VideoMate S700/S900 USB 2.0 Satellite TV Tuner Box

VideoMate S700/S900
USB 2.0 Satellite TV Tuner Box
Start Up Guide
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Table of Contents
Product Introduction ................................................................... 3
Key Features ............................................................................ 3
System requirements ............................................................... 4
Package Contents ....................................................................... 5
Hardware Installation .................................................................. 6
Software Installation ................................................................... 7
MyTheatre and driver installation ............................................. 7
DVBIPData installation ............................................................. 11
Software Setting .......................................................................... 14
MyTheatre................................................................................. 14
DVBIPData ............................................................................... 24
Remote control ......................................................................... 28
Troubleshooting .......................................................................... 31
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Product Introduction
The VideoMate S700 and S900 satellite TV tuner box are designed to watch satellite
TV or listen to radio programs on your PC or laptop. Please read the instructions
carefully before installation.
Key Features
VideoMate S700 USB 2.0 DVB-S TV Tuner Box
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Palm size USB 2.0 DVB-S TV tuner box with digital satellite TV tuner
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Watch DVB-S digital satellite TV shows on your desktop or laptop PC
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Bundled MyTheatre digital TV software
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Supports IP over DVB-S (where available)
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Supports DiSEqC 1.2 and USALS
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Supports SDTV and 1080i HDTV (where available)
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Digital TV supports MPEG-2 and Transport Stream recording
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Timeshifting, channel surfing, and still frame capture
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Supports audio and language selection in available channels
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Supports EPG, Closed Caption, Subtitle and Teletext
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Fully functional IR remote control with WMC controls support
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Supports popular ProgDVB and DreamDVB 3rd party digital TV applications
VideoMate S900 USB 2.0 DVB-S/S2 TV Tuner Box
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Palm size USB 2.0 DVB-S/S2 TV tuner box with digital satellite TV tuner
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Watch DVB-S, DVB-S2 digital satellite TV shows on your desktop or laptop PC
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Bundled MyTheatre digital TV software
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Supports IP over DVB-S (where available)
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Supports DiSEqC 1.2 and USALS
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Supports SDTV and HDTV (MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 up to 1080i)
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Digital TV supports MPEG-2 and Transport Stream recording
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Timeshifting, channel surfing, and still frame capture
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Supports audio and language selection in available channels
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Supports EPG, Closed Caption, Subtitle and Teletext
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Fully functional IR remote control with WMC controls support
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Supports popular ProgDVB and DreamDVB 3rd party digital TV applications
System Requirements (Recommended Platform)
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CPU
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PIII 1.7 GHz for SDTV viewing
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P4 3.0 GHz for HDTV viewing and recording
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Memory: 512 MB (1.0GB recommend)
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Available USB 2.0 port
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CD drive for software installation
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Sound card or on-board sound chip
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Graphics card or on-board graphics supports DirectX 9.0
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OS: Windows XP SP3 / Vista SP2 / Win 7 x86/x64
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Digital Satellite Dish and LNB
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Package Contents
VideoMate
S700 or S900
TV tuner box
Remote Control
Software CD
Power adapter
AAA Batteries
USB 2.0 cable
(I/P 100-240V,
O/P DC 12V/1A)
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Quick Installation
Guide
Hardware Installation
Step 1:
Connect the signal cable (from LNB), DC power and USB cable to your S700 or S900
TV box
Signal Input
(LNB IN)
USB
DC Power
Step 2:
Connect USB Cable to the USB port on your PC or laptop
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Software installation
MyTheater and driver installation
Step 1:
When you connect the S700 or S900 USB digital TV box to your PC.
“Found New Hardware Wizard” dialog will pop out; choose ”No, not this time” and
click ”Cancel”
Step 2:
Insert the software CD into your CD-ROM, Installshield will automatically start & follow
window will appear. If the window doesn’t appear, start Installshield from Drive CD
manually. Click on “Install Driver & MyTheatre”.
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Step 3:
To start software installation; press “Next” button on each installation step.
