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WinTV-HVR-1250
Quick Installation Guide
for Windows Vista (all versions)
QI-WINTV-HVR1250-V1A · 2/1/2008 © Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 2007, 2008
● WinTV-HVR-1250 board
● Remote control transmitter with 2
AAA batteries (on some models only)
● Remote control receiver cable
with velcro dot fastener (on some
models only)
● WinTV-HVR Windows Installation
CD-ROM with:
· WinTV application with
SoftPVR™
· WinTV Scheduler
· WinTV Utilities
1. Contents of the WinTV-HVR-1250 package
To install, switch off the computer and remove the computer cover. The
manufacturer of your PC supplies instructions on removing the PC cover.
N
ote: Your PC could be damaged by electrostatic discharge. Avoid this
by contacting the earthed chassis of your PC, before you open it or
touch the pci card.
● Locate a free PCIe slot. Unscrew and remove the metacover plate which covers
the back of the empty slot.
● Plug the WinTV-HVR-1250 board into the PCIe slot, and screw the WinTV-HVR-
1250 metal cover plate to the PC.
● Replace the computer cover.
3. Installing the WinTV-HVR-1250 board
You can now connect the leads
provided to the WinTV-HVR-1250. You
will only need to connect using the S-
Video or Comp Vid In or Left/Right
Audio In if you are using a external
audio/video source.
TV connector: either cable TV for
analog and clear QAM digital or a TV
antenna for ATSC TV.
Composite video input: Composite
video Input (RCA)
S-Video/Composite: Video input
connector. For either S-Video or
composite (composite video requires
the S-Video to composite adapter).
Left/right audio input: Stereo audio
input using 1/8” mini stereo jack,
from the audio output of your source
4. Connecting the Aerial and IR cable
5. Install the WinTV-HVR-1250 driver
To start the WinTV software installation,
click Start / Run then type your CD-
ROM drive letter (for example: D:\) and
then Setup.exe
Chose a language, and click Next.
Once the installation procedure is
finished you will see the
WinTV Icon on
your desktop. It is also listed in the Start
menu under the Program files and
“
Hauppauge WinTV” folder.
Can you now click on
Start / Shut Down
and Restart to re-start the computer.
6. WinTV Software Installation
Clicking on the Record button will cause the Record menu to roll down
and start recording. Click the Playback button to open the Playback
menu.
Recording TV with the WinTV
When recording clear QAM and ATSC digital TV, the recording format is the
same as the digital TV resolution of the TV program. These recordings will
consume a large amount of hard disk space. For example, if the TV
program is being transmitted at the highest ATSC resolution, called “1080i’,
the recording will consume 5.6 Gigabytes of disk space per hour of
recording.
When recording analog cable TV using SoftPVR, the ‘DVD’ MPEG-2 format
will typically consume 2.8 Gbytes per hour.
Record and Playback menu
Recording TV
Click the Record button on the WinTV application to open the Record
control bar, automatically generate a file name and start recording your TV
program.
Clicking the Record button while recording will start an automatic timer.
Click the Record button once for 15 minutes, twice for 30 minutes and so
on.
Configuring the record formats
When recording analog TV, WinTV uses your PC or laptops processor and
Hauppauge’s SoftPVR to
make the recording. The
default recording quality is
DVD. To configure the
directory to store video
recordings and to check the
analog recording format, click
the Pref button and then
Movies.
Note: since ATSC digital
recording uses the format the
original TV program is
broadcast in, there are no
other recording format options.
Time counter - the time is specified in a Hour:Minute:Second format.
Stop: Clicking the Stop button will stop the video you are recording or
playing back.
Play: Clicking the Play button will playback from disk the last video file
created. When playing a video, you can rewind, fast forward, replay 10 sec
or skip forward 10 sec using the buttons on the control bar.
Pause: Clicking the Pause button while Playing will pause your
audio/video.
Rewind button: Clicking the Rewind button will play the video file in
reverse. Clicking the Rewind button again will continue the playing of the
video.
Fast forward button: Clicking the Fast Forward button one time will fast
forward your video at 2X speed. Clicking the Fast Forward button two times
Running WinTV for the first time
To start the WinTV application, double click on the WinTV icon on your
desk top. When you run WinTV for the first time, a message says Would
you like to scan for channels now? Click YES.
