***********************************************************************
ASUS Live Readme File
***********************************************************************
===================
System Requirements
===================
* ASUS AGP-V3000ZXTV, AGP-V3400TNT/TV, AGP-V3800/TV, AGP-V3800/TVR, AGP-V3800 Deluxe,
AGP-V3800 Ultra Deluxe, AGP-V6600 ,AGP-V6800 ,AGP-V7100 Deluxe Combo and
AGP-V7700 Deluxe display card.
* DirectX 6 or higher version.
* Windows 98 , Windows 98 SE ,Windows ME, Windows NT or Windows 2000.
* Windows NT(with Service Pack 3 or greater)
just supports AGP-V3400, AGP-V3800, AGP-V6600, AGP-V6800, AGP-V7100 Deluxe Combo
and AGP-V7700.
* Windows 2000 just supports AGP-V3400, AGP-V3800, AGP-V6600, AGP-V6800
, AGP-V7100 Deluxe Combo and AGP-V7700.
====================
Using ASUS Live
====================
* To execute ASUS Live, please run :
"C:\Program Files\ASUS\ASUSLIVE\ASUSLive.exe"
Assume Windows 98/ME/NT/2000 is installed on drive "C".
or Click "Start"->"Program"->"ASUS"->"ASUS LIVE"->"ASUSLive"
====================
Uninstall ASUS Live
====================
* To uninstall ASUS Live, please click
"Start"->"Program"->"ASUS"->"ASUS LIVE"->"Uninstall"
It will remove all registry entries and programs
* For Windows NT/2000 users:
Once you want to uninstall ASUSLive but the scheduled recording Agent is still running,
it might not delete Agent program at that time until Windows is starting next time. We
recommend that you close Agent at first before uninstalling.
=====================
Limitation
=====================
* If user finds some TV channels has bilingual speaking function,
but you can't hear another language speaking when you enable SAP,
it might be the audio carrier frequency is shifted, please try to
use frequency tuning function to find the valid frequency location
for hearing the correct voice.
* For ASUS AGP-V7100 Deluxe Combo users:
1.In Windows 98/SE/ME:
ASUSLive can work well if users turn on the "Extended Desktop" mode in TwinView fuction.
But it still can not work if users turn on the "Clone" mode in TwinView function.
2.In Windows NT/2000:
ASUSLive can not work if users turn on the TwinView function.
* For WINDOWS 2000 users:
1.ASUS VFW capture driver can not work when user use NetMeeting.
This is because NetMeeting always grab the overlay,and capture
driver can not be loaded.
2.If users do not have the administrator's privilege,ASUSLive
can run all functions except "channel frequency tuning".
* For WINDOWS NT users:
1.Because WINDOWS NT does not support directx 6 or greater,
you just can run in capture mode.
2.The WINDOWS NT display driver must upgrade to version 3.68 or greater.
* For Japan WINDOWS 98/SE users :
Because of Japanese special font issue, you may get some unusual display
format when you use large font. You had better use small font to avoid
these problems.
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 4.5) November.13,2000
***********************************************************************
* Support "Extended Desktop" in TwinView function in Windows 98/SE/ME.
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 4.5b1) October.23,2000
***********************************************************************
* Support "ASUS Live Schedule Recording" in Windows NT and Windows 2000.
* Support AGP-V7100 Deluxe Combo.
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 4.4) July.25,2000
***********************************************************************
* Function of Scheduled Recording can work well across the midnight.
* Support ASUS display drivers version 5.xx.
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 4.3) June.13,2000
***********************************************************************
* When open OSD functions for videosource, users can click mouse to
change the settings on OSD window.
* Add "reset" and "exit" functions in OSD information to reset the
gamma value and exit the OSD functions.
* Add ASUSASV2 codec to enable running UYVY capturing and compressing
in Windows NT and Windows 2000.
* Support different dimensions of capture window
NTSC-M, NTSC-4.43, PAL-M : 320x240 640x480
PAL-BGHI, PAL-N, PAL-4.43: 320x240 640x480
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 4.2) May.15,2000
***********************************************************************
* Support ASUS AGP-V7700 Deluxe in Windows 98,Windows NT and Windows 2000.
* Support ASUSASV2 codec in Windows 98.
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 4.1) May.5,2000
***********************************************************************
* Fix ASUSLive can not run on A-Bit BP6 motherboard.
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 4.01) Apr.25,2000
***********************************************************************
* Fix problem for The button "return" (back to previous channel) on the
remote control panel does not work properly.
* When changing the view method from Weave to Bob,or Bob to Weave,
ASUSLive will remember it,and stay on correct position when restarting
the program.
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 4.0 Beta 5) Apr.5,2000
***********************************************************************
* Fix ASUS Capture drivers for Windows NT and Windows 2000 to take
effect when change Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation and
Video Standard.
