Unibrain iZak User Manual
User Guide
Version 1.4
unibrain
www.unibrain.com support@unibrain.com sales@unibrain.com
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iZak™ User Guide
November 2004
Congratulations of buying your iZak™ Portable Media Center.
iZak™ is a Portable Digital Multimedia Storage and Player device that you can connect to
any PC or Mac via USB-2 (plug & play) in order to copy your favorite contents (music,
movies, pictures, data files). Once you have transferred your data to iZak™, you can connect
it to any TV to enjoy your movies, music and photos. You can watch your favorite films in
HDTV quality Video and Dolby Digital or DTS quality Audio.
iZak™ has a pocket design that lets you take it wherever you go.
This document will provide you with full and comprehensive instructions on how to use your
iZak™ and benefit of its unique features.
If you want a “fast start” then read the separate printed “Quick Start Guide” for a brief but
explanatory introduction of your device’s usage. You will be impressed when realizing how
easy it is to operate iZak™!
Please start reading the “iZak™ Features” chapter in order to have an overview of the
enhanced capabilities of your device. A more technical description of these features is
presented in the “Specifications” chapter
Before using the iZak™, be sure that you have received the complete set of accessories by
checking the “Package Contents” section.
To have a detailed description of iZak™ functionality read the “PC Connection” and “TV
Connection” chapters, in order to explore the full set of operations.
In order to maintain your iZak™ device in safe operation conditions and to guarantee life
extension, please read the “Safety Information” section.
Important notice:
iZak™ is not designed or intended to, and may not be used to violate anyone’s copyright or other IP
(Intellectual Property) rights. Each user of iZak™ may only use it in connection with materials legally
owned or licensed by such user and only to the extend such ownership or license rights permit such use.
iZak™ is a registered trademark of Unibrain S.A. All rights reserved. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Macintosh, Mac, Mac OS are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved. DivX
trademarks of DivXNetworks, Inc. All rights reserved. Dolby
reserved. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. All rights reserved.
®
and Dolby® Digital are registered trademarks of Dolby Laboratories, Inc. All rights
®
Certified and DivX® Video are registered
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Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS........................................................................................................... 3
TECHNICAL SUPPORT INFORMATION................................................................................ 5
FEATURES OF IZAK™ ...........................................................................................................6
LIGHT DESIGN............................................................................................................................ 6
PC/MAC CONNECTION................................................................................................................7
TV CONNECTION ........................................................................................................................7
AUDIO FEATURES .......................................................................................................................7
VIDEO FEATURES .......................................................................................................................7
MULTILANGUAGE........................................................................................................................7
REMOTE ....................................................................................................................................8
FIRMWARE UPDATE.................................................................................................................... 8
POWERFUL MEDIA PROCESSOR .................................................................................................8
AWARDS....................................................................................................................................9
ENJOY ....................................................................................................................................... 9
PACKAGE CONTENTS......................................................................................................... 10
CD CONTENTS .....................................................................................................................13
PC/MAC CONNECTION ........................................................................................................15
USB SUPPORT FOR WIN98SE USERS....................................................................................... 18
SETUP INSTALLATION ...............................................................................................................18
MANUAL INSTALLATION............................................................................................................. 18
TV CONNECTION..................................................................................................................19
ANALOGUE AUDIO SETUP ........................................................................................................20
DIGITAL AUDIO SETUP .............................................................................................................20
FONTS IN IZAK™..................................................................................................................21
TECHNOLOGY ..........................................................................................................................21
USER DEFINED FONTS .............................................................................................................21
FONT SUPPORT IN ASIA............................................................................................................ 21
THE REMOTE CONTROL .....................................................................................................22
REMOTE CONTROL KEYS .........................................................................................................23
REMOTE CONTROL BATTERY INSTALLATION............................................................................. 25
MENU FUNCTIONALITY....................................................................................................... 26
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MAIN MENU .............................................................................................................................26
MOVIES ...................................................................................................................................26
MUSIC .....................................................................................................................................27
PICTURES ................................................................................................................................27
