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- CinaAction 34FS
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- Tips of Using CinaAction 34FS Program
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- CinaAction 34FS Panel
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- CinaAction 34FS Panel allows you to control the MPEG Decoder to playback
- VideoCD, CD-I, KaraokeCD disc and MPEG files from CD-ROM drive or hard disk
- drive. A full srceen Video displays video when this program starts to play
- the MPEG CD title. The video screen can be switched to VGA mode by hit the
- SPACE BAR.
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- Panel Buttons
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- File Open
- File Open calls a standard Windows file open dialog box from which you can
- load one or more MPEG files. The default File Open dialog lists files with
- the *.MPG extension, but you can choose to list *.DAT (VideoCD & CD-I White
- Book) files.
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- Select CD-I / VIDEO CD Format
- To play a CD-I / VIDEO CD disc, activate the CD-I button on the corner on the
- play panel. Program will play from the CD-ROM drive directly using
- CD-I/VIDEO CD format when the Play button is pressed.
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- Loop Play
- Click Loop Play button ON, and the current track or file will be continuously
- played in a loop.
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- Mute Audio
- Mute the audio of current playing track or file. To resume the audio, press
- Mute again.
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- Play
- Plays the current track or file.
- If the CD-I / VIDEO CD select button is ON, the CD-ROM drive is played
- directly using CD-I/VIDEO CD format when Play is pressed.
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- Pause
- Interrupts play of a file or track. To resume playing, press Pause again.
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- Stop
- Immediately stops any playing activity on the current track or file.
- The status of Loop Play is not affected by Stop.
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- Slow Motion
- Plays the current track or file in slow motion.
- Mute button is ON automatically when Slow is pressed. To return normal
- playing, press Play.
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- Fast Forward or Rewind
- Jump to a new point in time in the current file or track.
- These buttons emulate the "fast forward" and "rewind" functions on an analog
- device. The Play Counter shows the current count index as you move.
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- Skip to Next or Last
- Moves to the previous or next file or track.
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- Volume Control Slide
- Slide controls for adjusting the left and right channel volume.
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- Play Time Slider
- Slide control for jumping to any point in time in the current file or track.
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- Hot-Key Configuration
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- Output Horizontal, Output Vertical :
- Adjusts the location of displayed video horizontally or vertically, press
- <Ctrl> key with four arrow key for each direction (up, down, left and right).
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- Switch Video and Windows :
- Using SPACE Bar key to switch back and forth from video screen and windows
- screen.
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- Volume Control :
- Using the arrow key UP and DOWN for right channel volume control. And the
- LEFT and RIGHT arrow key for left channel volume control.
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- Slow Motion :
- Press "S" key for slow motion function.
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- Tempo Speed :
- Press "+" and "-" key to adjust the tempo of slow motion.
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- Normal Play :
- Press "R" key for resume to normal play speed, when you used slow motion.
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- Mute :
- Press "M" key for mute function active and disactive.
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- Pause :
- Press "P" key for pause function enable and disable.
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- Stop :
- Press "ESC" key to stop play and switch to windows screen.
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- Skip Track :
- Press "Page Up" key for last track. And "Page Down" for next track.
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- Fast Forward or Rewind :
- Using "Ctrl" plus "Page Down" for fastforward. and "Ctrl" plus "Page Up" for
- rewind.
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- Trouble Shooting
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- 1. Q: The Message shows "Can't Initialize System [90]" when the
- CinaAction 34FS program excutes.
- A: CinaAction 34FS uses four common I/O address, 280-28F, 2A0-2AF, 300-30F
- and 320-32F.
- If software and hardware settings are incorrect or conflict with the
- other add-on card, then the CinaAction cannot initialize the MPEG Decoder
- properly.
- (i) please refer to the manual and set the jumper JP5 on the MPEG Decoder
- setting and excute MPEG 34FF Setup again to config the softeare. Be
- sure that the jumper setting MUST coinside with the config of
- CinaAction 34FS.
- (ii) Please let other add-on cards not to use the same I/O port (default
- address is 280-28F) as MPEG Decoder.
- However, if you want to change this I/O Port address, you must change
- the JP5 setting and do not forget to choose another I/O port at
- CinaAction 34FS Setup that meets the hardware jump setting.
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- 2. Q: The Message shows "Can't Initialize System [100]"
- A: The message indecates that the driver VFIC001D.386 does not load while
- Windows starts or the available memory under 640K conventional memory
- is not enough.
