ENLTV-FM - TV Tuner for Computer ENCORE - Free user manual and instructions

Product Type	TV Tuner for Computer
Brand	ENCORE
Model	ENLTV-FM
Interface	USB 2.0
TV Standard	Analog (PAL/SECAM/NTSC) and Digital (DVB-T)
FM Radio	Yes, built-in FM tuner
Remote Control	Included (IR remote)
Dimensions	85 x 30 x 15 mm
Weight	30 g
Power Supply	USB powered (5V DC)
Operating System Compatibility	Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10
Recording Function	Yes, schedule recording via software
Timer Function	Yes, programmable timer
Channel Scan	Automatic and manual scan
Antenna Input	Coaxial (F-type) for TV antenna
Video Input	Composite (RCA) and S-Video
Audio Output	3.5 mm stereo jack
Package Contents	USB TV tuner, remote control, antenna adapter, driver CD, user manual
Cleaning	Wipe with dry soft cloth. Do not use liquids.
Safety	Keep away from moisture and heat. Do not disassemble.
Spare Parts	Contact ENCORE support for remote control or antenna adapter.

Frequently Asked Questions - ENLTV-FM ENCORE

How do I install the ENCORE ENLTV-FM driver?

Insert the included driver CD and run the setup. Alternatively, download the latest driver from the official ENCORE website. Connect the device to a USB port and follow on-screen instructions.

Can I use this TV tuner with my Mac?

The ENLTV-FM is designed for Windows operating systems (XP/Vista/7/8/10). It may not have native macOS support.

Why is there no signal on my TV tuner?

Ensure the antenna is properly connected and positioned. Run a channel scan in the software. Check if your area has digital terrestrial (DVB-T) or analog broadcast.

How do I record a TV show?

Open the TV tuner software, select the channel, and click the record button. You can schedule recordings using the timer function.

Does the FM radio feature work without an antenna?

A basic FM antenna is required. You can use the included adapter or connect a standard FM antenna to the device.

The remote control is not working. What should I do?

Check the batteries and ensure there are no obstructions between the remote and the receiver. Re-pair the remote by pressing the connect button (if available) or restart the software.

Can I use the ENLTV-FM with a laptop?

Yes, the USB interface makes it compatible with most laptops running Windows.

How do I clean the TV tuner?

Unplug the device and wipe the exterior with a dry, soft cloth. Do not use any liquids or abrasive cleaners.

What should I do if the device is not recognized?

Try a different USB port, restart your computer, and reinstall the drivers. If the issue persists, check Device Manager for conflicts.

Is there a warranty for the ENCORE ENLTV-FM?

Yes, typical warranty is 1 year from purchase. Contact your retailer or ENCORE support for warranty claims.

USER MANUAL ENLTV-FM ENCORE

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ENCORE

ELECTRONICS

Personal Video Recorder

ENLTV / ENLTV-FM

(PCI TV Capture Card)

ENLTV Series

User's Guide

Version 2.2

User's Notice

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Copyright Encore Electronics © 2009. All Rights Reserved.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction....4

1.1 - Package Contents....4
1.2 - System Requirements .... 4

Chapter 2: Getting Started .... 5

2.1 - ENLTV / ENLTV-FM Hardware Installation 5
2.2 - Device Driver Installation .... 6
2.3 - Install the DirectX® 14
2.4 - Install the ENLTV Utility software. 15

Chapter 3: Launch the ENLTV Program .... 20

3.1 - Running the ENLTV for the first time.... 20
3.2 - Watch TV programs or movies from DVD/VCR/Camcorder 22
3.3 - Record Video 23
3.4 - Snapshot Image.... 24
3.5 - Playback Video.... 24
3.6-Browse Images 26
3.7 - Time-Shifting 27
3.8 - Using and setting up the FM Radio 29

Chapter 4: Using the Remote Control....30

Chapter 5: Frequently Asked Questions .... 31

Chapter 6: Technical Support.... 34

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 - Package Contents

The following items are included in the ENLTV / ENLTV-FM package.

● CD Setup Disc (includes Software Driver and Utility Software)

● ENLTV or ENLTV-FM PCI Card

- Video Cable

- Audio Cable

- Remote Controller

● FM Antenna (ENLTV-FM only)

- User's Guide

1.2 - System Requirements

Intel® Pentium® 4 1.7GHz CPU or above

● Minimum 256 MB memory

● Minimum 1GB hard disk space available

- 1024x768 graphic card, DirectX ^ 9.0c or above compatible graphic card or higher

- One free PCI slot

● PCI 2.1 or 2.2 compliant interface

- Microsoft Windows® XP/ Windows Vista™

- CD-ROM drive

Chapter 2: Getting Started

2.1 - ENLTV / ENLTV-FM Hardware Installation

Install the ENLTV / ENLTV-FM PCI Card to the computer's available PCI slot according to your computers manual and new hardware installation procedures. Make sure that the computer's power cord is unplugged before inserting the ENLTV / ENLTV-FM card to the PCI slot. ENLTV / ENLTV-FM supports PCI bus 2.1 and above.