* In Windows NT and Windows 2000, ASUS Capture drivers does not
support NTSC-N.
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 4.0 Beta 4) Mar.28,2000
***********************************************************************
* Add "Mouse Shadow" function in the ASUS panel Setup menu to enable
or disable the effects of the mouse shadow.
* Solve capture driver can not work in some motherboards.
* Add ASUS codec to enable running UYVY capturing and compressing.
* Fix VFW returning status message that can not show correct message
in Chinese edition in Windows NT and Windows 2000.
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 4.0 Beta 3) Mar.15,2000
***********************************************************************
* Support V3400 for WINDOWS NT and WINDOWS 2000.
* When clicking the minimize button,the main frame will not minimize
in the task bar.
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 4.0 Beta 2) Feb.24,2000
***********************************************************************
* Support V6800
* Replace a all new user interface.
* Add auto timer recording function.
* Add Odd/Even field skip function. (only in Live mode)
* Support Windows NT and Windows 2000.
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 3.5) Nov.10,1999
***********************************************************************
* Fix some error display problems under Japanese WINDOWS 98 SE.
* Fix capture filename cannot rename error. ( This bug is only occured
between version 3.5 beta1 and version 3.5 beta2 )
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 3.5B2 (Beta2) ) Oct.11,1999
***********************************************************************
* Add Captured File(s) List dialog box. It displays these files (snapshot
or video recording) you have captured. You may double click the file
you want to view or play under the captured files list box. You may
press <F4> whenever you want to show this dialog box.
* Add status message while capturing data, it tells user how many MBs
we have captured and how many available MBs left can be captured.
Note : ASUS Live will reserve 30 MB free space every partition for
capturing because of avoidance of disk data transfer error from
disk fragmentation. If you meet any capture trouble, try to
defragment HD before you start capture.
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 3.5B (Beta) ) Oct.6,1999
***********************************************************************
* Re-Design all setup dialog boxes as property-sheet format.
* Add hardware prefiltering function, you may select this option at
"Video Format" setting box under Live mode.
* Support SECAM signal.
* Add Video Recording may capture AVI file size more than 2G bytes.
(See "capture.txt" for more detail describe )
* Disable V3000 Bob display method option temporal.
* Add a new data binary file "asusfreq.ini", this file is designed to
store your TV channel data and turning result, and it is put in your
ASUS Live installed directory. You may backup this file to keep your
channel setting even you re-install or upgrate new version of ASUS
Live.
Note : For TV channel data storing , it is only work under autoscan
mode.
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 3.42) Sep.29,1999
***********************************************************************
* Remove capture driver install procedure from ASUS Live setup wizard.
Form now on, please download and install newest display driver to
update capture driver.
Note: Newest capture driver version 3.8.1.4 will be installed by
V3400/V3800 display driver v2.25.
* Add capture driver version information display, you can click <About>
under capture mode to see the capture driver version information for
current use.
* Add Hot-key F9 to switch the OSD video parameter ( like hue,color,
contrast... etc. ) adjustment, you may use <up>, <down>, <right>,
<left> key to select these items also.
* Add video macrovision detecting function. If you try to use video
recording source which has macro vision protection, you can not capture
it by ASUS live capture function.
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 3.4) August.4,1999
***********************************************************************
* Fix the HD DMA mode check error problem.
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 3.4 Beta1) July.16,1999
***********************************************************************
* Update ASUS capture driver. (3.8.1.2 -> 3.8.1.3 )
* Fix the Sony Play Station game video can not show properly problem.
* Support new channel mode names "full scan mode" now.
If your country is not supported within our default country cable
list, you may try to use this fullscan function let ASUS Live find
the possible tuner frequency in your location.
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 3.3) July.5,1999
***********************************************************************
* Fix the capture driver V3.8.1.2 is error under PAL mode.
* Add video display on WINDOWS wallpaper function. Since this version
is beta test, so we haven't put this function on our UI panel. Now it
design to use hot key <F8> to switch wallpaper/normal mode, next version
we will put this function on our UI control panel.
There are some important notice when you use wallpaper display :
(1) Wallpaper display function only execute in Live-mode.
(2) You should not replace your wallpaper when you watch video under
wallpaper display mode.
(3) On-Screen video parameter adjustment is disable under wallpaper
display mode.
* Support ASUS V3000/TV card now. Since the new capture driver V3.8.1.2
is only design for V3400 and V3800, so when install program prompt
if you want to install capture driver, please select NO for V3000/TV
users.
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 3.3 Beta) June.22,1999
***********************************************************************
* New capture driver V3.8.1.2 is release.
