PowerColor Real Angel 330 TV Tuner Card PCI

Manual

Overview

This guide contains useful information to assist you during the installation of PowerColor Real Angel 330 TV Tuner Card.

From fundamental concepts such as installation preparation to the step-by-step installation procedure, this installation guide will be a valuable resource as you install PowerColor Real Angel 330 TV Tuner Card. If you are looking for troubleshooting tips for using this software, please refer to the Software User's Guide included on the software CD.

About PowerColor Real Angel TV Tuner Card

The PowerColor Real Angel 330 TV Tuner Card comes with FM radio and uses newest 3 rd Generation silicon tuner technology. Compare to other products with 8 bits and 9 bits ADP, the Real Angel 330 gives you the sharpest image quality with its 10 bit ADP. Another convenient feature with Real Angel 330 is its ability to ‘Task Schedule” from your PC.

Once installed, you can activate auto-timer simply by using the on/off button on your remote. You can enjoy watching or recording TV programs, image/video editing with this TV tuner card.

Task Scheduling is one of the most innovating features from other PCI TV Tuner cards in the Real Angel 330. Once activated, RA330 TVPRO will record the specified TV programs at given time. RA330 TVPRO even have an option to select automatic shut down for your PC after completing its task. Length of recording can go up to a week, and even a month of recording on a daily basis.

Minimum System Requirements

• 450 MHz Pentium II or equivalent CPU and 128 MB RAM

• Sound Blaster or equivalent sound card

• One PCI slot

• CD-ROM drive for software installation

• Windows XP, 2000 or 98SE

• 30 MB free disk space for basic software installation

Recommended System Requirements

• 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent CPU and 256 MB RAM

• Sound Blaster or equivalent sound card

• One PCI slot

• CD-ROM for software installation

• Windows XP SP2 with DirectX 9.0 installed

• 30 MB free space for software installation

• 600 MB to 3 GB per hour of recorded video

• ATX power source and Host computer can support PCI2.2

1. Packing Contents

TV Tuner Card Installation Guide Remote Control

Software CD External Audio Cable Multiple Function Cable

IR Remote Receiver FM Antenna Batteries

Low Profile Bracket Adapter

2. Connection

1. TV Antenna Input

Connect to a TV antenna or TV cable input.

3. Connect to a FM antenna

Multiple Function Cable

A. Audio-In

Use an audio cable (not included) to connect to an audio source, such as CD, VHS, DVD, or VCD.

B. External Audio-Out

Use the supplied audio cable (not included) to connect to the Line-In port of your sound card.

C. S-Video-In

Use an S-Video cable (not included) to connect to a video source, DVD, V8, S-Video.

D. Composite-In

Use a Composite video cable (not included) to connect to a video source.

4. RM

Connect the IR remote receiver.

2.1 Connection Chart ：

TV cable, FM antenna and IR receive ：

1 、 Connect TV cable with TV port

2 、 Connect Antenna with FM port

IR receiver connect with IR remote controller

2.2 Video Input connection

1 、 Video source with Composite or S-video connect with Multi-function composite or S-video via the opposite connect cable

2 、 Audio cable connects to audio input port.

3 、 Audio output and sound card input connect to microphone.

Yellow port: Composite video input, RCA port Composite

Black port: S-Video input, normal four ports S-Video

Green port: Audio output, 3.5 stereo port Line-Out

Blue port: Audio input, 3.5 stereo port Line-In

3. Hardware Installation

Sound card connection

The Real Angel 330 TV Tuner card provides external connections to your sound card (Line-In).

To achieve maximum audio quality, users are not suggested to use the internal and external connections simultaneously.

1--- Sound card line input port

2--- Audio cable’s other port

3--- Multiple function cable output port

Connect Method: One port of Audio cable connects sound card line input or Microphone input (not recommended); another port connects with multiple function cable output.

Note

External audio cable is color-coded. Connect the plug to the Audio-Out port on PCI Tuner card and the blue plug to

“Line-In” port of your sound card or main board.

To achieve the best performance, the TV Tuner card should not share its IRQ. Please refer section on troubleshooting for further details.

Confirmation

• Check all your connections, including power and audio.

• Make sure it’s working properly before putting back your computer case. Test it out by plugging in power cord. If your computer is not booting up please check your cable connections again.

• Replace the computer cover

TV and FM antenna

To complete your hardware installation, connect the FM antenna to the upper connector and your TV signal to the lower connector. Adjust FM antenna for optimal reception.

Now you’re ready to move forward! You’re one step closer to enjoying your Real Angel 330. Please refer to the following notes and proceed to the next step.

