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  • Page 1 ELSA WINNER 2000 Office...
  • Page 2 Copyright © 1997-98 ELSA AG, Aachen (Germany) While the information in this manual has been compiled with great care, it may not be deemed an assur- ance of product characteristics. ELSA shall be liable only to the degree specified in the terms of sale and delivery.
  • Page 3 About this Manual This manual provides all the information you will need to get the best out of your ELSA graphics board. For instance, which resolution is best for which monitor, or how is the board upgraded? The accompanying ELSA utility programs are described, and you will find detailed information about 3D acceleration.
  • Page 4 Before you read on... The installation of the WINNER 2000/Office hardware and software drivers is described in full in the Quick Start guide which accompanies this manual. You should refer to that document before attempting to install your board, and before reading this manual...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Installing the Graphics Board.................. 5 Memory Expansion....................5 When Will I Need More Memory? ..............5 Installing the Memory Module in the WINNER 2000/Office ......6 After Installing the Drivers ..................7 Software Installation from the CD................7 The Right Settings....................7 What are Your Options?..................
  • Page 6 RGB16 ....................... 37 YVU9 ......................... 37 ELSA Compression ................... 38 Appendix ........................39 Frequently Asked Questions and Answers ............39 Installation Problems with your ELSA Graphics Board ........39 Problems with Windows 95 ................39 Video Function Problems.................. 41 WINNER 2000/Office...
  • Page 7 General Questions and Answers ..............41 Advice and Help ....................42 Who to Contact? ....................42 The ELSA LocalWeb..................43 Driver Updates ....................44 Repair? ......................44 DOC–Declaration of Conformity ................45 Warranty Conditions ..................... 46 Glossary ........................49 Index ..........................53...
  • Page 8 WINNER 2000/Office...

  • Page 9: Introduction

    Introduction Introduction A Look at the WINNER 2000/Office Brief Description and Characteristics The VMI interface The BIOS carries out many tasks, including the identification of the WINNER 2000/ Office to the computer. The Flash-BIOS equipment enables quick and easy upgrades...

  • Page 10: Winner 2000/Office Highlights

    – PCI bus:KJGP2EASY (4/8 MB) – AGP bus: see page 45 Package Contents Before installing your ELSA graphics board, please ensure that nothing is missing from your package. It should contain the following: documentation: installation guide and manual graphics board...

  • Page 11: System Requirements

    Introduction System Requirements Computer: ELSA graphics boards are suited for operation in computers with Intel Pentium or Pentium-compatible CPUs. Bus: Your computer's bus system needs PCI-2.0 compliant bus slots (with bus mas- ter capability) or an AGP bus. Monitor: ELSA graphics boards work with the standard IBM VGA compatible hori- zontal scan frequency of 31.5 kHz when booting and in DOS operation.

  • Page 12: Ce Conformity And Fcc Radiation Standard

    Caution to the user: The Federal Communications Commission warns the user that changes or modifications to the unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment. WINNER 2000/Office...

  • Page 13: Installing The Graphics Board And Adding Memory

    Installing the Graphics Board Installation of the WINNER 2000/Office is described in the enclosed Installation Guide. This will explain how to fit the board in your computer and how to install the ELSA driv- ers. Memory Expansion The WINNER 2000/Office can be equipped with 4 or 8 MB SGRAM.

  • Page 14: Installing The Memory Module In The Winner 2000/Office

    Please consult our Support service in the unlikely event that you still experi- ence video errors. Installing the Memory Module in the WINNER 2000/Office The socket for the 4MB memory module on the WINNER 2000/Office is located at the back end of the graphics board (opposite the mounting bracket). Memory module socket The memory module has two memory chips on each side.

  • Page 15: After Installing The Drivers

    WINNER 2000/Office is integrated into your computer system with installed drivers. In this way, you have very likely come to know the program ELSA CD-Setup. This program should start automatically after inserting your WINNERware CD, but if not, then you can run the CDSETUP.EXE from the CD’s root directory.

  • Page 16: What Are Your Options

    WINNERware CD. What are Your Options? The tables below show the maximum possible resolutions for the ELSA graphics board. Note that these resolutions cannot be achieved under all operating conditions. Max. Refresh Rate (Hz) / Z-Buffer, Double Buffering...

