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- Page 1 SPEA S User Manual Benutzerhandbuch Manuel d'emploi Manual del usuario Part Number 1740 4020.5 Rel. 0295 Copyright by SPEA Software AG...
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Page 3: Registered Trademarks
Installing the Software from the SPEA Media-Gallery CD It is possible that you have received the SPEA software on CD rather than on diskette. If this is the case, then please note that the descriptions in this manual should be changed accordingly. For example, the instructions "Put the disk 'Drivers for Windows' in drive A:"... -
Page 4: Table Of Contents
CGA or Monochrome board installed before?..................13 Installing the SPEA Card........................14 Connecting External Equipment......................15 Installation of the SPEA SHOWTIME PLUS with a sound card (V7-media fx) ........16 Installation of the SPEA SHOWTIME PLUS without a sound card.............17 Additional Installation Instructions .......................18 After Installing the SPEA Board ......................18... - Page 5 VGA Video Output Connector.........................29 Pinout of the SPEA Movie Bus .......................29...
- Page 6 APPENDIX C TROUBLESHOOTING ....................30 General Considerations ..........................30 Systems with motherboard VGA controllers ..................30 Hardware settings ..........................30 Configuration Problems with PCI Motherboards..................31 Frequently Asked Questions........................32 General problems..........................32 Problems with Windows ........................32 Problems with MediaStation or Media Player..................33 Problems with VideoCDs ........................35 Problems with CD ROM Drives......................35 APPENDIX D GLOSSARY ........................36 INDEX ..............................37...
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Page 7: Quick Installation
6. Reassemble your PC, connect peripheral equipment and reconnect the power cable. 7. Reconnect any peripheral equipment (e.g. loud speakers). 8. Switch on your monitor first, then the computer. 9. At the DOS prompt insert the SPEA disk 'Utilities' and start the software installation with: INSTALL... -
Page 8: Windows Driver Quick Installation
1. Windows must already be configured for standard VGA (640 x 480) before the SPEA Windows driver can be installed. 2. Start Windows. 3. Put the SPEA 'Drivers for Windows' disk in your drive. 4. Start the Program Manager. Select the options 'File', 'Run' and then select A:\V7SETUP.EXE. -
Page 9: General Information
Symbols and Conventions Warranty The following symbols and syntax conventions are used in this manual: You have a 3 year warranty for your SPEA graphics card. To ensure your warranty, it is Warning! necessary that you keep the invoice of the This section contains a warning or important graphics card. -
Page 10: Part 1 Introduction
Introduction SECAM format) - Y/C composite video input - S-VHS video input Your SPEA board is a high-resolution, VGA - scaling and rates as with MPEG compatible graphics accelerator specially - still video and live video capturing designed to speed up applications running in... -
Page 11: Part 2 Hardware Installation
SPEA card. The metal power supply housing is generally considered the best place to ground yourself. 4. Do not place the SPEA card on a metal surface. 5. Make the least possible movement to avoid building up static electricity from your clothing, carpets and furniture. -
Page 12: Typical System Configuration
Colani Tower 486DX-40, VL bus, 40 MHz, 4 MB or Colani Tower 486DX2-66, PCI bus, 66 MHz, 8 MB SPEA 2185 MS Monitor Double speed CD ROM drive Note: Further information concerning CD ROM drives... -
Page 13: Preparing Your Computer
PC's hardware VGA (640 x 480, 16 colors) on your system configuration. This is sometimes done by prior to using the SPEA software. It is a changing a jumper on the motherboard after good idea to do this before removing an... -
Page 14: Installing The Spea Card
3. Align the slot in the mounting bracket of the Installing the SPEA Card SPEA card with the screw hole in the rear The SPEA card is installed in an expansion panel of the computer case. Use the screw slot corresponding to the bus type (VL local you removed from the expansion slot cover bus or PCI bus). -
Page 15: Connecting External Equipment
