User manual COMPRO E900F START UP GUIDE

[. . . ] VideoMate Vista E900F Dual D/A HW2 PCIe Tuner Card Start Up Guide Compro Technology, Inc. www. comprousa. com Table of Contents VideoMate Vista E900F PCIe Tuner Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 VideoMate Vista E900F Package Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 VideoMate Vista E900F Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Open and close display panel 18 ComproDTV 4. 2 Control Panel The ComproDTV 4. 2 control panel resembles the controls on a VCR. Please note that not all options are available at all times, and may be grayed out or inaccessible depending on your hardware setup and TV services available. The following figure gives you the function of the button with (Hot key) Volume (- , +) Channel Up (Page Up) with Quick Channel list (I) Stop (S) Record (R) and Record Option Num Pad (W) Play (P) / Pause (U) Channel Down (Page down) Mute (M) Help (H) Docking (D) Minimize (G) Full Screen Close (CTRL+X) Volume Rewind (Left Arrow) Timeshift bar Fast Forward (Right Arrow) (- , +) Mute (M) Digital TV Signal Strength Number Pad (W) Option (O) Left/Right Audio Switch (J) Schedule (B) Video Source (V) Repeat Playback Recorded Files Last Channel (N) Channel Surf (F) Snapshot (Space) Timeshift (T) Add Window (F3) Reduce Window (F2) Windows Alignment (F5) Close All Windows (F6) Closed Caption (C) Teletext (X) EPG (E) No function 19 Video Source Switch (V) Audio mode HotKey A L TV / Timeshifting mode Description Enable/Disable Always-on-Top function for TV window. (Oregon circle on the upper-right corner of the TV window) Sleep function Video Desktop Open snapshot dialog box F7 F8 Note: Language select is only available while the program supports it. Start ComproDTV 4 and watch TV After installation, just press the yellow button of the last line on the remote or double click the ComproDTV 4 icon on the desktop, you will be able to watch TV. Close ComproDTV 4 and even shutdown the computer with the full function remote control keypad. Options Press the Options button to open the Options dialog box. You can change detail settings of ComproDTV 4 here. TV Settings This option gives you the way to manually set the method of scanning TV programs. Select your choice here or use default channel table to do the scanning. Autoscan The first time you start ComproDTV 4, Autoscan will automatically scan for available TV channels for TV signals. Please select your TV source from analog cable/antenna or from digital antenna. You can rescan the channels at any time by pressing the Autoscan button. Also, you can enable the advanced autoscan for more precision scan result. 20 When Autoscan is finished, detected channels are automatically enabled and . Channels, where a valid signal could marked with the green check mark not be detected, are disabled and marked with a blank. However, you can interrupt the scanning process by pressing the Stop button. After you are finished scanning for available channels, you may select OK to return to the display window, or customize the channel orders according to your preferences. Channel Naming You can customize the channel names by double-click on the CH Name field of the channel you wish to rename. You can do more changes on the channel's property by right-click the mouse on the Description field of the channel you wish to edit. Custom Settings for each channel You can customize each channel properties by click the icon in "Custom Settings" filed and edit it. In the channel property settings, you can setup video color and noise reduction level, de-interlacing level for each channel (noise reduction level, de-interlacing level, and sharpness setting are not suitable for digital TV). The SmartZoom property setting only works when you choose the custom SmartZoom display mode. Import and Export current channel list If you have edited the channel name, fine tune channel, or customize channel settings. You can export the current channel list to text file and save it to other 21 place. When you reinstall the ComproDTV 4 or your system, you can import the previous channel list and save your time for resetting it. Using my favorite channel list You can click to select using my favorite channel list from option window. And exit the list by yourselves to makes channel switch more convenient. Watch and Record 2 main TV Channels in E900F VideoMate Vista E900F built-in 2 hybrid DVB-T and analog TV tuners, it supports 3 modes of dual TV watch and record: Mode 1: Watch and record 2 main digital TV channel windows at once. Mode 3: Watch and record 1 digital and 1 analog TV channel windows at once. All these 3 modes also support playback recorded video file at the same time. To open the second TV windows, please click the PIP/POP icon the second TV window to want to watch. to open You can click the record button on ComproDTV 4's UI to record TV shows from the first tuner and click the right button of mouse on the second TV window to record the 2nd TV shows. Note The recording video formats will be the same in these 2 tuners when you record 2 TV shows at once. You can't record the 1st TV show at one format and record the 2nd TV show with another format. 22 Channel Surfing While watching TV, the channel surfing feature displays a 4x4 grid of channel images to give you an overview of available programming. [. . . ] You may also playback in sub window, then double click the screen to switch the content of the main and sub window. Why are images scrambled Please update the video and sound card drivers from vendors' web sites. The default drivers supplied with the Windows operating system are usually too old to operate correctly. If you still have problems, please install the latest ComproDTV 4 and driver from our website. 30 Video/Audio unsync or audio not normal If the audio and video are in not sync, please check the "Preview TV by Hardware Encoding" box which improves the sync between audio and video. In addition, it also removes the audio popping and cracking noise which is sometimes audible during your viewing. [. . . ]