  • Page 17: Changing The Resolution

    Windows 95 Under Windows 95, the 'ELSA Settings', which you may use to set up your graphics sys- tem, are automatically added to the Control Panel when you install the graphics drivers. The 'ELSA settings' function brings a significant benefit: Once you have specified the graphics board model and the monitor data, the program will automatically detect which settings are possible and which are not.
  • Page 18 Consult your monitor manual, to ensure that you have the necessary information correct. Click on Change... in the 'Monitor type database' window. In addition to the information regarding the monitor manufacturer, and the model designation, you will have to enter WINNER 2000/Office...
  • Page 19 Check your entries for the image frequencies carefully, as otherwise you could damage your monitor. Look these up in your monitor manual or consult the monitor manufacturer. WINNER 2000/Office...

  • Page 20: Windows Nt 4.0

    You can select the possible settings for 'Color Depth', 'Font Size', 'Resolution' and 'Refresh Rate' from this dialog box. The available selection is determined by the ELSA driver you have installed. You should always check the configuration you have selected by clicking on the Test button.

  • Page 21: Os/2 Warp 4

    ELSA GRADD driver and the operation of the Setup pro- gram. Once the ELSA driver is installed you will find a new folder on your desktop containing the ELSA utilities described here. Start the program 'ELSA Resolution Manager' from this menu.
  • Page 22 After Installing the Drivers WINNER 2000/Office...

  • Page 23: Video-What's In, What's Out

    WINNER 2000/Office. If your board is fitted with a VGA connector only, then you unfortunately cannot make use of the functions described here.

  • Page 24: Video-In

    Video–What’s In, What’s Out? Video-In Before the WINNER 2000/Office can react, the signals must be clear. It is of no use if you try to connect the antenna to the WINNER 2000/Office. The antenna’s HF signal trans- mits information for several channels, and not a simple, unambiguous video signal as required by the WINNER 2000/Office.

  • Page 25: Connectors On The Mounting Bracket

    Video–What’s In, What’s Out? Connectors on the Mounting Bracket On the bracket of the WINNER 2000/Office you will find the following connectors: Inputs Outputs S-Video (Hosiden) to: – TV set S-Video – VCR (Hosiden socket) – video beamer Composite (Cinch socket)

  • Page 26: Elsa Video Settings

    You need a cable with a Cinch plug to feed a composite video signal to the Connection to a TV Set You can connect any normal TV set to the WINNER 2000/Office. Refer to the operating manual for your television to find out which video standards it supports, or ask your TV dealer.

  • Page 27: Video Display On The Monitor

    Thus any application that supports this standards should work. Once you have connected the video source, started your computer and loaded Windows, click on the ELSA symbol in the task bar in the bottom right of the screen and select the Video capture: Format Start command from the dialog box.
  • Page 28 How the other guy sees you–no mirror image. It is worth considering the data format for video recordings. The ELSA Codec for video data compression features a highly effective reduction procedure which saves disk space and, depending on your computer system, can work in real time.

  • Page 29: How Does The Video Image Get Onto The Computer Monitor

    Special formats allow linking of animated video sequences to Internet pages (See page 24). Video can also be viewed with the Video Viewer. Start this from the ELSA WINman Suite icon in the task bar. The Computer Display on TV/Video What you see on your computer monitor can also be displayed on video, TV, or via a video beamer.

  • Page 30: Video-In Under Os/2

    Video-In under OS/2 The Video-In features of the WINNER 2000/Office are available to you under OS/2 Warp 4. This is, however, not true when using multi-screen operation. As well as the drivers for the Video-In function, you should also install the MainCodec as supplied by ELSA. The MainCodec “translates”...

  • Page 31: Installation

    OS/2 manual. Apart from these standard programs, you can install the program MainActor/2 (See page 1) which can be installed from the WINNERware-CD. To install MainActor, access the directory and call the INSTALL.CMD file. \ELSAWARE\MAINACT\OS2 WINNER 2000/Office...
  • Page 32 Video–What’s In, What’s Out? WINNER 2000/Office...

