ATI Technologies ATI-TV, User Manual

Page 1: ...media Channel User s Guide Version 1 1 P N 107 70014 11 Rev a Copyright 1996 by ATI Technologies Inc All rights reserved including those to reproduce this manual or parts thereof in any form without t...

Page 2: ...sentation that the interconnection of products in the manner described hereinwill not infringe on existing or future patent rights nor do the descriptions contained herein imply the granting of licens...

Page 3: ...ls 3 2 Controlling the audio volume 3 3 The Display Panel 3 3 Sizing the Display panel 3 4 Attaching and Detaching Panels 3 4 Online Help 3 5 Setting up ATI TV 3 5 4 Playing Media Files 4 1 Playing a...

Page 4: ...iv 7 European Teletext 7 1 8 Regulatory Compliance Statement A 1 9 Troubleshooting B 1 10 Glossary Glossary 1...

Page 5: ...er disc player video game consoles etc Still image and live video capture with a simple mouse click Closed captioning NTSC only support including transcript creation and Hot Words that alert you when...

Page 6: ...ATI Multimedia Channel connector If your computer system already has an AMC connector then you can connect the ATI TV directly into your motherboard Please see your system documentation for more infor...

Page 7: ...PLUG HAVING A THIRD GROUNDING PIN If you are unable to insert the plug into the outlet contact your electrician to replace your obsolete outlet OUTDOOR ANTENNA GROUNDING Since an outdoor antenna or c...

Page 8: ...into the slot 5 Fasten the retaining bracket with a screw Installing the AMC Cable 1 Locate the AMC Connector on your ATI graphics accelerator See the Diagram below If your computer system already ha...

Page 9: ...at the back of your computer locate the audio out connector on the ATI TV card 2 Locate the line in connector on your sound card If necessary refer to the documentation supplied with your sound card 3...

Page 10: ...better results Audio Out For audio output to your sound card or powered speakers CATV For input from cable TV or antenna Composite Video Input Use a standard cable fitted with RCA phono plugs to attac...

Page 11: ...o step 5 2 In Windows 95 click Start or In Windows 3 1x pull down the File menu in the Program Manager 3 Select Run 4 Type the following D ATISETUP If D is not your CD ROM drive substitute D with the...

Page 12: ...eskTop Program Group 3 Double click the ATI VIDEO PLAYER icon The Task Control Panel The Task control panel indicates what mode the player is in and what it s doing Your Task control panel may not loo...

Page 13: ...anel changes to the appropriate control panel for that mode All modes provide context sensitive help see Online Help on page 3 5 Media Playback Playback MPEG and AVI video files See Chapter 4 TV Displ...

Page 14: ...locations on the screen Media Playback Press F5 TV Tuner Press F6 Teletext Press F7 Capture Press F8 The TV Tuner panel has a volume control slider Use the mouse to move the slider to increase anddecr...

Page 15: ...TV Control panels from the Display panel move them to any location on your screen and re attach them Panels attached to the Display panel share the Display panel s snap window to and always on top se...

Page 16: ...off help click the Show Bubble Help checkbox in the Display configuration dialog For more information see Display in Setting up ATI TV on page 3 5 Setting up ATI TV ATI TV s default settings should w...

Page 17: ...or interlaced TV Tuner Autoscan for active channels and add them to a list Add delete and name channels in the list Select antenna or cable input and cable standard Use slider to change channel assign...

Page 18: ...ack panel in Full Screen mode press F2 You can use the Media Playback panel to play the following media files MPEG 1 digital audio and video including Karaoke including dual channel audio CDi Games an...

Page 19: ...ck Add then click OK 4 Click the Play button 5 The file plays in the Display panel Playing Interactive Discs Video CD 2 0 When playing Video CD 2 0 discs the Control panel changes to this interactive...

Page 20: ...video inputs from just about any device that has a VIDEO OUT connector TV antenna or cable VCR Video camera laser disk and video games Click the TV Tuner button in the Task control panel to switch to...

Page 21: ...op of the dialog For example you could assign the actual channel 5 to the ATI TV s channel 2 Double clicking the slider returns the current channel s assignment to normal for example selecting channel...

Page 22: ...es that contain closed captioned material In full screen the text overlays the video as in standard TV When you play video in a window you can display the text in a separate window To display closed c...

Page 23: ...Hot Word occurs With Takes effect when the Hot Word occurs and is immediately followed by a Second Word Without Takes effect when the Hot Word occurs if it is not followed by a Second Word Within Take...

Page 24: ...the password The box to the right of the channel name turns into a padlock 6 Click OK The channel up and channel down buttons in the TV Tuner panel skip locked out channels The only way to select a lo...

Page 25: ...cuments to add impact to training applications and presentations Full motion video You can capture a stream of full motion video plus audio from your video source and save it as an AVI file on your co...

Page 26: ...can use the buttons at the top of the still capture window to save the captured image delete it print it or make it into a desktop pattern If you try to delete an unsaved still frame ATI TV prompts yo...

Page 27: ...rding video and audio To capture a sequence of frames Click the Capture Sequence button in the Capture panel ATI TV starts recording a sequence of frames Note that audio is not captured in this mode P...

Page 28: ...e nature of Teletext there may be a delay before the Teletext page requested is viewed on the screen To launch enhanced teletext software Europe only If you are using a third party teletext applicatio...

Page 29: ...one or more of the following measures 1 Re orient or relocate the receiving antenna 2 Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver 3 Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit diff...

Page 30: ...es caract ristiques d interf rences radiophoniques Mat riel des technologies de l information Mise en garde ceci est un produit de Classe B Il risque produire des interf rences radiophoniques dans un...

Page 31: ...e selected the correct input CATV Composite or S Video for your video source device see Video in Setting up ATI TV on page 3 5 No video or audio Check that the audio and video connectors are securely...

Page 32: ...tially the data equivalent of a music CD CDs hold about 600 megabytes of data composite video Video signal format that includes the complete visual waveform including chromatic color and luminance bri...

Page 33: ...the resultant loss of picture quality Also known as Y C video See composite video NTSC SECAM SEquential Couleur A Memoire French color TV system also adopted in Russia tint The amount of color VESA Vi...

Page 34: ...6 to memory or disk 3 6 Capturing playing captured video 6 3 still frames 6 2 video 6 2 sequence of frames 6 3 stream 6 3 Channel autoscan 3 6 Closed captioned text background 3 6 display options 3 6...

Page 35: ...ratio 3 5 bubble help 3 5 panel snap to on top status 3 5 Still Capture frame rate 3 6 printer options 3 6 Tuner add delete name channels 3 6 capture both fields interlaced or one field non interlace...