GM220 User Manual

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Chapter 1: Hardware Connection............................................................................................................2

Chapter 2: Software Installation..............................................................................................................6

Chapter 3: How to use TiVme?.............................................................................................................. 11

3.1 Activating TiVme ....................................................................................................................... 11

Chapter 4: TiVme function Overview ....................................................................................................15

4.1 Instruction the main icon of the control panel........................................................................15

4.2 Normal Mode .............................................................................................................................16

4.3 Control Buttons on the Window...............................................................................................16

4.4 Snapshot .........................................................................................................................16

4.5 Capture ............................................................................................................................17

4.6 Video Setting ...................................................................................................................20

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 Display Ratio

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4.8 OSD ..................................................................................................................................21

4.9 Schedule Record .............................................................................................................21

4.10 Playback ........................................................................................................................24

4.11 Setup ..............................................................................................................................27

4.12 The Tool Menu .........................................................................................................................32

Chapter 5: Appendix ..............................................................................................................................34

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Chapter 1: Hardware Connection

Basic Connection:

a. Video Input: Connect your Video Source machine and GM220 by the YPbPr/S-Video/Composite

Cable. b. Video Output: Connect your TV monitor and GM220 by the YPbPr/S-Video/Composite Cable if you want to show the video on the TV monitor and desktop/laptop in the same time. c. USB Connection: Connect the desktop/laptop and GM220 by the USB Cable.

The below connection diagrams are the YPbPr/S-Video/Composite connection, please connect the

GM220 with your desktop/laptop and TV monitor.

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Composite Connection:

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S-Video Connection:

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YPbPr Connection:

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Chapter 2: Software Installation

Step1.

(1) First, please check GM220 whether has been connected in USB port of d esktop/laptop and detected in the『Device Manager』list before the start of software installation. (Figure1)

(2) You can close the dialog window first (Figure2) while the system detects GM220 at the lower right corner.

(Figure1)

(Figure 2)

Step2.

(1) Please wait for the installation screen to appear after you insert the installation DVD into your

DVD-ROM.

(2) The installation screen will appear and recommend to choose “Multimedia software and driver”.

For advanced users, they can skip to the “Utility” to install the software and program individually.

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Attention: Advanced users who wish to install the software and program must install

“Microsoft.Net Framework 3.0” or above first in order to install the TiVme.

(3) You will see the list of installation options at the left side of window which recommend to click the

“Quick Installation”. “Quick Installation” will install all the necessary programs and software for you.

You can install TiVme、Driver and other 3 rd

party software individually up to your request.

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(4) Please read the “End User License Agreement” and click “Agree”.

(5) You can choose “Typical Installation” or “Custom Installation”. “Typical Installation” will install all the required Driver、TiVme and 3 rd

party software (PowerDirector/PowerProducer). You can also choose the “Custom Installation” to install the program or software individually. Click “Next” when you make your selection.

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Attention: In “Custom Installation”, please check if the “TiVme Installation” and “Driver

Installation” have been installed /selected already before clicking the “Install”.

(6) The installation will take a period of time. Please wait.

(7) When the installation is completed, the system will ask whether you would like to restart your computer.

Please click “Yes, I want to restart my computer now” to ensure the installation is totally finished.

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(8) After finishing the installation and restarting the system ,you can double-check the GM220 Driver whether it has been installed already and showed up below two icons in the『Device Manager』.

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Chapter 3: How to use TiVme?

3.1 Activating TiVme

(1) Double-click in the TiVme icon on your PC desktop.

(2) To run it from the “Programs” menu, move your mouse cursor to “Start”→”Programs” →”KWorld

Multimedia” →”TiVme” →”TiVme”

Initial Setup

When you activate TiVme for the first time, the system will guide you through the necessary steps of Video setting.

The “TV Connected” dialog widow will appear when you activate TiVme. If GM220 has been connected

TV monitor, please select「Yes」;if not, please select「NO」.

If you don’t want to check this dialog window in activating TiVme every time, you can click the “Don’t show at next startup” option to disable this function.

Select Device→『GM220』,and click the “Next”

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Select the source input type (GM220: Capture Device) and click”Next”

Please select the correct Video System (PAL/NTSC) by your actual video source, and click” Exit”.

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Please click and select the right Source Input by your connection (Composite/S-Video/YPbPr/

YPbPr (HD)) in the TiVmed control panel.

