iMEDIAN HD & iMON User Guide Revised on Jun 10, 2008 by Sound Graph, Inc.
Table of contents iMEDIAN HD 1 2 3 4 5 6 iMEDIAN HD 4 1.1 Overview 4 1.2 Navigating iMEDIAN HD 4 Initial Wizard Setup 5 2.1 User Interface 5 2.2 Media Library 5 2.2.1 Creating A Media Library 5 2.2.2 Library View 6 2.3 Display 8 2.4 Audio 8 2.5 TV 8 2.6 Video Performance 9 Listening To Music 9 3.1 Searching Music 9 3.2 Play / Pause 10 3.3 Next / Previous 10 3.4 FF / RW 10 3.4 Entering a menu while listening to music 10 3.
6.1 General 17 6.2 Media Library 19 6.3 Media 19 6.4 DVD 20 6.5 TV 20 1 Overview 20 2 iMON Manager 21 2.1 Window 21 2.2 Settings 21 iMON 2.2.1 Remote control 21 2.2.2 Program Command 22 2.2.3 Window Command 23 2.2.4 Custom Command 24 2.2.5 Macro Command 25 2.2.6 Speed 25 2.3 Option 2.3.1 System 26 2.3.2 News 27 2.3.3 Webcasting 27 2.3.4 Version / Update 28 2.4 3 4 26 iMON Utilities 28 2.4.1 Application 28 2.4.2 Front View 29 2.4.
iMEDIAN HD 1. iMEDIAN HD 1.1. Overview iMEDIAN HD is a simple but powerful media player which can be controlled by only 4 directional buttons and supports a wide range of media formats and devices. Supported Formats Music : .mp3/.ogg/.wma/.wav/.aac/.ac3/.ape/.flac/.m4a/.mid/.mka/.mp2/.mp/.mpc/.ape/.ofr/.wv /.tta/.ac3/.dts/.cda/.ra/.m3u/.pls Videos : .avi/.asf/.wmv/.mpeg/.mpg/.m1v/.mp2/.dat/.mp4/.ogm/.mov/.rm/.rmvb/..avs/.flv/.mkv/. 3gp/.ogm/.ifo/.vob/.ts/.tp Pictures : .bmp/.gif/.jpg/.
2.1. User Interface Color : Select color of iMEDIAN HD background. Font : Select Font. 2.2. Media Library The Media Library is a collection of your media files. The Media Library makes it easy to classify and search a huge media collection.
2.2.1 Creating A Media Library - Add Scan Folder Add the folder (including sub folders) that you want to add into the Media library. (You can do this process in Settings - > Media Library-> Music, Video, Picture Library - > Scan Folder -> Add Scan Folder) If you find the folder you want to add into library, select /Add to Scan Folder/ and . If the folder has sub folders and you want to add sub folders to Media library, select Add folder with sub-folders.
2.2.1.1. Folder (Single Depth) This option displays all media folders (including sub-folders) as one list. 2.2.1.2. Folder (Multiple Depths) This option displays media folders at their own depth. If you have classified many Media Files into genre, years, artists, etc. this option may be very useful. 2.2.1.3. Media Explorer This option displays your files in Windows Explorer layout. 2.2.1.4. Tag ( only for Music Library view) This option displays information sorted by Tag.
2.4. Audio Speaker : Select your speaker type. Volume Control : Choose between iMEDIAN HD Volume and System Volume. 2.5. TV Select and configure external TV Viewer program. 2.6. Video Performance Select Video Card performance. If video card performance is set to high, you can navigate menus while a video is playing in the background.
3. Listening To Music 3.1. Searching Music Depending on which view mode you have selected, the library will be displayed differently. However, you can navigate all modes with the four directional buttons on your remote. 3.2. Play / Pause Press 3.3. Next / Previous Press 3.4. to play and pause music. , to play the next song or the previous song.
Press 3.5. , to fast forward or rewind while music is being played. Entering menu while listening to music. Press to enter a menu page or a previous page. When you enter a menu page or a previous page, the EQ and information will be minimized and moved to the bottom left of the screen. After you have finished navigating the menu, select “Now Playing” menu to return to the screen which the music is being played on. 3.6. Entering Music sub menu. Press to enter the music sub menu. Music sub menu 3.6.
If you select Save, you will be prompted to name the file. The corresponding .m3u file will be created in My Documents -> My Music -> Play List. 3.6.3. Search Search Music by letter. 3.6.4.
