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- Page 1 SPEA PLAY IT User Manual Benutzerhandbuch Manuel d'emploi Manual del usuario Part Number 1740 4010.1 Rel. 0695 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
Reassemble the PC ..........................10 The VGA loop through cable.......................10 Connecting External Equipment......................11 Installation of the SPEA PLAY IT with a sound card (V7-media fx) ............12 Installation of the SPEA PLAY IT without a sound card ..............13 Additional Installation Instructions .......................14 After Installing the SPEA Board ......................14... -
Page 6: Quick Installation
3. Disconnect your computer from the mains power and peripheral equipment. 4. Install the SPEA PLAY IT in a free extension slot and secure it 5. Connect the Feature Connector cable. 6. Reassemble your PC and reconnect the power cable. -
Page 7: General Information
Warranty Appendices Contain other information that you should review. You have a 3 year warranty for your SPEA graphics card. To ensure your warranty, it is Index To enable you to find necessary that you keep the invoice of the subjects in this manual graphics card. -
Page 8: Part 1 Introduction
SPEA Windows tools like SPEA Your SPEA board is a high-quality multimedia MediaStation (SPEA's Video playback board. Both, at home and at work the SPEA software under Windows) and PlayTune PLAY IT is useful in many ways. (Program for adjusting the overlay image) -
Page 9: Part 2 Hardware Installation
2. One graphics board of the SPEA Product Preparing the installation series V7-VEGA or V7-MIRAGE corresponding to the compatibility list Before you install the SPEA PLAY IT in 3. MS-DOS operating system, version 5.0 or your system be sure that you have later already installed ONE SPEA VGA graphics board in your system. -
Page 10: Installing The Spea Card
Installing the SPEA Card The Feature Connector The SPEA card is installed in an ISA expansion Connect the Feature Connector cable supplied slot. to the connectors on the graphics board and the SPEA PLAY IT. Proceed as follows: 1. Select a free expansion slot and remove its 1. -
Page 11: Connecting External Equipment
This connector is intended for use with The connectors on the board are standardized, future SPEA products, such as MJPEG with the exception of the SPEA Movie Bus (see boards. The necessary cables will be Appendix B, Technical Details). For this available with the future products. -
Page 12: Installation Of The Spea Play It With A Sound Card (V7-Media Fx)
VideoCDs, video tapes and stereo music in Windows. SPEA's soundcard V7-media fx is an ideal partner for the SPEA PLAY IT. It provides high quality audio output and has three CD-ROM interfaces built-in, saving you a valuable expansion slot. -
Page 13: Installation Of The Spea Play It Without A Sound Card
With this configuration you can play VideoCDs with sound processed directly by the SPEA PLAY IT. Warning! The SPEA PLAY IT is designed to provide audio sound only for Video CD and MPEG playback. All other sound output requires a separate sound card. -
Page 14: Additional Installation Instructions
Doing it the other way Although it may be tempting when installing the around could damage your monitor. SPEA PLAY IT, to connect your video recorder, stereo, CD-ROM and Camcorder, it is wise not to try to do everything at once. Make sure your... -
Page 15: Part 3 Software Installation And Configuration
800 x 600 1024 x 768 It is advisable to configure this before the you install the SPEA PLAY IT. 1. Insert the SPEA disk #1 in drive A:. 2. Start Windows and start the installation with the following call: SETUP 3. -
Page 16: Playtune
A dialogue box appears with several settings you can now modify. Note: The timing adjustment of your SPEA PLAY IT depends on your system environment. Therefore, you have to justify the SPEA PLAY IT timing with PlayTune. You can find a detailed description of the program in the online help or in the README file. -
Page 17: Mediastation
When you click on the MediaStation icon in the SPEA program group, the remote control appears on the screen. Click on the power button on the top left side of the remote control to switch on the TV window on the screen. -
Page 18: Using The Mediastation Remote Control
4. With the V7SETUP program in the SPEA program group you must select a video mode with 256 colors for your graphics board. The SPEA PLAY IT will then display the video with 65.536 colors. We've kept the following descriptions very brief as we intend to integrate multimedia features as they come onto the market. - Page 19 You can drag & drop a file from the file selection box to a channel of the remote control using the left mouse button!
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Page 20: Appendix A Technical Details
200 IRQ setting of the SPEA PLAY IT A free IRQ has to be assigned to the SPEA PLAY IT. Default for the SPEA PLAY IT is IRQ 10. You can also use the IRQs 11 or 12 as an... -
Page 21: Vga Video Output Connector Pinout Of The Spea Movie Bus
VGA Video Output Connector Pinout of the SPEA Movie Bus The VGA Video Output Connector of the SPEA The SPEA PLAY IT is equipped with a digital PLAY IT corresponds to the Standard IBM VGA video bus connector. This is not a Feature Video output pin-out. -
Page 22: Appendix B Troubleshooting
Make sure the SPEA board is firmly seated in information, you can set the IRQs of the SPEA its expansion slot, and that it is not touching PLAY IT correctly. Here is an example of likely other boards in your system. IRQ usage:... -
Page 23: Frequently Asked Questions
2. Open a file that you want to play section in the graphics board's manual. 3. Pick the 'Device' menu 4. If the 'SPEA MPEG + VideoCD ...' Problems with MediaStation or option is not listed, the driver has not been Media Player found. -
Page 24: Problems With Videocds
Q: AVI files are played back without sound. Problems with VideoCDs As Video CD is a very new technology, it is A: This feature is currently under preparation. likely that many you are using the format for Until that, please use the sound output of the first time. -
Page 25: Problems With Cd Rom Drives
Whitebook: Used for digiral video VideoCD (352 lines). Warning! To play VideoCDs with the SPEA PLAY IT you must have a Whitebook type CD-ROM drive. As the VideoCD format of data is very new, older type CD-ROM drives may not be able to read the data. -
Page 26: Appendix C Glossary
Appendix C 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 27 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 28 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 29 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 30 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 31 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 32 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 33 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.
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Page 34: Index
PlayTune ............14 Problems?............4 External Equipment .........9 Quick Installation..........4 Feature Connector...........8 README............5 Glossary............23 Sound board.............9 SPEA Movie Bus........9; 18 SPEA WinTools ..........13 Hi-Fi system .............9 Support.............5 System Configuration........7 I/O Addresses ..........17 Installation with a sound card......10 Technical Data ..........17 Installation without a sound card....
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