  • Page 33: Useful Stuff And More

    ...and the remote site here. You can connect a video camera to the video input of the WINNER 2000/Office. The pic- ture can be shown in a Microsoft NetMeeting conference. The F1 key or the? menu command calls up NetMeeting's online help. You will find more information about the program here.

  • Page 34: Mainactor-The Principal Performer

    MPEG-Audio MPEG-Audio IFF-Anim3/5/7/8/ FLC/FLI Video Data FLC/FLI JPEG Quicktime GIF / GIF-Anim Quicktime JPEG MPEG-I Open MainActor's online help by pressing F1 or selecting Help from the menu bar. You will find more information about the program here. WINNER 2000/Office...

  • Page 35: Elsa Tools

    Useful Stuff and More ELSA TOOLS ELSA EnDIVE Set With the ELSA utility EnDIVE Set for OS/2 Warp 4 you can select or deselect the EnDIVE support, which is an x/y fil- ter for improving the quality of enlarged or reduced video playback.
  • Page 36 Useful Stuff and More WINNER 2000/Office...

  • Page 37: Technical Data

    Technical Data ELSA Graphics Board Addresses The ELSA graphics boards are 100% IBM VGA compatible and occupy memory and sev- eral I/O addresses accordingly. To ensure the proper functioning of your system, it is essential to make sure that the I/O and memory addresses occupied by the graphics...

  • Page 38: The S-Video Connector

    Association). This interface allows the following modules to be connected to the graph- ics board: MPEG (DVD drives) Video-phone TV tuner Digitizer The VMI bus provides a direct, digital connection between the plug-on module and the graphics board. WINNER 2000/Office...

  • Page 39: All About Graphics

    Geometrical transformation This part of the 3D pipeline is very processor-intensive, as all the calculations for the 3D scene are carried out at this stage. Simplified, it comprises of the following steps: WINNER 2000/Office...
  • Page 40 – Bump mapping introduces a new dimension. Relief or raised textures can only be generated with the other methods in two dimensions using light and shadow effects. In bump mapping, the texture is additionally assigned height informa- tion, which allows very realistic three-dimensional effects to be created. WINNER 2000/Office...

  • Page 41: 3D Interfaces

    (fops), a very important value for 3D applications. A cinema film runs at 24 fps. 3D Interfaces Software interfaces, including 3D interfaces, are known as APIs (Application Program Interface). The question is what are these interfaces used for, and how do they work. WINNER 2000/Office...

  • Page 42: What Apis Are Available

    There are a good dozen more or less commonly found 3D APIs. However, in recent years, three formats have established themselves as the favorites: Direct 3D, OpenGL and HEIDI. ELSA graphics boards support these commonly found 3D interfaces. The func- tional differences between the interfaces are slight, as is shown by the table below. The decisive questions for the user concern extensibility, flexibility and possible portability to existing applications.

  • Page 43: Opengl

    The some 330 routines of OpenGL provide software developers access to these graphics capabilities: For further information see the Internet WWW site http://www.sgi.com WINNER 2000/Office...

  • Page 44: Color Palettes, Truecolor And Gray Scales

    All About Graphics Color Palettes, TrueColor and Gray Scales Common graphics modes are listed in the following table. Not all graphics modes are available on the WINNER 2000/Office boards. Colors Graphics mode (from palette) Max. gray levels VGA 0x12 6+6+6...

  • Page 45: Vesa Ddc (Display Data Channel)

    IBM VGA compatible 15-pin monitor connector, pin 12 (formerly used as monitor ID bit 1) is used for data transmission (SDA), and the pin 15 (formerly used as monitor ID bit 3) is used as transmission clock (SCL). The graphics board can request the short EDID WINNER 2000/Office...

  • Page 46: Ddc2Ab

    The video data are transmitted directly as they are produced, line by line. The throughput for IEEE 1394 is currently 100 Mbps. Transfer rates of 200 and 400 Mbps are already in sight. WINNER 2000/Office...

  • Page 47: Video Formats: Compressors At Work

    The ELSA video compression technique reduces the data quantity even further. A special process stores just 3 to 5 bits per pixel. Like YVU9, the ELSA video compression works in YVU color space. The compression rate depends on the type of images being com- pressed.
  • Page 48 All About Graphics you can record videos at a higher frame rate, you can record videos in higher resolutions, the drop rate is lower, and you can record longer video sequences on hard disk than is possible without data compression. WINNER 2000/Office...

