ONAIRSOLUTION ONAIRCREATOR USB HDTV Receiver User Manual OnAir USB HDTV

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Contents

1GIntroduction of OnAir USB HDTV ........................ 7G

1.1GMain Specifications and Features ..................................7G

1.2GPackage Included ...........................................................8G

1.3GSystem Requirements ....................................................9G

1.4GParts Decription ............................................................10G

2GInstallation ........................................................... 11G

2.1GInstallation Checklist..................................................... 11G

2.2GHardware Installation....................................................12G

2.3GOnAir USB HDTV Device Driver Installation ................13G

2.4GOnAir USB HDTV Application Software Installation .....15G

3GHow to use........................................................... 17G

3.1GScreen Components.....................................................17G

3.2GOption ...........................................................................22G

4GFAQ ...................................................................... 43G

4.1GHow to use Hot Keys ....................................................43G

4.2GRemote Controller Button Description..........................45G

1. Introduction of OnAir USB HDTV 7

1 Introduction of OnAir USB HDTV

1.1 Main Specifications and Features

The main specifications and features of OnAir USB HDTV are following.

Digital & Analog TV

 Full HDTV of 1920 X 1080 (ATSC)

 Digital (ATSC) HDTV / Analog (NTSC) TV

 AC3 / AAC Audio Decoding output

Recording & Playback

 Real-time or Schedule Recording

 Still Capture (JPEG or BMP File)

 Hardware MPEG2 Encoding for Analog Video Source (easy to create

own DVD title via DVD-RW and tool) : Resolution 720 x 480

 Playback HD Stream File format (ATSC and Japan BS)

 Playback Analog TV File (MPEG2 DVD Stream : Resolution 720 x

480 )

 Playback of HD Stream files (Random access)

 Time-Shift*

 D-VHS HD Stream playback or real-time recording (Win XP only)

 Provide OnAir HD Editor

External A/V Input & Output

 External A/V Input (Video, Stereo Audio, S-Video , NTSC/PAL Video )

 SPDIF Output through sound card (will support AAC)

Bundle WinDVD4 Player (InterVideo, Inc.)

Suitable Features

 Wall Paper TV View

 Zoom-In

 Various Aspect Ratios

 Individual Channel Color Adjustment

 Digital Signal Strength Display

 Sleep Timer

 Remote Control (IR Model Only)

* Time-Shift is ? While playing live Analog TV, the time shift offers you ability to

pause the live TV for pre-defined period of time. It provides by recording Live TV in

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real-time for pre-defined period of time while playing Live TV. It helps you to not

miss any part of Live TV even though you stay away from TV for a while. (Analog

TV only)

1.2 Package Included

3.USB Cable

1. OnAir USB HDTV/Stand 2. Remote Controller (AAA

Batteries included)

4. Installation CD

5. User’s Manual 6. Power Adapter

If any one of items are missing, please contact our technical support at 82-

31-909-7990.

1. Introduction of OnAir USB HDTV 9

1.3 System Requirements

 USB 2.0 port supported Desktop PC or Notebook (PCI / PCMCIA types

of USB2.0)

 OS : MS Windows XP Service Pack 1 or above, MS Windows XP Media

Center Edition (MCE 1.x)

 DirectX 9.0

Minimum system requirement (with DXVA support)

ATI RADEON 7200 or above

ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 or

above

Nvidia Geforce MX 440 or

above

Nvidia Geforce 4 Go or above

VGA

Video Memory 32MB or above

CPU PentiumIII 800 Mhz or above / AMD Athlon XP or above

Mem. 128MB (256MB Recommend)

Minimum system requirement (not recommended, without DXVA

support)

 VGA : AGP4X with video memory 32MB or above

 CPU : Pentium4 1.6Ghz or AMD Athlon XP

Memory : 128MB (256MB Recommend)

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1.4 Parts Decription

Power LED : The Power LED

displays when the power is on to

OnAir USB HDTV device and it

connects with a computer system via

USB cable.

