MSI MEGA VIEW 588, User Manual

Page 1: ...MEGA VIEW 588 User s Guide ...

Page 2: ... Voice AV Recording 9 Setting Menu 9 USB Hard Disk 10 Lock Switch 10 SD MMC Card Slot 10 Remote Control 11 Li ion Battery Recharging 12 Battery Consuming Reference 12 Battery Replacing 13 Support CD 14 Chapter 3 Connect Remove from PC 15 Connect MEGA VIEW 588 to Computer 15 For Systems with Windows 98SE 16 Format MEGA VIEW 588 16 Safely Remove MEGA VIEW 588 from Computer 17 Chapter 4 Basic Usage 1...

Page 3: ...9 Video 26 Music 31 Photo 33 FM Radio optional 35 Voice Recording 37 AV Recording 38 Signal Input and Output 40 On To Go Function 41 Setting 42 Appendix A Specifications 47 Upgrade Software 48 Upgrade MCU Firmware 49 Upgrade USB Firmware 50 ...

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Page 6: ...ng to User s Guide z MEGA VIEW 588 has dropped and damaged 7 DO NOT use MEGA VIEW 588 in the following situations z While driving or riding a vehicle z While operating something dangerous z While walking on street z Be in any situations or environments require concentration 8 If you need to format MEGA VIEW 588 hard disk please select FAT32 format DO NOT PARTITION MEGA VIEW 588 HARD DISK 9 DO NOT ...

Page 7: ...rts MPEG 4 SP DivX 3 11 4 x 5 x Motion JPEG and WMV 9 SP ML format video playback Audio Player supports MP3 MPEG1 Layer2 Layer3 WAV LPCM ADPCM and WMA WMA 9 Layer 2a format audio files playback Photo Viewer supports JPEG and GIF photos You can download photos to MEGA VIEW 588 and browse them Recording supports recording function for audio and video You can use this function to record voice music a...

Page 8: ...s the function keys of MEGA VIEW 588 the LCD Display status in different modes and how to recharge Chapter 3 Connect and Remove from Computer describes how to connect and remove MEGA VIEW 588 from your computer Chapter 4 Basic Usage describes how to operate all functions of MEGA VIEW 588 We suggest you to read this chapter carefully before using MEGA VIEW 588 Appendix A Specifications provides MEG...

Page 9: ...6 Chapter 2 Get Started Overview ...

Page 10: ...to increase volume to the left to decrease volume Press it down to mute 13 REC Press to start or stop the recording 14 SD MMC slot SD MMC card slot for data reading and playing 15 Speaker Built in speaker 16 AV Line in Jack Plug AV cable here to enable AV Line in recording 17 Earphone Jack Plug the earphones here 18 AV Line out Jack Plug AV cable here to enable AV Line out to external display TV 1...

Page 11: ...lected function 2 Menu List List function options such as Video Music Photo etc 3 Alarm Indicate alarm clock is set 4 Voice Indicate voice on or off 5 Volume Show volume status 6 Battery Show battery status 7 Time Show current time tuning required Video Music Photo Menu 8 9 10 8 9 10 8 9 10 8 Menu Title Show the selected menu title 9 List All files in a selected menu 10 Scroll bar Indicate more fi...

Page 12: ...he adjust way Voice AV Recording 14 15 14 15 14 Recording Time Recording elapse hh mm ss 15 Recording Quality Indicate selected and operating recording quality Setting Menu 18 17 16 16 19 16 Scroll bar Mean more tabs are available 17 Tabs Include Display Photo Record System and Info Tabs 18 Setting Items List tab item for adjusting 19 Setting Options Show setting options ...

Page 13: ...W 588 has a Lock Switch to avoid accidental operation Slide the Lock Switch to lock position while power is on you will see the following right figure to indicate all function keys are disabled Slide the Lock Switch to unlock position to continue SD MMC Card Slot MEGA VIEW 588 has an SD MMC slot You can insert a Secure Digital Card and MultiMedia Card into the slot Then you can view or play Photos...

Page 14: ...op playback or go back to previous menu MENU press to go back to Main Menu S T press to select previous next item on menu list These two buttons function the same as pushing Navigator key up down press to rewind fast forward the playback These two buttons function the same as pushing Navigator key left right press to play or pause the playback The button functions the same as press down Navigator ...

Page 15: ...CD display 3 When the battery is full the Power LED will stop blinking To stop recharging disconnect the Adapter from MEGA VIEW 588 Note 1 Charge MEGA VIEW 588 only with the supplied AC Adaptor Note 2 Do NOT open the battery cap while the power is on Note 3 You can still operate MEGA VIEW 588 while it is being recharged but the recharging time will be longer Battery Consuming Reference MEGA VIEW 5...

