I-Tech Interactive Media Player User Manual

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 1

1.1. About the Product ......................................................................................................1

1.2. Features .........................................................................................................................2

1.3. Notice ............................................................................................................................3

1.4. Check List ......................................................................................................................3

2. Playing System ..........................................................................................................................5

2.1. Install Battery in the Remote Control ........................................................................5

2.3. To Insert Cards ..............................................................................................................5

2.4. Remote controller pad Instruction ...........................................................................6

2.5 Appearance ..................................................................................................................7

2.6. Operations for Media Player playback ...................................................................7

2.7 To Take out the cards ................................................................................................ 21

3. Troubleshooting .................................................................................................................... 22

3.1 Known Issues ................................................................................................................ 23

INTRODUCTION

1.1. About the Product

The new Interactive Media Player enhances your media presentation or advertising to be more
attractive and brings the immediate enjoyment and entertainment to your life. It features
RS232 interface for touchscreen communication and a 16 pin terminal block for plug&play
push button control. The compact, dual slot design allows Compact Flash*1 or IBM Micro drive to
work concurrently with the Smart Media, Memory Stick, and Multimedia Card/Secure Digital
card. The USB port allows USB 2.0 High-Speed fast media copy.

Currently it only supports ELO and Premier Touchscreen, so please make sure you use
touchscreen from those two manufacturers. Please contact us if you need touchscreen
support from other manufacturers.

Pin Assignment of Terminal Block
Interactive Media Player features a 16 pin terminal block for programmable button control.

You will find a female 16 pin terminal block from accessories. From left to right of the terminal
block, pin 1 & 2 is for Button 1, pin 3 & 4 is for Button2….and so on. The maximum of 8 buttons
are available for this Interactive Media Player.

The Compact Flash card must be Removable Type.

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1.2. Features

Hardware Installation

♦ Tips: start the touch calibration program from remote

control in the first time you connect to a touch monitor

Media player feature:
♦ Playable Format: MPEG1/2/4, JPEG, MP3

Type Support Format
Picture JPEG

Audio

Video MPEG1 (*.mpg, *.dat)

Baseline JPEG: maximum resolution is 5120*3840
Progressive JPEG: maximum resolution is
2048*1536

MPEG1-Audio-Layer1
MPEG1-Audio-Layer2
MPEG1-Audio-Layer3 (MP3)

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Type MPEG2 (*.vob, *.mpg)

Picture

Video Data rate 1.0-10.0 Mbit/sec

VGA*2 (MPC200 only) 640*480 60Hz

USB Supports USB 2.0

NTSC 720*480 or 704*480 ; 29.97fps

PAL 720*576 or 704*576 ; 25fps

Audio

Note: We attached “How to get codec Information” in manual CD for your reference.

• Storage Capacity: Compact Flash card, IBM Micro Drive, SM/ MMC/ SD/ MS card, USB Flash drive

• Playback Functions: Play, Stop, Pause, Repeat, Previous/Next Track, Mute, Rotate, Interval Time, Play List and Media

Classification

• Audio: Stereo output 2W

• Environmental: Operating temperature: 0 C to 50 C; Relative humidity: 5%-95%, non-condensing

MPEG4
DivX3.11/4.x/5.x (*.avi) Xvid MPEG4 MS MPEG4 V2/V3(*.avi)

Support Format

interlaced

interlaced
MPEG1-Audio-Layer1
MPEG1-Audio-Layer2
MPEG1-Audio-Layer3 (MP3)

Note : The AC3 AAC-audio support
is optional. When it is not
enabled, this media player will only
play video (no sounds) of the DVD
(*.vob) or MPEG2 file contains
AC3/AAC-audio. Besides, We
strongly
suggest you use CF card as media
storage when playback MPEG2
video.

1.3. Notice

• Do not use abrasive cleaners, waxes or solvents for cleaning, use only a dry or damp, soft cloth.

• Use only with a high quality, safety-approved, AC/DC power adapter.

1.4. Check List

Before using this media player, please make sure that all the items listed below are present in

your package

Media Player unit 1

DC Adapter 1

AV-RCA Cable 1

Accessory Quantity

2

You can switch between Video and VGA output by pressing the latch switch next to VGA connector. Note that you must

reboot the MPC device after output switch.

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S-Video Cable 1

Audio Cable 1

Female 16 pin terminal block 1

Remote Control with 3V battery 1

User Manual CD 1

If any item is missed or damaged, please contact your dealer immediately.

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2. Playing System

2.1. Install Battery in the Remote Control

Insert 2 AAA battery and match the (+) and (-) on battery to the marks inside the battery

compartment.

Service life of battery:

1. The battery normally last for about one year although this depends on how often and for what operations the remote control

is used.

2. If the remote control unit fails to work even then it’s operated near the player, please replace the battery.

Use 2 AAA 1.5V battery.