IR : This is a remote controller’s

signal reception part.

HDTV Signal LED : The HDTV

Signal LED displays when there is

no Digital TV signal input.

DC-In : The place of power adapter

connects into OnAir USB HDTV.

Audio Input(L), Audio Input : The

stereo input of Video. Generally, it

connects with Audio-Out of VTRs or

the others.

Video Input : Composite type of

image input. Generally, it connects

with Video Out of VTRs, Video

Camera, and Camcorder.

S-Video Input : S-Video type of

image input. It connects with S-

Video Out of Super-VHS VTRs or

SEGA Saturn and SONY

PlayStation, etc.

USB Port : It connects with a

computer system’s USB2.0 port via

USB cable.

ATSC, NTSC Antenna Input : Either

Cable or terrestrial digital antenna

input.

ATSC Terrestrial Input : Terrestrial

Digital antenna input only.

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2 Installation

2.1 Installation Checklist

2.1.1 Windows XP Service Pack 1 Installation

From the desktop menu of "My Computer", click the mouse’s right button to

open the “Properties". Then, find out what the current operating system is

running on your system. If your operation system is not "Microsoft Windows

XP Service Pack 1" then please install the “Service Pack 1” from the

Windows Update through the internet

Please open Microsoft Internet Explorer, and choose the tool menu on top

of menu bar and click the “windows update” and run the update scan. If

the update scan is completed, there will be update scan result displayed.

From the update scan result list, please install the Microsoft Windows XP

Service Pack 1 from "Critical Updates and Service Pack”.

2.1.2 USB2.0 Patch (HotFix)

Because the USB 2.0 is a new device, even Microsoft Windows XP

Service Pack 1 has a bug on the USB 2.0 Device Driver.

At first, please confirm the "Windows XP HotFix - KB822603" is

installed on your system from the “program add / remove” under

control panel. If your system already installed this, your system

had completed the patch of USB2.0 Device Driver Bug. If your

system did not have this, please open Microsoft Internet Explorer,

and choose the tool menu on top of menu bar and click the

“windows update” and run the update scan. If the update scan is

completed, there will be a list of update scan result displayed.

From the list of update scan result, please find the "Windows XP

SP1 recommended update (KB822603)" under Windows XP menu

and install it on your system, or please download the HotFix from

following URL and install it on your system.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?amp;amp;displaylang=e

n&familyid=733dd867-56a0-4956-b7fe-e85b688b7f86&displaylang=en

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This HotFix patch program is released by Microsoft to fix a problem of

failing recognition of USB 2.0 device.

2.2 Hardware Installation

OnAir USB HDTV is an external HDTV device that connected with personal

computer or notebooks via USB2.0 port.

Please plug in the power adaptor into hardware, and connect with USB2.0

port of desktop computers or notebooks via USB cable.

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2.3 OnAir USB HDTV Device Driver Installation

Please insert the provided installation CD into your system’s CD-ROM drive.

The installation CD will automatically start the installation. From the

displayed product list, select the driver installation under OnAir USB HDTV.

If the installation CD does not auto-run, please open window explorer to

find the “installer.exe” file and execute the file.

2.3.1 OnAir USB HDTV Device Driver Installation for Windows XP

This is a dialog box of

choosing a language of

installation program.

Please choose one of

languages of either English

or Korean, and press [OK]

button to continue.

This is a dialog box of the

warning notice to users

that the driver may not be

installed if the OnAir USB

HDTV is connected to the

system. If the OnAir USB

HDTV is connected to your

system’s USB2.0 port,

please remove it first and

then click [Next] button to

continue.

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Please close all other

windows application

programs before running

the installation, and click

the [Next] button to

continue.

If you are ready to run the

installation program,

please click the [Next]

button to continue.

The OnAir USB HDTV

device driver installation is

completed. Please click

the [Finish] button, and

plug in the OnAir USB

HDTV device into your

system via USB2.0.