Page 16: ...VIEW 588 is removable If you have two batteries you can remove the battery and replace with another one To open the battery cap hold down the power cap button and push it forward to open Pull out the battery inside and insert another one Y X Z ...

Page 17: ...at Note To have better converting performance this converter program supports only Windows XP with Windows Media Player 10 For other Windows operation systems you can download DivX converter from http www divx com z User Manual User manual in PDF format z Adobe Acrobat Reader Adobe Reader for opening PDF files z USB Driver USB Driver for Windows 98 operating system z System Recovery Restore MEGA V...

Page 18: ... see the following message showing on MEGA VIEW 588 Note For Windows 98SE users a driver is required to activate MEGA VIEW 588 on your computer 4 After connection is initialized your computer operating system will recognize MEGA VIEW 588 as a hard disk Go to Device Manager by clicking Start Setting Control Panel System Hardware and look for MEGA VIEW 588 USB Device under Disk Drive to check connec...

Page 19: ... 588 We strongly suggest not to format MEGA VIEW 588 hard disk MEGA VIEW 588 display interfaces will not function correctly if the hard disk is formatted If you do need to format MEGA VIEW 588 hard disk connect MEGA VIEW 588 to your computer first and format it with Windows formatting tool When formation is completed please refer to Support CD and Appendix A sections to recover the system files so...

Page 20: ... to computer will be shown on computer system tray To remove MEGA VIEW 588 close all the related programs first Double click the icon to bring up Safely Remove Hardware dialog box Click on USB Mass Storage Device and Stop button 2 You will see following window click on USB Mass Storage Device and OK button 3 When you see following message MEGA VIEW 588 can now be safely removed from computer ...

Page 21: ...n again You will see following message and MEGA VIEW 588 will be shut down Note If MEGA VIEW 588 can not be shut down by one short press press and hold the power button for 4 seconds to force power off Volume Adjustment 1 To change volume level push Volume Control to left right The volume status icon changes while adjusting volume There are 16 volume levels 2 To mute the volume press Volume Contro...

Page 22: ...ill be sorted via ID3 tags The other supported types of music and video files will need PMPSync to define tags Install Execute To install PMPSync Utility refer to Support CD section To execute PMPSync utility click the shortcut on the desktop or click by Start Æ Programs Æ PMPSync Æ PMPSync The display will be shown as the figure below Buttons Buttons on PMPSync are categorized and described as fo...

Page 23: ...ation of PMPSync Source Buttons 1 2 1 PC Select your PC as file source to import to PMPSync 2 PMP Select Player as file source to import Media Tabs 1 Music Press Music button to see music files on the list 2 Video Press Video button to see video files on the list Media Player Preview window for media play Select a music video file and press to play Press and button can pause and stop the playback ...

Page 24: ...ove up move down or clear playlist to empty Edit Tags for Files in PC 1 To run PMPSync click the shortcut on the desktop or click Start Æ Programs Æ PMPSync Æ PMPSync 2 Turn on MEGA VIEW 588 and connect it to PC with the supplied USB cable 3 Press button to select the source device to be PC 4 Press button to bring up Import Window to import files from PC 5 Select or tab on Viewing Panel for the ty...

Page 25: ...e Viewing Panel select one or multiple files for later editing Note You can use Shift or CTRL key on keyboard to select multiple files 8 Press button to add selected files to File Listing Panel Or press to import all files in the directory 9 Repeat Step 5 8 if you want to add more files To remove files from list highlight them and press button ...

Page 26: ...es the checked files can be playback without converting But sometimes it may work incorrect Note Each field of ID3 Tag can have 128 uni code characters at most 11 If you need to preview video or music file on the editing list press button on Media Player at left hand side to listen to it During playing you will see the file name elapsed time and total time 12 To edit tags double click on a categor...

Page 27: ... on the file on the list and select Video Convert to convert the video file into supported format and play it on MEGA VIEW 588 Edit Tags of a File in MEGA VIEW 588 You can also edit tags for the files in MEGA VIEW 588 if they are loaded from other sources than PMPSync for easier file navigation To edit tags of a file click on button to set source device as MEGA VIEW 588 and follow the steps of Edi...

Page 28: ...play them in sequence Note the playlist can include 2048 files at most Transfer Files to MEGA VIEW 588 1 Click button on Tool Bar to transfer files and playlist from PC to MEGA VIEW 588 2 A progress bar will be shown on display on transferring When it disappears selected files are transferred to MEGA VIEW 588 3 Disconnect MEGA VIEW 588 from PC You can find the transferred playlist in Playlist fold...