Change Library View option. 3.6.5. Repeat Change repeat mode (Normal , Repeat , Repeat one) 3.6.6. Shuffle Toggle whether shuffle is on or off. 3.6.7. Equalizer Select EQ among 19 Preset EQ options. 3.6.8. Jump interval Set jump interval of FF, RW. (min 3 sec ~ 60 sec) 4. Watching Videos 4.1. Searching Video files. Depending on which view mode you have selected, the library will be displayed differently. However, you can navigate all modes with the four directional buttons on your remote.
High Performance 4.6. Entering Video sub menu Press 4.6.1. Low Performance to enter Video sub menu. Queue Add a video file into the Queue. 4.6.2. Search Search video files by name or character. (refer to 3.6.3) 4.6.3. Library View Change Library View option. (refer to 2.2.2) 4.6.4. Repeat Change repeat mode for video. 4.6.5. Shuffle Toggle shuffle on or off. 4.6.6.
Choose from 6 aspect ratios: Source , 4:3, 16:9, 1.85:1, 2.35:1, Fit to screen. 4.6.7. Color Control Adjust color (Brightness, Saturation, Contrast, Hue, Gamma, Red, Green, Blue.) 4.6.8. Subtitle Processing Change and set subtitle options. (Show/ Hide, preferred language, Font style, Font Rendering method, Output method, subtitle sync interval, subtitle sync, External Subtitle filter control) 4.6.9. Audio Select preferred language if video supports 2-Audio. 4.6.10.
5.6. Entering Pictures sub menu To enter the picture sub menu, press 5.6.1. . Queue Add pictures to slideshow Queue 5.6.2. Search Search pictures by name or character. (see 3.6.3) 5.6.3. Slide Show Change transition time and set fade option. 5.6.4. Background Music Select background music and configure background music options. 6. iMEDIAN HD Settings 6.1.
6.1.1. User Interface Adjust general user interface. 6.1.1.1. Basic Use Sound Toggle sound effects on/off in the intro/ending flash. Sound Level Adjust the volume of iMEDIAN HD audio. Volume Control Step Select volume control step. Always On Top Select on top option. Start up iMEDIAN HD when boot Select whether or not iMEDIAN HD launches upon startup. Message Display Time Adjust the display time of iMEDIAN HD message. 6.1.1.2. Background Color Select the color of the iMDEDIAN HD background.
Adjust EQ Direction, EQ Quality, EQ Peak Level. 6.1.1.6. Video Card Performance Test Select Video Card performance. If your videos are not playing smoothly, please set this to low performance. 6.1.1.7. Intro/ Ending Toggle on/off the intro/ending flash animation. 6.1.1.8. Language Select language. 6.1.1.9. Screen Scale calibration Adjust scale of screen and move vertically and horizontally. 6.1.1.10. Display Width Set Display Width to Widescreen or Standard. 6.1.2.
Adjust brightness, saturation, contrast, gamma, hue. 6.2. Media Library Create Media Library. (see 2.2) 6.3. Media Select Playback options for Music, Video and slide show. 6.4. DVD Change general DVD options. 6.5. TV Select external TV Viewer program if TV card is installed.
iMON 1. iMON is iMON is the application which transfer the IR data to the keyboard shortcut command and send to Windows System and Applications. iMON is designed to running on the system tray and has many utilities to control the PC. You also can see the iMON Indicator as an ‘Always On Top Application’ on desktop. Using the right button of mouse on the system tray iMON icon or iMON Indicator, you may see the following popup menu. you can control the volume by mouse wheel.
2.2.1. Remote controller please select correct remote controller you want to use. If wrong remote controller is selected, you can’t control iMEDIAN HD or other application through remote controller. Initial Keyboard/mouse mode : Set initial mode when iMON starts. Mouse and Keyboard (only iMON PAD) Sound effect for detected IR signal Select sound effect which iMON indicator makes when IR receiver receives IR signal from remote controller. 2.2.2.
iMON helps to generate a different keyboard shortcut commands to the different applications which is activated as a front window using same button on the remote controller. So you can assign your ‘PLAY’ button on the remote controller can generate keyboard shortcut command, ‘X’ for Winamp and ‘CTRL+P’ for Windows Media Player when each application is activated and runs as a front window. In order to assign button of remote controller to the application, please follow the next steps.
