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Installing WinTV v7 

Turn on your Windows XP or Vista based PC, and boot into
Windows.

If a 'Found New Hardware' wizard appears, please cancel it and
allow windows to load fully before proceeding.

Insert the WinTV Installation CD-ROM in your PC’s CD-ROM drive.

“Hauppauge WinTV Installation CD-ROM” window will appear on the
screen.

Click the button labeled 

. 

A blue screen will open and begin installing the drivers for your WinTV.

Once the drivers have installed,
click on the 

to exit.

Install the WinTV
applications

Click the button labeled

The setup application will then
open and begin automattically
installing the WinTV application
components.

Once complete, click 

then 

.

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. On some model WinTVs, you have
multiple tuners and therefore you can select multiple
sources. For the WinTV-HVR-2250, you can chose either ATSC or Digital
QAM and Analog TV. You cannot chose both Digital ATSC and Digital
QAM.

ATSC digital over-the-air TV

Select 

and click 

. In the ATSC Setup menu, click

.  You will see the Digital

ATSC Scan scanning for digital
over-the-air channels. 

The digital TV scanning process
will scan from channels 2 to 68.
As TV channels are found, they
will appear in the Channel box.

When complete, click 

/

and 

.

Clear QAM Digital Cable
TV
Clear QAM digital cable TV chan-
nels are those TV channels broad-
cast on a digital cable network

which are unencrypted (‘free to
view’). If you have a cable operator
who transmits clear QAM digital TV
programs, chose 

and

.

Encrypted channels are automati-
cally not selected. The resulting
channels in the list might be both
standard and high definition chan-
nels.

Analog cable TV
Select your Country and your TV
Source from the drop down list. To
automatically scan for channels,
click 

to continue.

Click the 

button and WinTV will automatically scan for analog

channels. The scanning process takes about 10 minutes. 

Rescanning TV channels

If you want to rescan for TV channels, click the 

(Gear but-

ton in the lower left corner of WinTV v7). 

Then click on the 

. Chose your WinTV device by clicking on

it, then click 

. Chose the TV format you want to scan, then click

. Click 

and a new scan will be started. When the scan is com-

plete, click 

/ 

and 

.

Using the WinTV v7 application

To watch TV, click the 

button.

To see the TV Channel list, click your 

in the TV

window and select 

.

Options menu
The Options menu is the main menu where you can select channels,
turn on close captions, open the TV Scheduler, show the TV Guide and
many other of the most important TV control functions.

To bring up the Options Menu, click your 

once

in the TV window .

To see the channel list, click on 

. You will see the list of

channels which have been scanned. 

To show the Channel menu as part of the TV window, click the

icon at the top of the channel list.

To turn on Close captions, click on 

.

To manually schedule a TV recording, or to see which programs

have been scheduled, click on 

.

To turn on the Always on Top mode, click on 

.

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 

will cause the video to pause, while click-

ing the 

will cause the current TV program to be record-

ed to hard disk.

Recording your TV shows

If you want to record a TV show you are watching:

-

Click the 

. The recorded file name will popup on the

video for a few seconds as the recording starts.

-

When you are finished recording, click the 

.

-

Click the 

and select the last file recorded to

play the video you just recorded

-

To play a video you recorded earlier, click the 

and then move your mouse and click once on the video you want to

play. Click 

and the file will start playing. 

The recorded video file is saved in the directory set in Recordings direc-
tory. The default directory is MyVideos. To change this directory, click the

and then the 

. 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 trans-
mitted 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 quali-
ty 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 

button. Your TV video will stop and the Time counter

will start counting.

- 

To start the video from where you paused, click the 

- 

To pause the video again, click the 

- 

To rewind the video to the beginning, click the 

. If your video was paused, click the 

button.

- 

To rewind the video 10 seconds, click the 

. If your video was paused, click the 

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 win-
dow is showing video 1 minute and 23 seconds behind live video.

Options menu

click your right mouse button to view

Playback menu

Channel list

TV Scheduler

Close captions

Always on top

Channel

name/number

Program

Info

Record/Pause/Play

controls

Channel list display

always on

TV Channel list

Volume adjust

and mute

Channel

up/down

Playback

file menu

Settings

button

Watch

TV

Fast channel select

numbers

Close WinTV

Record

button

Playback

file 

button

Program

info

button

Skip back

1 minute

button

Pause/Play

button

Stop

button

Skip ahead

1 minute

button

Time bar

TV Scheduler

The 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 pro-
gram, even as the record-
ing 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 

. To set up an event for timed watching or recording,

click the 

. 

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 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 

. You can add more recordings, clicking 

after each event is set. 

When you are finished click 

. 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.