Help

# TV and Radio

Experience the variety of digital TV and Radio.
brings you an easy to use and very comfortable application with numerous useful features. The TV pictures is scaled when resizing the application windows but it can also be displayed in full screen. You can easily change channels by clicking the alphabetically sorted channels in your program List. Or you can simply assign numbers to your favorite stations and create you own favorite List. Use the comfortable recording feature to record complete TV sequences to your hard disk.

The following buttons are located at the application window's left side.

• the Menu opens an additional dialog window
• the Program List
• the Program setup
• the Record/Playback tool bar

On the right side there are:

• the TV picture and perhaps
• the Program information (short-EPG)

Among the Station name the title bar contains buttons to change the appearance of:

• the TV picture (16:9 mode, entire window, full screen)
• the application window (minimize, maximize, close)

Hint: Almost any button, even dialog windows use Tooltips. They are small helpers that are automatically displayed when the mouse pointer is over a control for approximately a second. It might be necessary to first click the window's title bar to put into focus.

## Menu

The Menu contains buttons to access the following features:

• General Setup
• Display this Help

## Program List

All available stations are Listed here. You can specify your own display parameters.
You can set up:

• display TV or Radio programs
• display the Entire or Favorite List (TV or Radio)
• display your Favorites as a List or as a Matrix.

The Matrix button is only visible if the favorite List is shown.

When the stations are shown as a List you can simply tune to the station by clicking on it.
When your Favorites are shown as a Matrix simply click the number of your station.
The name of the station currently tuned in is displayed below the Program List. Besides that you can use the Program setup buttons below the Program List as well as the Remote control or the keyboard to switch channels.

Hint: If the program List is empty upon first start . To delete unwanted stations permanently from your List simply open the Search dialog and delete the station.

### Favorites

enables you to assign a program number to your favorite stations and this way add it to your Favorite List. There are to of those Lists, one for TV and one for Radio. Since they are completely independent TV as well as Radio stations can use all available slots.

Hint: Both TV and Radio List can only be edited when the programs are displayed as a List and not as matrix.

Here is how you add a TV or Radio station to your Favorites:

• Right click the station that is not yet in your Favorite List.
• Choose a slot from the according matrix.
• If the slot is already taken please choose one of the provided options below.

After storing the station in the List the slot number will be highlighted.

Deleting a TV or Radio station from your Favorite List:

• Right click the colored station.
• Choose one of the options below the matrix on what to do with the station.

After deleting the station is no longer shown on your Favorite List. Inside the program List it will be displayed in a neutral color again.

Hint: If you would like to remove all of your TV or Radio Favorites, switch to the Program List, right click the Favorites icon.

Changing the slot number of a station in your favorite List:

• Delete the program from your Favorite List as described above.
• Re-add the same station to your Favorite List.

## Program setup

Using this panel below the Program List you can set various values:

### Station

Depending on the station currently tuned in you can:

switch back one station
switch up one station
switch back to the station that was tuned in before

### Program information

The symbol lets you switch the mini EPG for on or off. This way you can have the start, title and subtitle displayed below the TV picture when they are broadcasted by the TV or Radio station.

### Electronic Program Guide (EPG)

This symbol is available when there is EPG data broadcasted by the TV or Radio station tuned in. You'll get the entire daily program schedule, some stations even provide EPG for days to come.

Hint: When there is EPG schedule information broadcasted by the TV or Radio station it will be received and saved by when the station is tuned in first time a day. In this case it'll take a little while for the EPG icon to appear. If it does not, it is safe to assume the station does not broadcast EPG data.

### Teletext

If a station is broadcasting Teletext (Videotext) the Teletext icon will be displayed.

### Volume

Move the slider to either increase or decrease the volume. Click the speaker to mute the sound. Click it again to turn the sound back on.

### Audio

Below the volume slider, the current audio channel is displayed. This is done as words, or the audio PID is shown. If neither language nor the PID is shown, the language information is not available. If a station is broadcasting multiple audio channels, a pop-up List lets you choose the desired language.

## Recording and Playback

is excellent in capturing TV and Radio programs to your hard drive. Record tasks can be programmed
in the Timer dialog. It is obvious, you also can start recording immediately with the record button provided on the user interface of the application,ideal for quickly recording a running program.

### Recording

Capturing can simply be started and stopped by pressing the Record button. A Pause button allows for pause and resume recording. Do not switch channels during recording (the record button is flashing). Stop recording first.
A file recorded this way will be stored on your hard drive with the previously set up recording-options and a name consisting of date and time of the recording.
The status bar shows the already recorded and still available space on your hard drive. Tooltips provide you with exact values, the estimated time available for recording (hours, or minutes), and the current recording format are shown.

Hint: If the recorded file exceeds the maximum file size a new file is automatically created and capturing will be continued without interruption. The status bar will be set back. All other displayed information does not change.

Hint: The data rates for audio and video streams of a few Mbit/s require fast and large hard drives. When capturing a typical video stream of 4 Mbit/s you will need approximately 30 MByte for one minute and 1.8 GByte of disk space for one hour. For longer recordings it is suggested to have a defragmented hard drive and to close all other running applications upon start.

### Playback

Open the Play dialog window to play back your recorded audio und video files.

### Time shift mode

Please click this icon to launch the Time shift mode. This will immediately start recording. Playback starts after a few seconds. Pro: When you're forced to interrupt watching (e.g. due to a phone call) simply click Pause button to pause playing (capturing is going on in the background) and resume watching after being back. Thus, you'll never miss any frame. Furthermore, you can rewind to see a scene once more.