Command can be worked at any status. Program Command could be generated when the assigned application is activated and running on the front window but Windows Command could be worked at any application. So this kind of Windows Control is assigned to control the Windows System Command as like volume control and power management command. Windows Command has three different sections, ① Keyboard Command, ② Mouse Command and ③ Power Management Command.
different keys combination keyboard shortcut command. Program Command and Customized Windows Command could record up to only three different keys combination as like [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[ESC]. In order to record more than four different keys combination, you can use this Macro tab. You can assign the website URL to the remote controller button and type all URL by one button click.
2.3. 2.3.1. Option System Select Sound card device and Mixer line to control volume and can change volume step. And select ODD device to control in iMEDIAN HD. 2.3.2.
displayed. 2.3.3. Web casting You can Add, delete and edit web casting URL. 2.3.4. Version/ update Select update method and check iMEDIAN HD Version and firmware version.
2.4. iMON Utilities 2.4.1. Application Launcher Select application which runs when Quick Launch button is pressed. Default is iMEDIAN HD. 2.4.2. Front View Change the setting of Front View like VFD or LCD. 2.4.2.1.
Select LCD Font, Back light activity and Text Scroll speed. 2.4.2.2. Auto Mode Select Category Select information which is displayed on Front View. Clock Select time format. 3 types of time format and 5 types of date format are available. EQ Trigger Trigger on level : Adjust a level of volume. When iMEDIAN HD or system makes sound above the level, EQ will be displayed. Trigger off duration : Adjust a duration time. When iMEDIAN HD or system doesn’t make sound for duration time, EQ will be turned off.
2.4.2.3. Graphic Equalizer EQ display Select sound source which is displayed on Front View as EQ. EQ source Select the record mixer channel or using the ‘Auto Scan’ button. In order to show the graphic EQ display, iMON capture the sound out of the soundcard recording mixer channel. EQ Setting Select general option for EQ display.
2.4.2.4. System Information Select system information which is displayed on Front View. 2.4.2.5. Media Information Select Media player which send information to Front View and set Media progress activity. 2.4.2.6. E-mail check iMON Front View can show the number of unread email messages on your POP3 account.
Check Option’ menu. 2.4.2.7. Daily News iMON Front View can show the worldwide headline news. This news could be delivered when system is connected to the internet. You can set the news update interval from the internet. 2.4.2.8.
iMON Front View can show the current local time and weather information. Select the cities that you want to see the time and weather information from the city list. Currently, iMON supports the information of time and weather about 600 cities around the world. 2.4.3. Virtual Keyboard Adjust the setting for virtual keyboard. 2.4.4. Timer iMON has the Timer function that shuts down or turns on PC at scheduled time or sounds alarm after a certain time.
2.4.5. Resolution Changer Select resolution which is displayed on Resolution changer application. 3. iMON Utilities You can see iMON utilities when you click right button of mouse on iMON indicator 3.1. Application Launcher ‘Application Launcher’ is a one of iMON applications. You can run application by app. Launcher button on remote controller (except MINI).
3.2. Task Switcher Task Switcher is used to switch the application among the running applications as like [ALT]+[TAB] command. ‘Task Switcher’ window shows the application icons currently running. 3.3. Front View You can select Front view display mode. (refer to 2.4.
2 sec on imon product having Front View device as like VFD or LCD, Front View application will be running. 3.4. Timer You can turn on and off options of Turn on/Turn. And You can adjust time of alarm and sleep option. 3.5. Resolution Changer You can change your resolution. (refer to 2.4.
3.6. Virtual Keyboard virtual keyboard is for writing text on application. Virtual keyboard is same as PC keyboard. In order to input text on application, first, locate cursor on text input field of application you want to write on and run virtual keyboard by remote controller(except MINI). 4. 4.1. iTOOL News iTOOL News iTOOL is an application for displaying news feed on PC Screen. Please refer to 2.4.2.7 for setting. 4.2.
World City iTOOL is an application for displaying time and weather information of world city. - You can change options of iTOOL News and World city Information in iTOOL Manager. Dear Customers. We all sound graph staffs appreciate you for using our iMON Products. If you find bugs on iMON products, please send e-mail to iMON@soundgraph.com. If you have any question on iMON products, please find your answer on iMON user forum of our website( www.soundgraph.com) Best Regards. Sound Graph., Inc.
