing the image to be viewed full screen. W inTV -USB Installation [...]

Image Save, Print and Copy to Clipboard The process to save, print or copy an image starts with the digitizing of a single video frame. When one of these functions are clicked on, the next video frame is moved into your PC ’s main system memor y instead of the VG A display . Y our PC ’s processor then converts the digitized video image into a 2[...]

Adjusting the video image’s color Y ou can adjust the brightness, contrast saturation and hue of the live TV image by using the color adjustment menu. Click on Configure / Color to get the adjustment menu: Options Menu The Options Menu has settings for Always-on- T op mode and Aspect ratio mode plus duplicates buttons found on the toolbar for ope[...]

Keyboard control of the 32 application Convenient keyboard controls duplicate the functions of the toolbar . V olume Up = P age Up V olume Down = P age Down Mute = Ctrl+M Channel Up = Plus (+) Channel Down = Minus (-) P rint a F rame = Ctrl+P Copy to Clipboard = Ctrl+C Copy from Clipboard = Ctrl+V F reeze F rame = Ctrl+F F ull screen TV mode = Ctrl[...]

Click on Browse , then look in the P r ogram Files / director y . Select WinTV 32.exe . Then click on NEXT to finish to set up the shortcut. W inTV -USB Installation and R eference Manual 2-13[...]

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Creating Digital Video movies with WinTV -USB Overview of Video Clip Capture Live video which is digitized by the video digitizer (see “How W inTV USB works”) can be “captured” as a video sequence (or “video clip”) by using the W inTV Captur e program. This program is provided in the W inTV Application and uses Microsoft’s WDM for Win[...]

Using WinTV Capture The WinTV-Capture program is an easy-to-use program that previews live video, captures an A VI file to disk, and plays back the A VI file to your VG A screen. WinTV -Capture can capture and playback video clips, but does not pro- vide video editing capabilities. Digital video editing programs such as Adobe P remiere or U-Lead Me[...]

The WinTV -Capture program can use several different types of color formats when capturing video clips. F or highest capture per formance, choose the YUY2 OR RGB for mats. These give excellent capture image quality and frame rate, but will give slow per for mance on playback of 320x240 image size videos. YUY2 OR RGB for mats are also good if you pl[...]

a) Make sure the audio output of the card is plugged into the LineInput of the sound board. b) Make sure the LineInput volume for recording is set cor rectly and not muted. Open the V olume control panel, then click on Options / P r operties . In the panel Adjust volume for r ecording set for Recording . Make sure LineInput is checked under Show th[...]

The consumption of hard disk space is dependent upon the size of the video image while capturing, the image for mat plus the number of frames/second. Using the YUY2 OR RGB image for mat, the following chart shows hard disk space con- sumed: image size frames/second bytes per second 1 minute video 160x120 15 frames/sec 425 Kbytes/sec 26 Mbytes 320x2[...]

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T eletext Data Reception using VTPlus ( I n Europe ONL Y) T eletext is used in Europe and other parts of the world to transmit digital data along with a television picture. T eletext data is transmitted in an invisible part of the TV picture called the "V ertical Blanking Inter val" or VBI. T eletext data is normally for matted into pages[...]

Starting VTPlus If the VTPlus application is provided on CD-ROM, then it will automatically be installed from the Installation CD-ROM. T o start VTPlus, click on the VTPlus button in WinTV32 or click on the TELE button in WinTV2000 . this will close the TV application and launch VTPlus. The WinTV USB cannot r un the application and VTPlus at the sa[...]

VTPlus toolbar *Note: These fuctions are not applicable in the UK. 1. Reception indicator : when this symbol is red, your requested page is being received. 2. Script: shortcut for Options/Script . See Help for infor mation on program- ming the Script. 3. Select previous Subpage: indicates, when dark, that there are subpages before the cur rent subp[...]

Quickselect T eletext pages By using the Ctrl + N key a Create and Receive page pops up requesting a page number . T ype the requested page number . If this page is to be received continuous- ly (ever y time the page is received, the page is automatically updated), click the Update Continuously box. Many T eletext pages have a reference to other pa[...]

Then click on Edit/Copy option from the Edit menu and click the left button mouse. The infor mation is now in the PC memor y . T o create a link to the DDE supported applications (such as your spreadsheet), select “ edit past special ” in your application and choose the past link option. VTPlus will now create a direct link to your program. Whe[...]

