Gateway EZDVD schematic
Contents
Using Your DVD Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Identifying your DVD alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Using your EZ-DVD PC Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Using your DVD player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Using the DVD Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
DVD region coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Care and Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
System care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Disc care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
The disc won’t play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Video is jerky and dropping frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Screen resolution looks bad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
There is no picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Language, Angle, Title Buttons, and Subtitles won’t work . . . 19
No audio or audio is low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Installing the DVD software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Uninstalling the DVD software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Regulatory Compliance Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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2 Using Your DVD Player
Using Your DVD Alternatives
Your DVD alternatives from Gateway include either the video
hardware already in your notebook or a PC Card version. Both
alternatives use similar software controls. (See “Using the DVD
Control Panel” on Page 6.)
Identifying your DVD alternatives
If you have the EZ-DVD PC Card version (initial screen shown
below), follow the instructions in “Using your EZ-DVD PC Card”
on Page 4.
Otherwise, if the initial screen is similar to the one shown below,
follow the instructions in “Using your DVD player” on Page 5.
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Using your EZ-DVD PC Card
Your EZ-DVD PC Card supports hot insertion, which means you
put the card in the Zoom Video (ZV-enabled) slot of your notebook
when it is running, then the system automatically adjusts the drivers
and allocates resources. See your user’s guide for the location of a
ZV-enabled slot (usually the bottom slot) on your notebook.
If you purchased the PC Card at the same time you purchased your
notebook from Gateway, the software is already loaded on your
notebook. Should you need to reinstall the software, see the
instructions in “Installing the DVD software” on Page 21.
Connecting the media cable
The optional PC Card media cable (attached to the end of the PC
Card) provides four output connections:
A. Audio output is for earphones only. An external amplifier
is required to drive speakers.
B. Composite Video output can be used to connect to a
standard television.
C. SPDIF (Dolby Digital) output can be connected to an
external Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoder.
D. S-Video output can be used to connect to a television with
S-Video input.
4 Using Your DVD Player
Using your DVD player
The DVD Player contains the controls necessary to play DVD discs
and change the DVD display. Some notebooks (such as the Solo
9100) require you to change the video source to DVD before
playing a DVD disc.
To make DVD your video source:
1. Press the FN key and the VIDEO SOURCE key (F7 on the Solo
9100) simultaneously. The video source menu opens.
2. Continue to press the key combination until the option “DVD”
appears. The popup menu closes.
To play a DVD disc:
1. Click Start, Programs, DVDPlay, and then Dvdplay to open the
DVD Player application.
Important:
The DVD Player application must be running to play a DVD
disc. If the Active Movie window is not a solid black window,
change the video source to “DVD” using the
SOURCE key combination.
FN+VIDEO
2. Press the Eject button on the front of the DVD-ROM drive or
click the
Eject button on the DVD Player control panel. It will
take a few seconds for the tray to open.
3. Place the disc in the disc tray.
4. Gently push the tray to close it. Give the system a few seconds
to recognize the disc.
5. Click Play.
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Using the DVD Control Panel
The following illustration shows the DVD control panel, and the list
below the illustration describes the buttons on the control panel.
A. Begins the playback of DVD, Video CD, or MPEG files.
B. Pauses the video. Click the play button to continue.
C. Stops playing the video. Click the play button to start
playing at the beginning of the DVD title.
D. Runs the video backward. When you click this button, the
backwards scan continues until you click the play or stop
buttons.
E. Runs the video forward. When you click this button, the
forward scan continues until you click the play or stop
buttons.
F. Plays the video in slow motion.
G. Advances the video by one frame each time you click it.
H. File opens a file on the disc.
I. Eject opens the disc tray.
J. Config opens the setup screens so you can adjust audio,
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video, and parental control settings. See the
“Configuration dialog box” section for details.
K. Mute turns off the volume completely. To restore the sound,
click the
L. Disc resets the disc to play from the beginning.
Mute button again.
DVD menu language controls
The number of languages and angles available in the following
options varies from disc to disc, as determined by the disc
manufacturer. Refer to the DVD disc packaging for details.
A. Language changes the audio language. Click the + and –
buttons to scroll through the audio languages, or click the
center button to open a menu of languages. Click the
language you want to hear and the change is shown in the
status display dialog box.
You can switch languages while the disc is playing.
B. Subtitle changes the language of the subtitles. Click the +
and
– buttons to scroll through the subtitle languages or
click the center button to open a menu of languages. Click
the language you want to see.
You can switch languages while the disc is playing.
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C. Angle changes the camera position. This option, when
available, may last only a few seconds or a few chapters at
a time. Click the
+ and – buttons to scroll through the
camera angles, or click the center button to open a menu of
camera angles.
Click
Return on the control panel to return to the title.
D. Chapter lets you skip to a different chapter. Click the + and
– buttons to play the next or previous chapter, or click the
center button to open a menu of chapters. Click the number
of the chapter you want to watch.
DVD chapters are like chapters in a book or tracks on an
audio CD, but not all discs contain chapters.
DVD menu navigation controls
A. Scroll through menu choices in the Title, Main, and Scene
menus.
Menu select (the center arrow) shows the currently-
selected menu choice.
B. Decreases the size of the control panel and places it in the
Taskbar. To restore the control panel, click
application
C. Stops the video and exits the DVD Player.
D. Title displays the titles on the disc. Titles are divided into
in the Taskbar.
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chapters. Not all discs have this option, however. To select
an title, click the title directly, click the DVD arrow and
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