Connecting External Equipment The connectors on the board are standardized, with the exception of the SPEA Movie Bus (see Appendix B, Technical Details). For this reason, you only need to take note of a few points when making connections to external equipment. -
Page 16: Installation Of The Spea Showtime Plus With A Sound Card (V7-Media Fx)
There are a numher of ways to connect the SPEA SHOWTIME PLUS and peripheral devices. The following schematic diagram shows a typical arrangement, enabling you to use all the features of the SPEA SHOWTIME PLUS. Connecting your SPEA SHOWTIME PLUS and peripheral devices as shown in the following... -
Page 17: Installation Of The Spea Showtime Plus Without A Sound Card
With this configuration you can play VideoCDs with sound processed directly by the SPEA SHOWTIME PLUS. Warning! The SPEA SHOWTIME PLUS is designed to provide audio sound only for MPEG playback. All other sound output requires a separate sound card. This is because MPEG uses digital sound and VHS recordings use analogue sound. -
Page 18: Additional Installation Instructions
40 MHz and PCI bus mainboards with a clock rate of 66 Mhz. After Installing the SPEA Board If you have correctly installed the SPEA board, the DOS prompt will appear on your monitor when the boot procedure is finished. -
Page 19: Part 3 Software Installation And Configuration
VGA (640 x 480, 16 colors) on your system colors used. This is handled by the program prior to using the SPEA software. It is a STMODE.EXE for DOS applications and good idea to do this before removing an V7SETUP.EXE (within Windows) for Windows... -
Page 20: Windows 3.1X
It is possible that not all the installation disks will be required by the installation program. During the installation the program group 'SPEA' with various icons is created. 4. At the end of the installation Windows will be restarted with a resolution of 640 x 480, Hicolor and with 60 Hz. -
Page 21: V7Setup
How is SPEA V7SETUP used? defines modes for reducing the power consumption of monitors and video devices. Double click on the SPEA icon, the menu then You can use SPEAenergy to reduce power will appear. consumption by defining timeout values, e.g. -
Page 22: Mediastation
TV window on the screen. files. To make sure this is the case, click on The functions on the remote control the V7SETUP icon in the SPEA group and correspond to the ones of a real TV's remote select an according mode. -
Page 23: Mpeg / Avi / Videocd Playback
You can drag & drop a file from the file MPEG / AVI / VideoCD Playback selection box to a channel of the remote 1. Open the MediaStation remote control control using the left mouse button! 2. Click the right mouse button over a channel on the remote control. -
Page 24: Video In Capture (Avi)
AVI, MPEG or other playable file in two ways:. 2. Click the Video In button and then the Advanced Configuration button of the With SPEA's MediaStation remote control (see online help) and select Requirement: Video In is active on the TV the type of input signal (PAL etc.) before... -
Page 25: Win-Os/2 Full Screen Refresh Rates
The supplied OS/2 display drivers support the You may also reference installation instructions graphic functions of the SPEA SHOWTIME in the OS/2 Version 2.1 Installation guide. PLUS under OS/2 WPS and WIN-OS/2, but do... -
Page 26: Autocad, Autoshade, 3Dstudio
SPEA's Update Service. See attached Info sheet 'SPEA Expert Line' for more information. Windows NT The Tseng driver Windows NT can optionally be ordered via SPEA's BBS or SPEA's Update Service. See attached Info sheet 'SPEA Expert Line' for more information. -
Page 27: Appendix A Utilities
To start the complete hardware test, call the optimize your system environment to get the program from the DOS directory without any full use of all the features supported by SPEA. parameters: All utilities will be copied into your SPEA... -
Page 28: Appendix B Technical Details
Appendix B The Connections of the SPEA Technical Details The board has 2 outputs and 2 inputs as seen from the side of the board: Technical Data Outputs: Processor: Tseng W32p (PCI or VL) 1. Audio out (line out). Rating: 2 MB DRAM, 135 MHz RAMDAC max. - Page 29 Tuner etc.) is active 2. video decoder is active 3. an external board is active The function of the pinout of the SPEA Movie Bus changes for each mode. If you need more detailed information about the pinout (and its changes) of the SPEA Movie...