SETTINGS ................................................................................................................................28
LANGUAGES.............................................................................................................................28
AUDIO SETTINGS......................................................................................................................28
VIDEO SETTINGS......................................................................................................................29
TV TYPE..................................................................................................................................29
SCREEN SAVER .......................................................................................................................30
FIRMWARE UPDATE.................................................................................................................. 30
DIVX(R) VOD ..........................................................................................................................31
.ISO COMPATIBILITY ........................................................................................................... 32
DIVX COMPATIBILITY ..........................................................................................................33
DIVX® VOD COMPATIBILITY............................................................................................... 34
XVID COMPATIBILITY ..........................................................................................................35
SPECIFICATIONS ................................................................................................................. 36
RECOVERY PROCEDURE ................................................................................................... 37
VERIFY ....................................................................................................................................37
FORMAT IZAK™ (PC) .............................................................................................................. 37
FORMAT IZAK™ (MAC) ............................................................................................................37
COPY FROM CD .......................................................................................................................38
SAFE REMOVAL ....................................................................................................................... 38
SAFETY INFORMATION....................................................................................................... 39
POWER ON/OFF PRECAUTIONS ................................................................................................. 39
LOCATION AND PLACING PRECAUTIONS .................................................................................... 39
ELECTRICITY AND POWER PLUG ............................................................................................... 40
CABLES ................................................................................................................................... 40
USB BOOSTER ADAPTOR .................................................................................................. 41
PROCEDURE AND USAGE OF THE USB BOOSTER...................................................................... 41
DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY ...................................................................................... 42
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Technical Support Information
All technical support questions should be directed to the following email address:
support@unibrain.com
This address is monitored throughout the day by Unibrain’s 1394 support team, who will
respond quickly and with the required technical accuracy, to your questions.
For pricing and marketing information, please e-mail at:
sales@unibrain.com
For ordering any Unibrain product please visit:
http://www.unibrain.com/
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Features of iZak™
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Light Design
Everything you love about multimedia, movies,
music and photos is brought to you with
iZak™. The slim and elegant design of iZak™
lets you bring along enough storage capability
of up to 80Gbytes or up to 1,000,000 Photos in
VGA, or 20,000 MP3 songs, or 80 MPEG4
(DivX) movies, or 15 MPEG2 (DVD) movies.
iZak™ features an elegant, plastic, transparent
and light case protecting your device. The
dimensions of iZak™, as depicted in the
adjacent figure, make this device a really
portable multimedia center. Moreover the
weight of iZak™ is approximately 300 grams
(10,6 oz).
With compact and smart interface design,
iZak™ requires only three (3) external ports to
provide all its features. In the rear panel there
are the following interfaces:
• SPDIF: Digital audio output with either
copper coaxial or optical cable
• TV: Multi Connector for Analog
Audio/Video. This multi-pin connector
provides all the video and analogue audio
signal to your TV set
• USB2: This port has dual functionality
depending on the operation mode of
iZak™. When connected to a PC or Mac, it
is the USB-2 port providing power and
data. When operating as media player
connected to a TV, it is the power supply
input connected to the electrical mains with
the power adaptor.
The front panel of iZak™ is light and elegant. It
has the infrared receiver and two indicative
LEDs:
• PC mode LED: green when power and
green-yellow during disk activity
• TV mode LED: green when power and
yellow when in stand-by mode. It “blinks”
(yellow intervals) when pressed any
button of the remote control.
2.7
cm
14 cm
TV
LED
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8.8 cm
SPDIF
TV Multi-connecto
PC
LED
USB-2
IR
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PC/Mac connection
iZak™ can be connected to any PC or Mac via USB interface supporting all file formats:
FAT32, NTFS, HFS+ (Mac OS extended). With up to 480 Mbps transfer rate (in USB-2
connections) you can quickly move large multimedia files from your host to iZak™. Please
notice that you don’t need external power adaptor because iZak™ is powered by the USB
bus power.
TV connection
When connecting iZak™ to your TV set and audio system you get the optimum multimedia
quality in both audio and video outputs.
Audio features
• Audio files formats supported: WMA, WAV, MP3, AAC, AC3, OGG Vorbis.
• Audio Outputs Formats: Dual Stereo analog audio, Coaxial S/PDIF digital Audio
(supports compressed Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS pass through).
Video features
• Video files formats supported: MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (AVI, VOB, ISO),
MPEG-4(AVI, DivX, XviD).
• Video Outputs Formats: NTSC/PAL composite and S-video, Analog YPbPr video
(progressive or interlaced) scalable up to 1920x1080i or 1280x720p. RGB via SCART.
VGA scalable up to 1024x768
DivX compatibility
Supports DivX 3.11, 4.x, 5.x
Supports external text subtitle (.srt, .sub)
Supports any language text subtitle
Please refer to the “DivX Compatibility” chapter for more details.