Choose “Cable TV” to scan your cable TV for both analog and clear QAM
digital cable TV channels. If you choose “Antenna”, both over-the-air
ATSC digital TV and analog channels will be scaned.
Click the Scan button and WinTV will automatically scan for channels. The
scanning process takes about
10 minutes. The scanning
process for ATSC will scan from
channels 2 to 68.
Channel names
Click your right mouse button
in the Channel Name box to
see a list of channels which
have been scanned. You can
also see the channel list by
clicking Menu / Channel Suite
Manager / Sources and then
chosing either analog, ATSC
or clear QAM.
The ATSC digital TV channels
that are found will appear in the
channel listing box. The Name
is the name as defined by the broadcaster. The Channel number is created
by the WinTV application. For ATSC digital channels, since each primary
channel might have several subchannels, the channel number is calculated
so that channel 22.2 would be listed as 1222. Channel 7.2 would be listed
TV Connector for
analog or digital TV
signal
Left/Right Audio
input (Line-In)
Remote control
receiver connector
S-Video/Composite
video input connector
Installing the WinTV-HVR under Vista
Boot into Windows Vista. Insert the WinTV-HVR Installation CD-ROM in
your PC’s CD-ROM drive.
When the Found New Hardware box
opens, click
Locate and install driver
software
.
Click
Continue. If you see a message
which asks about searching on-line, click
Don’t search on-line.
Click Next.
Click
Close.
Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. Telephone: 631-434-1600
91 Cabot Court Fax: 631-434-3198
Hauppauge, NY 11788 Tech Support: 631-434-3197
techsupport@hauppauge.com
Sales: sales@hauppauge.com
Web site: www.hauppauge.com
ATSC digital TV is a over-the-air digital TV for North America. ATSC digital
TV typically requires an antenna for reception, and is currently broadcast in
200 cities, with over 1500 TV stations.
Note: ATSC digital TV is NOT digital cable TV or digital satellite TV. WinTV-
HVR-1600 cannot receive digital satellite TV. You can receive digital cable
TV channels if they are broadcast “in the clear” (called “clear QAM”).
ATSC digital TV is transmitted in several resolutions, from “standard
definition” which is similar to cable TV, up to high definition which has about
16 times the resolution of normal cable TV. In any resolution, ATSC digital
TV gives sharper pictures than analog cable TV and near CD quality sound.
WinTV-HVR-1250 has a single TV tuner built-in, which can receive either
analog and digital cable TV or digital ATSC TV. It uses your PC or laptop’s
CPU for displaying TV programs on your PC screen.
The decoding of high definition ATSC is very processor intensive, and the
smoothness of high definition TV programs depends upon how fast your
PC or laptop system is. Other PC activities that consume CPU resources
might affect the display of ATSC digital TV. Slow video, jerky video and
momentary pausing of video are all results of a CPU which is temporarily
being used by other activities.
The portable antenna (supplied on some WinTV models) is designed
primarily for ATSC digital TV reception, and will work within 10 miles of an
ATSC transmitter (reception might be limited by obstructions such as steel
buildings).
For the best ATSC digital TV reception, a roof top ‘Wideband or Highgain’
antenna is recommended. In the U.S., a good ATSC digital antenna selector
can be found at TitanTV.com under Resources.
2. What is ATSC digital TV, and how does the WinTV-
HVR-1250 work?
7. The WinTV v6 application
“Always-on-Top” mode
Always on Top allows WinTV to be visible on your Windows desktop, on
top of any applications. To turn on, click the Always on top button. It will
turn green. To turn off, click this button again. A convenient way to use
Always-on-Top is to make the TV window in the no-title mode small and
make the TV window in the title mode larger. Then you can switch from a
small window to a larger one by clicking the right mouse button.
To hide the WinTV toolbar (No-title mode)
Click your right mouse button in the WinTV’s video window for the no-title
mode. To restore the toolbars (the title mode), once again click your right
mouse button in the video window. You can set the size of the window
differently in each mode.
Pref button
Click the Pref button to open the Preferences menu:
View: These are the settings for the On Screen Display of the TV channel
and Audio Volume plus controls for the Toolbar mode (Title mode),
NoToolbar mode (No Title) and Full Screen (TV mode).
Movies: Here is where you configure the video and audio setting for
SoftPVR. You can set the movie record directory (DVCR Record File Path),
the MPEG Quality settings, and the Audio settings.