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Page 30: Appendix C Troubleshooting
Appendix C Troubleshooting General Considerations Make sure the SPEA board is firmly seated in its expansion slot, and that it is not touching other boards in your system. Be sure your monitor cable is properly connected to the SPEA board and that your monitor power switch is on. -
Page 31: Configuration Problems With Pci Motherboards
Once you know this There are some basic settings you may have to information, you can set the IRQs of the SPEA enter manually in your PC's PCI configuration SHOWTIME PLUS correctly. Here is an setup menu. -
Page 32: Frequently Asked Questions
Problems with Windows to date software driver. (You can find them Q: The Windows startup lasts very long. in the SPEA mailbox. If you don't have a modem, please contact your local dealer). A: Create a permanent swap file. Remove all other hardware (e.g. Sound- Defragment your hard disk regularly (e.g. -
Page 33: Problems With Mediastation Or Media Player
1. Start Media Player 2. Open a file that you want to play 3. Pick the 'Device' menu 4. If the 'SPEA MPEG + VideoCD ...' option is not listed, the driver has not been found. You should re-install your SPEA SHOWTIME PLUS Software to rectify this. - Page 34 2. Open a file that you want to play 3. Pick the 'Device' menu 4. If the 'SPEA MPEG + VideoCD ...' option is not listed, the driver has not been found. You should re-install your SPEA SHOWTIME PLUS Software to rectify this.
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Page 35: Problems With Videocds
9000 rules. A list of CD ROM drives tested pleasing, and be less prone to the above by SPEA can be found in the README file problems. in the SPEA directory. Note:... -
Page 36: Appendix D Glossary
Appendix D Booting/Booting Up Glossary Starting the computer. There are two types. Warm Booting is accomplished by simultaneously pressing the CTRL/ALT/DEL Analog Display keys and can occur only when the computer is A monitor that uses variable color control running. A cold boot requires activation of the voltages to display a very large number of ON/OFF switch. -
Page 37: Index
Driver Color Palette Conversion Part of a software program that interacts with a Conversion of video data from the YUV color particular piece of equipment in your computer model into the RGB color model, or v.v. system (i.e. video boards, printers, and keyboards). - Page 38 Fixed Frequency Monitor Hexadecimal Notation An analog monitor which can only sync to a A base-16 numbering system that uses very narrow range of scan frequencies. numbers and letters. The hexadecimal sequence begins: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F, then 10, 11 etc.
- Page 39 Horizontal Frequency The rate at which a monitor displays each scan line. Usually measured in kilohertz (kHz). I/O Port Input/Output port. An address used to access a hardware device. Image Compression Technique used to reduce the volume of data in digital image and video files. INDEO Intel Video.
- Page 40 JPEG Monochrome Display A new compressed file format industry Monitor that displays information in one color standard developed by the Joint Photographic only; sometimes called a black & white display. Experts Group. It enables compression ratios up to 100:1 (original file size to compressed file size).
- Page 41 Phase Alternation Line. PAL is the television standard used in Germany and Great Britain. The video signals are transformed into 25 images per second.
- Page 42 colors is created. It is not possible to transform Palette an existing file into an RGB8 color file type. A selection of colors from which to choose. Your board provides as many as 16.7 million RGB Color Model simultaneous colors from a palette of 16.7 million.
- Page 43 color with a high saturation value is optically very intensive. A color with a low saturation Vertical Frequency value appears weak (i.e. with less color The rate at which the monitor screen is content). refreshed. Usually measured in hertz (Hz). Scaling Transformation of image data to different sizes.
- Page 44 Composite Video In ........12 Connections ........... 24 Single Frame Capture........21 Software ............8 DPMS............. 18 Software Delivery Scope........8 Sound board ..........12 SPEA Movie Bus........12; 25 External Equipment ........12 SPEA WinTools ..........18 SPEAenergy (DPMS)........18 STMODE............23 Glossary............31 STMODE.EXE ..........15 STTEST ............23 Support.............7...
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