Attention:

(If the Video input source is the YPbPr, please select the correct option according to different resolution)

For example, the resolution of your video source is the 480P/576P/720P/1080i, please select the

“GM220-YPbPr (HD)”; the others lower resolution, please select the “GM220-YPbPr”

The Videos/Games will be showed on the window after selecting the source input

You can use the control panel icon to capture/snapshoot the Videos/Games.

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Chapter 4: TiVme function Overview

4.1 Instruction the main icon of the control panel

Source Input

Playback

Setup

Snapshot Capture

Video Setting Display Ratio

Schedule Record

OSD

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4.2 Normal Mode

When you finish the initial setup and select the correct video source, you can use the panel icon for watching/recording.

4.3 Control Buttons on the Window

Always on top Minimize Maximize Exit/Close

Capture

Volume Up

Snapshot

Audio

Display Ratio Volume Down

Mute

4.4 Snapshot

You can click the “Snapshot” icon to take snapshots.

When the screen shows “Snapshot OK”, it means the image has been successfully saved to your file folder as picture files.

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When you click on the arrow beside the Snapshot icon

“Snapshot”

, you can configure the setting for

 Snapshot Format: You can capture your favorite scenes of the shows and save in BMP、JPG、

PNG、TIFF formats.

 Snapshot Count and Snapshot Interval: Snapshot Count indicates the number of snapshot pictures and snapshot Interval (unit: ms) means the time interval between snapshots. Both can be changed to meet your preferences.

 Picture Path: You can select the storage path for your snapshot pictures with “Picture Path”

4.5 Capture

You can click it to capture the scenes you like. Once you capture the scene, it is saved in your Video path.

Click it again to resume to regular play mode.

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Another way to resume to normal mode is to right click on the screen and then enable “Stop Capture”.

When you click on the scroll-arrow beside the Capture

“Capture”:

 Video Path: allows you to change your storage path.

icon, you can configure the settings for

 Silent Recording: open mute-recording to prevent potential distraction when you are working on something on your PC. (Note: the sound is muted during recording. When you watch your recorded file, the sound is kept).

 Capture Name Setting: file-naming option. The default is “Date-time format”, or you can put a specific name in “User define”.

 Enable Time Limit: sets the recording time-length. The recording will stop once the time is reached.

 Enable File Size Limit: sets the limit for recording files. The recording will stop once the file size is reached.

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Capture Format: select the Capture Format you want to record. It offers below format: MPEG1, VCD,

MPEG2, DVD.

 Capture Bitrate: choose the BitRate of recording video you want. The default is 2000Kbps.

 Capture Resolution: choose the recording size you want.

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4.6 Video Setting

Color Mode

: You can change different Color Mode setting or adjust detail setting in the User Mode.

Clicking on the arrow beside this icon enables you to enter video setting and you can adjust the

Brightness/Contrast/Hue/Saturation/ Sharpness in user mode. The video setting you configure can be applied to all channels/ Video Source (GM220) or you may return to default value.

VMR Type

: You can switch the different Video Mixed Render by your operation system and Graphic card support.

Modify TV Position

: You can click the direction button to move the image if the video is not in center of the window.

4.7 Display Ratio

If you click the arrow beside this icon , you can set the screen ratio individually: Free/4:3/16:9.

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4.8 OSD

The OSD function enables you to adjust the font color, font size and displaying location for the on-screen displayed texts in the window. To do so, just click on the arrow beside it .For example, when you change the font color, the text appears on the screen turn to the color you adjusted (please refer to the picture below, the one at the right). You may also enable/disable OSD (on-screen display) texts by ticking the “Enable OSD” option on/off.

4.9 Schedule Record

You can set up the time limit and program your recording schedule. The system will automatically record the program when the time is reached. When you click the Schedule-record icon, you will see a window like the picture as below.

Schedule List:

you can “Add”, “Edit”, “Delete” or “Clear All” your scheduled recording list.

Note: If you didn’t add any new schedule, the list would be empty.

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If you click “Add”, you can create a new recording schedule like the picture as below.

Capture Setting

․Select a Capture Device: select the device you are using

․Capture Source Type: select the source type you want to record

․Channel Name: choose the channel name from the list (Only for TV card/USB Stick products)

․Capture Format: choose your recording format

․Capture Size: choose the recording size you want

․Audio Option: configure your audio setting

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․BitRate (Kbps): choose the BitRate of recording video you want

Time Option Setting

․Start Time:

set the starting time for the recording

․End Time: set the ending time for the recording

․Record Rule: define record rule. The default is Only Once

․Record in Silent Mode:

enable/disable silent recording

S.R.P.O:

schedule record in power-off. When you activate this function, the system will go into a hibernation mode before the time you set for recording. The system will “wake up” to start the scheduled recording around 3 ~ 5 minutes before the time you set for schedule recording. Please be noted that power-off means the system will go into hibernation, and make sure your computer system supports

Hibernation in order to enable this function.