### Turn the TV-Picture off

This Button turns the TV-Picture off and on.

Tip: This option makes sense, if a broadcast is recorded. The off-state TV-Picture causes much less computing power.

### Timer

Direct entry to the Timer tab.

### Sleepmode/Doze-off-Timer

With this Symbol you can define, at which time
shall be terminated.
One click on this symbol activates the Sleepmode and the Doze-off-Time-Display (flashing). Now you are able to adjust the time by clicking multiple. Every click adds 30 minutes. Please notice, that 6 hours is the maxiumum adjustable time. After setting time, the remaining time is displayed red. The Sleep-Timer is activated and the countdown starts.
If a normal Timer is programmed, the Sleeptimer will also be used after the start of
to shutoff after completed recording.

## Picture setup

The TV picture is displayed according to the specified window size either in 4:3 or 16:9 format. You can change the display mode by clicking the buttons on the title bar:

### 16:9 mode / aspect ratio

If a show is broadcasted in 16:9 only an additional button will be displayed in the title bar and you have three different choices for displaying the picture:

• 16:9 direct output
• 16:9 as 4:3 with black bars (Letter box)
• 16:9 as 4:3 format zoom (Pan & Scan)

Only in full screen there is no stretched picture of all above modes. You can set the 16:9 default mode according to your preferences.

### Full screen mode

By clicking this button you can switch to full screen. To return to the standard windowed mode simply press Esc key.

### Full windowed mode

By clicking this button you can switch to full windowed mode. All buttons will disappear and the picture takes up the entire window. The window can take any desired size. To return to standard windowed mode simply press Esc. When returning to full windowed mode the picture will have its previous size and position.

### Keep window always on top

This way you can force the
to be always on top of any other running application. Thus, you can watch TV while working in another application.

## Keyboard-Control

Hint: When keypresses show no action, you have to bring
in front by clicking on the title-bar or pressing Alt+Tab on the keyboard. In the fullscreen- and full-windowed-mode not all keys shown below work.

Following keys are available:

Keyvoard | Action
--- | ---
+ - Up Down | Next/Previous channel
Left Right | Decrease/Increase volume
M | Mute on/off
F Esc | Fullscreen on/off
W Esc | Full-Windowed-Mode on/off
V Esc | Teletext on/off
Spacebar Esc | Start/Stop Recording
T | Switch between TV/Favorites-List
I | Program info on/off
P Esc | Open/Close play dialog
X | Pause recording
Q | Change 16:9 mode
R | Switch between Radio-/Complete-List wechseln
BACKSPACE | Last selected station

Hint: Using the TV (resp. T) key you can display the TV program List or your Favorites as a List, or as a matrix. The same applies for RADIO (resp. R) key. The number keys are used to tune to the channel of the currently active List (TV or Radio). Enter both figures within a second to tune to the desired channel. On one-digit numbers you can skip the leading 0.

## Remote Control

Following keys are available:

IR-Remote-Control | Action
--- | ---
Up - Down | Next/Previous Station
Left Right | Increase/Decrease Volume
Speaker-Symbol | Mute on/off
VT Esc | Teletext on/off
TABULATOR | Last selected station
OK | Fullscreen-Mode/Windowed-Mode/Interface-Mode
EPG | Close Dialog
M | Switch between TV/Favorites-List
TV\Radio | Switch between Radio/Favorites-List
EPG | Start/Stop Recording
L | Start/Stop Play, Stop Recording
I | Enter Timeshift-Mode

If Teletext is entered, the numberkeys 0 ... 9 are used to enter the triple-digit page-numbers and with LEFT, RIGHT you can browse the pages.

## Remote Control

Following keys are available at preset-allocation:

IR-Remote-Control | Action
--- | ---
CH+ CH- | Next/Previos Channel
VOL- VOL+ | Increase/Decrease Volume
MUTE | Sound on/off
TV | Switch between TV/Favorites-List
RADIO | Switch between Radio/Favorites-List
RESERVED Esc | Teletext on/off
FULLSCREEN | Fullscreen-Mode/Windowed-Mode/Interface-Mode
0 | Close Dialog
VOL- | Rewind
VOL+ | Fast-Forward

If Teletext is entered, the numberkeys 0 ... 9 are used to enter the triple-digit page-numbers and with LEFT, RIGHT you can browse the pages.

## Remote Control

Following keys are available at preset-allocation:

IR-Remote-Control | Action
--- | ---
CH+ CH- | Next/Previous Station
VOL- VOL+ | Increase/Decrease Volume
MUTE | Sound on/off
Replay | Switch between TV/Favorites-List
Skip | Switch between Radio/Favorites-List
Blue Key | Teletext on/off
Full | Fullscreen-Mode/Windowed-Mode/Interface-Mode
Back/Exit | Close Dialog
Record | Start/Stop Recording
Play | Start Playback
Stopp | Stop Playback
Pause | Wiedergabe unterbrechen, Aufnahme unterbrechen
<< | Rewind
>> | Fast-Forward

If Teletext is entered, the numberkeys 0 ... 9 are used to enter the triple-digit page-numbers and with LEFT, RIGHT you can browse the pages.

Navigation in the OSD-List
You can navigate with the remote control cross.

Taste 1 = to Up
Taste 2 = to Down
Taste 3 = prevoius side
Taste 4 = next side
Taste 5 = confirm and close

Osd-Program list (TV-Favorite list)