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A convenient way to use Always-on-Top is to make the TV window in the no-title mode small, and to make the TV window in the title mode larger. Then you can switch very quickly from a small window to a larger one by clicking the right mouse button. Click on the button "TV mode", in order to watch television in the full screen TV mode.

Click on the button Freeze, around the picture "to freeze". Clicking on Freeze will un Freeze the picture. A "Thumbnail" preview made smaller of the still image of the video window will appear in the snapshot preview border. Double click on the "Thumbnail", to see it in full size. Clicking the Button CFG allows you to configure the snapshot function. Set the Country and Source i. WinTV will scan through the possible channels and list those where a video signal is detected.

The channel frequencies will scan from 1 to 69 for antenna, or 1 to for cable. When channels are found they will be listed and the scanning will continue. After the completion of the channel scan a new window of an overview of the scanned frequencies and the number of found programs are will be displayed. Once you complete your fine tuning settings, you must click the Add button, which will add this frequency as a new channel into the WinTV suite manager.

You can then delete the original channel if you are replacing it with the newer fine tuned one. Tuning Mode provides two settings - one lists channels by country; the other lists all channels.

You can track progress at the Channel Dialog's upper right corner. When the process is finished, all available channels will be displayed in the Channel Dialog.

Unwanted Channels may be deleted from an input source by simply selecting them and pressing the Delete key from the channel list menu. You can shorten the channel scan if you know the channel numbers for your local transmitter by entering the numbers into the channel number and click on Tune. The channel search will count from 1 to and when a signal is found the box locked will have a tick.

You can shorten the channel scan if you know the Multiplex Channel Numbers for your local digital transmitter by entering the numbers into the Channel Number and click on Tune. You will see two columns. The left column is the channels as they have been scanned by WinTV v6. Then, click Save. When connecting a external source to the WinTV, please ensure that the cables are connected in the correct order.

This connection will give you the best video quality for analog video. This can also be found at most electronic retailers. If you are recording the video game, this will not matter. But if you intend to use your PC screen to play the video game, you might find this effect to be problematic. For the video input to the WinTV product, S-Video will give you the best video quality for analog video.

You can then edit the name of the channel. You have the option of creating a favorites channel list in the order that you want. Simply click on the channel name on the right hand side and drag the channel name to the left on top of the Favorite group on the left hand side window. You can also create a new channel suite if you prefer to create a new favorites group. Click on the Add Suite and type in a name for the new suite.

This is useful if you only want some channels to be shown in your TV channels list. Options - Always on Top Always on top will always make WinTV be visible on your windows desktop, it will be on top of any application. Options - Aspect Radio This option will force the aspect ratio to 4 x 3.

Display - Freeze Will stop the TV picture from moving. Display - Preferences.. Jpeg, BMP etc. File - Copy Allows you to copy the still image snapshots to the clipboard of Windows. File - Exit Will close down the TV application. Help - Tip of the Day Shows the tip of the day for useful information about the application. Help - About Shows information about the application version files and hardware.

There are three tabs: View, Movies and Snapshot. The annunciator font allows you to change the font type and color that will be used. Tab - Title mode TV picture with application Menu Aspect Ratio The option " aspect ratio" determines whether this is automatically selected, if you re-size the WinTV window with the mouse.

Enforce Aspect ratio When checked, the image's aspect ratio is preserved as the WinTV window is scaled. Selecting Enforce Aspect ratio will round off the height and width dimensions of the television image in order to maintain the proper aspect ratio. If Allow Screen Saver is checked, choosing the "Use System Screen Saver" option uses any current screen saver configuration on your computer. Pause Mode Record Path Refers to the temporary path of the file that is buffered during the pause mode.

WinTV records using the actual digital format. You will see "DVD bytes" which refers to the native video quality. When the image is saved to a file name below , you select a resolution for the snapshot, from x minimum to x actual size. Fields Captured Fields Captured Broadcast video uses an interlaced format, in which the odd-numbered scan lines and even-numbered scan lines are displayed separately; the eye combines them into a smooth image.

On the computer monitor output,, both fields are displayed at once. When taking a snapshot of a video image with little motion, Capture 2 Fields produces the most data and the clearest image. However, when taking a snapshot of a video image containing motion, capturing both fields may result in a blurred image. Therefore, use Capture 1 Field for best results. Experiment with these settings to achieve the desired results. Note: This option is only available on a WinTV product that supports this feature and will only be displayed if you are tuned into a channel or video input that supports this feature.

