README.TXT For Utobia Fullscreen DVD(TM)
Release 1.8 (Build 118) ------ 8/27/99
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Congratulations on your purchase of Utobia Fullscreen DVD/MPEG2
multimedia Playback . This file contains important information for
installation of the drivers and application software for this card.
CONTENTS
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I - DRIVER AND APPLICATIONS INSTALLATION
II - DVD REGION CODE CHANGE
III - TV OUT
IV - HINTS TO RESOLVE PROBLEMS AND BETTER PLAYBACK
I - DRIVER AND APPLICATIONS INSTALLATION
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After the hardware installation of the card do the following:
1. For an existing installation (if not go to step 2): uninstall the
previous software by going to the Utobia DVD Group - Uninstall,
reboot, and follow next steps 2 to 7 below.
NOTE : You do not need when running SETUP of step 5 to set the
region code again as mentioned in step 6.
2. On booting your system, Windows 9x will detect the card. Insert the
Utobia Fullscreen DVD Drivers Disk in your floppy drive A and
click Finish. This will install Utobia DVD drivers on your hard
disk.
3. To install the DVD navigation software insert Application Disk into
drive A and run SETUP.
4. The Setup program will show two options: Install the Utobia DVD
application or Change the DVD region code.
5. Check the DVD application installation option and follow the
instructions.
6. After the files are copied, set a DVD region code as part of the
setup program.
Note: Setup will not ask you to set the DVD region code if you
install the card later in the same region.
7. Click Finish to complete the installation process.
II - DVD REGION CODE CHANGE
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1. Run the SETUP program from Application disk. Select DVD Region Code
change option. Set the region code according to the country you
are in.
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Note: The setup program will allow you to change the region code
for five times.
fee will be charged.
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Note: If the system includes an RPC2 DVD-ROM drive that carries
its own region code, DVD Station will check the code against
the movie and will issue an appropriate message if not
matching (the Utobia Full-Screen region code is ignored in
this case). You can use the program DVD Drive Region in
the Utobia group to change the region of the drive. This is
allowed for five times only.
III - TV OUT
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The Utobia Fullscreen DVD can display on a VGA monitor or a TV.
To switch between these modes press the function key F5 or TAB.
In order to display on a TV, some additional settings may be
required. From the Utobia Player control panel click Options button.
This will open a window for options setting. Click the Settings tab.
Select the options according to your TV type. The color control,
brightness, and contrast controls have also been provided for TV.
Note : Some TVs are sensitive with video frequency input and may
show Black and White video on TV. This has specially been
noticed on some PAL TVs. In such a situation do the
following WHILE the TV-Out option is active and DVD/MPEG is
playing on TV.:
1. From the Control Panel click the "Options Dialog -
Settings tab.
2. Press Configure and then press Advanced Settings.
3. Select Expert Settings and click the mouse. This
will open a pop-up window. Adjust different values
until you have color picture on TV. Notice that you
need to keep on going in one direction when changing
the values i.e. either always increasing or
decreasing because of the hysteresis nature of this
adjustment.
IV - HINTS TO RESOLVE PROBLEMS AND BETTER PLAYBACK
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1. The drivers are installed and the Utobia DVD appears in the
"Device Manager" but the CD's won't play.
Run SETUP from the second diskette (Applications) to create the
"Utobia Fullscreen DVD" group. This group contains the
Utobia Player, README file, Utobia Configuration, and Uninstall.
2. With the Utobia DVD board and the drivers correctly installed
the system crashes after boot-up.
Start Win '9x in the Safe mode, select the Utobia DVD board in
the Device Manager, manually change the Memory Range to a different
setting for the Utobia DVD and reboot.
3. The Utobia Configuration can be run but when the Utobia Player is
started (or the Media Player with an MPEG file ) the system hangs.
Check the Device Manager for a conflict in the IRQ resources and
make the necessary change(s).
4. After installing the first disk for the drivers, and run SETUP from
the second disk, the following message comes up : "Driver cannot be
loaded, another instance from the driver may be running". Or when
playing an MPEG file after the software installation, there is an
error message "MMSYSTEM 266 : undetectable error ...".
Reseat Utobia DVD in different PCI slots because of some of
the motherboards BIOSes handling of the resources.
5. MPEG 1 files run normally, but DVD movies are shaky.
Make certain that the DVD-ROM drive is connected as a Master on the
IDE controller. And, if your version of Win 95 is OSR2, turn ON the
DMA flag in the "Device Manager-DVD ROM drive-Settings-DMA."
