ATI Technologies 137-40188-60 Home Theater System User Manual


 
40 Using Your ATI Multimedia Center
Digital VCR settings
Use the Digital VCR settings pages to specify recording quality,
duration, general options, and custom settings.
To set up the Digital VCR
Click the Setup button in the TV control panel, then
click the Digital VCR tab.
Recording
Quality
Check Best Quality, Good Quality, Video CD (see
Note), or Longest Time. (The higher the quality, the less
video you will be able to store on a disk.) For extremely
fine control, click the Set Custom button to open the
Custom Settings page, where you can create and
modify preset capture formats.
Click the Create New... button to create a new, preset
capture format. The Capture Wizard guides you through
the process.
Click the Edit... button to modify an existing, preset
capture format.
Step 2 of the Capture Wizard provides a
deinterlacing option. Select it to prevent horizontal
streaks in captured video.
Note: The Video CD setting lets you create Video-CD-
compliant files that can be played on most consumer DVD
players. To create a CD containing the Video CD files,
you need a writeable CD drive and accompanying CD
creation software.
Disk
Space
Settings
Allocates the amount of disk to store captured video.
Record to Drive
Select the drive to hold captured video.
Amount of disk space to leave free
Use the slider to set the amount of space to leave on your
hard drive. Use this to prevent the recording from
completely filling your drive.
Current
Settings
Displays the video format, size, frame rate, and audio
format for captured video.
Capture
Still at
640 x 480
Capture still images in 640 x 480 pixel format.