Snapshot: Set the size of your captured image, and settings for
capturing motion or still images. Note: VMR must be the graphics setting
to enable snapshot.
Audio: Your audio settings are configured here.
Color: Adjust the color of your TV picture here.
Menu button
Click the Menu button to open the TV setup menu. Here is the main control
bar for TV channels, and duplicate controls for other functions:
Suite Manager: Configure the TV tuner (scanning, naming, channel
preset,etc) setting up ‘favorite channel lists’)
Configuration: Duplicate configuration menus for colour, audio, MPEG
settings, etc.
View: For setting an exact TV window size: 320x240, 640x480 etc.
Configuring an external A/V source in WinTV
To bring video from an external audio/video source, you will need audio
and video cables from your set top box.
When using an external audio/video source such as a satellite TV receiver,
VCR, cable TV set top box, camcorder, game console etc, you will need to
connect the S-Video input connector or Composite video input connector
for video and the Audio input (Line-In) for the sound.
To configure the external A/V source, in the WinTV application click Menu /
Suite Manager and Sources. To add the S-video or Composite source,
highlight the entry and then select the Video Format from the drop down
list. NTSC is the commonly used format in North America.
Select Add to finish. Then click Close. To select an external audio/video
source, click the Up and Down channel buttons to cycle through TV,
Composite and S-Video sources. The external A/V source is at the end of
the channel list.
TV Mode Pause Record Playback
8. Watch, pause and record TV
as 1072.
Some clear QAM channels are not broadcast with channel names.
Therefore, the WinTV application simply enters these with channel numbers.
For example, in the channel list you might see a channel named ‘2002
qam-2’. This means that this is a clear QAM channel where your local cable
operator did not include a channel name with this channel.
Not all QAM channels can be viewed. WinTV will detect all QAM channels
but only those which are broadcast without encryption (‘in the clear’) can
be watched.
Rescanning TV channels
If you want to rescan for TV channels, click Menu / Suite Manager. To scan
analog cable TV channels, under Sources, highlight Analog source and
click Auto scan.
To scan for digital cable TV channels, under Input Sources, highlight Clear
QAM source and click Auto scan.
To scan for ATSC digital TV channels, under Input Sources, highlight ATSC
source and click Auto scan.
During the scan for digital TV channels, the Signal Status will show a quality
level and the locked box will be checked if a channel is detected.
Other changes to channel listings
If you want to add names or fine tune an analog channel, click Menu /
Suite Manager / Sources. Choose Analog Source, ATSC source or clear
QAM source. You will see a list of your channels. Click on the desired
channel. Click the Tune button to change channel. You can change the
Name to the name of the station. To fine tune an analog channel, unclick
AFT and then use the Finetune slide bar. When finished, click Close.
Changing channels
You can change channels by clicking the Channel Up or Channel Down
buttons on the WinTV application. You can also type a channel number (for
example: 27 or 1021) and WinTV will tune to that channel. If the entered
channel does not exist, you will see a black window. You can also right click
in the Current TV channel box, where you will see a list of channels.
Changing the TV window size
You can change the size of the WinTV window by grabbing any corner and
dragging the video window to the desired size.
Displaying TV full screen
When you click the Full screen TV button, TV will appear full screen on
your PC monitor. When finished watching TV full screen, right click your
mouse button.
If you see video with a black box around it, click the Pref button then click
TV mode tab. Check the box which says “Allow resolution change”.
Snapshot Still
capture
Freeze picture
CFG
Configure Snapshot
Mute
Setup Menu
Full screen
Remove toolbars
no title mode
Minimise
Close
Channel surf
Channel down
Channel up
Last channel
Current TV channel
Click your right mouse button
in the TV window to remove
toolbars. Click again to
restore toolbars.
Record
Playback
Volume
Always on Top
Snapshot viewer
window:
Double click on each
thumbnail to see
image full size.Click
and hold your right
mouse button to see
image options.
Pause
TV-Mode
Channel List
Click your right mouse button
here to see the channel list
Connecting the Remote control
receiver cable
Plug the remote control receiver
cable into the Remote Control
Receiver Connector.
Position the round receiver sensor (at
the end of the remote control receiver
cable) where is can be “seen” by the
remote control transmitter. This is
normally at the front of your PC.