Hauppauge WINTV-HVR-1250 - Manual (Page 2)

scanning process takes about 10 minutes.
External audio/video sources
You can bring video into the WinTV from an
external audio/video source such as a cable TV or
satellite set top box.
In the Device Setup Wizard , select External
Inputs and click Next .
You will be presented with the option to add a
Composite and an S-Video Input. Please
select your country (if not correct) and click Next .
If you wish to connect a source not normally designed for operation in your country, you can
configure the Video Format manually from the drop down list. Change the value from “AUTO”.
Note: Pal BGHIDK is the commonly used format in Europe. NTSC is the broadcast format used in
North America.
Rescanning TV channels
If you want to rescan for TV channels, click the Setup menu (the gear button in the lower left
corner of WinTV v7).
Then click on the Devices tab. Choose your WinTV device by clicking on it, then click Tuner
setup . Chose the TV format you want to scan, then click Next . Click Next and a new scan will be
started. When the scan is complete, click Next / Next and OK .
To watch TV, click the
Watch TV button.
To see the TV
Channel list , click
your right mouse
button in the TV
window to display the
Options menu .
Select Find
Channel . You will
see the channel list.
To display the channel
list all the time, while
the channel list is
displayed, click the
Channel list display always on button.
Options menu
The Options menu is the main menu where you can select channels, turn on closed captions,
open the TV Scheduler and many other of the most important TV control functions.
To bring up the Options Menu, click your right mouse button once in the TV window .
To see the channel list, click on Find channel . You will see the list of channels which have been
scanned.
Using the WinTV v7 application
To show the Channel menu as
part of the TV window, click the
Channel list always on icon
at the top of the channel list.
To turn on Closed captions,
click on
Show Captions .
To manually schedule a TV
recording, or to see which
programs have been
scheduled, click on
Scheduler .
To turn on the Always on
Top mode, click on Stay on
Top .
Watch, Pause and Record TV
WinTV v7 is always recording video to your PC’s hard drive while TV is being displayed. In this way,
you can immediately skip back and replay the TV program you are watching.
Clicking on the Pause button will cause the video to pause, while clicking the Record
button will cause the current TV program to be recorded to hard disk.
Recording your TV shows
If you want to record a TV show you are watching:
- Click the Record button . The recorded file name will popup on the video for a few sec-
onds as the recording starts.
- When you are finished recording, click the Stop button .
- Click the Playback file button and select the last file recorded to play the video you
just recorded
- To play a video you recorded earlier, click the Playback File button and then move
your mouse and click once on the video you want to play. Click Open and the file will
start playing.
The recorded video file is saved in the directory set in Recordings directory . The default
directory is MyVideos . To change this directory, click the Settings button and then the Folders
tab. Every time you record a file, a new file is automatically created. The file will be formatted as
(ChannelNumber)_(ChannelName)YearMonthDay_TIme.
For digital TV programs, the quality level recorded is the same as it is transmitted by the TV station.
For example, if the TV station is transmitting a high-definition program, WinTV will record the
program in high-definition.
Close captions, parental control information and SAP audio is recorded with digital TV programs.
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:
- 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 Play button
- To rewind the video to the beginning, click the Skip to the beginning button. If your
video was paused, click the Play button.
- To rewind the video 1 minute, click the Skip back 1 minute
button. If your video was paused, click the Play button.
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.
Selecting FM radio programs
On those WinTV products which support FM radio, if you have
scanned for FM radio staions in the section entitled “Using WinTV
for the first time” you can change the WinTV v7 application to FM
by clicking FM radio in the Source selector, found in the upper right
hand corner of the WinTV application.
Configuration menu
The WinTV v7 Configuration menu is
accessed by clicking the gear
button in the lower left hand
corner of WinTV v7.
General tab: you can set the
Video Renderer which allows
WinTV v7 to display video with
a wide range of graphics sys-
tems.
Devices tab: allows is where
you can re-scan for TV chan-
nels and set up the TV sources
in WinTV v7.
Parental control tab: is
where you can set the Parental Control level.
Advanced options: you can set options such as Convert TV recordings to .MPG file
type and Game mode here.
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
the WinTV application 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.
Click Scheduler . 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 record-
ing. 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
about 15 seconds to launch the WinTV and
start recording.
- Duration: number of minutes in the
recorded program.
- Recurrance: one time, daily, weekly.
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 sched-
ule 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 OK . You can add more recordings, clicking OK after each event is set.
When you are finished click Close . The WinTV program does not have to be running for the
Schedular to work. If WinTV is not running, it takes about 15 seconds to start WinTV and to start the
recording of TV.
Options menu
click your right mouse button to view
Playback menu
Channel list
TV Scheduler
Close captions
Always on top
Record
Playback
file
Program
info
Skip back
1 minute
Pause/Play
Stop Skip
ahead 1
minute
Skip back 10
seconds
Skip ahead
30 seconds
Settings
Time bar
Current channel
name and number
Record/Pause/Play
controls
Channel list display always on
TV Channel list
Volume adjust
and mute
Channel
up/down
Fast channel select
numbers
Close WinTV
WinTV source selector
Playback
file menu
Watch
TV
Program Info
Configuration
menu
(Settings
menu)