*********************************************************************** Diamond TV Windows 95 Version 2.01 Release Notes (readme.txt) *********************************************************************** *********************************************************************** CONTENTS *********************************************************************** I. Installation II. Setting up your options (What to do first) III. TV performance in various display driver modes IV. Some notes on capture and color V. Trouble shooting VI. Known restrictions VII. Contacting Diamond Multimedia *********************************************************************** I. Installation *********************************************************************** The installation process consists of three steps: 1. Install the Stealth64 Video 2001 display driver (if not already installed). 2. Install the Diamond TV application. 1. Install the Stealth64 Video 2001 display driver. ---------------------------------------------------- a. Read and follow the README.TXT on the Stealth64 Video 2001 Windows 95 driver diskette for installation instructions. 2. Install the Diamond TV application. ----------------------------------------- a. From within Windows 95, run SETUP.EXE from the \WIN95 directory on the Diamond TV application diskette. b. You will have to close and restart Windows after this installation. *********************************************************************** II. Setting up your options (What to do first) *********************************************************************** After installing Diamond TV, you may want to... 1. Program the tuner 2. Specify your audio connections 1. Program the tuner ----------------------------------------- a. Bring up the Tuner dialog box by pressing Ctrl+T. (You may also choose Tuner from the Settings menu.) b. If you are outside of the United States, you may need to change the Standard from the default of NTSC. c. If you've connected an antenna to your TV card, then click on TV. If you've connected cable TV to your TV card, then choose CATV. In the United States, there are three common Cable TV formats. Choose the appropriate selection for the TV Mode: CATV -- Standard Cable CATV (HRC) -- Harmonically Related Carrier CATV (IRC) -- Incremental Related Carrier d. Click on Auto Program. This will scan all the channels and create a list of those that the tuner receives. This will take about a minute. Some of these channels will be too weak for viewing; you may want to delete these from the list by selecting the entry in the Programmed Channels list and clicking the Delete button. 2. Specify your audio connections ----------------------------------------- a. Bring up the Audio dialog box by pressing Ctrl+A. (You may also choose Audio Connections from the Settings menu.) b. If you've connected the TV audio output to your sound card's CD input, select 'Sound Card CD Input' in the External Audio Connections combo box. If you've connected the TV audio output to your sound card's Line input, select 'Sound Card Line Input' in the External Audio Connections combo box. If you've connected the TV audio output directly to your powered speakers, select 'Speakers' in the External Audio Connections combo box. Note: in this case, the TV remote's volume control will not work. *********************************************************************** III. TV performance in various display driver modes *********************************************************************** Note: DTV will switch your monitor to 60 Hz refresh rate while loading and will switch it back when exiting. Your screen may go blank momentarily while this happens. ---------------------------- 1-MByte Card ----------------------------- -------- Display Driver Color Depth ------------ Desktop 256 64k 16M ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 640 x 480 A B 800 x 600 B No TV 1024 x 768 C 1152 x 864 ---------------------------- 2-MByte Card ----------------------------- -------- Display Driver Color Depth ------------ Desktop 256 64k 16M ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 640 x 480 A A A 800 x 600 A A No TV 1024 x 768 B C 1152 x 864 No TV 1280 x 1024 No TV Legend ------ A Full TV Features B Capture and Closed Captioning supported at refresh rates at or below 60 Hz C Capture and Closed Captioning not supported No TV TV does not run in these modes (blank) Display mode does not exist *********************************************************************** IV. Some notes on capture and color *********************************************************************** 1. Diamond TV allows you to capture to three color formats: RGB 8 (256 colors with a palette) RGB 16 (64k colors, no palette) RGB 24 (16M colors, no palette) When capturing to RGB 8, a palette is created before the actual capture takes place. This may take as much as a few seconds to complete. No palette is created (nor is it necessary) when capturing to the RGB 16 or RGB 24 format. 2. You may size the TV viewing window by clicking and dragging the corners of the TV window. There are no restrictions on the window size. In contrast, the size of the image that is captured is determined in advance via the Capture Setup dialog box. You may specify different sizes for motion capture and single frame capture, independently. For motion capture (AVI) and before the actual capture takes place, the TV window is automatically resized to the capture size. When the capture is completed, the original TV window size is restored. For single frame capture (DIB) and before the actual capture takes place, the TV window is resized to the capture size. To facilitate rapid successive frame captures, the TV window remains at the capture size. 3. After capturing to an AVI or DIB file, you may use a program of your choice to view or edit the file. As a shortcut, DTV will launch your viewers (one for AVI files and one for DIB files) when you press the PLAY button on the remote (or use the F or V shortcut keys). You inform DTV of your choice of viewers via the Viewers dialog from the Capture Setup dialog box. The default viewers are Paintbrush and Media Player. Restrictions Each of the various paint programs on the market handle color formats differently. The following tables illustrate some of the differences with three such programs. ------------------- Running in 256 Color Display Mode ----------------- ---------------- Paint Programs ---------------- Capture PCTools Adobe Format: Paintbrush File Viewer Photoshop2.