Setting:

Save Path:

You configure the “Save Path” for your recorded file by click on【.....】.

File Name Setting:

There are two choices for “File Name Setting”: “Use datetime formats file name” and

“Use Specific Name”. The “Use datetime formats file name” is the default. All the file that you want to save will be named in a date-time manner, such as “20090512_XXXX” for instance. Users can also input any specific name for their files in “Use specific name”.

System Option:

you may define the system option after record. The default is ‘No Action”.

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Log:

the log shows the information your scheduled recording if you have set any recording schedule.

4.10 Playback

When you click on the arrow beside the Playback icon , you can choose a recorded file for playback or a file from folders in your PC. (Note: continuous file playback is available)

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․Add: add a selected file to the playlist at the bottom half of the window

․Add All: add all the files to the playlist

․Delete: delete a file from the playlist

․Delete All: delete all the files on the playlist

․Play: play the selected file that is in the playlist at the bottom half of Playback

․Exit: exit Playback

When you select a file for playback, TiVme will play the video for you in another screen as illustrated below.

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Control Buttons for Playback Mode

Backward Play Pause Forward Stop

Previous File

Audio ON

Next File Repeat (on)

Volume Up Volume Down

Repeat (off) Display Ratio

Control Slide for Playback

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4.11 Setup

Enter the software setting page

Sleep Timer:

set the sleep timer for the system. You can make the system to close application, log off, hibernate, shut down or reboot when the time is up.

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Analog Setting:

set de-noise level to allow better analog quality. You may also tick “Use Adv De-Noise” for advanced de-noise.

Marquee

: You can choose “Input Text” or “Select Text File” to place the words you want to show the image window and decide the show way in『Repeat Forever』、『Moving Distance』、『Moving Interval』、『Next

Marquee Interval』options.

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Live Update:

When you open “auto update “, TiVme will download the system update automatically (if there is a new version. If not, it won’t do anything). If you click “Check”, TiVme will display version status.

Note:

Before you want to update, please check if you have the Internet connection first.

Scan Setting:

re-run the video system setup. It is the same step as you do the initial setup for TiVme (see the Chapter3) if you like to set up the video system again.

User Interface

: configure the user-interface, such as “Enable Transparent UI”, “Panel Size”, “Font Color” and “Border Size”. You can also customize your background by ticking on “Enable customize background”

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and then you can browse and select files from your PC folders.

Other:

configure settings like Multi-Language, Auto open last source when execute Application, and Boss

Key Setting (Function Key, Min Key and Restore Key).

Multi-Language:

change the language for the interface.

Auto open last source when execute TiVme

: when you tick the box, TiVme will run the video source type you watched in last time.

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Gaming Device:

TV Connected:

Please select it if you connected the Gaming Device (GM220) to output the video to the

TV monitor and laptop/desktop in the same time.

If you don’t want to check this dialog widow in activating TiVme every time, you can click the “Don’t show at next startup” option to disable this function.

Enhance TV quality:

You can tick this option to increase the picture quality on TV.

Note: It may depend on the resolution of video source higher than 1080i and the graphic card driver

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4.12 The Tool Menu

While you are watching video/game on TiVme, you can open the Tool Menu with a mouse right-click. The

Tool Menu allows you to access and activate functions of TiVme, which provides you another option besides the icons in the interface.

Always On Top:

open TiVme to remain at the top of all other application windows. It is the same if you click on the Always on Top at the upper right corner of the normal mode window.

Display Ratio:

you can adjust your display ratio when you move your mouse cursor to the arrow at the right of this option. There are Free, 4:3, 16:9.It is the same as you click on the Display Ratio function icon in the interface.

Preview Window:

you can change your video viewing screen to Full Screen, Sizable Screen or

Borderless Screen

Source Input:

switch your source input

Capture:

select your video/image capture format, including MPEG1, VCD, MPEG2, DVD.

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Snapshot:

activate Snapshot function to take the Snapshot. You can also do the same if you click on the

Snapshot icon on the main interface.

Digital Zoom:

there are 4 zooming formats -- Original, 2X, 3X and 4X.

Mute:

Audio on or off

Volume Up:

increase the volume

Volume Down:

decrease the volume

Hide Panel:

hide or show the control panel (the TiVme panel)

Exit:

close/exit TiVme window

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Chapter 5: Appendix

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