  • Page 49: Appendix

    You can also contact the dealer where you bought your computer. You could also simply try out several slots. Your computer and the ELSA graphics board cannot be dam- aged. If the SETUP configuration program of your computer allows you to control the bus master capability, enable it (set it to 'ON' or 'Enabled').
  • Page 50 Why can't I select higher resolutions and refresh rates in the ELSA settings, even though these are supported by my monitor? Please ensure that your monitor has been entered in both the ELSA and Windows 95 set- tings. Both settings are absolutely necessary, as the resolutions and refresh rates may be restricted otherwise.

  • Page 51: Video Function Problems

    Installation Guide. Where do I find information about the various versions of the Windows driv- ers? You will find the latest release notes in the README file on the ELSA CD in the driver directory. Video Function Problems Video-In: The video preview window for my application is black Check which video input connector your video source device is connected to.

  • Page 52: Advice And Help

    If you encounter any problems during the installation or operation of your ELSA product, please consult this manual first. On the ELSA CD or floppy disk you will find a file called README.TXT, containing late-breaking changes and additional information not available when this manual was printed.
  • Page 53 User name guest No password ELSA and CompuServe The ELSA forum in CompuServe GO ELSA ELSA Support Faxline By fax to the ELSA support faxline +49-241-606-6399 ELSA by Mail Or write to ELSA ELSA AG Computer Graphics Support Sonnenweg 11...

  • Page 54: The Elsa Localweb

    Support team, please make sure that you are using the latest driver versions. Repair? If you are not sure whether your ELSA expansion board is defective or if the problem is just a driver which is incorrectly installed, please call the ELSA support hotline before you send the board for repair.

  • Page 55: Doc-Declaration Of Conformity

    A a ch e n, A p r il 2 1 9 9 8 P e ter P a d a r Director Q u a lity M a nag e ment E L S A A G , G e rmany WINNER 2000/Office...

  • Page 56: Warranty Conditions

    ELSA video conferencing systems with a warranty period of 36 months. Also excepted are the ELSA TFT Monitors with a warranty period of 12 months. This period begins at the day of delivery from the ELSA dealer. Warranty services do not result in an extension of the warranty period nor do they initiate a new warranty period.
  • Page 57 ELSA Monitor, damage to the cathode ray tube (CRT) has been caused especially by mechanical load (e.g. from shock to the pitch mask assembly or damage to the glass tube), by...
  • Page 58 Appendix WINNER 2000/Office...

  • Page 59: Glossary

    Bump mapping – Process by which textures are assigned depth information which allows DPMS – Abbreviation of VESA Display Power the display of relief or raised structures. Management Signaling. This standard allows an energy-saving operation of monitors in sev- WINNER 2000/Office...
  • Page 60 Multi-frequency/ MultiSync monitor – A Geometrical transformation – The position monitor that can be operated at various hori- of the object in space is determined from the zontal scan frequencies, or that automatically observer's point of view. WINNER 2000/Office...
  • Page 61 Tearing – A distinction is made in double The depth information is held in the Z buffer, buffering between the front buffer and the back buffer. The image change between the front WINNER 2000/Office...
  • Page 62 Even a video can be used as a tex- Z buffer – 3D depth information (position in ture map. the third dimension) for each pixel. TrueColor – Graphics mode with 16.7 million colors (24 or 32 bits per pixel). In this mode, the WINNER 2000/Office...

  • Page 63: Index

    Index Index Numerics 3D clipping ..........30, 49 EDO-RAM ............. 50 3D graphics display ........33 ELSA World Wide ......... 43 3D pipeline ..........29, 49 FCC ............4, 50 Addresses ............. 27 Filtering ............30 AGP ............... 49 Flat shading ..........31, 51 Aliasing ............
  • Page 64 VESA DDC ............. 35 Repair ............44 VGA ............... 34 Resolution ............. 51 VRAM ............52 Retained mode ..........33 WWW ............43 Safety ............. 5 Scan frequency ..........50 Shading ........... 31, 51 Z buffer ............52 WINNER 2000/Office...

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