ATI Multimedia Center 8.7 User's Guide P/N 137-70268-50 Copyright © 2003, ATI Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. ATI and all ATI product and product feature names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ATI Technologies Inc. All other company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Features, performance and specifications are subject to change without notice. Product may not be exactly as shown in the diagrams. 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With respect to ATI products which this document relates, ATI disclaims all express or implied warranties regarding such products, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and noninfringement. ii Contents Using Your ATI Multimedia Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Starting ATI Multimedia Center.................................................................... 2 Starting from LaunchPad........................................................................ 2 Starting from Windows® taskbar........................................................... 3 Online Help.................................................................................................... 3 ATI REMOTE WONDERTM......................................................................... 3 Multimedia Center Configuration Tool ....................................................... 4 TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Special Features............................................................................................. 7 Video-In......................................................................................................... 8 Setting up TV ................................................................................................ 8 Initialization Wizard............................................................................... 9 Sizing the TV display ........................................................................... 10 TV Feature Menu......................................................................................... 11 TV Keyboard Shortcuts ............................................................................... 13 TV Display Settings..................................................................................... 15 TV Video Settings ....................................................................................... 17 TV Tuner Settings ....................................................................................... 18 Channel Property Details...................................................................... 19 TV Stills Gallery Settings............................................................................ 21 TV Schedule Settings .................................................................................. 21 ATI TV Bar ................................................................................................. 22 ATI TV Bar controls ............................................................................ 22 Channel Surfing ........................................................................................... 23 Channel Surfing in EAZYLOOK mode............................................... 24 Closed Captioning ....................................................................................... 25 Closed Caption settings ........................................................................ 26 HOTWORDSTM........................................................................................... 27 TV Magazine ............................................................................................... 28 External Captions Support........................................................................... 30 Secondary Audio Program (SAP)................................................................ 31 Zooming and Panning.................................................................................. 31 Channel Lockout.......................................................................................... 32 Parental Control........................................................................................... 33 Recording Video and Still Images............................................................... 34 Recording a clip of video and audio from TV...................................... 35 TV-ON-DEMANDTM .................................................................................. 36 Personal Video Recorder ............................................................................. 39 Personal Video Recorder settings......................................................... 40 Using VIDEOSOAP............................................................................. 43 iii One Touch Record................................................................................ 44 Achieving the best results with MPEG video recording ...................... 45 MULTVIEWTM............................................................................................ 47 MULTVIEW audio requirements ........................................................ 48 MULTVIEW keyboard shortcuts ......................................................... 49 TV Listings .................................................................................................. 50 Setting up TV Listings ......................................................................... 51 Getting around ...................................................................................... 52 Recording ............................................................................................. 52 Viewing ................................................................................................ 53 Views.................................................................................................... 53 Filter options......................................................................................... 54 Actors tab ............................................................................................. 54 Categories- tab...................................................................................... 55 Searches................................................................................................ 55 Favorite search ..................................................................................... 55 Movies tab ............................................................................................ 56 Schedules tab ........................................................................................ 57 Searches tab .......................................................................................... 57 Setting search parameters ..................................................................... 58 Sports tab .............................................................................................. 59 Stations tab ........................................................................................... 59 Titles tab ............................................................................................... 60 Days and dates...................................................................................... 60 FAST tvtv .................................................................................................... 61 Stills Gallery ................................................................................................ 62 Stills Gallery settings............................................................................ 62 CD Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 CD Audio Keyboard Shortcuts.................................................................... 65 CD Audio Settings....................................................................................... 66 CD Audio Preferences Settings ................................................................... 67 CD Database ................................................................................................ 67 CD Audio Schedule Settings ....................................................................... 68 Video CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Video CD Feature Menu.............................................................................. 70 Video CD Keyboard Shortcuts .................................................................... 71 Capturing Still Frames From Video CDs .................................................... 72 Zooming and Panning.................................................................................. 72 Video CD Display Settings.......................................................................... 73 Video CD Closed Caption Settings ............................................................. 74 Video CD Preferences Settings ................................................................... 75 Video CD Stills Gallery Settings................................................................. 75 iv DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Special Features........................................................................................... 76 What can I play on my DVD drive?..................................................... 77 Sizing the Video Display Panel ................................................................... 77 Full-Screen Controls.................................................................................... 77 DVD Feature Menu ..................................................................................... 78 DVD Keyboard Shortcuts............................................................................ 79 Playing DVD-Video Discs .......................................................................... 81 Selecting audio channels ...................................................................... 82 Setting up subtitles ............................................................................... 82 External subtitles .................................................................................. 82 Using the menus ................................................................................... 83 Searching DVD discs ........................................................................... 83 Selecting viewing angle........................................................................ 84 Parental Control.................................................................................... 84 Zooming and Panning .......................................................................... 84 Bookmarks................................................................................................... 85 Chapter Preview .......................................................................................... 85 A/B Repeat .................................................................................................. 86 DVD Display Settings ................................................................................. 87 DVD Preferences Settings ........................................................................... 88 DVD Initialization Wizard .......................................................................... 89 DVD-Video Settings.................................................................................... 89 DVD Closed Captioning.............................................................................. 90 Closed Caption settings ........................................................................ 91 DVD-Video Audio Settings......................................................................... 92 S/PDIF ......................................................................................................... 93 DVD Advanced Aspect Ratio Settings........................................................ 93 DVD Schedule Settings .... ...