Step 4:
Mark ”I accept the terms in the License Agreement” and click “Next”
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Step 5:
Choose install location and click “next”
Step 6:
Choose start menu folder and click ”Install”
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Step 7:
After installation complete, please click “Next”
Step 8:
Completing MyTheatre and driver setup, Please click “Finish”
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DVBIPData installation
Step 1:
Insert the Drive CD into your CD-ROM, .The Installshield will automatically start &
follow window will appear. If the window doesn’t appear, start Installshield from Drive
CD manually. Click on “Install DVBIPData”.
Step 2:
DVBIPData Setup, Please click “Next”
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Step 3:
Please choose path to install and click “Next”
Step 4:
Choose start menu folder and click “Install”
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Step 5:
Installation completed, Please click “Next”
Step 6:
Installation completed, Please click “Finish”
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Software setting
MyTheatre
Step 1:
After installation finished, you will see the icon on your Desktop. Run it by double
clicking the icon. And you will see the splash-screen of MyTheatre starting.
MyTheatre icon on your desktop
Step 2:
After splash-screen, you will see main window of application. Click on video area
(at the first run it will look like large black area) by right mouse button. Pop-up menu
appears. Follow menu: Settings  General Settings and choose the “Hardware” tab.
Please select the “Compro DVB-S Receiver” for signal reception.
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Step 3:
After select the device, please click on video area by right mouse button. Pop-up menu
appears. Follow menu: Settings  Tuner settings & Scan…
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Step 4:
For LNB/Transponders settings, you will see settings for satellites and transponders.
(1). Find and click on required satellite on list. Fill appropriate LOF1, LOF2, SW values.
Please read instruction of LNB convertor you use. Don’t forget to click on “Apply”
button when you finish setup satellite LNB parameters.
(2.) Click on button “Sel All” (right side of window) to select all transponders or while
holding “Ctrl” key click sequentially on every transponder you want to scan. Click on
button “-=SCAN=-“ to start scanning process.
Note:
If you see universal (dual-band) Ku LNBF then usual parameters are:
LOF1=10600000, LOF2=9750000, SW=11700000. If you use DiSEqC switch
or motor then click on DiSEqC button and choose appropriate LNB input port.
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Step 5:
DiSEqC Switch Settings. Mark “First DiSEqC Switch” and choose Committed,
LNB1..LNB4 (depend on required port of switch)
Step 6:
Scan Dialog: You can watch scanning process in this window. You may interrupt
scanning by clicking “stop” button. After scanning completed, close scanning window
and then LNB dialog.
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Step 7:
Open pop-up menu by clicking right mouse button on main window, then follow steps
below: Display  Video On/Off. Make sure there is a mark sign on this option. If there
is no such mark then click on it.
Step 8:
Click on any channel name with green “V” sign. You may organize channel view by
clicking on any of following buttons “Sat”, “Prov”, NetID”, “Transp”, “Fav”, “All”
Three small buttons “All”, “V”, “R” can filter channels to show TV only, Radio only or all
channels.
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Other Setting:
Click on video area by right mouse button. Pop-up menu appears. Follow menu:
Settings ->General settings…
Miscellaneous:
You can setting more detail functions, such as Full screen, LNB power turn off,
Database backup, sleep timer…etc
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Display:
You can set up display option.
Interface:
You can choose the language by this page.
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Recording:
Setting your recording option. such as recording destination, file name format
recording format.
AutoGraph:
Setting MPEG-2/H.264 AVC Decoder you preferred; if you are using Windows MCE,
Microsoft Decoder is recommended.
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&
IVR/OSD:
Setting Resolution, Aspect Ratio & On-Screen-Display (OSD).
TimeShift:
Setting variants for TimeShift feature such as: buffer length, recording speed & play
speed…etc.
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EPG:
Setting EPG (Electronic Program Guide)
Shortcuts:
Setting Hotkey & Shortcuts by double clicking the function you want to change.
