E257 R 740DVD Hardware DVD Daughterboard for the ASUS AGP-V2740 3D Multimedia Accelerator Series USER’S MANUAL
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Contents Communications Regulation Information ...................................................... 4 Federal Communications Commission Statement 4 Canadian Department of Communications Statement 4 ASUS Contact Information ............................................................................... 5 Introduction .......................................................................................................
Communications Regulation Information Federal Communications Commission Statement This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: ■ This device may not cause harmful interference, and ■ This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
ASUS Contact Information ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Marketing Technical Support 150 Li-Te Road Peitou, Taipei, Taiwan 112 +886-2-2894-3447 telephone +886-2-2894-3449 fax info@asus.com.tw +886-2-2895-9254 fax +886-2-2896-4667 BBS tsd@asus.com.tw www.asus.com.tw ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS ASUS COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL Marketing Technical Support 6737 Mowry Avenue Mowry Business Center, Building 2 Newark, CA 94560, USA +1-510-608-4555 fax info-usa@asus.com.tw +1-510-608-4555 fax +1-510-739-3774 BBS tsd-usa@asus.
Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of an ASUS 740DVD Hardware DVD Daughtercard for the ASUS AGP-V2740 3D Multimedia Accelerator Series. The ASUS 740DVD transforms your computer into a full-function DVD player, and provides you with uncompromising high performance hardware MPEG-2 digital video playback capability. NOTE Refer to the README.TXT file for important information not available when this manual was printed.
Supported File Formats Your ASUS 740DVD supports the following MPEG file formats: DVD (e.g., IFO and VOB files), MPG files (MPEG-2/MPEG-1), DAT files (Video CD 1.0/2.0), and VBS and ABS files (MPEG-encoded video only bitstream and audio only bitstream files).. System Requirements ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2.1 or later (Version 4.00.
Installation Hardware Installation The ASUS 740DVD hardware installation assumes that both your ASUS AGP-V2740 and sound system (check the hardware suppliers’ documentation) have been properly installed in your computer.
Installing Your ASUS 740DVD ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Turn off the power to your computer and to your monitor. Unplug the power cord from the computer. Unplug the VGA monitor cable from your PC. Remove the cover from your computer. (Refer to your PC user’s manual for specific instructions.) Locate the VMI-B Connector (40-pin male) and VMI-A Connector (26-pin female) on the ASUS AGP-V2740 3D Multimedia Accelerator.
Software Installation Windows95/98 The ASUS 740DVD software for Windows 95 and Windows 98 is included on the CD installation disc. ■ ■ ■ Turn on your computer and switch into Windows 95/98. Insert the installation disc into your CD-ROM drive. The ASUS 740DVD Install Shell will appear. If it does not appear, run D:\DISK1\SETUP.EXE. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation process.
Contents Scramble System (CSS) Regions The world is divided, for CSS purposes, into six regions. A CSS-encoded disc may be encoded for one or more of the regions, but your player or hardware must be identified as one region only. A player or hardware may only play discs that are encoded for that player’s region. [See WARNING! on the opposite page] CSS Regions Region 1: The U.S.
Using the DVD Station DVD Station is a versatile Windows utility that allows you to play a variety of DVD, Video CD, and CD formats. This section describes how to use DVD Station to play full-length feature films recorded in the DVD and Video CD formats, data CDs containing MPEG files and Audio CDs. DVD Station will automatically detect the format of the disc in your DVD-ROM drive and identify the file type in the Display Panel. DVD Station can also detect MPEG files in your CD-ROM and hard drives.
■ If the Auto-Play feature in DVD Station is enabled, DVD Station will begin playing the disc in the DVD-ROM drive when one is inserted. The Display Panel provides specific information about the current video or audio track, such as its track number, play time, and aspect ratio. A progress bar at the bottom indicates the progression of the clip as it plays. You can click the Progress Bar to jump to a particular part of the track being played.
Standard Buttons Pause and Play button. Click this button to pause play, to start playing the first track on the DVD or CD, or to resume play after pausing. Stop button. Click this button to stop playback. Eject button. Click this button to operate the ejection mechanism (if supported by your DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drive). Rewind button. Click this button to play the current track backwards at 2x speed, click again for 8x speed, and click again to resume normal playback. Fast Forward button.
Custom Buttons Custom Buttons perform additional functions within DVD Station. Clicking the Display button displays the playtime of the current clip, the spoken language, and the name of the file in the upper left-hand corner of the VGA viewing window. Clicking the Counter button again disables this feature. Clicking the Full Screen button or double clicking left button of the mouse on the Video window to toggle between the video window and full screen.
Play List The Play List feature allows you to create a list of your favorite MPEG clips for the DVD Station’s Play List mode. In the preceding figure, drive D: is the DVD-ROM drive and drive E: is the CD-ROM drive. Since the DVD/MPEG-2 Playback Card is capable of playing both MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 files, you may choose to play MPEG1 and MPEG-2 files from the CD-ROM drive or from your hard disk drive. DVD files will only play from the DVD-ROM or the hard disk drive.
