User manual ATI RADEON MAC EDITION

[. . . ] RADEONTM MAC® EDITION USER'S GUIDE Printed in Canada RADEONTM MAC® EDITION User's Guide Version 2. 0 - June 2001 P/N: 107-40214-20 Copyright © 2000, ATI Technologies Inc. ATI and RADEONTM are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ATI Technologies Inc. All other company and/or product names are trademarks and/ or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers. Pricing, availability, features, performance and specifications are subject to change without notice. [. . . ] However, QuickTime will not switch to hardware scaling in the following situations: · playing video in double size Try manually scaling the video slightly off exactly double the size. pausing the video using single frame advance watching the video in reverse playing a video that has not been saved in Cinepak, Indeo, or MPEG-1 compressed format NOTE · · · · Page 22 QuickTime clips must be in Cinepak (the most common QuickTime movie format), Indeo, or MPEG-1 format to be scaled by RADEONTM MAC® EDITION. To determine if a video will be accelerated using RADEONTM MAC® EDITION's hardware scaler, check the video format. To check the format of a video 1 Open the movie using QuickTime Player. Remember, only Cinepak, Indeo, and MPEG-1 formats use RADEONTM MAC® EDITION's QuickTime acceleration and hardware scaler. Some multimedia titles on CD-ROM incorporate QuickTime clips that do not allow movies to be stretched during playback. These QuickTime clips cannot be accelerated while viewing the multimedia title. NOTE Using Mac2TVTM Video Out The RADEONTM MAC® EDITION's Mac2TVTM Video Out feature allows you to output your computer's display to your TV or VCR. · View computer output directly on your television in either NTSC or PAL formats with advanced flicker reduction and artifact suppression Connect using Composite or S-Video output capabilities RADEONTM MAC® EDITION provides a big-screen experience for playing games, giving presentations, and browsing the Internet. · · Page 23 Using RADEONTM MAC® EDITION's TV/Video Out Connector To output your computer's display to a TV 1 Turn off your computer and TV. 3 Looking at the back of your Mac, locate your RADEONTM MAC® EDITION. 4 Determine if your TV has an S-Video or Composite video input connection. Video Out Connector Composite Connector Video Out Adapter 5 If your are using S-Video connection to the TV attach one end of an S-Video cable to the S-Video out connection of the RADEONTM MAC® EDITION and the other end to the S-Video In connector of your TV. If you are using Composite connect the supplied Video Out Adapter cable to the S-Video connector of the RADEONTM MAC® EDITION. Then attach one end of your Composite cable to the Composite connector and the other end to the Composite In of your TV (See diagram above). 6 Turn on your Mac and your TV. Page 24 NOTE Now that you have connected your RADEONTM MAC® EDITION to a TV, you need to enable Mac2TV. To connect your computer's display to a VCR to record to video tape 1 Turn off your computer and VCR. 3 Looking at the back of your Mac, locate your RADEONTM MAC® EDITION 4 Determine if your VCR has an S-Video or Composite video input connection. Video Out Connector Composite Connector Video Out Adapter 5 If you are using S-Video attach one end of an S-Video cable to the S-Video Out connector of the RADEONTM MAC® EDITION and the other to the S-Video In connector of your VCR. If you are using Composite connect the supplied Video Out Adapter cable to the S-Video connector of the RADEONTM MAC® EDITION. Then attach one end of your Composite cable to the Composite connector and the other end to the Composite In of your VCR (See diagram above). 6 Turn on your Mac, VCR, and TV. Page 25 If you are connecting your RADEONTM MAC® EDITION to a VCR, make sure that your VCR is connected to a television that you can use as your computer's display. For information about connecting a television to your VCR, see the documentation supplied with your VCR. Now that you have connected your RADEONTM MAC® EDITION to a VCR, you need to enable Mac2TVTM. Page 26 Enabling Mac2TVTM ! · WARNING When you initially turn on Mac2TV Video Out, your monitor display will be dimmed. Monitors which do not support the 60 Hz vertical refresh rate required by video equipment may be damaged when Mac2TV is enabled. Dimming your monitor is a safety feature, protecting your monitor from any potential damage. [. . . ] Your ATI accelerator card includes on-board memory which is used in a number of ways. Buffers are portions of this memory used as temporary storage on your card. One large buffer is always used to display the screen you see; this is the "display buffer". The rest of offscreen memory is used by applications as back buffers, z-buffers, and texture buffers. Bitmap Buffers Page 47 Color Depth Color depth is the number of color shades available on your display. [. . . ]