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Volume/Audio:
Setting Audio options
Subtitles:
Setting Subtitle language you prefer
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DVBIPData
Step 1:
After installation finished, you will see DVBIPData icon on your Desktop. Run it by
double clicking the icon.
DVBIPData icon on your desktop
Step 2:
After splash-screen, you will see main window of application. Please click “New”
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Step 3:
You need to fill in the parameters for your satellite,
For example: Frequency, Symbol Rate, LNB, Polarity, DiSEqC, 22K, and click
“Lock Transponder”
Note:
Once the transponder is locked, you will see Strength & Quality indicators in
Blue bar and the LockStatus icon turns Blue.
Step 4:
Please click “Network Settings” into this page & Insert PID
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Step 5:
DVBIPData allows you to change MAC Address by yourself, Click “Change”, Enter the
"MAC Address" you need in the column as below
Step 6:
When you finish all setup, don’t forget to click “Apply”
Note:
DVBIPData is a stable and easy satellite internet software, with which you could
surf high speed broadband via satellite, but you need to apply for a valid account
from your local Satellite Internet ISP before using DVBIPData.
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Remote Control
The outlook of remote control and button definitions has shown as below:
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Remote control keys definition
Key Name Default Action
Live Mode
Mute
Mute
Power
Exit
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1
2
2
3
3
4
4
5
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
9
9
0
0
Recall
Fav
Vol+
Vol+
VolVolChannel+
ChannelLive
Live Mode
Play
Play Mode
Up
Down
Left
Right
OK
Select
Menu
OSD Menu
Back
Cancel
Play/Pause Play/Pause
>>
Fast Forward
<<
Rewind
EPG
Rec
Timer
Sleep Timer
Open
Open file
Info
OSD Info
A/B
Audio
Subs
List
Mon
Next Monitor
Full Screen
Preset 1
Preset 2
Preset 3
Preset 4
Mute
Shut Down
Enter
All Channels
Preset 5
Play Mode
OSD
WMC Mode
Mute
Shut Down
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
0
Previous Channel
OSD Favorites
OSD File List
Vol+
VolNext File
Previuos File
Event Into
Channel+
ChannelPlay Speed+
Play Speed-
Up
Down
Left
Right
Vol+
VolChannel+
Channel-
Up
Down
Left
Right
OK
Back
Play/Pause
Fast Forward
Rewind
EPG
Add To scheduler(Record) Record
Add To scheduler(Watch)
EPG
Record
Program Info
Audio A/B/AB
Switch Audio
Subtitles on/off
Channel List
Switch Audio
File List
Full Screen
Satellite View
Provider View
Transponder View
Favorites View
Full Screen
Video Library
Music Library
Radio
Picture Library
WMC Home
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Troubleshooting
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My device can’t work correctly.
1. Please unplug device from PC/Laptop and re-connect to another USB port
again.
2. Please check device management and see if there is any exclamation mark or
not.
3. Please re-install latest driver again.
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Video can be played but Audio failed.
Please check the sound card setting or the volume setting.
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Why my EPG, Teletext and Subtitle cannot be shown?
At some areas, the broadcasters do not provide these services. Please contact
your broadcaster for further information.
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Why I cannot lock any channel?
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Please check whether the dish points at the satellite you wish to watch.
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Please check the cable between device and the dish are well connected.
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Please note that the cable should be connected to "LNB In" F-connector of
the box.
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Check the settings of satellite; for example, LNB frequency is for C band or
Ku band.
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Please re-connect the device to another USB port again.
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How to check Device Manager?
Step 1: Click “Start” on the bottom-left corner. (Windows logo on Vista / Windows 7)
Step 2: Click right-button on ”Computer” (”My Computer” on Windows XP)
Step 3: Click on ”Manage” (”Device Manager” on Windows XP)
Step 4: Double click ”Device Manager”
Step 5: Double click ”Sound, video and game controllers”
Step 6: Check whether the driver of TV tuner has been properly installed. If yellow
Question Mark or Exclamation mark appears, the driver is not well installed.
Please re-install.
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