4. Driver and Software installation

When insert CD, OS will start setup automatically.

4.1. Driver Installation

Step 1: Insert the driver CD into CDROM, browse the CD, Click “Driver Install” or run Driver\Setup.exe, then press

“next ” to continue.

Step 2 ： Click “next” to continue installation

Step 3 ： Please install Microsoft DirectX 9.0 at first, choose “I accept” then click “next” to continue.

Step 4 ： Click “finish ” to install Microsoft DirectX 9.0

Step 5 ： Find the equipment for “Real Angel 330” and click “Continue Anyway”.

Step 6 ： System will inform you to restart PC by click “finish” after installation.

Step 7 ： Open control panel and select “System” — “System Properties” — “Device Manager” — “Hardware”, then check whether the driver has been installed correctly.

4.2. Install the application for Real Angel 330

Click “Software” or run Real Angel 330\Steup.exe to install Real Angel 330.

Step 1 ： Click “Yes” to install “Windows Media Tools”

Step 2 ： Click “Yes” after install “Windows Media Format9”

Step 3 ： After Windows Media please click “Next” to follow the guide of application installation

Step 4 ： Choose directory for installation, if you want to change the recommended, please click “browse” and click

“next” (Recommended is better)

Step 5 ： Choose installation parts in multiple chooses and click “next”

Step 6 ： Click “next” to start installation

Step 7 ： Program starts to copy files.

Step 8 ： Click “finish” to restart your PC after installation

Step 9 ： You will see RA330 TVPro icons as here.

5. Software usage

5.1. Real Angel 330 User Interface

NO Description

1 Start to record

2 Play recorded files

3 Pause

4 Stop

5 Back forward

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Fast forward

Hue control

Status window

Minimize

10 Full screen, Window and video desktop switch

11 Exit Real Angel 330

12 Jump to next channel

13 Jump to last channel

14 Back to previous channel

NO Description

16 Digit keys

17 Time-shifting

19 Teltext

20 Shift video source

21 Open the recorded file

22 Auto scan channel

23 Switch to FM

24 16 channels preview

25 Setting Setup menu

26 Snapshot

28 Mute

29 Volume down

5.2 Setting

Click on RA330 TVPro panel to set all the Function.

5.2.1 Channel list edit

Real Angel 330 TVPro auto scan all channels, you can edit your favorite channels.

Please choose your country and area firstly and before scan channel as shown.

1. Channel scan: Full channels scan

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• Press to start RA330 TVPro and automatically scan all channels according to your region. You can find the button of automatic scan in channel edit menu.

• When RA330 is scanning channels, the program will mute the volume and show in turn in the channel left.

2.Channel Rename

You can re-define channels name as follows:

Step 1 Show the important channel;

Step 2 Press the right key on mouse; you can change the channel name;

Step 3 Input the new name;

Step4 If you want to change other channel’s name, please repeat Step 1 to Step 3.

Step5 Channel position can be revised Up and Down button

3.Channel fine tune

RA330 provides fine tune function, usually, RA330 provides the best quality image, so the fine tune is not the normal step.

4.Channel Skip and restore: skipping and adding channel function.

• Channel skip: Reserve the channel by click and give a tick on ”index”, or skip this channel

• Channels add: Press the “Add” button, you can add a new channel then define channel name and frequency.

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5.Channel TV audio setting:

Select the specified channel, press the right key on mouse, four states: Mono, Stereo, Language single

A and Language double B. The default is Mono.

Remark: If stereo, the signal source must support this function.

6.TV Standard

TV standard is different by the country of your located

NTSC (National Television Systems Committee): America, Taiwan, Canada, Japan, Middle

America and South America.

PAL (Phase Alteration Line): Europe, China, Australia, Middle Africa and South Africa.

SECAM: France, Africa and Middle East.

4.2.2 Color Control

Change the brightness/contrast/color/saturation/sharpness to specified value. And if you want to change back to default value, you can press the default button.

Remark

When black screen if you are watching TV, you can use the default key to solve this problem.

5.2.3 Recording option

Format: DVD/SVCD/VCD/AVI/MPEG4/WMV/WMA/MP3

Size: Recording size from 352x240 (NTSC) 352x288 (PAL) to 720x480 (NTSC) 720x576 (PAL).

Video bit rate: Bigger bit rates will cause more disk space usage, but will bring better video quality.

Audio bit rate: Higher audio bit rate will cause more disk space usage, but better audio quality.

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Remark

High quality image need more space, if space is limited, you should adjust the recording setting to help you save long programs.

5.2.4 saving path setting

You can choose the directory to save the still images or video files.