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2.4 OnAir USB HDTV Application Software Installation

The given installation CD with package includes the application software of

OnAir USB HDTV.

Please insert the provided installation CD into your system’s CD-ROM drive.

The installation CD will automatically start the installation. From the

displayed product list, please select the application software under OnAir

USB HDTV.

If the installation CD does not auto-run, please open window explorer and

choose the “installer.exe” file to execute the installation.

The installation wizard of

OnAir USB HDTV will guide

you to install the application

software. To continue the

installation, please click

[Next] button.

Please choose a

designation folder location

to install the software. If

you would like to choose

different folder location,

please click [Browse] button

and choose another folder

location. Please click the

[Next] button to continue.

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Please choose items that

you wish to install, and

please click the [Next]

button to continue.

The OnAir USB HDTV

application software is

successfully installed.

To complete the installation

process, please reboot

your system. Please click

the “Yes” button to reboot

your system now or click

“No” button to reboot

system later. Please click

the [Finish] button to

complete the installation.

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3 How to use

3.1 Screen Components

[ TV Window ]

[OperationControlWindow] [ChannelWindow]

[Color Adjustment] [Play List] [Zoom Navigator]

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3.1.1 TV Window

It displays a video source input such as Digital TV, Analog TV, Video, and

S-Video.

Hide : It hide the TV window without closing TV program.

Close : It closes the TV program.

The menu is displayed by clicking the right button of mouse when the

mouse point is at TV Window.

3.1.2 Operation Control Widow or Channel Window

1 : Display Channel Number

2 : Display current Antenna source

3 : Display current Aspect Ratio

4 : File playing position status bar (Analog TV: Live TV playing position

for Time shift)

5 : Display current Audio Output

6 : Time Shift feature of displaying the start time of recording

7 : Display current Computer System Time

8 : Time Shift feature of displaying the last time of recoding

9 : Mute

10 : Display and select a saved Channel number. The saved channel

are changed by Ÿ or ź.

11 : Video input source

12 : Volume control

13 : Help

14 : Hide TV Window

15 : Close Operation control window (Hot Key : Ctrl + 1)

16 : Display or hide channel window

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 17 : Open File

 18 : Stop

 19 : Pause (When the Time shift activates, it pauses or play by toggling)

 20 : Previous (When the Time shift activates, it moves to at the beginning

position.)

 21 : Jump to backward (When the Time shift activates, it moves back to a

certain time period of previous record position)

 22 : Jump to forward (When the Time shift activates, it moves back to a

certain time period of next record position)

 23 : Next (When the Time shift activates, it moves to Live mode)

 24 : Video Capture

 25 : Still Capture

 26 : Option

 27 : Aspect Ratio

 28 : Zoom (Zoom Navigator)

 29 : Play List window

 30 : Color Adjustment (Hot Key : Ctrl+2)

 31 : The numeric buttons are for channel selection(1~9), “-“ and “+” is

for channel up and down, and “Memory” button is for saving a

channel.

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3.1.3 Color Adjustment

Default : Program default value applies if you click the button.

If you click the mouse’s right button at the Color Adjustment window, the

below submenu will be displayed.

Set Default Color Adjustment Components (D) : To restore default

value from a user customized value.

Set Current Setting as Default (S) : To set a default value with a user

customized current color adjustment setting.

Set Current Setting as Default and all other channels : To set a

default value with a user customized current setting. In addition, it

applies to all other channels

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3.1.4 Play List

ADD : To add files into play list.

Del : To delete selected files from play list.

Clear : To delete all files from play list.

3.1.5 Zoom Navigator

While you are watching analog or digital TV, you can zoom-in a certain area

of video. If you move your mouse’s point on scroll bar, it displays the

zoom ratio in percentage (%). The maximum zoom in size is 500%.

Users free to zoom in any area by moving mouse point o

dragging down the “–“ or “+” button.