XviD compatibility
Please refer to the “XviD Compatibility” chapter for more details.
DVD (.ISO) compatibility
ISO=One Image file backup of the complete DVD
iZak™ will play the ISO file exactly the same as if it was running from the original DVD.
Backup the DVD to .ISO using Internet Freeware
Supports .ISO of any size (FAT32/up to 4GB, NTFS/unlimited, HFS+/unlimited)
Supports external text subtitle (.srt, .sub)
Supports any language text subtitle
Only with iZak™ you can create your own Virtual DVD Library, by storing your private
collection of DVDs (.ISO format) and watch them as if they were running from the original
DVDs. Please refer to the “.ISO Compatibility” chapter for more details.
Multilanguage
IZak™ has been designed for the entire globe. With sophisticated Unicode character
handling, it supports most of the major languages, used in the menu selection and the
subtitle feature.
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Remote
iZak™ is equipped with an elegant infrared remote control providing standard DVD
functionality buttons. It is small in design (just 150 x 50 mm) and as thinnest possible (8mm).
Please refer to the chapter “TV Connection” for a detailed description of the remote
functionality.
Firmware update
You will be able to upgrade your device with new features and capabilities by just following
the firmware
• Get the latest update from Unibrain’s web site
• Connect to computer and copy the firmware file to iZak™ “firmware” folder
• Connect to TV and choose “Firmware Update” from Settings
• You are updated . . .
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upgrade procedure:
(http://www.unibrain.com/1394_products/iZak/iZak_Firmware_Update.htm
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Powerful Media Processor
The heart of your iZak™ device is a powerful media processor supporting the demanding
MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (AVI, VOB, ISO) and MPEG-4(AVI, DivX, XviD) decoding.
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Firmware is the software stored in iZak’s Flash memory that contains the programs running in your
device. These programs remain stored even when the system is switched off.
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Awards
iZak™ User Guide
Unibrain Awarded Top Honors for iZak™ as the winner of “The
Best of RetailVision Awards”™ for Hardware products at the
2004 RetailVision Europe, held September 21-23 in Munich,
Germany.
The RetailVision is the premier global event for the retail
channel. “The Best of RetailVision Awards”™ honours
excellence in innovation, channel strategy, and presentation for
products. The awards are selected by the Top 100-Level
Retailers who attend RetailVision and buy €60 billion worth of
products each year.
Please refer for more details at:
http://www.retailvision.com/europe/awards.php
Enjoy
iZak™ is the ultimate Portable Digital Multimedia Storage and Player that can be addressed
to a huge variety of users:
• Home users who want to build a state-of-the-art, versatile home theatre.
• Stores, Agencies, Exhibitors, Companies that want audio/visual promotion of their
products (indoor advertising).
• Car Holiday travelers with kids (the “keep’em-quiet kit”).
• Business people on the road who want some entertainment.
• Parents who want to back-up and replay their family videos.
• Movie and music lovers who want to enjoy their favorites at all times.
• People downloading large number of movies and music from the internet.
• Everyone who normally takes a stack of CDs & DVDs with him wherever he goes.
• Parents who want to create a “DVD/CD-safe” environment.
• DivX enthusiasts that want to enjoy their DivX/MPEG4 videos with exceptional Dolby
Digital (AC3) sound.
• Every computer fan owning a TV, home theatre or other A/V equipment.
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Package Contents
Before proceeding with the product installation and usage, please verify that you received the
following:
Item Part picture Part Description
Your iZak™ portable
media center with 40GB
or 80GB Hard Disk
capacity.
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Please notice that the
device is not intended
to be opened by the
user. Attends to open
will void the Warranty!
Check
(√)
Re-order
codes
2
3
4
Power adaptor with
automatic voltage
changeover 110V/220V.
Please notice that the
power adaptor is
plugged to the USB
USA:
8016
Europe/Asia:
24-ZPSUSB-ACC
Bar code:
81985700 816 5
mini B connector.
