User manual NERO NERO 8 QUICKSTART

[. . . ] Ç QUICKSTART GUIDE www. nero. com Nero 8 English ENGLISH Copyright and Trademark Information The Nero 8 QuickStart Guide and all its contents are protected by copyright and are the property of Nero AG. This QuickStart Guide contains material that is protected by internationally valid copyright. No part of this QuickStart Guide may be reproduced, transmitted or transcribed without the express written permission of Nero AG. All trade names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. [. . . ] Nero ImageDrive is not available in Windows Vista . Nero DiscSpeed tells you the speed of the available CD/DVD drives. Results can be viewed either as a graphic display or as a test log. Nero DiscSpeed also creates special test media for data and audio. Nero DriveSpeed allows you to set the reading speed of discs and thereby noticeably reduce the noise level. This can be very beneficial when playing games or when playing music. The spin-up and spin-down times of the drives can also be optimized so that damaged files can still be read, for example, or game discs accessed with greater speed. Nero InfoTool allows you to call up information about the most important features of installed drives, inserted discs, installed software and much more. You obtain detailed data on drive properties such as firmware, buffer size, serial number, production date and, for DVD drives, the current DVD region code. Nero InfoTool tells you the names and version numbers of the operating system, the ASPI manager, the installed burning applications, Nero 8 English, page 11 ENGLISH sion sets) to create a unified media center. This gives you the option of viewing transmitted television programs via Nero MediaHome on two players simultaneously (multi-room viewing). Nero MediaHome automatically supplies the files in the appropriate format to the player in question. The Nero Suite and it provides information about the hardware configuration of your computer. Furthermore, Nero InfoTool supports screen reader technology, an alternative user interface for the blind and visually impaired that acoustically outputs text elements on the screen. 1. 6 Nero 8 Suite Gadgets Nero DiscCopy ® Windows Vista features so-called Gadgets which appear in the sidebar or on the desktop and are a quick and easy way of executing frequently required operations. Nero DiscCopy ® is one of these gadgets for Windows Vista , and allows you to easily copy and burn discs directly or store them as an image file. This mini application is already included in the full version of the Nero Suite and is in® stalled automatically if Windows Vista is used as an operating system. 1. 7 Nero 8 Suite Plug-ins ® mp3PRO ® The mp3PRO Plug-in allows you to generate files that are smaller in size than original MP3 files but offer the same or better sound quality. For example, at 64 kbit/s, the new codec promises near-CD quality, which is significantly better than MP3 at the same bit ® rate. You can continue to play your old MP3 files on a new mp3PRO player as usual. Of ® ® course, mp3PRO files that are played on a new mp3PRO decoder offer an optimum sound experience. This plug-in gives you the opportunity to encode unlimited audio files in ® mp3PRO or MP3 format. This way, for example, you can archive all your CDs on your hard drive. This plug-in is already included in the full version of the Nero Suite. Nero MediaStreaming for Microsoft Windows Media Center The MediaStreaming Plug-in allows you to stream multimedia data from a computer run® ning under the Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) operating system to a computer ® running under a conventional Windows XP operating system in conjunction with Nero MediaHome. [. . . ] Click the Language button in Nero ControlCenter. The language selection screen with a list of all languages that can be installed is displayed; the check boxes of the languages which are already installed are checked. The entry Partly installed will indicate if different languages for different Nero products have been selected. Activate/deactivate the check boxes of those languages which additionally/no longer should be available. [. . . ]