6. When running Video CD on the CD-ROM drive, the playback is shaky.
Connect the Video CD drive as a slave to the hard disk and not on
the same controller with the DVD-ROM drive. If you are using the
original release of Win 95 make sure you have installed the
Microsoft fix (IOSYSUPD.EXE - from their web site). This fix
smoothes the playback of Video CDs from the slave drives.
7. I get an "MMSYSTEM error 275" when I try to play a DVD encrypted
movie.
This can happen if you are using the original release of Win 95 and
you have the CD-ROM drive as a slave to the DVD-ROM drive. Replace
the file ESDI_506.PDR with its equivalent in OSR2 in the
subdirectory IOSUBSYS of Windows/System.
8. For DVD-ROMs that require high data transfer rates, it is better to
have the DVD-ROM drive connected to an IDE controller with the
"Bus Master" mode activated.
9. If you are using Rel OSR2 of Win 95, check on the DMA feature of
your DVD-ROM drive. This can be found in the Device Manager by
double-clicking the entry for the DVD-ROM drive, clicking the tab
Settings, and checking 'On' the DMA feature.
10. Playing long DVD movies, above 4 GB in size, is supported by the
Microsoft CDFS.VXD of Win 95 Rel OSR2 and later versions.
11. Capturing of an MPEG frame from an encrypted DVD movie is not
supported because of Copyright issues. In other cases the capture
feature gives its best results at a color depth of 64K (16 bits)
or higher.
12. Playing VOB files using the Media Player might not show the best
performance because of different navigation schemes. Use the
Utobia Player for this.
13. Playing DVD under WIN98 will show better performance
if you run MSCONFIG, General, Advanced and Disable UDF file system.
14. Video is fine on VGA but is Black and White on TV.
Please see section for TV-Out.
15. When watching the movie on TV, the picture gets dimmer and brighter
at short intervals and with some movies some yellow horizontal
lines appear on the TV screen.
The TV set is connected to the PC system via a VCR or an alike
device. This device initiates the Macrovision protection of the
movie. Connect the TV directly to the PC system.
16. The S-Video connector on Utobia DVD is a 7-hole jack and
my S-Video cable has a 4-pin socket only.
The 4-pin cable is compatible with the 7-pin socket. There are
more pins on the 7-pin socket to provide for the composite TV
output.
17. I lost the S-Video/Composite Converter cable and have no access to
another one.
Order another one from your supplier. The pinout of this converter
is as follows :
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/ \
| 7 6 5 |
| 4 3 2 1 |
| |
\ OOOOO /
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1:GND
2:Composite
3:GND
4:GND
5:Luma
6:not connected
7:Chroma
18. The Utobia DVD drivers do not support DTS audio on DVD movies.
19. You want Utobia Player to check your DVD-ROM first and it has a
drive letter after the CD-ROM.
The Utobia Player allows you to set your preferred drive under
Options - Play List.
20. You see the video but no audio.
- Try first the speakers plugged in Utobia DVD and be sure the
output from Utobia DVD is Stereo.
- Then check the audio jumper cable from the output of Utobia
DVD to the input of the sound card. If no sound, check the
volume mixer to have Line-in NOT muted or at low level.
- If you are using a Dolby Digital Receiver, make sure that it
accepts AC-3 streams (if your setting in Utobia DVD is AC-3),
otherwise it must be a PCM decoder and in this case set the
Utobia Player output to PCM.
21. The Utobia DVD does NOT support the MP3 files playback.
22. While the movie is playing, the Utobia Player freezes.
Check if you have a network card 3C905B. If it is, uninstall its
driver and install only the 4th disk (avoiding the diagnostic
program).
23. One of the possible reasons of being unable to play encrypted
movies is having a Virus Scanner running on the system.
Another reason could be the presence of a CD-RW Burner software
which uses special SCSI drivers. Disable these drivers before
playing movies (such as SCSIHLP.VXD, PU66VSD.VXD, .... )
24. What is the pinout of the VGA signals on the pass-thru cable ?
View of the 9 pin socket of the pass-through cable,
seen from the bracket:
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| 9 8 7 |
| 6 5 4 3 |
\ 2 1 /
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1:Blue IN
2:GND
3:Green IN
4:GND
5:Vsync IN
6:Hsync IN
7:Red IN
8:SDA (from pin12 of DB15) - for PnP monitors
9:SCL (from pin15 of DB15) - for PnP monitors
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END OF FILE
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.
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