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Refer to the device connection diagram below for port connections:

Caution:

Take an extra care handling the Remote sensor cable, do not insert or remove the sensor cable while the computer is powered-on. Otherwise, it can cause the ENLTV / ENLTV-FM to malfunction.

2.2 - Device Driver Installation

1. Placed the CD software that comes with the ENLTV / ENLTV-FM in the CD-ROM drive. (Assuming that the ENLTV / ENLTV-FM PCI TV Tuner card is properly installed to the computer's PCI slot), then follow the on-screen installation guide below.

Device driver installation for Windows® XP Home/Professional Edition/x64 Edition

1. When the computer is powered-on for the very first time during the setup, a message "Found New Hardware Wizard" dialogue box will appear on the screen. Click "Cancel" button to close "Found New Hardware Wizard" window.

1. Insert the installation CD into the CD-ROM drive. The setup screen will automatically appear.
2. Select the language

1. Click the "Setup Driver" button.

1. Click "Next" on driver setup welcome window to continue.

1. Make sure the "Complete" radio button is selected then click "Next"

1. Click "Install" to begin install driver.

1. Click "Next" button.

1. Click "Continue Anyway" to continue the installation.

1. Click "Continue Anyway" button

1. Click "Finish" button
2. Click "Finish" to reboot PC.
3. To make sure the driver is properly installed and started, open the "Device Manager". Please double-click the "Sound, video and game controller".

Device driver installation for Windows Vista™

1. After ENLTV / ENLTV-FM hardware has been installed, the next time when the computer is powered-on, a message "Found New Hardware" dialogue box will appear on the screen. Click "Cancel" button to close "Found New Hardware" window.

1. Insert the installation CD into the CD-ROM drive. The setup screen will automatically appear.

2. Select the language

1. Click the "Setup Driver" button.

1. Click "Next" on driver setup welcome window to continue.

1. Make sure the "Complete" radio button is selected then click "Next"

1. Click "Install" button

1. Click "Next" button

1. Click "Finish" button

1. Click "Finish" button.

1. To make sure the driver is properly installed and started, open the "Device Manager". Please double-click the "Sound, video and game controller".

2.3 - Install the DirectX®

Microsoft DirectX® allows 3D hardware acceleration support in Windows® 98, 2000, Windows® XP/64 bit and Windows Vista™ 32bit/64bit. For software MPEG support in Windows 98, you must first install Microsoft DirectX®, and then an MPEG compliant video player. Follow the installation steps below to install MS DirectX®.

1. Insert the installation CD into the CD-ROM drive. The setup screen will automatically appear.

2. Select the language

3. Click the "DirectX" button.

4. Click "Accept the agreement" radio button then click "Next"

1. Click "Next" to confirm the installation of DirectX

2. Click "Finish"

NOTE:

The computer will automatically restart.

Please save any unsaved files and close all programs before hitting the "Finish" button.

2.4 - Install the ENLTV Utility software.

1. Install TV application on Windows XP Home/Professional Edition

1. Insert the installation CD into the CD-ROM drive. The setup screen should automatically appear.

2. Click the "Setup Utility"

1. Click "Next" button to start the ENLTV Installation

1. Please read the License Agreement and click "Yes" button

2. Make sure the "Typical" radio button is selected then click "Next"

3. Click "Next" button to accept the default location or choose a different folder

Note:

We recommend not to change the default location

1. Click "Next" button.

1. Click "Finish" button.

NOTE:

We recommend restarting your computer right after the Installation Wizard.

2. Install TV application on Windows Vista™ 32/64bit

1. Insert the installation CD into the CD-ROM drive. The setup screen will automatically appear.
2. Select the language

1. Click "Setup Utility"

1. Click "Next" button to start the ENLTV Installation

1. Please read the License Agreement and click "Yes" button

1. Make sure the "Typical" radio button is selected then click "Next"

1. Click "Next" button to accept the default location or choose a different folder

Note:

We recommend not to change the default location

1. Click "Next"

1. Click "Finish" to restart your computer.

NOTE:

We recommend restarting your computer right after the Installation Wizard.

Chapter 3: Launch the ENLTV Program

3.1 - Running the ENLTV for the first time

Click "Start", move your mouse to "Programs\ENLTV\ENLTV" then click ENLTV

NOTE:
When the ENLTV Program is first started, it will prompt you to configure the Device Setting.

