README.TXT For Hollywood(TM) Version Rel B1 (Build 63) -- 10/2/97
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Congratulations on your purchase of the REALmagic Hollywood DVD and 
MPEG2 multimedia playback controller.  This file contains important 
information not available at the time the manual was printed.  
Please take time to read through it for the latest updates.



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CONTENTS
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I   - SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 
II  - BORDER ADJUSTMENT AND COLOR CALIBRATION
III - HINTS FOR HIGHER PERFORMANCE PLAYBACK
IV  - DVD STATION
V   - GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
VI  - MISCELLANEOUS


I   - SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 
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After the hardware installation do the following:

1 - Boot your system. 
2 - After the Windows 95 logo appears, the system will recognize that a
    new board was installed (Plug-N-Play feature of the Hollywood 
    board). You will get the window "New Hardware Found" with the 
    signature "PCI Multimedia Video Device".  
3 - Choose the option "Driver from disk provided by hardware 
    manufacturer".
4 - Click OK.
5 - A new window "Install from Disk" will display. Insert the REALmagic
    Hollywood diskette 1 in your floppy drive. Make sure the text box 
    points to the correct drive ( e.g. A:\).  Click OK.
6 - Insert diskette 2 and run SETUP. This will copy all the 
    applications to the C:\REALMAGC directory and create the REALmagic 
    Hollywood group containing "DVD Station", "REALmagic Configuration"
    and "Uninstall".

     

II  - BORDER ADJUSTMENT AND COLOR CALIBRATION
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NOTE :  You must set the Border Adjustment and Color Calibration 
        settings to complete the installation.  You need to set the 
        Border Adjustment only once for each display setting 
        (resolution, number of colors, and refresh rate).

1 - Start Border Adjust from the REALmagic Hollywood group.
2 - Click on Adjust Border and use the proper buttons to adjust the 
    black rectangle in the magenta box. When done click OK.
3 - Click on "Automatic Calibration". The screen will flash for a 
    moment after displaying the proper message and then displays a
    message that the calibration is complete.

Note 1: In the rare cases where this calibration is unsuccessful, 
    you can click on Advanced..., then the Manual Calibration to set
    the board. This will involve fixing the R, G, B sliders as shown
    in the window four times.
Note 2: You can also use the Advanced option to make more adjustments
    for the borders including jittering, stability, and horizontal
    frequency and to specify a different chromakey color and its 
    calibration in Color Adjustments.

4 - Adjust the volume and balance of the MPEG audio to your preference
    as well as the B, S, C video levels for Brightness, Saturation, and
    Contrast of the video.  Click OK.



III - HINTS FOR HIGHER PERFORMANCE PLAYBACK
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1 - For DVD-ROMs that require high data transfer rates, it is better
    to have the DVD-ROM drive connected to an IDE controller 
    with the "Bus Master" mode activated.   
    If you are using Rel OSR2 of Win 95, check on the DMA feature of
    your DVD-ROM drive. This can be found in the Device Manager by 
    double-clicking the entry for the DVD-ROM drive, clicking the tab
    Settings, and checking 'On' the DMA feature.

2 - Playing long DVD movies, above 4 GB in size, is supported by the
    Microsoft CDFS.VXD of Win 95 Rel OSR2.

3 - If you hear regular audio breakup in the playback and you are using 
    a sound card based on an ESS chip, please download the latest
    drivers for your specific card from the ESS website.  More sound 
    cards compatibility issues could be followed up on Sigma Designs'
    web page at www.SigmaDesigns.com.



IV  - DVD STATION
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    DVD Station is the DVD Player for DVD-Videos, DVD-ROM's, Audio CD's, 
    Video CD's and MPEG files.  Press the F1 key to view its extensive 
    help feature. 

    NOTE : Clicking on the "More Controls" button will display four
           sliders for the Gamma Correction (on VGA), Brightness,
           Contrast, and Color Saturation.  It also reveals the 
           buttons for Segment Play A>B and Slow Motion.


V   - GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
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1 - MCI Support : 

    	A standard MCI driver is supplied.  Interactive Multimedia 
    	titles can use the MCI interface to display high quality 
	MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video.

2 - File Format Support :

        MPEG-1 Video Streams
        MPEG-1 Audio Streams
        MPEG-1 System Streams

        MPEG-2 Video Streams
        MPEG-2 Audio Streams
        AC3 Audio Streams
        MPEG-2 Program Streams

        Video CD 1.x
        Video CD 2.0 - Interactive features supported through
                       DVD Station.

	DVD-Video

3 - DVD Support :        

        Full Navigation (DVD-Video compliant)
        Sub-picture
	Sub-titles
	Alternate languages
        Multiple camera angles
	Parental Control
        
        Multiple audio streams
        AC-3 audio
        PCM audio (48kHz, 96kHz, 16-bit, 20-bit, and 24-bit)

        Seamless switching between audio streams
        Seamless switching between sub picture streams
        Seamless switching between angles

	Menus & Buttons
	Fast Forward, Slow Motion, Fast Backward
	Time Search
	Block repeat A>B

	Encrypted movies


VI  - MISCELLANEOUS
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1 -	Capturing of an MPEG frame from an encrypted DVD movie is
	not supported. In other cases the capture feature gives its
	best results at a color depth of 64K (16 bits) or higher.

2 -	The Hollywood board does not support the interlaced display
   	mode.

3 -	There is no "Auto Repeat" support for DVD movies.

4 -	Playing VOB files using the Media Player might not show the
	best performance because of different navigation schemes.
	Use the DVD Station for this. 

5 -	Playing DVD games that play sound files (PCM .WAV files)
	simultaneously with MPEG files will not be fully successful
	because of the sharing of the same sound card for both. The
	playback will toggle between the MPEG video and the WAV files
	or the full MPEG and no WAV file depending on which starts
	first, the WAV or the MPEG respectively.

6 -	The maximum refresh rates allowed with the Hollywood MPEG
	playback depend partially on the display board.  However the
	following can be used as a guideline :

		 640 x  480	120 Hz
		 800 x  600	120 Hz
		1024 x  768	 85 Hz
		1152 x  864	 75 Hz
		1280 x 1024	 60 Hz (75 with some boards)
		1600 x 1200	 60 Hz
	

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