Enable to move the Zoom area by arrow buttons

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Zoom-out by 25%

Zoom-In ratio bar indicator

Zoom-In by 25%

3.2 Option

The Option menu can be selected from sub-menu as below, or selecting it

from Operation control window.

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3.2.1 Antenna Configuration

TV(D),TV(A+D) To set the proper antenna signal that connected

Digital TV

TV(A+D) : For standard cable TV, choose cable TV option. For using

outdoor or indoor terrestrial antenna, choose terrestrial TV option.

TV(D) : Choose this option if you use only digital terrestrial (UHF) TV

antenna. (Important: Please do not connect analog TV antenna.)

Analog TV

TV(A+D) : Connects the terrestrial TV antenna.

Air TV : To set this when you have outdoor or indoor TV antenna

connected.

Cable TV : To set this when you have a general cable TV service.

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Country Code : To set your country code to play Live TV. If you choose

a different country code, it may cause abnormal operation.

GExternal Video Input Standard

͑ͫ͑

Please select proper video input signal

format of either NTSC or PAL.

3.2.2 Channel Setup

Configuring channels as scanning, clear, add, edit, and delete.

Scan : Automatically scanning the all channels of Digital TV and Analog

TV.

Clear : To delete scanned channels from the list.

Add : To add selected channel.

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Edit : To edit selected channel information. In description, you can type

in the channel information.

Delete : To delete selected channel.

Virtual Channel Preference Mode : When scanning the channels, it has

preference to scan virtual channels and display at first. In addition, if

you choose this option, the digital TV channels display as virtual

channels. For example, If you watch a channel 9-1 in digital TV mode,

you can also watch it in analog TV mode as 9-0.(Same channel number

but different TV mode).

If you stop during the channel scanning before it finishes, it saves only

scanned channel.

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3.2.3 Screen Setup

Configuring the screen size (Standard, Wide, DVD, Pillar) and video

acceleration.

Screen Size

Standard (4:3): TV window displays as standard screen ratio size.

Wide (16:9) : TV window displays as wide screen ratio size.

DTV (720x480) : TV window displays as DVD screen ratio size.

Pillar : TV window displays as expended screen ratio size. When some

of digital TV broadcast the converted analog TV sources to digital TV,

these digital TV broadcast add the pillars(black bar) to fit in 16:9 wide

screen ratio. If you select the pillar screen ratio at this time, you can

omit the pillar parts and it fits in 4:3 standard screen ratio.

Screen Position

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Start at default position : When the program start, it always start at

default position.

Always on top : To set the TV window is always on top. It will prevent

to block the TV window when you open the other application windows

Video Hardware

To set to use video hardware acceleration to minimize the usage of CPU.

If you use a video card that not supporting DxVA mode, please disable

this option.

De-interlaced Mode : It is recommended to use BOB mode.

Show this dialog when start program

If you select the option of “Show this dialog when start program.”, the

following dialog box will appear every time you execute the OnAir USB

HDTV program.

The above dialog box displays the system’s graphic card information, and

you can select the option of “Enable DxVA(DirectX Video Acceleration).

Over Scan Control

When you watch the digital live TV or analog live TV, the noise may be

appeared at the bottom of TV window. The over scan means to display

the image by zoom in 1.xx:1 instead of 1:1. Thus, the over scan mode will

hide all of noise that appears in TV window.

Enabling DxVA mode is recommended as shown above.

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3.2.4 Sound

To configure the audio output and sound effect.

Audio Output

WAVE : To set the audio output as WAVE format.

SPDIF (through sound card) : To set the audio output as SPDIF by

transferring the audio to the sound card that supporting the SPDIF output.

Stereo : To set the audio output as Stereo.

Dolby Surround : To set audio output as Dolby Surround. (It supports

when the video input is Digital TV.)

Sound Effect

Sound effect when you click the button : To set the sound effect when

you click the buttons from TV programs.

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3.2.5 Still Capture

To capture a still image into a designation folder location.

Folder : To set the designation folder to save the image captured files.

