USB-Live2
Quick Installation Guide for Windows 7,
Vista and Windows XP (all versions)
●USB-Live2 video capture device
●WinTV v7 Installation
CD-ROM
●ULead DVD
MovieFactoryfor
making CD’s and
DVD’s from your video
recordings
1. Contents of the USB-Live2 package
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 cableinto 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.
3. Installing the USB-Live2 device
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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 PC’s CD-
ROM drive. You will see an
AutoPlay message.
Click Run Setup.exe
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 Inputsand click Next.
You will be presented with the option to add a Compositeand
an S-Video Input. Either leave the selection as ‘Auto’ or select
the video source 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 is the commonly used format in Europe. NTSC is the
broadcast format used in North America.
To video, click the Watch TV button.
Options menu
The Options menuis the main menu where you can select
channels, turn on close captions, open the TV Scheduler, show
Using the WinTV v7 application
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.
Watch, Pause and Record Video
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 video you are watching.
Clicking on the Pause buttonwill cause the video to pause,
while clicking the Record buttonwill 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
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 buttonand select the last file
recorded to play the video you just recorded
- To play a video you recorded earlier, click the Playback
File buttonand then move your mouse and click once on
the video you want to play. Click Openand 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 menuand 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:
- Click the
Pausebutton. 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.
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
Channel
name/number
Record/Pause/Play
controls
Channel list display
always on
TV Channel list
Volume adjust
and mute
Channel
up/down
Close WinTV
Playback file
menu
Watch TV
Snapshot
Program Info
Settings menu
Options menu
click your right mouse buttonto view
Playback menu
Channel list
TV Scheduler
Close captions
Always on top
5. Running WinTV v7 for the first time
Fast channel select
numbers
4. Installing the USB-Live2 software
For all versions of Windows:
Insert the WinTV Installation CD-ROM in your PC’s CD-ROM
drive.
The “Hauppauge WinTV Installation CD-ROM” window will
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
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.
Note: 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 USB-
Live2 recordings to DVD or CD.
When recording live video with the WinTV v7 application, USB-
Live2 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.
2. How the USB-Live2 works
Record
Playback
file
Program
info
Skip back
1 minute
Skip back
10 seconds Pause/Play
Stop Skip
ahead 1
minute
Skip
ahead 30
seconds
Settings
menu
Time bar