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 8-bit DIB file looks good looks good looks good (256 Palette) 16-bit DIB file maps to SYS can't read can't read (No Palette) colors, bad 16-bit file 16-bit file 24-bit DIB file uses only 16 looks good looks good (No Palette) colors, bad ----------------- Running in 64k or 16M Color Display Mode ------------ ---------------- Paint Programs ---------------- Capture PCTools Adobe Format: Paintbrush File Viewer Photoshop2.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 8-bit DIB file looks good looks good looks good (256 Palette) 16-bit DIB file looks good can't read can't read (No Palette) 16-bit file 16-bit file 24-bit DIB file looks good looks good looks good (No Palette) 4. Before capturing, DTV makes sure that you have the required disk space to capture PLUS an extra 5 Megabytes. To change this amount, you may add a line in the file DTV.INI located in your windows directory (usually c:\windows\dtv.ini). To change the margin from 5 Megabytes to 1 Megabyte: In the [Capture] section, add... DiskSpaceMargin=1 5. Motion (AVI) capture performance depends greatly on the speed of your system and the capture parameters. As you increase the capture size, format or frames-per-second, more frames may be dropped during capture. This happens because your harddisk cannot keep up with the video. The following hints will significantly improve capture performance: a) Use 32-bit Access From Control Panel, open System. Click on the 'Performance' tab. Make sure that both File System and Virtual Memory indicate 32-bit. If not, refer to the Windows 95 documentation for information on setting these to 32-bit. b) Use a RamDrive If you have lots of system RAM, you can allocate some or most of it as a RAM drive. This behaves like a normal disk drive (except that its contents are lost when you reboot or turn off your computer), but unlike a harddisk, it's very fast. In the Capture Setup dialog box, you can specify to capture to drive d: instead of c: (the RAM drive will be d: assuming you only have one harddisk, c:). When the capture is finished, you must copy the AVI file from the RAM drive to your harddrive. For help on configuring your RAM drive, type the following command at the DOS prompt: help ramdrive.sys *********************************************************************** V. Troubleshooting *********************************************************************** This section contains troubleshooting hints not contained in the on-line help. No additional hints (see the on-line help). *********************************************************************** VI. Known restrictions *********************************************************************** 1. Supported Formats in version 2.01 NTSC USA and PAL is supported for TV and CATV. SECAM is not currently supported. 2. For the DTV application to be able to control the sound from a sound card, the sound card must be using MMSYSTEM.DLL and MSMIXMGR.DLL. 3. Changing the desktop resolution while DTV is active is not supported. The system may hang if this is attempted. *********************************************************************** VII. Contacting Diamond Multimedia *********************************************************************** In order to get on the Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. mailing list, please be sure to fill out the product registration card and mail it in today. If you need help, you can contact us via one of the many ways listed below. Phone (408) 325-7000 Technical Support (408) 325-7100 FAX (408) 325-7171 BBS (408) 325-7080 (14.4 kbps, 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop) (408) 325-7175 (28.8 kbps, 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop) Mail Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. Attn: Technical Support 2880 Junction Avenue San Jose, CA 95134-1922 CompuServe GO DIAMOND Leave mail for us at ID#: 75300,3673 To open an account, call CompuServe at (800) 848-8990 America Online Leave mail for us by typing GO DIAMOND -- keyword DIAMOND. To open an account, call America Online at (703) 893-6288 Microsoft Network GOTO DIAMONDONLINE Internet FTP Server: ftp.diamondmm.com Worldwide Web WWWServer: www.diamondmm.com BEFORE YOU CONTACT US: please have the following information handy: ---------------------- * Proper name and version of the product (see the DTV 'About' dialog box). * Contents of your boot files: autoexec.bat config.sys system.ini * System information - Make and model of your computer/motherboard. - System BIOS manufacturer and date (this is usually printed at the top of your screen on power-up. * Detailed Problem Description Be as detailed as possible. The more information you can provide, the better. Please include any error messages that you've encountered. Also include a description of what DOES work. ; ; $Id: readme.tx@ 1.5 1996/03/25 13:56:51 erikg Stable $ ; ; Copyright (C) 1996, Diamond Multimedia Systems. ;Download Driver Pack
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