■ ■ ■ To remove a clip from the Play List, click the clip’s icon and drag it into the Title List box. To change a clip’s playing order, drag and re-position its icon in the Play List box. Click OK when you have finished adding, removing, and/or changing the order of the clips into the Play List. Click the Play Mode button in the main window (see page 14) until the word Play List is highlighted in the Display Panel. All clips included in the Play List will play in the order that you made.
Keep Aspect Ratio Maintains the movie’s correct aspect ratio (either 4:3 or 16:9) when re-sizing a movie window. Prevents distortion of the movie. Press F4 to resize the movie window to the movie’s standard (non-scaled) resolution. Always on Top Displays the movie window on top of all other windows. With this feature enabled, other programs will not appear on top of the movie window. AutoPlay Allows you to enable and disable the Windows 95/98 AutoPlay feature on the DVD-ROM drive.
Rating Control Some DVD movie titles support a voluntary movie rating system. With a rated title, this feature allows you to play an edited version of the movie, with violent and other objectionable scenes removed. For instance, a title may come with R, PG-13, and PG-rated versions of the same movie. When DVD Station is first installed, the password box appears dimmed. To enable this feature, check the Set box and enter a password.
NOTE You must restart the movie after changing the Default Language for it to take effect. Picture Controls Click the More Controls button to toggle the display of more features. More Controls Image Capture Brightness Contrast Segment Play Color Saturation Slow Motion Picture Control sliders The VGA chip controls brightness, contrast, color saturation, and gamma. These features therefore, depend on the type of the VGA chip of your notebook.
DVD Navigation Buttons There are five DVD Navigation buttons and a joystick controller on the right side of the DVD Station. Use the mouse to activate the desired function. Audio Soundtrack Language Selector This operation only functions with a DVD movie disc that contains multiple language soundtracks. Press the Audio Soundtrack Language Selector during play. Click and select the language you want. The figure below shows an example where English is the selected language.
Subtitle Selector This only functions with a DVD disc that contains multiple language subtitles or closed captions. To start this operation, click the Subtitle Selector during play. The language selected is momentarily displayed in the upper-right corner of your movie window. If the selector is divided (the languages appear more than once, as shown in the figure), the first selection provides normal subtitles for the selected language.
Joystick Controller The joystick controller is a group of five buttons nested together. The joystick is used to navigate around the possible choices offered in the DVD menus. Click the UP, DOWN, LEFT, or RIGHT arrow tips to highlight the option you wish to select, and click the Select button in the center of the joystick to select the highlighted item. DVD Playback Basic DVD Playback ■ ■ ■ Turn on the PC and press OPEN/CLOSE button on the DVD-ROM drive to open the disc tray.
■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Initially, the DVD Station Control panel is detached from the MPEG Video screen. You can attach the DVD Station to the MPEG Video screen by pressing the F2 key on the keyboard. Pressing F2 again will detach the DVD Station Control panel. If the DVD Station Control Panel is behind the MPEG Video screen and is not visible, click the right mouse button to bring the Control Panel to the foreground.
10-key Keypad If DVD Station detects that a DVD movie disc is in the DVD-ROM drive, it will display the 10-Key Key Pad button instead of the Mode button. Clicking this button will bring up a floating 10-key keypad that will allow you to interact with some DVD movie titles that have menu selections and other options. Click this button to toggle between the two 10-key keypads. Use this button to make corrections. This button returns to the previous menu.
Video CD Playback ■ ■ ■ ■ Press the OPEN/CLOSE button on the DVD-ROM drive or the CD-ROM drive to open the disc tray. Insert a Video CD 2.0 disc onto the tray and press OPEN/CLOSE button on the DVD-ROM drive to close the disc tray. Initialize DVD Station by selecting the following from the taskbar: START–PROGRAM–REALmagic Malibu–DVD Station. DVD Station will detect the Video CD in the DVD-ROM drive or the CD-ROM drive and display the Video CD 2.0 Control Panel. If the disc is a Video CD 1.
Playing a Video CD 2.0 DVD Station will display a 10-key Keypad for Video 2.0 CD discs. To play the disc, select the Play button on DVD Station. For most Video 2.0 CDs, you will see a menu of songs on the viewing screen. The viewing screen will show only the first half of the songs on the CD. To select a song from the second half of the viewing screen, click the Next Track button.
Shortcut Keys Double-click movie window Toggle movie playback between full-screen and window mode.
Ctrl+n Next track or chapter Ctrl+o Open options dialog Ctrl+p Play/pause toggle Ctrl+q Activate closed caption/sub-title menu Ctrl+r Rewind Ctrl+s Stop Ctrl+t Display DVD title menu Ctrl+v Previous track or chapter Ctrl+w Slow motion playback Ctrl+z Toggle between Full and Window Screen Video CD 2.0 Shortcut Keys Ctrl+0–Ctrl +9 Select numbers on Video CD 2.0 keypad Ctrl+← Backspace on Video CD 2.0 keypad Ctrl+ Apply or enter selection on Video CD 2.
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