User manual NERO SHOWTIME 3 REV 1

[. . . ] Nero ShowTime Manual Nero AG Copyright and Trademark Information The Nero ShowTime manual and all its contents are protected by copyright and are the property of Nero AG. This manual contains material that is protected by internationally valid copyright. No part of this manual may be reproduced, transmitted or transcribed without the express written permission of Nero AG. Nero AG rejects any claims that transcend the clauses of the guarantee rights. Nero AG does not undertake any liability for the correctness of the content of the Nero ShowTime manual. [. . . ] The following configuration options are available: Hardware acceleration Activate Screen control Run full screen Keep aspect ratio Hide video window Video mode preference Shows the movie automatically on the full screen. This means that DVD-Video image acceleration is performed by the graphics card. This reduces the load on the main processor. Page 19 Options window 5. 3. 1 Video mode The Video mode entry provides configuration options for interlacing. In the first half image every second line (1, 3, 5, . . . , 575) is shown. The second half image displays the rest of the lines in the image (2, 4, 6, . . . A deinterlacer is required for display on a full-screen device (monitor, projector). Nero ShowTime supports the deinterlacing techniques weave, bob and adaptive. Weave, the simplest type for filling in the half images consists of displaying even and uneven half images simultaneously. In this way a half image fills in the missing lines in the other half image. This method is appropriate when both half images originate at the same time and can interleave without being conspicuous. With adaptive deinterlacing the missing lines in the fields are found and added taking into consideration the surrounding fields. Good adaptive deinterlacers take into consideration up to five images in both directions. The more images the algorithm takes into account, the more the output may lag. With bobbing the missing lines in the fields are found thus expanding each field to form a full image. The result of this technique is soft blending and some horizontal details may be missing. The following configuration options are available: No deinterlacing Defines that deinterlacing is not used. Defines that the computer performance takes over the deinterlacing process. Recommended in particular for older PCs with less than 600 MHz processor performance. Restores the default setting. Adaptive deinterlacing Fine-tuning view Fixed deinterlacing Set default values If you detect stripes running through the image during playback of a film, you should disable the No deinterlacing option. 5. 3. 2 Video quality The Video quality entry provides configuration options regarding the quality of Nero DigitalTM videos. The settings in this section only affect Nero DigitalTM videos and have no significance for DVD-Videos, VCDs and SVCDs. To guarantee the best quality setting for your computer, it is recommended that you select the Auto-adjust entry from the selection list. Page 20 Options window The following option buttons are available. Adjusts the quality automatically. 5. 3. 3 Nero Digital settings The Nero Digital settings entry provides configuration options for playing Nero DigitalTM videos. [. . . ] Furthermore, the frequency range is restricted. Dolby Surround Pro Logic II Dolby Surround Pro Logic II is a further improvement on Dolby Surround. The surround channels are in stereo and the rear channels have no frequency restrictions. DTS Digital Theater System. This multi-channel sound format works for Video-DVDs with a bit rate of 754. 5 or 1509. 25 Kbps. DTS works with higher data rates than Dolby Digital and therefore requires more space on the DVD. High Efficiency AAC Audio High Efficiency AAC Audio is an audio compression process based on the MPEG-4 specification. [. . . ]