User manual PINNACLE MOVIEBOX USB QUICK START GUIDE

[. . . ] No part of this manual may be reproduced or transferred to other media without explicit written permission from Pinnacle Sysrems. All brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. This Quick Start Guide explains how to install the Pinnacle hardware and software. Important text passages are marked with the "notepad" and this format. [. . . ] Capture in MPEG2 ML@MP (4:2:0) program stream muxed with MPEG1 Layer II audio Capture in MPEG1 system stream muxed with MPEG1 Layer II audio Playback to PC Monitor and/or to tape This chapter gives you important hints as well as tips & tricks on the subject video capturing. If the hard disk works too slow, the PC cannot save the digitised images fast enough and the drop-out rate increases. The drop-out rate is the number of images which are not saved during capturing. Your hard disk should offer a transfer rate of 5 MBytes/sec under Windows. To take advantage of the full transfer rate, the option "DMA" should be checked in the Device Manager for your hard disk (see "Settings in Windows Me" or "Settings in Windows 2000 and Windows XP"). If you can choose between the Composite- and the S-Video input, for quality reasons prefer the S-Video input. With some E-IDE hard disks, high data rates result in an unsmooth playback when playing back video files, because the hard disk is recalibrated while a file is read. This is not a malfunction of our product but is due to the functionality of your hard disk and the other system components. If you have received a disk with special busmaster drivers with your E-IDE hard disk and/or motherboard, please install these drivers in your system, because the disk performance will be improved considerably. For accelerating the transmission of large amounts of data like in this case the video data, activate the DMA (Direct Memory Access) for all hard disks of your computer (see "Settings in Windows Me" or "Settings in Windows 2000 and Windows XP"). During capturing of videos a large amount of data is transferred from the capture board to the hard disk. You might find that your system cannot keep up with the required amount of data transfer for the settings you have chosen. When capturing, your system might pause, the video might be jerky or jitter (not smooth), and some of the frames might be dropped (not saved to disk). playback quality of such a video is typically unsatisfactory. To avoid such problems, we herein have described a number of practices to optimise your system. Please, bear in mind that each system is reacting different. Something that improves performance on one system might not be effective on another system. Please check in Start/Settings/Control Panel/System/Device Manager whether your hard disk drive or your SCSI controller has been detected by Windows correctly (no yellow or red warnings in the Device Manager behind the device groups). If not, the data transfer rate of your hard disk will not suffice for a satisfying quality when recording and playing back video. If possible, install a second hard disk for capturing and saving all of your video clips. For recording and playing back video a SCSI hard disk with SCSI controllers should be preferred. You can save temporary files to your system hard disk or another partition. [. . . ] caso não obtenha soluções relevantes , tente reescrever a sua pergunta por outras palavras. Por exemplo, em vez de inserir "I get an error" (Obtenho uma mensagem de erro), tente "I get an error that states that my data rate is below 4000 kbs when I capture"(Obtenho uma mensagem de erro que indica que a minha taxa de dados é inferior a 4000 quando capturo). (Pinnacle) warrants your new hardware against defects in materials and workmanship for a period of 24 months from the date of your original purchase of the new product. If product fails to be free of defects in materials and workmanship during the warranty period, Pinnacle will repair, or at its sole option, replace the product, provided that you return it (postage prepaid, with proof of your purchase from the original retailer) to Pinnacle during the warranty period. [. . . ]