Integra NVS-7.7 Owner's Manual

Integrated Media Center

NVS-7.7

Media Center

Instruction Manual

Starting Media Center

Using the mouse and keyboard Using the remote controller

1 From the Windows® desktop, click the Start

button, and then click Media Center.

The Media Center Start menu appears.

Start button

Shut Down

1 Press the [START] button.

The Media Center Start menu appears.

Media Center Start Menu

Exiting Media Center

Using the mouse and keyboard Using the remote controller

1To go back to the Media Center Start menu,

click the Start button in the left corner.

2 Click the Shut Down button.

3 Click the Close Media Center button.

To turn off the NVS-7.7, click the Shutdown

button.

1To go back to the Media Center Start menu,

press the [START] button.

2 Press the Left [ ] button to select Shut

Down , and then press [OK].

3 Select the Close Media Center button,

and then press [OK].

To turn off the NVS-7.7, select the Shutdown

button, and then press [OK].

Contents

Starting Media Center - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2

Starting Media Center - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 Exiting Media Center - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 Remote Controller Button Operation - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4

Playing DVDs (Play DVD) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 6

Playing a DVD with Media Center - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 6 Watching a DVD in a Resized Window - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 7 Displaying the Media Center Start Menu During Playback - - - - - - - - - - 7

Playing Music (My Music) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 8

Organizing Your Music - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 8 Copying a CD to the Media Library - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 9 Playing Music - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 10 Creating a Queue and Saving it as a Playlist - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11

Playing Videos (My Video) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 12

Organizing Your Videos - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 12 Playing Your Videos - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 13 Displaying the Media Center Start Menu During Playback - - - - - - - - - 13

Viewing Your Photos (My Pictures) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 14

Organizing Your Pictures - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 14 Viewing Your Photos with Media Center - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 15 Viewing Your Photos as a Slideshow - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 15 Viewing a Slideshow with Music - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 16 Sorting Your Photos - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 17 Changing Slideshow Settings - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 17

Watching TV (My TV) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 18

Watching a TV Program - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 18 Displaying the Media Center Start Menu During Playback - - - - - - - - - 19 Pausing and Replaying Live TV - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 19 TV Program Guide - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 20 Recording TV Programs - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 22 Watching Recorded TV Programs - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 26 Changing TV Settings - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 27

Listening to the Radio (Radio) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 28

Listening to FM Radio - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 28 Presetting Radio Stations - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 29 Pausing and Replaying Live Radio - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 29

Playing DVD-Audio Discs (CyberLink PowerDVD 6) - - - - - 30

Editing Video with NeroVision Express 3 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 31

About Security - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 32

What’s a Computer Virus? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 32 How To Protect Your Computer - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 32

* Microsoft product screen shots reprinted with permission from Microsoft Corporation.

Starting Media Center—Continued

Remote Controller Button Operation

A Standby/On [ ] button

REW FWD

BACK MORE

SKIPREPLAY

M N O P

B RECORD [ ] button

C REW [ ] button

D REPLAY [ ] button

E BACK [ ] button

Sets the Media Center to On or Standby. The Media Center will still perform scheduled activities such as TV recording in Standby mode.

Starts TV recording.

Rewinds movies, music, or other media.

Selects the previous track or chapter. During playback it selects the beginning of the current track or chapter.

Goes back to the previous Media Center screen.

8 9

VOI.

RECORDED

GHI

PQRS

START

MUTE

LIVE TVGUIDE

ABC

JKL

TUV

CLEAR ENTER

DEF

MNO

WXYZ

DVD

F START button

Displays the Media Center Start menu.

CH PG

Note: You can also display this menu from

the Windows

desktop by clicking the green

Media Center icon in the Start menu.

G VOL +/– button

Adjusts the volume level.

Note: If your AV receiver is connected to the 2CH AUDIO OUT L/R jacks or a DIGITAL AUDIO OUT jack, this button has no effect and you must adjust the volume level on the AV receiver.

H MUTE button

Mutes or unmutes the sound. The note for the VOL button above also applies to this button.

I RECORDED TV button

Displays the Recorded TV menu.

J GUIDE button

Displays the TV guide.

