1. VOutQ Switcher 1.1. Overview VOutQ Switcher is a tool for running and adjusting the VOutExt32Q/64Q cards. This tool is built on VOutQ API v1.00 and provided with our hardware. VOutQ Switcher is designed for the usage of VOutQ and its basic functions are: Mapping the input and output channels for channel selection.
• Video Adjust: All channels are set with default value 128 When you run the VOutQ switcher program and you can see the each setting values are correctly showed as below picture, that means comport configuring and opening with default settings are successfully finished.
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VoutQ Switcher User’s Guide Figure 1. VOutQ switcher initial screen But if the initialization fails, VOutQ Switcher shows the message of “VOutQ) No VOutQ Device in that port” in the message box as below picture and all user interface controls will be grayed out as shown in the figure below.
VoutQ Switcher User’s Guide 2.2. Changing COM Port If you want to change Comport of VOutQ, select Com port combo box in Com Port group box. There are two methods of changing Comport provided. One method is the auto detection and another one is the manual port selection.
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VoutQ Switcher User’s Guide If Com port fails the auto detection or manual port selection setting, the switcher tool shows the next message and all UI controls are disabled Figure 4. Comport manual detection failure UDP Co., Ltd.
VoutQ Switcher User’s Guide 2.3. Changes Video Format If you want to change video format between NTSC and PAL, select a video format from a combo box in a Video Format group box. When setting of video format is successfully finished, the message box shows a message (2) as shown in the figure below.
2.4. Mapping Video Input Port & Enable/Disable Output Port. 2.4.1. Mapping input and output channels VOutQ has 4 output ports and each output ports support quad view display so each has 4 video channels. Thus, channel map window below consists of four groups of Ports Tab (Port1, Port2, Port3 and Port4) each of them has four channel selection combo boxes.
Figure 8. Disabling specific port output 2.5. Adjusting video property VOutQ Switcher supports for adjusting video properties of each channel. To adjust video properties of a specific channel, you need to do the followings 1. Select a desired channel to Ch-ComboBox in Video Adjust Tab.
Adjust group box. 2.6. Restoring default settings VOutQ Switcher supports for storing or restoring of Video Adjust setting by using .ini file. If you want to restore the settings to default values, click the Default button in Status group box.
Figure 10. Restore to the saved setting 8. Using multi-cards If you want to use and control multiple VOutQ cards at the same time, just execute multiple instances of VOutQ Switcher program. If you execute exactly the same numbers of VOUTQ Switcher instances, the tool will find all VOutQ devices.
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