Car Video System User Manual

Media Station|PT Guide28
28 Click Next, and the Found New Hardware
Wizard will automatically search for and locate
the driver for the Avid video peripheral.
29 Click Finish to complete the installation.
Media Station|PT software will only run if an
Avid Media Station|PT Key (dongle) authorized
for this version of the software is connected to a
USB port on your computer.
If you have purchased Media Station|PT new,
the dongle is included in the box. If you are up-
grading to the latest version of
Media Station|PT, the box includes a card with
dongle upgrading instructions.
Installing Windows Media
Player 11 and QuickTime 7.1 or
Higher after Media Station|PT
After installing Media Station|PT, the applica-
tion checks to make sure that you have
Windows Media Player 11 and QuickTime 7.1
or higher installed on the machine—and
prompts you if one or the other is not installed.
To download the Windows Media Player 11 in-
staller, visit www.microsoft.com. To download
the QuickTime installer, visit www.apple.com.
Setting Power Options Control to
Always On
After installing Media Station|PT, the applica-
tion prompts you to set the Power Options con-
trol panel to the Always On setting.
To set the Power Options control panel to Always
On:
1 Choose Start > Control Panel.
2 Double-click Power Options.
3 In the Power Options Properties dialog, select
Always On from the Power Schemes pop-up
menu.
4 Click OK.
Disabling Drive Indexing for
External Audio and Video Storage
To use Media Station|PT with Avid video periph-
erals, it is strongly recommended that you dis-
able drive indexing for external audio and video
storage.
To disable drive indexing for external media drives:
1 Choose Start > My Computer.
2 Right-click the selected external drives and
choose Properties.
3 In the Properties dialog, deselect “Allow In-
dexing Service to index this disk for fast file
searching.”
4 Click Apply.
5 When prompted to apply only to the volume
or to all folders and subfolders, select all folders
and subfolders, then click OK.
Disabling drive indexing for all folders and sub-
folders begins. This may take some time.
If the Found New Hardware Wizard cannot
find the driver for the Avid video peripheral,
manually locate the Flamethrower.sys file
at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Avid\
SupportingFiles\WindowsXPDriv-
ers\Win32.