1. Select the video signal format in your area (NTSC or PAL) from the "TV Tuner Standard" drop-down menu.
2. Select "Line-In" to drop-down menu of the "Audio Input Source" and the "Volume Control Source".
3. Click "Next"

NOTE:

• You must select same source for both "Audio Input Source" and "Volume Control Source".
• The name of your "Audio Input Source" may vary depending on your sound card.

1. This step will give you an option to scan for TV channels. Select which signal source you are connected to in the "TV Scan Type" line then click "Search". There are two types of scans.

i. One is scan by TV channel table "Cable", "Antenna" and "Extend"
ii. One is scan by frequency that scans low frequency to high frequency. The "Auto" scan mode is not for the TV table order.

3.2 - Watch TV programs or movies from DVD/VCR/Camcorder

1. Source Switch: click it to select TV, Audio/Video or S-Video.
2. Search TV channel: click to search available TV channel.
3. Volume control: Adjust the Volume or mute.
4. Channel control: Set channel up or down.
5. Double click to full screen display or right click for the program menu.
6. Channel List: This is listing all available TV channel.
7. TV wall display: show 4x4 TV wall on screen.

When you do a full screen display, you can use the panel bar to set up your TV box.

1. Fix Panel: To fix the display panel. Show / Hide as mouse drags.
2. Hide Panel: To hide the sub-panel.
3. Snapshot: Same as "Snapshot" button of main panel.
4. TV Wall: To launch TV Wall function, same as "TV Wall" button,
5. Start / Stop Record: Record the current playing audio/video, same as "Start/Stop Record" of main panel.
6. Switch Next Channel: Switch to next channel, same as "Switch Next Channel" button of main panel.
7. Switch Previous Channel: Switch to previous channel, same as "Switch Previous Channel" button of main panel.
8. Volume Adjustment: To adjust the output volume, same as "Volume Adjust" scroll bar of the main panel.
9. Mute: Audio Mute

3.3 - Record Video

1. Click the "Setting" button to setup the record format.

2. Setup the video format then click "Next"

3. Click "Record" button to start capturing video.

3.4 - Snapshot Image

1. Click the "Setting" button to setup the image format.

2. The ENLTV supports BMP and JPEG image format. The default is JPEG. Please choose your desired format.

3. Click "Snapshot" button to capture image.

3.5 - Playback Video

1. Click "Playback" button to select video file.
2. Choose the video then click "open" button.

Movie Player function List:

About: To show the current version info

Exit: To exit the video playback window, [Esc] or [ALT]+[F4] on keyboard equalized

Minimize: To minimize the video playback window, click "MoviePlayer" in desktop taskbar to restore display

Hide Control Panel: To hide video control panel, right click video window and select "Control Panel" to restore display

Options: Click to open "Options" dialog and adjust settings for video window, snapshots, and playlist

Browse Image: To open image folder (refer to "3.6 Browse Image" on page 26.)

Step Backward: Step by step rewind recorded video

Step Forward: Step by step forward recorded video

Slow Backward: To slow rewind play recorded video

Slow Forward: To slow-forward the video

Fast Backward: To fast rewind play recorded video

Fast Forward: To fast forward play recorded video

Mute: To turn off audio, click again to restore

Volume Adjust: Drag the slider with the mouse or use Left and Right arrow to adjust volume

Play/Pause: Click to play the current video file, click again to pause, click once

more to continue

Stop Play: Stop

Snapshot: Capture current video frame as BMP or JPG image

Default saved file name is "snapshot time" and saved under C:\My Pictures. You also can open "Snap Setting" option in "Options" to set snapshot saving directory, image format, and select rename file.

Playlist: Show/Hide the Play List Window. By default, video files shown are from

the record directory, C:\Video\

3.6 - Browse Images

1. Click the "Browse Image" to retrieve the saved pictures.

2. You can use the "Browse Image" software to control picture zoom in/out, or rename.

The menu bar contains many function buttons for easy operations, these are:

Refresh: To refresh the display snapshot image in current folder.

DirBar: Show/Hide the Directory Panel on the left window pane, through which you can browse and select folder

ImageBar: Show/Hide the Image Bar on the left of window, through which you can preview snapshot image

Set Wallpaper: Set the current image as wallpaper of the Windows desktop, click the right dropped arrow you can select wallpaper display mode.

Skin: To set the skin of the image browser window

Zoom out: To shrink display current image

Zoom in: To magnify current image

Match Zoom: You can select the matched display mode in the drop-down arrow

Full Size: Shows image at 100% magnification

Fit Image: Magnifies image to fit screen or window

Fit Width: Magnifies image to fit width of screen or window

Fit Height: Magnifies image to fit height of screen or window

Lock: Locks the viewer at the current zoom level.

