Installing the USB-Live2 device
For all versions of Windows: Insert the WinTV Installation CD-ROM in your PCs CD-ROM drive. The Hauppauge WinTV Installation CD-ROM window will

USB-Live2

Quick Installation Guide for Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP (all versions)
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Locate a free USB 2.0 port (normally located at the side or back on the laptop or desktop). Plug USB-Live2 into the USB 2.0 port. Note: we do not recommend connecting via a USB Hub. Indicator LEDs The blue LED will be lit when USB-Live2 has been activated by Windows (device driver is loaded). The green LED will be lit when USB-Live2 is digitizing video. Connecting an A/V source Plug the A/V input cable into the connector on the side of the USB-Live2 (see picture below). Connect your A/V source using either the Composite or S-Video and the audio jacks. The A/V connector can be removed from USB-Live2 by clicking the Push button on the end of the A/V connector.
Contents of the USB-Live2 package
USB-Live2 video capture device WinTV v7 Installation

CD-ROM

ULead DVD
appear on the screen. Install the WinTV driver Click the button labeled Step 1: Install drivers. A blue screen will open and begin installing the drivers for your WinTV. Once the drivers have installed, click on the Finish bar to exit. Install the WinTV applications
MovieFactory for making CDs and DVDs from your video recordings

How the USB-Live2 works

Click the button labeled Step 2: Install WinTV The setup application will then open and begin automattically installing the WinTV application components. Once complete, click OK then Exit.
ote: the latest driver updates are available at: www.hauppauge.com
USB-Live2 is a Windows video capture device. It can be used for digitizing and compressing video from video cameras, video tape recorders and other devices which create analog video signals. Included with USB-Live2 are two applications: WinTV v7, which is used for displaying live video on your PC screen and to create video recordings, DVD MovieFactory, which can be used to burn your USBLive2 recordings to DVD or CD. When recording live video with the WinTV v7 application, USBLive2 creates a.TS (transport stream) file. Using options in the WinTV v7 application, you can also create.MPEG files. DVD MovieFactory can burn.TS files to DVD or CD. Therefore, you can use WinTV v7 to record videos, and then immediately use DVD MovieFactory to burn those recordings to DVD or CD disk. USB-Live2 is based on a Windows WDM capture driver, which will be compatible with most video applications which use WDM capture devices.
Installing the USB-Live2 software
For Windows XP installations: After you install your WinTV device and boot Windows, a 'Found New Hardware' wizard will appear. Please cancel it and allow windows to load fully before proceeding. You might see this message two or three times. Please click Cancel each time you see the New Hardware Wizard. For Windows 7: Insert the WinTV Installation CD-ROM in your PCs CDROM drive. You will see an AutoPlay message. Click Run Setup.exe
5. Running WinTV v7 for the first time
To run the WinTV v7 application for displaying live video, 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 External Inputs and click Next. Channel name/number
Settings menu Program Info Playback file menu Snapshot Watch TV
Close WinTV Channel list display always on
Settings Program info menu

Record Playback file

Skip back 1 minute Stop

Time bar

Skip back 10 seconds

Skip ahead 30 seconds

Pause/Play

Skip ahead 1 minute

Fast channel select numbers TV Channel list Record/Pause/Play controls Volume adjust and mute Channel up/down
Recording videos If you want to record a video: Click the Record button. The recorded file name will popup on the video for a few seconds 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 TV Guide 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 manually schedule a video 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. You will be presented with the option to add a Composite and an S-Video Input. Either leave the selection as Auto or select the video source and click Next.

Options menu click your right mouse button to view Playback menu Channel list
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 menu 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 analog video using the SoftPVR 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 video you are watching:
TV Scheduler Close captions

Always on top

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

Watch, Pause and Record Video
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 is the commonly used format in Europe. NTSC is the broadcast format used in North America. WinTV v7 is always recording video to your PCs hard drive while TV is being displayed. In this way, you can immediately skip back and replay the video you are watching. Clicking on the Pause button will cause the video to pause, while clicking the Record button will cause the current video to be recorded to hard disk. Recorded video formats:.TS or.MPEG The default recording format is.TS (transport stream). These are MPEG-2 files but with a.TS file extension. If you have a video editing program which requires files of the type MPEG, click on the Settings menu, click the Advanced Options tab and set Auto convert to MPG. Your recordings will now be made in an MPEG-2 format with the file extension.MPG -
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.

Using the WinTV v7 application
To video, click the Watch TV button. Options menu The Options menu is the main menu where you can select channels, turn on close captions, open the TV Scheduler, show

Image capture

To capture still images from video, click the Snapshot button. The configuration of the formats for still image capture is in the Capture settings. To configure, click the Settings menu
button, then click on the Capture folder. You will see the settings for image capture under Snapshots. You can chose between BMP and JPEG formats.
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.
clicking them while in the timeline bar. When you are finished adding videos, click Next and proceed to creating a DVD menu and then onto DVD burning. Recording videos with WinTV v7 for use in DVD MovieFactory Recordings made with the USB-Live2 in the WinTV v7 application are normally saved in the MyVideos directory, To change this directory, click the Settings menu and then the Folders tab. You can set the directory in Recorded videos. With the WinTV v7 application, every time you create a recording a new file is automatically created. The file will be formatted as: (ChannelNumber)_(ChannelName)YearMonthDay_TIme.