The default folder is “C:\Program Files\OnAir USB HDTV\Images".

File format : To choose a saving file format of capture image.

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3.2.6 Video Capture

To capture video into a designation folder location.

Folder : To set the designation folder to save the video captured files.

The default folder is "C:\Program Files\OnAir USB HDTV\Videos".

Capturing time as following : To capture the video at selected period of

time

Cut by fixed size : To capture the Video by fixed size of files. If you

disable this option, you can capture the Video without file size limitation

as one file. However, if your HDD is FAT32 format, then you are limited

to capture the Video at maximum of 4GB. If the captured video is over

4GB size, it will separate the file after exceed the 4GB. If your HDD is

NTFS format, then you are limited to capture the Video at maximum of

64GB.

Show progress dialog box : When you capture the Video, the dialog

box is displayed at the beginning and the end. You should disable

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this option when you capture the Video by schedule.

Show notice dialog box while capturing video image : When you

capture the Video, the notice dialog is displayed.

Digital TV Capture Option : The “Capture as file” is for saving the HD

stream into system’s HDD as a file. The “Transfer to D-VHS and

Recording” is for saving the HD stream into the D-VHS. These

options are when you saving the HD streams.

D-VHS Devices : It displays the D-VHS that connected with your system.

If you have more than one D-VHS devices, please choose a correct D-

VHS device that you are willing to save the HD stream into because it

displays all D-VHS devices that connected with your system.

The option of “Show notice dialog while capturing video image” is

displayed when you enable this option.

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3.2.7 Time Shift

Folder : To set the designation folder to save the temporary video

captured files. The default folder "C:\Program Files\OnAir USB

HDTV\Time Shifting".

Enable Timeshift : To set the timeshift for analog TV, Video, and S-

Video.

Time : To set the period of time to temporary capture the video such as

5Min, 10Min, 30Min, and 60Min. The shown free space is displaying

the free space of hard disk that above designation folder located. It

displays a required free space of hard disk size depends on the selection

of “Analog TV Video Quality” option.

Analog TV Video Quality : You have choice of four selection such as

Best, Good, Normal, and Bad. Definitely, it will affect to video quality.

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 The Time shift is always enabled when you play Live analog TV. The

following table shows the file size of each video quality when you play 1

minute. Please verify your free space of HDD, and set the length of

Time shift and its video quality. The following table’s data is varied

under condition of input signal analog TV or system’s environment.

Best 70 MB / 1min

Good 56MB / 1min

Average 41MB / 1min

Minimum 26MB / 1min

Time Shift is?

While play live analog TV, the time shift offers you ability to pause the

live TV for pre-defined period of time. It provides by recording live TV

in real time for pre-defined period of time while playing live TV. It helps

you to not miss any part of live TV even though you stay away from TV

for a while (analog TV only).

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3.2.8 Schedule Recording

Enable to set recording schedule by daily, weekly or special

occasion schedule.

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Daily Schedule

To record on daily selected time.

Start Time : To set recording schedule start time or scheduled Live TV

play start time.

End Time : To set recording schedule end time or scheduled Live TV

play end time.

Channel : To set the channels by Input channels number or clicking

retrieve channels button.

Record : If you uncheck the record reservation option, the recording is

not activated. If you select the record reservation, “record time” will

activate. If you set the “Start time” and “End Time”, the recording time

will automatically set the recording period in between this time interval.

The recording period can not be exceeded in between “Start Tim” and

“End Tim” interval, and you can set the recording time from at least 1 min

to the maximum of 180 mins. Among initializing or completing the

recording, it requires about less than 2 seconds. The image and sound

may have an interruption among initializing and completing the recording.

Description : To insert the description of recording program information.

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Weekly Schedule

To record on selected day or time by weekly.

Day/Time : To set a day when you record

Start Time : To set recording schedule start time or scheduled Live TV

play start time.

End Time : To set recording schedule end time or scheduled Live TV