Page 29: ...uter to MEGA VIEW 588 by PMPSync 4 If the uploading video file is not supported by MEGA VIEW 588 you can use the bundled video converter tool to convert it to a supported format Read the User Guide of the tool to know how to use it 5 Refer to the Safely Remove MEGA VIEW 588 from Computer section to disconnect MEGA VIEW 588 after files are transferred 6 On main menu push Navigation key up or down t...

Page 30: ...cted to play is not supported by MEGA VIEW 588 you will see a message as below 11 Push Navigation key to the right to fast forward video playback push to switch among FFx2 x4 x8 x16 and x1 Push once to fast forward by 2x twice to fast forward 4x etc Press down Navigation key to playback the video in normal speed 12 Push Navigation key left to rewind the playback push to switch among RWx2 x4 x8 x16...

Page 31: ... any file is not needed you can delete it from file list Push Navigation key up or down to select the file push Navigation key left to see below left figure Push Navigation key left right to select Yes and press Navigation key down to confirm to delete you will see the below right figure Manage Files on MEGA VIEW 588 To add files to MEGA VIEW 588 you can also use Windows Explorer Simply transfer f...

Page 32: ...On MEGA VIEW 588 main menu highlight Video and press down Navigation key to enter Video menu 3 Select a DivX file and press Navigation key If the file is purchased from the Internet with DivX DRM protection you will see the message as below Select YES with Navigation key and press down Navigation key to start to play or select NO to quit the file and get back to video list menu 4 With DivX DRM pro...

Page 33: ... embedded subtitle tracks Please select Subtitle Track message will display on LCD when you press Navigation key to play the DivX video Choose one track and press down Navigation key to play Note The tracks now can only be shown as Track 1 Track 2 and etc This function will be updated by DivX Network in the near future 3 You can change audio track and subtitle during DivX video playing During play...

Page 34: ...ags from computer to your MEGA VIEW 588 with the PMPSync 4 After files are transferred disconnect MEGA VIEW 588 5 On main menu push Navigation key up or down to Music as Figure 3 On Music option press down Navigation key to Music menu as Figure 4 All the Music files are sorted into folders by their information 6 Push Navigation key up or down to select a category and press down Navigation key to e...

Page 35: ...r left Single All Off EQ Push right or left Normal Jazz Rock Classic Dance Playback Status Press down Navigation key to play pause playback Push right 2X 4X fast forward Play Push left 2X 4X rewind Play Song Push left go to previous song Push right go to next song 11 Press button once to stop music playing and go back to list 12 If any file is not needed you can delete it from file list Push Navig...

Page 36: ...o select a category and press down Navigation key to enter select a file from list You can preview selected file by pushing Navigation key to the right Press down Navigation key you can see the file in full screen 5 If you want to rotate the photo push Navigation key to the right One press will make the photo rotate 90 degrees Press down Navigation key again the photo will be displayed normally 6 ...

Page 37: ... be highlighted in red frame Note The icon with exclamation mark in the middle of bottom line denotes the file format is not supported by MEGA VIEW 588 10 Push Navigation key to the right or left to select previous or next photo Push Navigation key up or down to select last 9 or next 9 photos Press down Navigation key to view the selected photo in full screen 11 Press button to stop photo viewing ...

Page 38: ...down to select FM Radio as Figure 7 and then press down Navigator key to get into FM Radio shown as Figure 8 3 You can see default stations showing on display Press down Navigator key to select Frequency Bar to search a different radio station 4 Push Navigation key down to select Scan or Fine Tune When Scan is selected an available station can be found by pushing Navigation key to the right or lef...

Page 39: ...Record voice from a FM station 1 You can also record radio broadcast into mp3 format with MEGA VIEW 588 Select a station and press REC y button to record 2 You will see Record Quality and Record Time on the display and Record LED will be on 3 To stop recording press REC y button again Upon recording stopped saving information will be shown as following figure You will see a recorded file under Mus...

Page 40: ... to start to record and the Record LED will stay on 3 To stop recording press REC y button You will see a recorded file under Music record folder and file name starts with Vo000000 mp3 Vo000001 mp3 and so forth Note The maximum length of Voice Recording depends on hard disk free space Voice Recording can not exceed 24hrs or 2GB Play a Recorded Voice File 1 To play a recorded voice file exit Record...

Page 41: ...ng to Best before recording from TV 2 On main menu push Navigation key up or down to select AV Record as Figure 11 On AV Record press down Navigation key as Figure 12 3 You will first read a prompt for Audio Video or Audio options Select one with Navigation key and press down Navigation key to confirm 4 Select Audio Video option to record external video refer to Input Other Video Device Signal of ...

Page 42: ...rding press REC y button If the recording option is set to Audio Video a file will be generated in Video Record folder File name starts with AV000000 asf AV000001 asf and so forth If the recording option is set to Audio recorded files will be created in Music Record folder with file name starting as AU000000 mp3 AU000001 mp3 Note The maximum length of AV Recording file depends on hard disk free sp...