- (i) Please edit the system.ini at Windows directory, Search the [386Enh]
- section, and add a line such as:
- [386Enh]
- device=c:\Cinact\vfic001d.386
- (ii) If you load too many TSR programs while PC starts, please quit some
- TSR form memory and try again.
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- 3. Q: The message diplays "CD-ROM Memory Allocation Error.[0]" error Message
- when click the CD-I buttom.
- A: This message indicates that there is not any CD-ROM available to
- playback CD-I and Video CD.
- Please check config.sys or autoexec.bat to make sure both your CD-ROM
- hardware and driver are installed properly.
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- 4. Q: Why is there no response while clicking CD-I buttom after CinaAction has
- been installed?
- A: (i) First of all, make sure your CD-ROM drive program installed properly
- (refer your CD-ROM drive manual)
- (ii) 2nd, if (i) is ok, please put the CD-I or Video CD into your CD-ROM
- drive and click CD-I buttom one time before you play.
- (iii) if (ii) is ok, but it does not work, please check your autoexec.bat
- file and remove the CD-ROM cache module.
- Normally, it executes the MSCDEXE.EXE before smartdrv.exe will
- promote the access speed of CD-ROM drive. However, it will affect
- the correctness of reading video data. Thus,
- >> add /U after smartdrv.exe or
- >> put smartdrv.exe before MSCDEXE.EXE as follow:
- C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE /U
- .....
- C:\DOS\MSCDEXE.EXE /D:MSCD000
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- 5. Q: Why can't play a CD-ROM with CD-I format?
- A: Please find a CD-ROM with Video CD format and use OPEN buttom to play a
- MPEG file. If it works fine, your CD-ROM drive dose not support CD-I.
- Please change CD-ROM drive which supports CD-I format and try again.
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- 6. Q: It always diplays black screen and produce "Bo Bo .." sound whenever
- palying the MPEG CD titles.
- A: MPEG Decoder card IRQ conflicts other interface cards.
- (i) Please write down all ADD-ON or interface cards in your pc system
- and make sure all IRQ values are different.
- (ii) if you still have problems for (i), please remove sound card, and
- network card except for I/O card and VGA and try again.
- (iii) or please setup CinaAction 34FS and choose Config item to change
- IRQ to 5 or 7.
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- 7. Q: It plays CD-I and Video CD or MPEG file OK, but why is no audio output?
- A: The I/O port of CinaAction 34FS maybe conflicts to another interface
- card.
- (i) Be sure that your speaker is On and properly connect to the
- Audio Output of MPEG Card.
- (ii) Please check the Mute function, Voulume Ajust and volume knob on
- the back panel of CinaAction Board.
- (iii) Please remove all possible cards that would cause the I/O or IRQ
- confliction except I/O and VGA cards, then try again.
- (iv) Please adjust MPEG Decoder jumper JP5 : 1,2 open 3,4 : close (or 1,2
- open; 3,4 open) and set your software config I/O port as 2A0H (320H),
- then try again.
- NOTE: Always remember the hardware jumper setting should match to the
- software setting in Config item.
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- 8. Q: After installation MPEG card, the sound card always produces last sound
- and can not exit Windows.
- A: The IRQ of both MPEG Decoder card and sound card conflict each other.
- Normally, a sound card uses IRQ 5 with Sound Blaster mode and IRQ 11
- with Windows Sound System Mode.
- Please change the IRQ setting by execute CinaAction 34FS Setup program
- again to reconfigurate the IRQ in order to avoid conflicting to the
- sound card.
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- 9. Q: It can not find any device of the Media Player after completting
- installation of CinaAction 34FS.
- A: CinaAction MPEG Decoder support the MCI driver to execute the multimedia
- application programs in Windows, such as Media Player.
- When first time run the Media Player, it checks system.ini with devices
- automatically and produces mplayer.ini file.
- Please select correct device drivers according to the format of the CD
- title in the CD-ROM when Media Player starts, such as CD-I/Video CD or
- MPEG file.
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- 10. Q: How to use MPEG decoder with sound card? Should I connect the speakers
- to MPEG card or sound card?
- A: Please find a mini stereo head-phone line. Connect MPEG Audio output
- to sound card line-in.
- The speakers should connect to the spk/output of the sound card.
- Be sure to enable the sound card under the Windows environment,
- especially the mixer function.
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- Driver Version Update Note
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- CinaAction 34FS dedicates this Version 2.1 to improve Audio/Video
- Synchronization (also known as Lips Sync) by using advenced algorithm.
- Hereafter, the program supports several different frame rates without
- degrading the playback both the speed and quality.
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