Starting Media Center—Continued

K Number buttons

Used to enter numbers to select TV channels or enter text in a Media Center search or text box.

L CLEAR button

Cancels your previous selection (works like the backspace key on a computer keyboard).

M STOP [ ] button

Stops playback or recording.

N PAUSE [ ] button

Pauses playback or recording.

O Play [ ] button

Starts playback.

P FWD [ ] button

Fast forwards movies, music, or other media.

Q SKIP [ ] button

Selects the next track or chapter.

R MORE information button

Displays information about the selected item.

S Arrow [ ]/[ ]/[ ]/[ ] buttons

Used to move the cursor and navigate the Media Center menus.

T OK button

Conﬁrms the desired action or selection.

U CH/PG +/– button

Changes the TV channel or selects the next (+) or previous (–) page.

V DVD MENU button

Displays the menu of the DVD currently playing.

W LIVE TV button

Displays full-screen live TV.

X ENTER button

Conﬁrms the desired action or selection (works like the [OK] button).

Playing DVDs (Play DVD)

With Media Center, you can watch DVD movies and use the remote controller or mouse to control playback.

Before playing a DVD in Media Center, you must enter your CD key in the CyberLink PowerDVD program. See page 37 of the NVS-7.7 Instruction Manual for details.

Playing a DVD with Media Center

• Media Center supports closed captioning, subtitles, and foreign language soundtracks, although these options are only available if the DVD movie includes them.

• If a DVD includes its own playback software, Media Center may not start when you insert the DVD. To watch such a DVD in Media Center, cancel the messages on the screen to use the DVD player software, and then start Media Center.

Using the mouse and keyboard Using the remote controller

1 Start Media Center (see page 2).

2 When the Media Center Start menu appears,

insert the DVD into the drive.

Playback starts automatically.

If another media is already playing, a message asking if you want to play the DVD appears. If you don’t want to play it, click the message’s Close button. If you don’t select an option, DVD playback will start automatically in full-screen mode.

3 If a DVD menu appears, click the menu items

to start playback.

4 To stop playback, move the mouse to display

the media control toolbar, and then click the Stop button.

Media control toolbar

Stop button

The Stopped menu appears with the following options:

• Resume: Resume playback from the point

at which it was stopped.

• Restart: Restart playback from the begin-

ning of the disc.

• Title Menu: Display the DVD menu, if

available.

• DVD Languages: Allows you to select

foreign language soundtracks and subtitles, if available.

• Eject: Eject the disc.

1 Start Media Center (see page 2).

2 When the Media Center Start menu appears,

insert the DVD into the drive.

Playback starts automatically.

If another media is already playing, a message asking if you want to play the DVD appears. If you don’t want to play it, use the Left and Right [ ]/[ ] buttons to select the message’s Close button, and then press [OK]. If you don’t select an option, DVD playback will start automatically in full-screen mode.

3 If a DVD menu appears, use the menu items

to start playback.

4 To stop playback, press the STOP [ ] button.

The Stopped menu appears with the following options:

• Resume: Resume playback from the point

at which it was stopped.

• Restart: Restart playback from the begin-

ning of the disc.

• Title Menu: Display the DVD menu, if

available.

• DVD Languages: Allows you to select

foreign language soundtracks and subtitles, if available.

• Eject: Eject the disc.

Playing DVDs (Play DVD)—Continued

Watching a DVD in a Resized Window

Using the mouse and keyboard

To adjust the size of the window, you must use the mouse. Click the Resize button on the taskbar, and then drag the bottom right corner of the window to adjust.

Note: If you adjust the size of the Media Center window, the DVD plays in the same window size.

Displaying the Media Center Start Menu During Playback

You can access other areas of Media Center during playback.

Using the mouse and keyboard Using the remote controller

1 During DVD playback, click the Start

button.

The Media Center Start menu appears with the DVD playing in the view port window.

2 To return to full-screen mode, click the view

port window.

1 During DVD playback, press the [START]

button.

The Media Center Start menu appears with the DVD playing in the view port window.

2 To return to full-screen mode, use the Left

[] button to select the view port window, and then press [OK].

Playing Music (My Music)

With Media Center, you can copy, organize, and play your CDs and digital music ﬁles. Media Center is designed to work with Windows Media Library by using either Media Center or Windows Center and Windows

Media Player.