USA:
8022
Conversion plug for
Europe
Infrared Remote
Control and one (1)
3Volts CR2025 type
Lithium Battery
Europe/Asia:
24-ZPSUEU-ACC
Bar code:
81985700 822 6
USA:
8017
Europe/Asia:
24-ZREM01-ACC
Bar code:
81985700 817 2
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Item Part picture Part Description
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Check
(√)
Re-order
codes
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6
7
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AV Cable Standard
(Composite RCA,
S-Video mini DIN,
Left/Right Analogue Audio
RCA)
USA:
8013
Europe/Asia:
24-ZAVSTD-CAB
Bar code:
81985700 813 4
USA:
Digital Audio Cable SPDIF
Coaxial
(RCA to mini jack)
8019
Europe/Asia:
24-ZSPCOP-CAB
Bar code:
81985700 819 6
USB 2 Cable
(A to mini B).
In order to have
maximum transfer rate
and reliability please use
only the cable provide in
the package by Unibrain.
USA:
8021
Europe/Asia:
24-ZUSB01-CAB
Bar code:
81985700 821 9
CD with documentation and
directory structure for the
Recovery Procedure.
Please refer to the next
paragraph for CD contents
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Quick Start Guide
in hard copy
USA:
8012
Europe/Asia:
24-ZAVSCA-ACC
Bar code:
81985700 812 7
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SCART to Composite RCA,
Left/Right Analogue Audio
RCA adaptor (Europe only)
USB booster adaptor to
USA:
8023
Europe/Asia:
24-ZUSB02-ACC
Bar code:
81985700 823 3
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augment the power
provided by the USB port of
your host PC. Please refer
to the respective
paragraph for more
details.
Table 1: Package Contents Checklist
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Moreover you can buy from Unibrain optional cables that provide better video signal quality:
Item Part picture Part Description
Order
codes
1
2
3
AV Cable for YPbPr
(YPbPr Color
Component Video - 3
RCA, Left/Right
Analogue Audio RCA)
`
AV Cable
for SCART RGB
(SCART with RGB
support, Left/Right
Analogue Audio RCA)
(Europe only)
AV Cable for VGA
(15-pin female VGA,
Left/Right Analogue
Audio RCA)
USA:
8014
Europe/Asia:
24-ZAVYUV-CAB
Bar code:
81985700 814 1
USA:
8011
Europe/Asia:
24-ZAVRGB-CAB
Bar code:
81985700 811 0
USA:
8015
Europe/Asia:
24-ZHDVGA-ACC
Bar code:
81985700 815 8
USA:
8020
Europe/Asia:
24-ZSPOPT-CAB
Bar code:
81985700 820 2
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Digital Audio Cable
SPDIF Optical
(TOSLink to mini jack)
Table 2: Optional Cables Checklist
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CD Contents
iZak™ is accompanied with the required
CD that has this manual in Acrobat PDF
format. The folder structure “Firmware”,
“Music”, “Pictures”, “Movies”, is the same
as the iZak™ device and can be used as
backup in case you format the disk of
iZak™. In detail:
“Acrobat”: contains Adobe Acrobat
Reader. Install it in case you don’t have, in
order to read the iZak™ manuals that are
in .pdf format.
“Firmware”: this is the folder that contains the iZak™ firmware files. Inside this folder there
are two (2) subfolders:
• “Font”….for Europe and US this is an empty directory.
• “Settings” that contains the “Settings.txt” file. This file is a Unicode text file with two
strings. The first line string is the default TV mode (PAL or NTSC) in which iZak™
should start before the user applies his settings. The second line string is the string
used from the iZak™ screen saver. This string is user editable and should not be
more than 16 characters.
“Manuals”: this folder contains the complete user manual of the product and the Quick Start
Guide. All are in .pdf format.
“Movies”: this is the folder containing an .ISO format demo movie file, the “2trailers.ISO”.
Moreover contains, in the subfolder “DivX_Trailers” various movie trailers in DivX format.
“Music”: this is the folder containing 5 free music files, from Makemusic.gr
Makemusic.gr
works and web pages of composers who are members of this site. After many pleasant
hours of listening, we were able to choose five songs, which represent the variety and high
quality standards of these composers and their compositions. They all are members of the
Makemusic.gr
1. Antonios Plessas - As the night falls
Composed by Antonios Plessas
2. Aris Kalogeropoulos - Where to hide
Music and lyrics by Aris Kalogeropoulos
3. Dimitris Papathanasiou - Bad dream
Μusic, Arrangement and Lyrics by Dimitris Papathanasiou.
Arrangenet & Mix by Aris Kalogeropoulos.
Vocals by Fani Kalogeropoulou.
voices the independent Greek music on the Internet. Its purpose is to host the
community:
.
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