You also can press to check the direction of images or video files.

5.3 Mouse right click

When right click the mouse, a popup menu appears:

5.3.1 always on top

The TV Window always on the top.

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5.3.2 Display panel

Display/Hide software control panel

5.3.3 Full-screen mode

Enlarge the window to full screen, double click on the screen will return to window mode

5.3.4 Teletext

Support Teletext function

5.3.5 Desktop mode

Watching TV on desktop of windows, press to return window model 。

5.3.6 Video Input

Select the appropriate video input, have three options: TV tuner, Composite and S-video. The default is

TV tuner.

5.3.7 Video standard

Change the video format to PAL/NTSC/SECAM, Default as PAL-BGGHI

5.3.8 Color adjust

Adjust the color and brightness

5.3.9 Capture:

Take a single frame snapshot. The format of default is saved as .bmp file

5.3.10 Channel editing:

You can edit your favorite channels, for more information please prefer 5.2.1

5.3.11 Directory setting

Select which directory to save the recordings and images. For more info please prefer 4.1.4

5.3.12 about

Show version and copyright.

5.3.13 Exit:

Exit RA330 TVPro.

6. RA330 TVPro software usage

6.1 Recoding: RA330 TVPro supports MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 format

• Recording: Press when watching TV program to recording. Press to stop

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recording. You can name this file or save as default.

• Status panel will show the real-time recording information and shield some information about recording.

• Recording file space requirements

Desk space required depend on the format when you recording. There is some information for you reference.

Format

NTSC DVD

NTSC SVCD

Resolution

720*480

480*480

Video bit rate (Mbps)

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2.42

Audio bit rate (Kbps) Desk space

224

224

2.6GB/hr

1GB/hr

NTSC VCD

PAL DVD

PAL SVCD

PAL VCD

320*240

720*576

480*576

352*288

1.15

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2.42

1.15

AVI 352*288

MPEG-4 352*288

224

224

600MB/hr

2.6GB/hr

224

224

1GB/hr

600MB/hr

224

224

224 About

MP3

WMA

224

224

Note

Please choose right format when recording TV program.

You can record your favorite program as you specify, such as from Monday to Friday you record specified channel at specified time period.

6.2.1 Schedule Recording.

Click to start Schedule Recording

New: Add a new Schedule Recording Task

Modify: Modify the task you have chosen

Delete: Delete the task you have chosen

OK: Press the button, all schedule recording tasks on active.

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Name: The name of new task

Mode: There are two options: Recording or watching

S-VIDEO Video input: TV tuner/Composite/S-Video

Channel: Under TV condition, you can choose channel you need to schedule watching or recording

Duration: The recording duration time of task. Minimize: 2mins. Default as 30mins.

6.2.3 Click ”Next” to choose recording format.

6.2.4 Click ”Next” to date and time setting. (Time format is 24 Hours)

Only once: Only one times every task.

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Every week: Repeat recording, you choose one day every week or some days in one week.

Every day: You can record every day.

6.2.5 After finish setting, click ”Next” to start schedule recording setting, then you need decide how to act when finishing the recording:

There are three ways to do when finish recording:

Auto shut down: After recording, system auto shut down (Power off the PC)

Exit Application: Exit program and keep PC on

Stay on: Continue watching TV (keep software alive)

6.2.6 After record setting, click “Next”, then system will promote “Finish” message automatically, please click ”finish”.

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6.2.7 If OS send this message as follow when add one more tasks, which mean have conflict on time of other task. Please revise task time setting.

6.3 Video playing

6.3.1 Press , open files you recorded files earlier and choose the files you want to play, double click or press “Open” button.

6.3.2 While playing, control panel will show time information and functions about playing.

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6.4 Snapshot

6.4.1 When watching TV press button to capture the picture and save as .bmp format.

6.4.2 After pressing snapshot button, system will promote you to save this picture, double click this picture you will interview and edit.

6.4.3 When you want to delete picture, please press Delete button.

6.5 Channel preview

Before previewing, you must finish the channel scanning.

6.5.1 Change channel:

6.5.1 When watching TV, press or to go to next or last channel.

6.5.2 Page Up and Page Down on keyboard, or IR Remote provide the same functions. Press the digital keys to jump specified TV channel, If you want to watching TV which channel number is bigger than 10 (above 10), you should press two or more digit key. If you want to return the channel, you should press digit key.

Remark: If you want to choose the channel of two digits, you can press the digit button

6.5.3 to return the channel previously.

Remark

Refer channel setting instruction when there have some channels lost.

