DVICO FUSIONHDTV Users Manual

FusionHDTV

1. Before Getting Started

2. Software Installation

3. Hardware Installation

4. Using FusionHDTV

FusionHDTV USER License

DViCO Corporation (“DViCO”) is granting you (an individual or an entity, either of which is

referred to herein as “License”) a license to use DViCO’s FusionHDTV computer software,

hardware, associated media and printed materials only upon the condition that Licensee

accepts all of the terms and conditions contained in this User License Agreement (the

“Agreement”). If Licensee does not agree to he terms of this Agreement, Licensee should not

install or use the Products rather, promptly return the Products to the place of purchase.

1. Grant of License. This Agreement grants Licensee a personal, limited, non-transferable,

non-exclusive right to install and use one copy of the Products on a single computer. No other

uses and/or distribution of the Products are permitted without DViCO’s prior written consent.

DViCO reserves all rights not expressly granted to Licensee.

2. Limitations or Restrictions. Licensee may not: (i) modify or translate the Products; (ii)

reverse engineer or disassemble the Products, except and only to the extent this restriction is

expressly permitted by applicable law; (iii) separate the Products component parts to transfer to

a third party.

3. Intellectual Property Rights. Licensee acknowledges that no title to the intellectual property

in the Products and any components thereof is transferred to Licensee. All rights, titles and

copyrights in and to the products are owned by DViCO. The Products are protected by copyright

laws and international copyright conventions and treaties.

4. Disclaimer of Warranty. The Products are deemed accepted by Licensee. The PRODUCTS

are provided to Licensee “AS IS” and without warranty of any kind. To the maximum extent

permitted by applicable law, DViCO further disclaims all warranties including without limitation

any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

Any and all risk arising out of the use or performance of the PRODUCTS remains with Licensee.

In no event shall DViCO or its suppliers be liable for any consequential, incidental, direct,

indirect, special, punitive, or other damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, damages

for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business information, or other

pecuniary loss) arising out of this Agreement or the use of or inability to use the Products, even

if DViCO has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Because some

states/jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or

incidental damages, the above limitation applies only to the extent permitted by applicable law.

5. Limitation of Liability. DViCO’s total liability and Licensee’s exclusive remedy under this

Agreement shall not exceed the replacement cost of a single copy of the Products.

6. Indemnification. Licensee shall hold harmless, indemnify and defend DViCO, its officers,

directors and employees, from and against any claim, suit or proceeding and any losses,

damages, fines and expenses (including attorneys’ fees and costs) arising out of or relating to

any claims that Licensee’s use of the Products in conjunction with any Licensee Application

infringes the patent,

any breach of this Agreement by Licensee.

7. Termination. Without prejudice to any other rights, DViCO may terminate this Agreement if

Licensee fails to comply with any term or condition of this Agreement. Upon termination of this

Agreement, Licensee shall immediately discontinue the use of the Products and certify

destruction of all full or partial copies of the Products and related materials provided by DViCO.

Licensee may also terminate this Agreement at any time by destroying the Products and all

copies thereof.

8. General. Licensee acknowledges that he or she has read this Agreement, understands it,

and that by using the Products Licensee agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions set

forth in this Agreement. Licensee further agrees that the Agreement is the complete and

exclusive statement of the understanding between DViCO and Licensee which supersedes any

proposal or prior agreement, oral or written, and any other communication between DViCO and

Licensee relating to the subject matter of this Agreement. This Agreement may not be modified

except in a writing duly signed by an authorized representative of DViCO and Licensee. If any

provision of this Agreement is held to be unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be

reformed only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable, and such decision shall not affect

the enforceability of such provision under other circumstances, or of the remaining provisions

hereof under all circumstances.

1 Before Getting Started ...................................................................................6

1.1 FusionHDTV Specification.................................................................................... 6

1.2 FusionHDTV System Requirements..................................................................... 8

1.3 Package contents................................................................................................. 9

Software Installation.....................................................................................10

2.1 Installing FusionHDTV Applications.................................................................... 10

2.2 Driver installation under Windows ME................................................................ 21

2.3 Driver installation under Windows 2000 Professional......................................... 23

2.4 Driver installation under Windows XP ................................................................ 28

Hardware Installation ...................................................................................31

3.1 About the Board ................................................................................................. 31

3.2 Before Installation .............................................................................................. 32

3.3 Board Installation ............................................................................................... 33

3.4 Remote Installation ............................................................................................ 34

Using FusionHDTV ......................................................................................36

4.1 Starting and Quitting........................................................................................... 36

4.2 Display setup ..................................................................................................... 36

4.3 Configuration...................................................................................................... 40

4.4 Record ............................................................................................................... 49

4.5 Playing Files....................................................................................................... 51

4.6 SnapShot Capturing........................................................................................... 52

4.7 Using EPG ......................................................................................................... 53

4.8 Cut Editing ......................................................................................................... 58

4.9 Using FusionRemote.......................................................................................... 60

4.10 Using Signal Checker......................................................................................... 67

4.11 Using FusionConverter ...................................................................................... 68

4.12 FusionHDTV ShortKey ....................................................................................... 70

1 Before Getting Started

1.1 FusionHDTV Specification

A Highly cost effective ATSC/ NTSC TV reception card

You can enjoy HDTV at quite a low price due to Dvico’s innovative HDTV software decoding engine.