* In early version, ASUS Live has Live3400 and Live3800 two version,
It depends on the display card you install on your machine, but now
we integrate Live3400 and Live 3800 together, and call this version
"ASUS Live".
* Support more channel mode : West Europe cable , Netherlands cable,
West Europe air and Netherlands air.
* Add ASUS capture driver detection, if the capture driver you install
is not suit for ASUS Live, it will give a warning message.
* Fix the problem that system cannot memorize channel list when you
finish auto-scan under Hongkong cable or Hongkong air channel mode.
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 3.2 Beta) June.1,1999
***********************************************************************
* Correct capture driver cannot set default problem :
(1) In early version (before v3.1), if user want to use ASUS codec
to capture video stream data from ASUS Live , he must adjust capture
file format to UYVY format and set compressor to ASUS codec, these
steps are not convenient for user , and these configurations are
not recallable. That means user should reset these parameter every time
,this is very annoyed. This version fix this problem.
(2) Add ASUS Codec ASV1 and ASV1 high quality two options for compressor
and take ASUS codec ASV1 as the default codec
* Vary some function and operation :
(1) Rename the original "Capture Single Frame" to "Snapshot" and "Capture
Video" to "Video Recording". Replace "Snapshot Setting" to "Open AVI
File" icon on main control panel.
(2) In snapshot mode , user can capture video stream data as image
consecutively, and show these images on desktop concurrently. It
also support plug-in picture viewer or image processing program
like Photoshop ( user can make setting in Snapshot Setting ), the
default picture viewer is WINDOWS mspaint (paint brush) but user can
coordinate any image viewer he likes.
(3) Similar to Snapshot, Video Recording also provide user capture any
video stream data capability and playback on desktop. For convenience,
all recording video files are automatically append number on capture
filename until user change filename in this version .
* Add AVI trans-code to MPEG1 or MPEG2 video file format function, but this
is extra option, is not free for this version. (so all MPEG trans-code
function option is disable in this version)
* Add IDE device DMA mode state on/off checking :
If you want to capture video with the maximum performance (704*480 30
frames/sec ), you must enable your hard disk DMA transfer mode on if
you use EIDE HD, then it will get the maximum data transfer capability
on video capture process to achieve the maximum performance goal. How
to turn on DMA mode is implement on ASUSLive Tip Message Windows, when
you execute ASUSLive first time, it will show this message dialog if you
didn't not set DMA transfer mode.
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 3.1 Beta) May.7,1999
***********************************************************************
* Support more channel mode : JAPAN cable, UK cable, Honk Kong cable,
CHINA air,Taiwan air, JAPAN air, UK air, Honk Kong air, Germany air
and US air channel mode
* Support frequency tuning function for each channel (click 'SET' button
under control panel, and click 'Tunning' button to run, or use
CTRL-F hot key to execute tunning)
* Support channel autoscan calibration function (click 'SET' button
under control pannel, and click 'Calibrate' button for validation,
then you can adjust the calibrate index value (0 - 9) to acquire
the autoscan tolerance range
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 3.00) Apr.21,1999
***********************************************************************
* support various video format and capture size
NTSC-M, NTSC-N, NTSC-4.43, PAL-M: 704x480, 352x240, 176x120, 88x60
PAL-BGHI, PAL-N, PAL-4.43: 704x576, 352x288, 176x144, 88x72
* in capture mode, click on the 'Capture Settings' button to bring up
the 'Capture Settings' dialog box. Then, customize your capture
settings. (frame rate, audio capture, capture time,...)
* support video compression
* support Always-On-Top (move cursor over the play window,click right
mouse button to bring up the context menu, check the 'Always On Top'
item)
* support two display method, Bob and Weave, in the live mode
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 2.21) Dec.14,1998
***********************************************************************
* Remove the "Capture Time Limit" option on the "Set Capture File"
dialog box
***********************************************************************
Release Notes (Version 2.20) Oct.03,1998
***********************************************************************
* support ASUS TV tuner Box
* provide on-line help
* support DirectX 6
* support high resolution still image capture
NTSC: 352x240, 704x480, 1056x720, 1408x960, 1760x1200
PAL: 352x288, 704x576, 1056x864, 1408x1152, 1760x1440
* support different dimensions of capture window
NTSC-M, NTSC-N, NTSC-4.43, PAL-M: 352x240
PAL-BGHI, PAL-N, PAL-4.43: 352x288
* click the button 'Show/Hide Video Source Options' to show or hide
video source options on the display window. Then, you can set
brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, video connector and video
standard by clicking the left, right, up and down buttons on the
panel.
* shortcut key
<Ctrl+S> Full-screen
<F5> Capture single frame
<F6> Capture frames
<F7> Capture video
* play Video for Windows AVI file
***** For ASUSLive, the first release version is v2.20 *****
Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.