6.5.4 Channel Preview

Press to preview 16 channels on the same time. Choose the right channel directly to watch by click mouse on the small window.

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6.6 Time-shifting function

Time-shift lets you pause, replay, or skip commercials during watching live TV, without interrupting an ongoing recording session. Time-shift gives you absolute new feeling over how you watch television, which you never have before. For example, you watch your favorite sporting game, pause the live action and help yourself to an ice-cold beverage from the fridge.

Time-shift temporary saves the video to your hard disk for a specified period of time. When you return to your seat, you can resume viewing the program from the point where you left.

Caution

Time-shift can use significant disk space and cannot automatically skip commercials.

6.6.1 Additional Discussion

In Time-shift, you are recording to and playing back from the same video file or buffer. You can playback from various locations in that buffer. Similar to video playback, you can pause, fast-forward, and rewind. A major difference, however, is that RA330 software is simultaneously recording live television while playing back from the buffer.

That means you will see greater CPU utilization during Time-shift because you are simultaneously recording and playing recorded videos. At full DVD quality, time-shift can require up to a 1.7 GHz CPU and above.

6.6.2 Time-Shift usage

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Press button to active it, then Time Monitoring bar will appear. The Time Monitoring bar informs you of how much of the time-shift buffer are in use. You can also use your mouse to drag the Time Control Shuttle to jump to a specific time.

6.6.3 Exit Time-shift function

Press

6.7 TELETEXT

button to exit time-shift function.

Press button, activation TELETEXT function. The function let user to receive

TELETEXT TV.

Remark: This function must have TeleText TV signal to support. Not all the TV program has

TeleText

5.8 Hue control

De-interlacing display technology quick button

High-grade brightness technology quick button

Professional blur technology quick button

7.1 Real Angel 330 FM

FM Interface Explanation

NO Description

1 Exit FM

2 Minimize

NO Description

9 Shift to TV

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Channel digit key

Back to preview channel

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4

5

Volume bar

Start Record

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Mute

Auto scan channel

7.2 Setting Function Option

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Open recorded files

Play recorded files

Pause/stop recorded files

Stop play next recorded files

Display window state

Jump to next channel

Jump to last channel

Click in control panel to set all function.

7.2.1 Broadcasting setting: FM can automatic sort usable broadcasting station, then you can set all broadcasting list. Please see below instruction.

7.2.2 Auto Scan: Broadcasting setting: FM can automatic sort usable broadcasting station, it also can be rescanned.

一、 Press to start automatically scan all channels according to your region. Press to stop the scan channel in any time.

二、 Click “ search” in Channel setting menu to search. If you want stop channel scan, please click

“stop”.

RA330 FM can automatic scan broadcasting and shown channel list.

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7.2.3 Channel Rename

You define channels name as follows:

Step 1 Show the important channel;

Step 2 Press the right key on mouse; you can change the channel name;

Step 3 Input the new name

If you want to change other channel’s name, please repeat Step 1 to Step 3.

Press modify button to affirm the modification.

Channel position can be revised Up and Down button

7.2.4 Channel fine tune

FM provide fine tune function, If the adjust is no good, you will be back the default.

Usually, FM provide the best quality image, the fine tune is not the normal.

7.2.5 Channel add

Press to invoke Channel Add function; Channel name and frequency value should be input which user defined

Input your Channel Name

Input the Frequency Value

Press “Confirm” to finish the Channel addition, there is addition channel in channel list.

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Recording Setting

Record format option

Two format can be chose: MP3 and WMA

Save location

Click “Browse” to choose save directory

Timing record setting

1 、 Choose starting and end time in Add taskbar, then click “Add”

2 、 Click “ Delete” to cancel the task, “delete all” can cancel all tasks.

3. If appears below message, please check if there is a time conflict in all tasks.

4.Below is Timing date: (Red is the date needed to set)

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8 FM application

You can use FM application to listen to the FM radio and record the FM radio into WMA, MP3 and WAV files and store in your hard disk.

8.1 Record

8.1.1 Recording: Press when watching TV program to recording. Press

You can name this file or save as default.

to stop recording.

8.1.2 When recording, the panel of FM application software will show the real-time recording information about recording.

8.2 Play audio file

FM application can play recorded audio files.

8.2.1 Press and double click you want the program to play the audio files.

8.2.2 While playing, the application software will show information about the playing status.

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8.3 Channel

Before using channel related functions, you must do the channel scanning first.

7.3.1 When listening FM, press or to switch fast forward or back forward channel.

7.3.2 By using Page Up and Page Down keys on keyboard, you can change the channel rapidly, or IR

Remote provides the same functions. Press the digital keys specified TV channel.

to jump

8.3.3 By click to return the previous channel.

8.4 About FM application software

Press button, you can get the version information.