Unrivaled crystal-clear picture quality

FusionHDTV provides up to 5 times higher resolution when compared to analog TV, and provides crisp and crystal-clear picture quality to a PC screen.

Good picture quality on LCD or low-resolution monitor

FusionHDTV shows excellent and super-clear on HDTV screens and even on LCD TV’s and low resolution CRT due to Dvico’s proprietary decoding engine.

Great system compatibility

FusionHDTV is compatible with most video cards and motherboards. FusionHDTV works on any recent VGA cards including Nvidia MX series or later chipsets, as well as ATI Radeon chipsets. It works quite well on Intel, VIA, SIS, and other motherboard chipsets. Minimum system requirements are Pentium 4 1.6G and DDR266 memory (or RDRAM memory), or AMD’s Athlon™ XP 1600+ or faster processor, if you don’t have the ATI Radeon VGA card. Pentium 3 800Mhz or faster will be enough if you have an ATI Radeon card.

Recording and playback of the HDTV stream

You can record live HDTV broadcasting streams to a PC and play them back anytime you want.

Using most recent VSB tuner – Best DTV reception rate

FusionHDTV uses the most recent VSB tuner to get the best reception rate, so you can get the un-interrupted and stable HDTV screen.

69 terrestrial digital(8VSB)/analog channels

FusionHDTV supports 69 terrestrial digital (8VSB) and all analog channels, so you will have the ability to receive all the channels available to you at your location.

All 18 ATSC formats compliant

FusionHDTV supports all of the 18 formats of ATSC broadcasting, so you can experience the all of the full ATSC format-rich content available.

AC3 audio output

FusionHDTV provides AC3 audio decoding, which is the standard audio format for ATSC. It can also bypass the AC3 audio to digital output and connect directly to an AV amplifier.

High resolution still capture

FusionHDTV provides high resolution still screen capturing capability in live playback as well as file playback mode.

Cut Edit feature – Cut the transport stream files

You can cut out the wanted scenes from the captured file and reconstruct the video clip.

Supports virtual channel

Virtual channel is set on the channel list independent of physical channel.

- OSD for virtual channel and broadcasting station name is shown whenever channel is changed.

Supports sub-channel

Sub channel is listed up in sub channel play list and can be selected with channel up/down button or mouse selection in sub channel play list.

second language

Supports the second language in digital broadcasting

Supports screen saver off.

Screen saver is off while FusionHDTV runs.

Supports AAC audio decoding

TS file clips and DVHS with AAC audio can be played directly in FusionHDTV

Add To Favorite List

You can add your favorite programs into favorite list before watching them.

Direct NATIVE .MPG recording

You can record DTV stream to .MPG format directly.

HD-to-DVD or DivX format conversion

HD clips can be converted to MPEG2, DVD files or DivX format using FusionConverter tool.

Supports DVHS record and control ( Windows XP or above only )

Direct DVHS capture/ recording/ playback with OHCI card

Supports Titan EPG

Supports recording and live viewing according to TitanTV EPG.

Embeds the TitanTV EPG on the FusionHDTV application.

Supports Digital Cable

Supports 64/256QAM sub-channel selection & playback in ATSC

1.2 FusionHDTV System Requirements

System requirements for FusionHDTV are as follows

One TV antenna

One inside stereo connection jack to sound card for analog TV

S-Video IN, Composite IN

Pentium3 800MHz or faster with 128M memory

Celeron 900Mhz or faster with 128M memory

GeForce4 MX420,440,Fx5200,5600 Series, Ti Series

All ATI Radeon series VGAs

WinME/2000/XP or later

Ultra-DMA66 enabled main board and HDD for recording

Pentium4 1.6GHz or faster with 128M memory

All Nvidia MX series VGAs and ATI Radeon series VGAs

DDR266 or faster memory

WinME/ 2000/ XP or later

Ultra-DMA66 enabled main board and HDD for recording

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Windows XP or above only.

OHCI compatible 1394 card

1.3 Package contents

The FusionHDTV package contains the following items:

1 2

 FusionHDTV card

 Setup CD

 Manual

 Internal cable to sound card for Analog TV Audio

 External Connection cable

* Optional FusionHDTV remote transceiver

3 4 5

 FusionHDTV transceiver

 Receiver

First install the software before you plug the FusionHDTV card in your system. It will ease the installation process. If you plugged the card in already, you can still proceed anyway.

