Sony ERS-7M3 User Guide Entertainment Version User Manual page 90

Symptom
The AIBO robot's current posture
and/or the image from the AIBO
robot's camera are not displayed.
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The AIBO Entertainment Robot is
not correctly rendered on the 3D
display.
The outline of still images or movies
has a blue tinge.
When playing a recorded movie, the
sound is choppy or plays as if in fast-
forward.
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• Cause Remedy
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The firewall function of the PC is enabled.
c When the firewall function of the PC is enabled, the AIBO robot's current posture
or the image from the AIBO robot's camera may not be displayed, or control of
the AIBO robot may not work. Disable the firewall while using AIBO
Entertainment Player.
• The installed graphics card driver is not the latest version.
c The 3D display of the AIBO robot is implemented using Microsoft
Depending on the graphics card, DirectX depends on the driver or the hardware for
image processing. For details, contact the manufacturer of the PC or the graphics
card.
• When switching users in Windows XP, the 3D display may be lost, depending on the
graphics card.
c Restart AIBO Entertainment Player.
• This is due to a design specification of the AIBO robot's camera. It is not a defect.
• The PC may not have enough processing power.
c Do not use other resource-intensive software on the PC at the same time that you
are running AIBO Entertainment Player.
c Do not play music in AIBO Entertainment Player when recording a movie.
c Under the "AIBO" tab in the "Settings" screen, set "Picture Quality" to "Low",
and set "Sound Quality" to "Low (MONO 8 kHz 8 bit)" (page 80).
c In some cases, selecting "MotionJPEG (AVI)" as the "Movie Recording Format"
in the "Movie" tab under the "Settings" screen may help (page 86).
• Data transfer speed is low.
c See the section "The connection between PC and the the AIBO
Robot is interrupted, or data transfer speed drops".
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DirectX.
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