Current TV Audio preferences This area enables you to select audio preferences, from the source dependent Available. Here the brightness, the contrast, the saturation and hue can be changed for improving the picture quality for analog sources. Selecting default changes the settings back to default settings. Clicking on the Pause button will cause the Pause menu to roll down from the WinTV application, while clicking on the Record button will cause the Record menu to roll down.

Clicking on the Record will start a recording of the channel that you are watching. If you click on the button once, it will record for 15 Minutes, clicking twice will record for 30 minutes, clicking a third time will record for 45 minutes. Each click will record for another 15 minutes So 3 clicks will record for 45 minutes. This download is a complete installation package, including drivers for supported WinTV products plus the WinTV v8 application and utilities.

Note: If you have a WinTV v7. This only applies to unused WinTV v8. A WinTV v8. Installation on multiple computers: the WinTV application can be installed on as many PCs as needed as long as you use the same Hauppauge device. So as long as you use the same Hauppauge device, you can install on more than one computer. This download is a complete WinTV v8. WinTV v8 Users Manual. How to re-scan for channels in WinTV v8. You will see our online manual. In order to upgrade to WinTV v8.

Depending upon which Hauppauge tuner you have, you will have a choice of analog, digital or external inputs see the second picture below. You can also select all formats and let the WinTV application show you what it finds in each format if anything. The results should look like picture 3 below. Check your antenna or coax cable going to the Hauppauge product.

If your anti virus software is preventing the WinTV application from making a temporary video buffer. If this is the case, you'll need to either disable the anti-virus software or create an exception for the WinTV application in your anti-virus exception list. If you using a cable TV or satellite box, make sure the box is turned on.

If you see channels during the scan, but no channels are listed in WinTV channel list to see the channel list, right click your mouse on the live TV window, then select Find Channel , then something went wrong in the WinTV TV channel database.

We recommend that you delete the WinTV channel database before you re-scan for channels, especially if you think that your channel line up has changed. If, for example, you scanned WinTV with an over-the-air antenna but selected a cable TV line up in TitanTV, your channel line will be different and scheduled recordings will fail.

To understand why this happens, lets look at how the process of clicking the record button in TitanTV and how this turns into a WinTV Scheduled recording. When you click the red 'record' button in TitanTV, Titan delivers a.

But if the channel number doesn't match a channel which WinTV can tune to, WinTV ignores this attempt to schedule the recording and you will not see this scheduled item in the WinTV Scheduler. Click here to see a sample of this information. Can I record while my PC is sleeping? These instructions also show how the Hauppauge IR blaster can "learn" your set top box remote control. The IR Configuration Utility. Here are instructions on setting up Extend.

Here are instructions on setting up TitanTV. End user license agreement PDF. In WinTV v7, click on the [? In WinTV v8, you can find the manual on our website under the Manuals tab. During the installation, you will see a message Activation required. The installation will now proceed to completion. If you see channels during the scan, but no channels are listed in WinTV channel list to see the channel list, right click your mouse on the live TV window, then select Find Channel , then something went wrong in the WinTV TV channel database.

Click Details. Change the Preset number to the number you want. You can also change the channel Name. Example: You will need to follow this procedure if you are scheduling recordings with Titan TV online program guide. You can change the default directory by clicking on the settings icon in WinTV 7 gear then the capture tab. Here you will see the recoding directory you can click on browse and pick a new directory.

TV Signal strength:. If the TV signal strength is on the edge of being too low, you might see either a black screen where the live TV picture should be, or your live TV picture might be choppy. Also, be sure that the incoming signal from your video source is working properly.

Graphic display adapter related: The video graphics acceleration mode can cause choppy live video or possibly cause a black screen where the live TV picture should be. EVR is the default setting. If there is still no improvement, enabling extended logging in WinTV and emailing the log files to tech support will help in troubleshooting the problem.

Enable extended logging, exit WinTV and reopen it for the change to take effect. When recording digital TV, all recordings are made in whatever format your digital TV is being transmitted in. The files will be. TS files.

TS format. To edit your videos, you can use any software editor that can work with.