2.3. To Insert Cards

Push the card slide or UBS Flash drive into Media Player connector.

This Media Player supports 7 types of flash memory:

• Compact Flash Card (CF) • Secure Digital Card (SD)

• Smart Media Card (SM) • Multi-Media Card (MMC)

• Memory Stick (MS) • IBM Micro Drive

• USB Flash drive

Make sure that the card or USB Flash drive clicks into card slot properly. If the card has one or more kinds of data recorded on it, a

menu screen will appear on the screen.

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MENU

To select the media player menu opt

ions

INFORMATION/

To view information of the

MEDIA PLAYER SETUP

To enter media player setup menu

PAUSE/RE

-

START

To pause/re

-

start the playback

STOP

To stop the playback

F.FWD

To advance the playback

F.BWD

To reverse the playback

VOL. UP

To increase the volume

VOL. DOWN

To decrease the volume

MOVE UP

To move upward in media player menu

LCD OSD

To call LCD setup menu

PLAY/SELECT

To start playback or co

nfirm selection in media player

MOVE LEFT

To move leftward in media player menu

MOVE DOWN

To move downward in media player menu

POWER ON/OFF

To switch on/off this media player

ROTATE

To rotate the photo

START SLIDE SHOW

REPEAT

To repeat playback

INTERVAL TIME

To set interval time between Photos

PREVIOUS PLAYBACK

To skip to previous Photo/Music/Video

NEXT PLAYBACK

To skip to next Photo/Music/Video

PREVIOUS I

TEM N/A

NEXT ITEM

N/A

MUTE

To mute while playback

2.4. Remote controller pad Instruction

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2

FOLDER MENU

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4
5
6
7
8
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10
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12
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16
17

WITH MUSIC

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25

MOVE RIGHT To move rightward in media player menu

Photo/Music/Video To call folder menu

To start photo slide show with music (under photo page)

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2.6.1. Setup

2.5 Appearance
Background of start-up

If no media files are stored in the memory card or no memory card is inserted, the
background
of media player will appear to be solid black.

Note:

The start-up screen can be customized upon customer’s request.

2.6. Operations for Media Player playback

Press to enter SETUP MENU – MAIN PAGE screen.

Photo setup:

Press
screen.

to select PHOTO SETUP and press to enter SETUP MENU – PHOTO

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Press and select MAIN PAGE, and then press to back to SETUP MENU – MAIN

PAGE or press

Music setup:

Press

to turn off SETUP MENU screen.

to select MUSIC SETUP and press to enter SETUP MENU – PHOTO screen.

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Press and select MAIN PAGE, and then press to back to SETUP MENU – MAIN

PAGE or press

Movie Setup:

Press

Then press

to turn off SETUP MENU screen.

to select MOVIE SETUP and press to enter SETUP MENU – MOVIE screen.

to select preferred function.

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Press and select MAIN PAGE, and then press to back to SETUP MENU – MAIN

PAGE or press

to turn off SETUP MENU screen.

Slide show setup:

Press

to select SLIDE SHOW SETUP and press to enter SETUP MENU – SLIDE SHOW

screen. Then press

to select preferred function.

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Note:

Play list is complied by the sequence of the file names in the memory card (types of file do not influence the
sequence). Please modify the file names to the sequence to meet you need. A sample play list as below table:

Press and select MAIN PAGE, and then press to back to SETUP MENU – MAIN

PAGE or press

Preferences setup:

Press
FILE LIBRARY.

the stop the playback and press to back to menu OSD and press to enter

to turn off SETUP MENU screen.

Slide show setup:

Then Press

PAGE --screen. Then press

and Press to select PREFERENCE and press to enter PREFERENCE

to select preferred function.

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Note:

PREFERENCES setup function is available when pressing
“FILE LIBRARY” page.

under “MENU OSD” page or

Note: The default mode of a normal (4:3) display is NORMAL/LB. The default mode of a
wide-screen (16:9) display is WIDE.

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16:9 video in a 4:3 display in NORMAL/PS mode

16:9 video in a 4:3 display in WIDE mode

The best display result is playing a 16:9 video in a 16:9 display in WIDE mode, the result will like the
picture below:

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Press and select MAIN PAGE, and then press to back to SETUP MENU – MAIN

PAGE or press

to turn off SETUP MENU screen.

Exit setup:

Press

to select EXIT SETUP and press or press to turn off SETUP MENU Scree.

2.6.2. Menu Select

Press

and menu screen will appear.

Press

to select card if multi cards inserted.

Press

Note:

to select PHOTO/MUSIC/VIDEO/FILE page and press to enter.

No matter on what kind of screen, press

will stop playback and return to the root menu screen.

If no card inserted, the display will appear “NO MEDIA DETECTED”. When
operated, it means that correspond operation is prohibited by the Media Player.

appears while a button is being

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2.6.3. Playback

On PHOTO/MUSIC/VIDEO/FILE page, press

Press

Note:

_ On PHOTO page, press
card.