2 Software Installation

Most likely there will be an updated version of the files on our web site.

Please check the site (Http://www.DVICO.com CD.

), before you install the software included in the

2.1 Installing FusionHDTV Applications

Insert FusionHDTV Installation CD into the CD-ROM drive. The setup window will automatically pop up. if you downloaded the recent version on DVICO’s website, please run install.exe or setup.exe.

2.1.1 Uninstall Drivers

1) When you select Uninstall Driver in the menu on the FusionHDTV INSTALLER program,

it will remove all the old drivers previously installed.

2) When all the drives are removed, you will see following message.

2.1.2 Installing FusionHDTV Software

Important: Installation on Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP

Before you install FusionHDTV software, be sure that you logged on as an account with Administrator privileges.

1) Select “Install FusionHDTV”.

2) At the FusionHDTV Installation dialog opens, click on the “Next>” button.

3) The user Information window will show up when you are upgrading of the WEB version.

Type in the serial number, which is on the jacket of FusionHDTV installation CD, then click on the “Next” button.

4) The “Choose Destination Location” window will appear. Click on “Next” if you want to

install the FusionHDTV in the default directory. Otherwise, you can choose a different directory by clicking on “Browse”.

5) Press “Next” on the Destination Folder selection window.

6) The “Setup status” window will appear.

7) Choose your country, then click “OK”.

8) PC specification selection windows will appear. Please select the appropriate system.

You can change the mode after installation with configuration menu of the application program. You do not need to reinstall the program with different options.

9) Select your FusionHDTV card, and Press ‘Next’ to install latest drivers.

10) You will see the progress window.

11) Press “Yes” for the digital signature message.

12) Following message indicates the completion of the setup.

13) By clicking the Finish button, the software installation is done.

14) When you reboot, the system will ask for the 4 drivers. Please click “Yes” when the

digital signature window appears.

<Notes>

In certain cases, Windows will ask for the .sys files. You can locate the sys files in the C:\Program Files\DVico\FusionHDTV\driver folder.

2.1.3 Installing Microsoft DirectX 8.1

Important! Installing on Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP

Before you install FusionHDTV software, be sure that you logged on as an account with Administrator privileges.

You can check the version of DirectX by typing “dxdiag” on the command line which appears with menu selection “start->run”

If you have DirectX8.1 or later already, you do not need to install DirectX8.1 again.

1) Run ‘Install.exe’ and then select “Install Direct8.1X”.

2) Read the License Agreement carefully, and then click on “Yes” if you agree.

3) To start installing of DirectX, click on “Install DirectX”.

Tip If there is a DirectX already installed in the system, a different window will show up instead of the one above.

4) Click on “OK” to restart system and complete installation of the DirectX.

2.1.4 Installing the FusionHDTV remote transceiver

Installation Caution

• Remote transceiver is optional and can be purchased separately through FusionHDTV

dealers.

• First, install the FusionHDTV application then install the FusionHDTV remote

transceiver program.

Important: Installation on Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP

Before you install FusionHDTV software, be sure that you logged on as an account with Administrator privileges.

1) Select “FusionHDTV Remote transceiver Installation” at the Install.exe window.

2) Click “Next” to start the Remote transceiver installation.

3) The “Choose Destination Location” window will appear. Click on “Next” if you want to

install the FusionHDTV in the default directory. Otherwise, you can choose a different directory by clicking on “Browse”

4) Click on the “OK” to restart and finish installation.

2.2 Driver installation under Windows ME

2.2.1 Before Installation

Make sure to install the software in the following order.

1) Install the Application software (refer to 2.1 Installing FusionHDTV Applications)

2) Install Hardware(Board) (refer to 3.3 Board Installation)

3) Install Windows ME Driver (refer to 2.2.2 Installing Windows ME driver)

4) Check Windows ME device manger (refer to 2.2.3 Checking Windows ME Driver)

2.2.2 Installing the Windows ME driver

1) Insert the FusionHDTV board into the PCI local bus slot. When Windows ME starts, the

Add New Hardware Wizard will pop up automatically.

2) The Found New Hardware window will pop and FusionHDTV 88x, WDM Video Capture

driver will be installed automatically.

3) The Add New Hardware Wizard will pop up automatically and “FusionHDTV

88x,Transport Stream Capture(ATSC-A)” driver will be installed automatically.

4) After the Files Needed Window appears, look for the ‘zl88Tcap.sys’ file by clicking the

browse button. Select the driver directory under the installation directory. (ex : C:\Program Files\Dvico\FusionHDTV\driver)

5) If a version conflict message appears during installing, preserve existing file by

pressing ‘Keep’.

6) The Add New Hardware Wizard will pop up automatically and “FusionHDTV 88x,

Thomson7611+LG3302 WDM TV Tuner” driver installation will be done automatically.

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