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6. Remote control handset

Description Key

NO

1 Switch input source: Switch from TV, Composite video and S-Video

2 Turn On/Off Real Angel 330 application software

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6

Return to previous channel

CH+.CH； Channel Up/Down

VOL+.VOL； Volume Up/Down

Mute

Play: Play recorded files

Pause

Stop/record

Fast forward

Back forward

Auto scan channel

Snapshot

Setup menu

Full screen window and video desktop switch

FM: Switch to Real Angel 330 FM

Power on/off: Exit Real Angel 330

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9. Troubleshooting

1) Error: you have no video capture hardware

• If you see this message after clicking on the Icon, it means the driver’s not installed successfully and you may want to try installing it again.

• Please check the “Device Manager”, check if the driver is not correct installation. Please install drivers again.

• If you still experience the same error after installing for the second time, there might be a conflict in IRQ. Please try reinstalling the card into other PCI slot to resolve the problem.

Please check and make sure Real Angel 330 and other devices are using different IRQ. You can check by opening the device manager, click “View”, select “resource (by type)” , click “IRQ”, and then list all the IRQ that devices used.

• If there is a conflict of IRQ, first unplug the other card and leave the tuner card on your PC, then install the TV tuner card driver. Once you successfully install your TV tuner card, install the other card in different PCI slot, then install driver, this will help solve IRQ conflict problem.

Note

• This is a common troubleshoot since LAN Card, Sound Card; SCSI Card requires the use of IRQ.

Please check before installing your Real Angel 330.

2) Why I cannot shut down my PC?

• Before you panic, try unplugging the main power cord to reseat TV Tuner Card to restart your computer. If that doesn’t work here are a few tips on troubleshooting:

1. If you have a multi-Boot system and RA330 TVPRO is not installed and running on the default OS.

Solution: Set the default OS appropriately or install RA330 TVPRO on the default booting OS.

2. There may be another reason, incorrect connection between TV card and motherboard will problems preventing starting normally.

Solution: Remove all the cards and troubleshoot PC start up. Remember to correctly reconnect the power switch cables.

3. Some software may cause interference with RA330 TVPRO.

Solution: Shut down that software which might create the conflicts.

4. The RA330 TVPRO Scheduler shortcut is missing from the Programs “Startup” folder.

Solution: Reinstall RA330 TVPRO.

3) Audio OK / No Video

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• The main reason for this problem usually is caused by an IRQ conflict. For the solution, please refer to question one.

4) Video OK / No Audio

• If you have clear image but no audio, you can check the following:

1. Check the audio control panel in the Windows Volume Control dialog. Make sure it hasn’t been muted.

2. Make sure that the external audio loop back cable is connected between the Audio-Out of the TV tuner card and Line-In of your sound card. After doing so, please check and select the audio source to be “Line-In” in the System Device in Settings of RA330 TVPRO.

5) Why is the image discontinuity?

• Please check if the VGA card supports Direct Show or install the newest driver.

• Please check if the system meets the minimum requirement.

6) Why do the drive not be installed?

• Please check if the name of Facility Management is Real Angel 330.

• Please make sure you installed DIRECTX9.0C which is in the CD bundled with the REAL ANGEL

330

7) Why cannot see the image (black screen)?

• Try to restart application software.

• Try to reinstall REAL ANGEL 330 device driver.

8) Why do the color and sound have problem when watching TV?

• Please check if the “Country and Zone” is correct.

9) Why is the TV quality very poor?

• Please check cable signal’s quality. If so, please add a signal amplifier.

10) There are lost frame drop and A/V synchronization when playing recorded TV program.

• Please check if the PC system meets the minimum requirement. If no, please check sound drive or install WDM driver program of sound card.

11) Which software can I use to edit the recorded files?

• You can use Ulead, Arcsoft, Intervideo and Cyberlink editing software.

12) There are more noise when replay the record file.

• Maybe when you record the program the volume of Line-In is too high. Please adjust the volume to medium and try again.

• Maybe the problem is caused by Sound card, some low cost sound card has recording problem.

Also, update the video card’s driver.

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13) Remote controller is not functional

• Please check if batteries were installed correct.

• Please check if you need new batteries.

• IR receiver is not right direction to or too far away from the transmitter.

Please visit our FAQ for more help. Also, please feel free to contact us if you have any problem. http://www.powercolor.com/main_support_faq.asp

Remark: Due to our products updated very fast, there are maybe some differences between this manual and software.

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