Page 43: ...to TV 4 On Video menu select and play a file on MEGA VIEW 588 Now you can watch the video file on TV and adjust settings on MEGA VIEW 588 with supplied remote from distance Input Other Video Device Signal 1 Connect MEGA VIEW 588 AV in Jack to a video device such as TV set or DVD Player with the supplied AV cable Note the AV cable should be connected correspondingly in color or text to video device...

Page 44: ... to your PC Note The USB device and MEGA VIEW 588 should be turned on before connection 3 You will see the figure below when connection initialed To copy all the files from USB device connected to MEGA VIEW 588 press REC Key as the message mentions 4 Files on the USB device will be saved to a folder under USB OTG folder of MEGA VIEW 588 folder name will be USB00001 USB00002 etc 5 If the connected ...

Page 45: ... applied Display Tab Display Tab includes Brightness TV Standard and Display items 1 Enter Setting menu and you are default starting from Display tab show as Figure 14 2 Push Navigation key down to select among Brightness TV Standard and Display You can change settings by referring to the table below Setting Item Method and Purpose Options Brightness Push Navigation key to right or left to adjust ...

Page 46: ...lect among Slide Music Slide Repeat and Slide Interval You can change setting by referring to the following table Setting Item Adjust way and purpose Options Slide Music Push Navigation key right or left to enable or disable the background music On Off Slide Repeat Push Navigation key right or left to enable or disable the repetition On Off Slide Interval Push Navigation key right or left to adjus...

Page 47: ... Best Better Fine or Standard quality to meet your demand Performance for each setting item is as following table Setting Item Method and purpose Options Resolution Push Navigation key right or left to adjust record resolution 240x180 280x210 312x234 320x240 AV Quality Push Navigation key right or left to adjust AV quality Standard Fine Better Best Voice Quality Push Navigation key right or left t...

Page 48: ...2 5 10 min Language Push Navigation right or left to select language Vary from versions Date Format Push Navigation right or left to select date format on display yy mm dd mm dd yy dd mm yy Date Setting Push Navigation right or left to select year month day Push Navigation up or down to change property Set the exact date Time Setting Push Navigation right or left to select hour minute sec Push Nav...

Page 49: ...ble below Setting Item Method and Purpose Options Storage Free Space Shows free space in HDD NA Software Ver Shows software versions NA MCU Firmware Ver Shows MCU firmware versions NA DivX R VOD Push Navigation key to the right to read DivX information and the registration code NA Update Software Please refer to Appendix A for how to upgrade the software Yes No Update MCU Firmware Please refer to ...

Page 50: ...D Display 3 5 Hard Disk 20 GB I O Input Output mini USB connector Earphone Jack AV in Jack AV out Jack AC Adaptor connector CIR Speaker and Microphone EMI and Safety BSMI FCC CB CE VCCI CCC Battery Li ion rechargeable battery 2200mAh 3 7V Video Playback 5 hours Audio Playback 7 5 hours Power Adapter 100 240 V vary from country to country Battery life test is under the condition of Temperature Humi...

Page 51: ...computer 3 Download a MEGA VIEW 588 upgrade file from internet and save it into MEGA VIEW 588 root directory Double click to run the upgrade file and select Replace all on pop up message to replace old files 4 Safely remove MEGA VIEW 588 from your computer 5 Select Setting from main menu and press down Navigation key to enter 6 Push Navigation key left or right to select Info tab 7 Push Navigation...

Page 52: ...your computer 3 Download a MEGA VIEW 588 upgrade file from internet and save it into MEGA VIEW 588 root directory Double click to run the upgrade file and select Replace all on pop up message to replace old files 4 Safely remove MEGA VIEW 588 from your computer 5 Select Setting from main menu and press down Navigation key to enter 6 Push Navigation key left or right to select Info tab 7 Push Navig...

Page 53: ...elect Setting from main menu and press down Navigation key to enter 3 Push Navigation key left or right to select Info tab 4 Push Navigation key up or down to select Update USB Firmware 5 Push Navigation key to the right below message will appear on the display to tell you to connect MEGA VIEW 588 to your computer 6 Connect MEGA VIEW 588 to your computer with the USB cable then you will see the me...

Page 54: ...gger number or character means newer version If yes click Download button to upgrade the USB firmware 10 After the procedure is done you will see the message box as below Click on OK to close the box Then click Quit button to exit the tool 11 Safely remove MEGA VIEW 588 from your computer 12 Turn off MEGA VIEW 588 and turn it on again after 5 seconds Then the USB function would work via new firmwa...