_ When playing video, press
_ Adjust the volume: using the remote control or OSD board button -/+.
This Media player supports only JPEG-PHOTO, MP3-MUSIC and MPEG1, 2, 4–VIDEO
format.

2.6.4. Pause

Press

playback just need to press
Note: Pause key is defined as Play/ Pause key which toggle between those two functions.

2.6.5. Stop

Note:

When slide show playing, press

point of these photos contented in the card. Press
last stopping point.

2.6.6. Mute the Media Player

Press
When “MUTE” appears on the screen, this Media player is mute. To resume the sound, press
the mute button until “MUTE OFF” appears on the screen.

2.6.7. Next or Previous

to start playback.

is defined as enter key.

will start playback of photo with music if MP3 data contented in

will play the video frame one at a time.(optional function)

once during playback to pause the slide show/music/video. To return to normal

.

Press to stop playback.

and the Media player will bookmark this stopping

button during playback.

to select preferred data and then

will start playback from the

On PHOTO/MUSIC/VIDEO/FILE page, press for switch to next/previous page.

When playing photo slide show/music/video, press

will switch to next item and press

2.6.8. Rapid Advance or Reverse

will switch to previous item.

Press

during playback.

Press

to resume normal playback.

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2.6.9. Information

Under PHOTO/MUSIC/VIDEO page, press

2.6.10. File Modification

Photo information: file name, file size, resolution and date
Music information: elapsed time, file name, artist, total time, format of music type and

equalizer.

Video information: elapsed time, file name, file size, total time, file created date.

Under FILE page, press

and a dialog with modification will pop up on the screen.

to display the information of the playback.

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2.6.11. Rotate

When playing playback of photo, press

2.6.12. Interval Time

When playing playback of photo, press

once to rotate the photo 90 degree clockwise.

once to set interval time between photos.

The time of display interval (1, 3, 5, 10 sec.) changes with each press on the

2.6.13. Repeat Viewing

Press
Press once: REPEAT ON
Press twice: REPEAT OFF (repeat cancelled)

Note:

You can select repeat mode in SETUP MENU—SLIDE SHOW/ MUSIC/ VIDEO

2.7 To Take out the cards

1. If the playback is playing, press

2. Take out the card.

to repeat during playback.

to stop it.

button.

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3. Troubleshooting

Before requesting service for this Media Player, check the chart below for a possible cause of
the problem you are experiencing. Some simple checkups or a minor adjustment on your
part may eliminate the problem and restore proper operation.

Mute, Volume control, Fast Forward under FILE

menu

No power

The Media Player does not start playback when play

is pressed

The Media Player starts playback but stops

immediately

No picture

No sound

Distorted sound

No audio at digital output • Check the digital connections.

• File menu is for previewing only; therefore, all control

functions, such as volume and mute, will not work unless

enter key is pressed to get into a play mode.

• Insert the power plug securely into the

power outlet.

• Check if the on/off button on the right of the Media Player

is set to on.

• Check if no power at the AC outlet by

plugging in another appliance for a test.

• Condensation has formed: wait about 1 to 2 hours to

allow the Media Player to dry out. Check if the Media

Player is defective by trying another card.

• The card may be dirty and may require

cleaning.

• Ensure that the card is installed with proper

situation position.

• Ensure that the equipment is connected properly.

• Check if outer equipment is on.

• Ensure that the equipment is connected properly.

• If using a hi-fi amplifier, try another sound source.

• Check the volume adjustment.

• Check the audio format, AAC and AC3

audio codec are not supported.

• Ensure that the input settings for stereo system are

proper.

• No sound is heard during still picture

(pause).

• Check if the audio format of the selected

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Picture is distorted during rapid advance or rapid

reverse

No rapid advance (or rapid reversed)

playback

No operations perform with the remote control

No key operation (by the Media Player AC power

and / or the remote control) is effective

audio language matches your receiver capabilities.

• The picture will be somewhat distorted at times: this is

normal.

• Some video may have sections that prohibit rapid

advance (or rapid reverse).

• Check the battery is installed with the

correct polarities (+and-).

• The battery is depleted: replace them with

new ones.

• Point the remote control unit at the remote

control signal sensor and operate.

Operate the remote control unit at a

distance but no more than 7 meters from

the remote control signal sensor.

• Remove the obstacles between the remote

control unit and remote control signal

sensor.

• Turn the unit off and then back to on. Alternatively, turn off

the unit, disconnect the cord and then re-connect it. (The

player may not be operating properly due to lightning,

static electricity or some other external factor.)

3.1 Known Issues

Issue 1: When a movie is playing and press fast forward, the following movie will play at the
normal speed but without sound.

Issue 2: Under MUSIC selection menu the Next/Back chapter key becomes stop key.

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