3.7 – Time-Shifting

1. Right click inside the ENLTV video window and select the "Timeshift" function.

1. Video is now being recorded to your hard disk while showing live on screen. You can click "pause" button or slide the "timer" to control the current TV show.

1. Click "Stop" button on the control panel, or right click inside the ENLTV video window and select "Stop" from the context menu to stop the time-shift function.

3.8 - Using and setting up the FM Radio

(This feature is for ENLTV-FM only)

NOTE:

ENLTV-FM is equipped with FM Radio receiver only. There is no AM Radio receiver included.

1. Click the "Switch Video Source" button then select "Radio Mode".

2. Click the "Setup" button

3. If the list of radio channel is empty, click "Search" button to scan available radio program.

4. At the channel list, you can select radio programs then click "Use Favorite Channel list" button to set the favorite channel.

Note:

(You can select multiple channels at one time by pressing and holding the "CTRL" key on your keyboard while selecting radio channels)

Chapter 4: Using the Remote Control

The Remote control allows you to operate the ENLTV program, such as turning the TV on or off, changing channel and volume, etc. Aim the upper front side of the Remote Control to the Remote Control Receiver as you would do on other infrared remote control. For default button assignments, please refer to the list below:

Remote Control Default Settings:

1. Open or Close TV Program.
2. Mute
3. Number keys.
4. Single or Double digits channel.
5. Return to the previous channel last viewed
6. Switch TV signals, S-Video and A/V signal
7. Snapshot
8. Channel Up
9. Channel Low
10. Volume High
11. Volume Low
12. Full screen
13. Record
14. Record Pause
15. Video Settings: Click to respectively adjust video brightness, contrast, hue and saturation (use together with the right two direction key).
16. Decrease video setting.
17. Increase video setting.
18. Click to set video brightness, contrast, hue and saturation to default value.
19. Hide / Display Control Panel.
20. Set time to shutdown Windows system.

Chapter 5: Frequently Asked Questions

Q : I can't use ENLTV/ENLTV-FM when I run the software and it shows an error message.

A: This problem is because of incorrect sound card device driver, or the driver and software did not match.

1. Incorrect sound card device driver

2. Check the Device Manager for any yellow or red markings under “Sound, Video and Game Controller”. If you see any yellow or red markings, your sound card may be bad or not working correctly.

3. Check the sound card settings in Control Panel to make sure the correct sound card is selected (This happens to PC with more than one sound card and Bluetooth device)

4. Check the Device Manager > Sound, Video and Game Controller. After the driver installed you should see a line that says “TV Tuner Card”. If you don’t see it there, that means the driver for ENLTV/ENLTV-FM is not properly installed.

5. The ENLTV/ENLTV-FM driver and software does not match.

The ENLTV/ENLTV-FM driver and software should match. If step 1 did not fix the problem, uninstall the driver and the software, and then reinstalling them from the product CD again. If your product CD is not available with you, you can check our web site at http://www.encore-usa.com for download.

Q: How do I uninstall the ENLTV software?

A: For Windows® XP, there are two ways to uninstall the ENLTV Utility software.

1. Go to Start > All Program > ENLTV > Uninstall ENLTV program.
2. Go to Windows "Control Panel" > "Add or Remove programs". Select ENLTV then click "Remove" button

Q: Why can't I hear any sound while watching the TV?

A : The audio cable might not be hooked up correctly. Use the audio cable (about 3" in length included in the package) to link to the ENLTV/ENLTV-FM card's "audio-out" port to the PC sound card's "audio-in" port.

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    A["CATV"] --> B["AV IN"]
    B --> C["AVIO OUT"]
    C --> D["Speaker out SOUND CARD"]
    D --> E["Line-out"]
    D --> F["Line in"]
    D --> G["Mic"]

If the audio is still not working, check the sound card settings. See the User's Guide, page 21, "Device Initial Setting" to set the "Audio Input Source".

Make sure all the appropriate audio levels are set about 3/4 high.

Q: Why doesn't the "Record" function work? I can watch a TV programs fine, but when I hit the "Record" button, nothing is saved to my hard disk drive.

A: This can be a Windows account or user rights issue.

1. In Windows Vista™ system, use "Administrator" account type to login and try to record again.

2. Recording function uses a video CODEC to encode a movie. To make sure video CODEC resource is not being occupied, we suggest reinstalling the ENLTV utility software, this way the CODEC link will also be reset.

3. Make sure that you meet the minimum system requirements.

Chapter 6: Technical Support

For Technical Support or Installation Hotline contacts please visit our web site at

http://www.encore-usa.com

2009/05/01

Version: 2.2