Media Player and shares its Media Library. Music added to the

Media Player is available to both Media

Organizing Your Music

To play your music in Media Center, your digital music ﬁles must be in the My Music or Shared Music folder. Digital music ﬁles copied from a CD or downloaded from the Internet and saved else-

where will have to be moved manually to the My Music or Shared Music folder. When you have put all of your digital music ﬁles into the My Music or Shared Music folder, you can rename, add, delete, and organize them into folders as you like.

To organize and store your digital music ﬁles in the My Music folder:

1 From the Windows

2 Double-click the My Music folder.

If you want to share your digital music ﬁles with other users, you must put them in the Shared Music folder. To organize and store your digital music ﬁles in the Shared Music folder:

1 From the Windows

2 Under Other Places, click Shared Documents.

3 Double-click the Shared Music folder.

desktop, click the Start button, and then click My Documents.

Playing Music (My Music)—Continued

Copying a CD to the Media Library

Using the mouse and keyboard Using the remote controller

1 Insert a CD.

2 Start Media Center (see page 2).

3 Click My Music.

Media Center displays the title of the CD and all available music in your Media Library.

4 Click the CD that you want to copy, and then

click Copy CD.

The ﬁrst time you copy a CD, the copy options appear, including one that allows you to add copy protection to your music.

5 Select the desired copy protection option.

6 When asked if you want to copy the CD to

your Media Library, click Yes .

A message appears when copying is complete.

1 Insert a CD.

2 Start Media Center (see page 2).

3 Select My Music, and then press [OK].

Media Center displays the title of the CD and all available music in your Media Library.

4 Select the CD that you want to copy, and then

press [OK].

5 Select Copy CD, and then press [OK].

The ﬁrst time you copy a CD, the copy options appear, including one that allows you to add copy protection to your music.

6 Select the desired copy protection option.

7 When asked if you want to copy the CD to

your Media Library, select Yes , and then press [OK].

A message appears when copying is complete.

Playing Music (My Music)—Continued

Playing Music

With Media Center, you can play your music by album, artist, song, playlist, or genre. The following procedure explains the options available when playing albums.

Using the mouse and keyboard Using the remote controller

1 Start Media Center (see page 2).

2 Click My Music.

3 Click Albums.

Icons of all available albums in your Media Library are displayed with cover art and title.

4 Click the album you want to play.

The following options appear:

• Play: Plays the selected album.

• Add to Queue: Adds the selected album

to the queue.

• Create CD/DVD: Burn your digital music

ﬁles to CD or DVD.

• Edit Info: Edit album information.

• Delete: Delete an album.

5 Click Play to play the album.

Playback starts and the following options appear:

• View Cover: Display the album cover,

album title, and song title.

• View Queue: Display the list of songs

waiting in the queue to be played.

• Shufﬂe: Play the album’s songs in a ran-

dom order.

• Repeat: Play the album repeatedly.

• Buy Music: Connect to the Internet and

buy more music by your favorite artists.

• Visualize: Display a full-screen visualiza-

tion while your music plays.

• Edit Queue: Add, delete, or change the

order of songs in the queue.

1 Start Media Center (see page 2).

2 Select My Music, and then press [OK].

3 Select Albums, and then press [OK].

Icons of all available albums in your Media Library are displayed with cover art and title.

4 Select the album you want to play, and then

press [OK].

The following options appear:

• Play: Plays the selected album.

• Add to Queue: Adds the selected album

to the queue.

• Create CD/DVD: Burn your digital music

ﬁles to CD or DVD.

• Edit Info: Edit album information.

• Delete: Delete an album.

5 Select Play, and then press [OK].

Playback starts and the following options appear:

• View Cover: Display the album cover,

album title, and song title.

• View Queue: Display a list of songs in the

queue.

• Shufﬂe: Play the album’s songs in a ran-

dom order.

• Repeat: Play the album repeatedly.

• Buy Music: Connect to the Internet and

buy more music by your favorite artists.

• Visualize: Display a full-screen visualiza-

tion while your music plays.

• Edit Queue: Add, delete, or change the

order of songs in the queue.

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