User manual TERRATEC CINERGY400 USB

[. . . ] Manual (English) Version: 18. 02. 2005 CE Declaration We: TerraTec Electronic GmbH, Herrenpfad 38, D-41334 Nettetal, Germany hereby declare that the product: ReceiverSystem TerraTec Cinergy 400 USB to which this declaration refers is in compliance with the following standards or standardizing documents: EN55o22 EN55024 The following are the stipulated operating and environmental conditions for said compliance: residential, business and commercial environments and small-company environments. The Cinergy 400 USB is solely intended to be connected to devices that comply with the EN60950 safety standard. This declaration is based on: Test report(s) of the EMC testing laboratory The information in this document is subject to change without notice and shall not be deemed as a warranty by the seller. No warranties, express or implied, are made with regard to the quality, suitability or accuracy of this document. The manufacturer reserves the right to change the contents of this document and/or the associated products at any time without the provision of prior notice to specific persons or organizations. [. . . ] Page 30 Page 32 Cinergy 400 USB (English) 19 Audio functions Volume control (louder/softer). IPG Page 28 ----- 20 Cinergy 400 USB (English) The TV window. Depending on the selected input signal, the TV window will display a TV or video picture. The first presupposes the availability of an antenna signal, the second an external video source on either the S-video or composite inputs. If you have selected TV as your input signal, you also have the possibility of displaying the teletext offerings of the current station. Teletext can be displayed instead of the TV picture, as a transparent overlay or in a separate window. For more information, see the Teletext chapter starting on page 26. IMAGE: The television picture opens by clicking the TV button. Size. The size of the picture can be scaled freely with the mouse in either a specified (4:3) or free aspect ratio ("Free aspect ratio" button active). Place the mouse cursor on the edge of the window in such a way that it turns into a horizontal, vertical or diagonal double-headed arrow and enlarge or reduce the picture by dragging the edge. Please note: As described later on page 28, you can custom adjust the number of displayed pixels. You may want to do this--especially on older computers--because the number of pixels affects the amount of information your CPU has to process. Your Athlon or Pentium processor has to work harder to display a large number of pixels. If you have a low resolution set, the TV picture may become "crumbly" when displayed in large scale or fullscreen. Press and hold the left mouse button anywhere within the picture and move the window to the desired position. A double-click switches the picture to fullscreen display; doubleclicking once more restores the picture to its window. The context menu plays such a central role in the use of the software that the following chapter is devoted entirely to it. Just read on. Cinergy 400 USB (English) 21 Context menu. Right-click inside the picture window or in the main menu to open the context menu. Our reason for mentioning that the context menu is also available in the display of the main menu will become apparent when you try out the "Desktop TV" function. More about that later. The context menu. 22 Cinergy 400 USB (English) Like the main menu of the TV software, the context menu is organized in sections to group similar functions. The following sections cover only those functions that have not yet been explained as parts of the main menu. Selects the S-video or composite input, depending on where a signal is recognized. Station list/Input signal Desktop TV. This setting ensures that the TV picture always remains in the foreground and cannot be partly or completely covered by other windows. (see "TV" "Video" "Format" tab) Cinergy 400 USB (English) 23 Recording functions Advanced Open still image directory. [. . . ] If you want to stop recording after a specific amount of time, manually enter the time in seconds or minutes. Cinergy 400 USB (English) 31 Configuration: Still image capture. The TV software of your Cinergy card lets you capture single snapshots at the touch of a button, which it saves using a preselected format. To view captures pictures, you can use, for example, the Paint program included with Windows or (for images saved as . JPG) just about any Internet browser. The snapshot page of the advanced configuration menu. Video Format. Choose between uncompressed bitmap (BMP) or the JPEG format, which is optimized for image compression. The amount of compression to be used for JPEG images can be adjusted using the JPEG Compression slider. [. . . ]