TV Scheduler

WinTV v7s built-in TV Scheduler allows you to schedule video recordings. Once a record event is set, WinTV v7 can be closed and 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. 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.
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.
Making DVD movies with DVD MovieFactory
The USB-Live2 package includes a DVD disk burning package called DVD MovieFactory. This program is found on the ULead DVD MovieFactory CD. To install DVD MovieFactory on your PC, insert the CD. The installer should start automatically. Click Next to continue through the installation. When you have finished the installation, you will see the DVD MovieFactory icon on your Windows desktop. Double click on it to start the DVD MovieFactory launcher. To create a DVD or CD movie disk, click Video disk / New project. Chose the type of disk you want to create (the most common disk is Create a Video Disk and click OK. To create a DVD movie, you must record your videos using WinTV v7, and then import them into DVD MovieFactory. You can record either.TS files (the default recorded file format) or.MPEG files since both formats are recognized by DVD MovieFactory. To bring your video recordings into DVD MovieFactory, click the Add video files button.

The items that need to be set for each event are: Name: you can add a name to the recording. 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
In DVD MovieFactory, you can trim your videos by double

Troubleshooting

ote: the latest USB-Live2 software can be found at http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_hvr950Q.ht
If this setting does not help, or if you experience WinTV not responding after a channel change, then your graphics system cannot use hardware graphics acceleration. In this case go back to settings and uncheck use hardware acceleration and rerun WinTV. Uninstalling the WinTV driver and applications Run the hcwclear.exe from the installation CD. Select OK A black screen will briefly appear and once it has disappeared the software will be removed. If you now re-start the computer you will be at Step 4 of the installation.
Jerky video with live video Jerky or distorted video can be caused by two things in your PC or laptop: a slow CPU which cannot decode the video signal fast enough, and a graphics system which cannot keep up with the video decode. Many times, improving the performance of the graphics display will fix the jerky video display. Here are some tips on improving graphics performance: - Use the latest graphics driver: graphics drivers are often tweaked to improve performance, especially the built-in graphics on laptops. Check the Microsoft Windows update site to download the latest graphics driver for your computer. For Dell computers, check the Dell website for the latest graphics driver. - Use WinTV v7 Video Renderer settings to optimize graphics performance: The Video Renderer is found in the General tab of WinTV v7, and is used to change the display mode of a graphics card for TV watching. This setting does not affect any other Windows program. The default mode is EVR. The other modes are VMR9, VMR7

Keyboard shortcuts

Ctrl A Ctrl D
Aspect ratio Display the video and audio format of the TV program Freeze the video Open TV Scheduler Full screen toggle Open File menu for playback Open the Task Menu
Alt P Ctrl Q Ctrl P Alt R Alt S Alt T Ctrl C Ctrl > Ctrl <
Previous video source Pause Play Record Stop Start video Catch up Skip ahead Skip back
Ctrl F Ctrl Z Ctrl W Alt F Alt M

FCC Statement

Radio Interference Statement: The WinTV products 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 harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: reorient or relocate the receiving antenna,increase the separation between the equipment and receiver, connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected, consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. FCC ID: H90WINTV CE Statement: This equipment has been tested and complies with EN

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and Overlay. Each mode uses a different process to render video. Try each mode and use the one which gives you the best results. To use hardware graphics acceleration, put a check in the tick box Use hardware acceleration when possible. This will allow your graphics system to use hardware acceleration for video decode. Note: graphics hardware acceleration does not work on all systems.

HAUPPAUGE TV-USBLIVE2 Video Capture Adaptor
USB-Live2: a USB based video capture device for your Windows PC Watch live video, grab images and movies plus videoconference* on your PC or Laptop
Bring live video into your PC from camcorder, VCR or video camera. Maximum video format size: 720x480 (NTSC video). Save still and motion video images to your hard disk. Videoconference* over the Internet. For Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.
USB-Live2 has lots of great features USB-Live2 has some new features compared with the USB-Live::
A removable A/V cable set, so you can leave the cables connected to your A/V source while moving the USB-Live2 to a different computer. The A/V cable set attaches to USB-Live2 with a secure latching connector. Indicator LEDs showing that USB-Live2 is powered on and a video signal is present Full 720x480 video mode (NTSC)
And some of the same great features: Snap and print stills from whatever you're watching. Or record video clips from your camcorder or VCR to create your own highimpact presentations. The easiest way to bring video into your PC or laptop! Don't open your PC! USB-Live2 is an external device which connects your VCR, camcorder or video camera to your PC or laptop. Plug the USB-Live into the USB port and you're ready to watch video in a resizable window, right on your PC screen! USB-Live2 digitizes video using high quality 4:2:2 video sampling. And you can work on applications while simultaneously watching video in a resizable window. System Requirements

Specifications

Video digitizer: 720x480 for NTSC, 720x576 for PAL video sources Video source: S-Video or composite video Audio input: left and right audio 50cm USB cable
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PC with Pentium processor or faster Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP (service pack 2) USB 2.0 port CD-ROM drive for software installation