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Using the Radio Application If you have purchased the -radio device, in addition to watching TV you can also tune in radio stations on the FM band. The radio device has two aerial inputs, one for TV and one for FM radio. If your TV antenna (or cable TV network) car ries both TV and FM radio, you can con- nect to the TV antenna connector only: Runni[...]

Using the Radio Buttons V olume: The audio volume is adjusted by setting the LineIn level in the V olume Control applet. T une: Fine tune the cur rent radio channel. Seek: Search for the next active FM radio channel. Mem: Sets a FM radio channel preset. T o assign the cur rent station to a preset, click on Mem and then on one of the Preset buttons [...]

1. Scan Mode: P resets - When P r esets is chosen and the Scan button is clicked, -radio tunes in only the stations which are assigned to the P reset but- tons. 2. Scan Mode: All - When All is chosen and the Scan button is clicked, - radio tunes in all radio stations. 3. F requencies - A list of all frequencies assigned to the preset buttons is sho[...]

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How WinTV -USB W orks Video Overlay mode of operation Live TV can be displayed on your VG A screen by using either the Video Overlay or the P rimar y Surface mode. The mode which is used is dependent upon your PC ’s hardware and sof tware. If your PC: - has a VG A display adapter which supports Windows98 Direct Draw , - and your VG A has a Video [...]

Also, because the video is moved directly onto the P rimar y Sur face, features such as close captioning and full-screen TV in resolutions greater than 640x480 will be disabled. 6-2 W inTV -USB Installation and R eference Manual[...]

T roubleshooting This chapter includes troubleshooting help for solving common problems. Problem: Bad colors in the TV window If your VG A display is r unning in 256 color mode, the TV picture will be dis- played with only 256 colors. This compares with the 16 million different colors which are in the original TV image. The colors in the TV window [...]

enough video RAM to hold the TV image. In this case, resorts to P rimar y Sur face mode, which lowers image quality . A memor y upgrade on your VG A dis- play adapter might fix this problem. Another possible cause of this problem could be that your VG A display adapter does not support Windows 98 Direct Draw . In this case, you might consider an up[...]

Primary Surface mode & DIB Draw It is sometimes useful to use a mode of operation of your VG A card known as P rimar y Surface mode or DIB Draw . This can be helpful in eliminating VG A compatibility problems, or improving picture quality on some VG A boards when used in some resolutions. T o use P rimar y Sur face mode, r un the program "[...]

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Updating the driver F rom time to time, there might be a new W inTV USB driver which is an improvement over the existing driver . Driver updates can be downloaded from the Hauppauge Inter net W eb site (see the front page of this manual for the URL). The WinTV USB update is combined with the driver uninstaller and the driver installer . Once you ha[...]

Click Next . The Update program now uninstalls the existing WinTV -USB driver , then copies a number of files to your hard disk: A fter the Driver installation program has copied all of the files over to your disk drive, you will be asked to reboot: Click OK to reboot your PC. A fter rebooting Windows98, an automatic installation of the new driver [...]

The HCWCLEAR application can be found in the MISC/UTILITY director y: Run HCWCLEAR by double clicking on its icon: Click OK . Y ou will then see the following message: Click Ye s . If there are any er rors which come up during the r unning of HCWCLEAR , then W inTV -USB Installation and R eference Manual 8-3[...]

it means that there is an application r unning which is using the drivers. F or exam- ple, if you see the following er ror : it means that one of the WinTV USB driver files in use . Y ou can either ignore the er ror , or can can double check to make sure there are no applications r unning in the system that might be using the WinTV USB driver . In [...]

T echnical Support T echnical support telephone If you have questions regarding installation or compatibility , please contact our technical support staff at: (631) 434-3197 (631) 434-3198 Fax USB FAQ-URL www .hauppauge.com/html/faqusb.htm Service If you should need assistance with the installation, operation, or application of your Hauppauge WinTV[...]

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The Hauppauge Limited W arranty W arranty Hauppauge Computer W orks, Inc. war rants the W inTV USB to be free from defects in material and workmanship for a period of 2 years from date of initial retail purchase. W e will, at our option, repair or replace a defective product. The limited war ranty does not cover any losses or damage that occur as a[...]

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