Booting up in QMedia XS
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Booting up in QMedia XS
With QMedia XS, you can play CD, VCD, DVD or MP3 music files without start-
ing up Windows. There are two ways of powering on your Joybook. One is the tra-
ditional method of pressing the power button to boot up Windows. The other is
pressing
- the Internet Explorer hotkey - to boot up QMedia XS.
Navigating around the screen
Once QMedia XS has booted up, you will see its main page on the screen. You can
use the mouse or touchpad or keyboard to navigate around the screen.
The usual way of tapping on the touchpad to make a selection does not work under
QMedia XS mode, you have to press the touchpad selector button to effect a selec-
tion.
The following keyboard keys are functional in QMedia XS.
Press <Fn>+<F1> to bring up hotkey help.
Playing Music, Pictures, Movies
As indicated on the main page, you have a choice of playing either music, pictures
or movies. After you’ve selected which media type to play, you will then select
from where to play the content. You can either play the media content from your
hard disk or DVD-ROM drive.
For example, if you wish to play a music CD in the DVD-ROM drive, please fol-
low the below steps.
1. Select Music from the main page.
2. Select DVD-ROM1 on the Music page.
3. Highlight a song from the playlist.
4. Move the cursor down to the play control panel and click on the play button to
begin playing.
• You can use QMedia XS to play a DVD-Video, Super VCD, VCD, Audio CD or MP3
CD placed in the optical drive.
• You can also use QMedia XS to play photos and MP3 music files on the hard disk
or from the optical drive except the memory card or PC card slot.
• QMedia XS only supports files in FAT 32 file system. Therefore, do not format your
hard disk or storage devices where the media files are located into NTFS or other
file systems, otherwise QMedia XS will not be able to recognize these files. For
more information about file systems, please consult Windows Help and Support
Center.
• When playing MP3 music, the SPDIF audio output will become unavailable.
• Avoid viewing pictures larger than 2MB. Otherwise system speed will decrease
dramatically.
• When playing movies, the mouse and on-screen control bar function will become
unavailable. However, you can still use the keyboard keys to operate.
Changing Settings
You can change settings in QMedia XS by entering the Setup page. From the main
page, select Setup to enter that page. Here, you can change the Language, Video
Output, Audio Output settings. Alternatively, you can return to the default set-
tings by clicking Restore default settings.
Key
Description
Up arrow
Move selection up
Down arrow
Move selection down
Left arrow
Move selection left
Right arrow
Move selection right
Enter
Make a selection
Esc
Move up one level
E or Del
Eject disc from the optical drive
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