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07/98 Rev. 1.1
USER’S GUIDE
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M205 User's Manual nn nn nn This equipment has been tested and found to comply with limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in residential installations. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy, and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interface to can be determined by turning the equipment off and o
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M205 User’s Manual nn nn nn CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................ ................................ ......................... 5 n K F ................................ ................................ ................................ ..... 5 ................................ ................................ ........................ 5 ................................ ................................ .............................. 5 Image Capture ................................ ....
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M205 User's Manual Selecting the Video Source and Adjusting the Picture Properties ....................... 18 ................................ ................................ ..... 19 Setting the Video Display Size and Format ................................ ........................ 19 ................................ ................................ ........... 20 Creating New Palette ................................ ................................ ......................... 20 ...............
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nn nn nn 1 Congratulations on your purchase of the M205, the video capture and TV tuner card! The M205 is actually two cards in one: • A built-in TV tuner brings television to your computer screen, allowing you to work and watch TV at the same time. • The Video and Still Image Capture function gives you the ability to capture video nn The M205 virtually turns your computer into a television set, complete with an infra-red Remote Control! You can watch TV in a window while working in other appl
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The Lets you watch up to 125 cable television channels and 70 antenna channels in smooth, full-motion video in a window or full screen. You can capture still frames and movie clips, channel surf, or create your own TV transcripts. Composite Video and S- etc. Still image and live video capturing is easy with a simple mouse click. Support including transcript creation and Hot Words that alert you when M205 application program is broadcasting information that you want to watch. nn • • CPU 486DX 3
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nn nn nn 2 nn Components in the Package 1. M205 board 2. “Tekram Multimedia Drivers & Utilities” CD-ROM 3. 4. 5. installation. 7 M205 User’s Manual Page Make sure all of the above components are accounted for before you begin the Audio Cable (for Sound card) Remote Control IR Sensor CaptureTV M205 box: CaptureTV The following components should be included in your HARDWARE INSTALLATION
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nn : Handle circuit boards by the edges or bracket. Touch the bare metal of your computer case before handling any circuit boards to prevent static discharge damage. 1. Turn OFF all power to your system, including any peripherals (printer, external drives, modem, etc.). 2. Disconnect the power cord and the monitor cable from the back of the computer. 3. 4. Align the gold-fingered edge on your card with an empty PCI expansion slot and gently insert it into place. You may need to remove the cover
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9 M205 User’s Manual Page Connecting to External Video Sources (RCA jack) Connecting the IR Sensor Connecting to Cable TV or Antenna HARDWARE INSTALLATION
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: The M205 audio output jack is a low-gain output suitable for headphones and speakers, as well as an input into stereo systems or other types of amplifiers. It is not suitable for driving unpowered external speakers alone. M205 User’s Manual 10 Page powered CaptureTV NOTE Connecting to Speakers or Headphones Connecting to External Video Sources (S-video) HARDWARE INSTALLATION
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If your system already has a sound card, hook the M205 card’s audio output to your sound card’s audio input, usually marked “LINE-IN” (sometimes called M205 User’s Manual 11 Page Connecting to a Sound Card “AUX-IN” or “CD-IN”) with a 1/8” stereo cord, as shown below. CaptureTV HARDWARE INSTALLATION
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nn nn nn 3 nn After the capture card is properly installed in the system, power on your system. “Driver Disk from Manufacturer”, insert the Tekram Multimedia Drivers & Utilities (D: is your CD-ROM drive) and follow the on-screen instructions to install the drivers for the capture card. computer. Select YES to restart. M205 User’s Manual 12 Page shown above if you have OSR2 / Windows 95 (B) installed. The Windows 95 setup screen on your system may look different than the one Note: After the r
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nn 1. After the capture card is properly installed in the system, power on your system. , then “Add New Hardware Wizard” dialog box will appear like the one shown below. 2. 3. 4. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the driver installation. M205 User’s Manual 13 Page D:\M205 Next select “Specify a location” then type in Then select “Search for the best drive for your device. (Recommended).” upon boot-up, and display a “New Hardware Found” screen Windows 98 will automatically detect
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nn After rebooting, insert the “Tekram Multimedia Utilities & Drivers” CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive. The Autorun screen will show up. If it does not appear, run Double-clicking the appropriate product model name M205 brings up the “Function M205 User’s Manual 14 Page Selector” submenu. (where D: is your CD-ROM drive). D:\AUTORUN The Autorun Screen SOFTWARE INSTALLATION
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nn VideoCapture 1. on the Autorun Screen. The following dialog box appears: 2. In the Installation Directory, type the drive and directory where you want the software installed. The default path is . 3. Click Continue to start copying of the files. 4. Click on the Exit button after the installation is complete. The “ CapTV” program group is added to your Windows desktop, containing the application icons as Use the Uninstall program when you want to remove this application program. M205 User’s M
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nnnn nnnn nnnn 4 The VideoCapture full screen. This application is also used for capturing still images and full-motion The VideoCapture utility saves the captured still image as DIB file format. The video Note : This application program cannot run under 256 or lower color mode. CapTV” program group to start the program. The application window and the control panel will appear: nn Title & Information Bar Menu Bar • : Contains the program name, the standard Windows Minimize, Maximize and Exit b
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nn To show/hide the control panel, check from the menu. 1. : Quits the M205 VideoCapture application. 2. window and full screen. (*) 3. : minimize the program to an icon. 4. : Captures 5. : Captures still image. (*) 6. : Brings up the setup options 7. 8. STYLE : Show/hide the caption board and menu bar of the display window. The following buttons are for TV tuner use only. They are not active when using other a. : Switches between cable TV and antenna (Air) input. MUTE : Turn off/resume th
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nn Selecting the Video Source and From the Options Video Source . The Video Source dialog box appears: • • * Changing the video system type brings up the Video Format dialog box. For Format settings, please refer to later section. • : Drag the slide bars to adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation and hue of M205 User’s Manual 18 Page the displayed video. Color Video camcorder or VCR may be a NTSC device. Video Source. For instance, your CCD camera may be a PAL device, whereas a operatio
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Overlay or mode from the Options menu. In card to the memory of the display card without using any CPU the capturing operation automatically uses the Preview mode, therefore, the quality of the captured image or video is the same regardless of the setting. From the Options menu, choose . The Video Format dialog box appears: • : Selects the image display size. Options are 160 x 120 pixels (1/4), 320 x 240 pixels (1/2), and 640 x 480 pixels (Full). • : Select the image type and the amount of col
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from the O ptions menu. In this mode, you can display video full screen or in a scalable window, but capture is not allowed. In the Capture Mode the color palette may improve the picture dramatically. From the Options menu, choose Make Palette to create a new palette. The following dialog box appears: • : Specify the number of colors to be contained in the palette. • palette. M205 User’s Manual 20 Page : Specify how many frames from which the color is to be selected for the Frame Colors If t
