README.TXT For REALmagic Hollywood Plus(TM) 
Release 1.3 (B.87) ------ 8/15/98
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Congratulations on your purchase of REALmagic Hollywood Plus DVD/MPEG2
multimedia Playback .  This file contains important information for installation 
of the drivers and application software for this card.

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CONTENTS
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I   - DRIVER AND APPLICATIONS INSTALLATION	
II  - BORDER ADJUSTMENT AND COLOR CALIBRATION	       
III - DVD REGION CODE CHANGE				
IV  - TV OUT
V   - FULL SCREEN PLAYBACK
VI  - HINTS TO RESOLVE PROBLEMS AND BETTER PLAYBACK

I   - DRIVER AND APPLICATIONS INSTALLATION
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After the hardware installation of the card do the following:

1.  On booting your system, Windows 95 will detect the card. Insert the REALmagic 
    Hollywood Plus Drivers Disk in your floppy drive A and click Finish. This will 
    install Hollywood Plus drivers on your hard disk.
2.  To install the DVD navigation software insert Application Disk into drive A and 
    run SETUP.
3.  The Setup program will show two options: Install the REALmagic DVD application 
    or Change DVD region code.
4.  Check the DVD application installation option and follow the instructions.
5.  After the files are copied, set a DVD region code as part of the setup program.
    
    Note: Setup will not ask you to set the DVD region code if you install the card 
          later in the same region.
6. Click Finish to complete the installation process by performing Auto Calibration.
   
II - BORDER ADJUSTMENT AND COLOR CALIBRATION
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    NOTE: If the border is not adjusted properly after Auto Calibration you may need
          to set the Border Adjustment to get more accurate adjustment. You need to 
          set the Border Adjustment only once for each setting of display resolution.

1.  At the Start button, click Programs and select REALmagic Hollywood Plus
    program group. Click REALmagic Configuration.
2.  Click on Adjust Border and use the proper buttons to adjust the black rectangle
    in the magenta box.
3.  Change different values to adjust stability if you are viewing jumping pixels on
    MPEG video. Click OK when you are done. 
4.  The Reset Default button will reset the color calibration and border adjustment 
    values to the factory default settings.

    Note 1: Color calibration is required if the colors are not normal or the screen
            is pink or not clear. If color calibration is required, Click on 
            "Auto Calibration". The screen will flash for 5 to 10 seconds then 
            displays a message that the calibration is complete. Click OK.
    Note 2: In the cases where this calibration is unsuccessful, you can click on 
            Advanced..., then the Manual Calibration. This will involve fixing the
            R, G, B sliders as shown in the window four times.
    Note 3: Color Calibration and Border Adjustment can not performed in TV mode.

III - DVD REGION CODE CHANGE
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1.  Run the set program from Application disk. Select DVD Region Code change option.
    Set the region code according to the country you are in. 

    Note: The setup program will allow you to change the region code for five times.
          If you want to reset the region code settings after five times contact 
          the card manufacturer or an authorized distributor or service center. 
          A nominal handling fee will be charged.

IV  - TV OUT
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    The REALmagic Hollywood Plus can display on a VGA monitor or a TV. To switch 
    between these modes an icon is provided on the left corner of the DVD Station 
    control panel that toggles between computer monitor and TV.

    In order to display on a TV, some additional settings may be required. 
    From the DVD Station control panel click Options button. This will open
    a window for options setting. Click the settings tab. Select the options
    according to your TV type. The color control, brightness, and contrast
    controls have also been provided for TV.

    Note: In TV mode the Color Calibration and Border Adjustment can not be
          performed.

V  - FULL SCREEN PLAYBACK
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    In order to playback in full screen, double click the left button of mouse
    anywhere in the MPEG window or press Ctrl+Z. This will playback the video in 
    full-screen mode. In order to go back to the window mode, press Ctrl+Z in 
    full-screen mode and it will start palyback in a scaleable MPEG window.   


VI - HINTS TO RESOLVE PROBLEMS AND BETTER PLAYBACK 
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1.  The drivers are installed and the Hollywood Plus appears in the "Device Manager" 
    but the CD's won't play.

    Run SETUP from the second diskette (Applications) to create the "REALmagic 
    Hollywood Plus" group. This group contains the DVD-Station, README file, 
    REALmagic Configuration, and Uninstall.

2.  With the Hollywood Plus board and the drivers correctly installed the system 
    crashes after boot-up.

    Start Win '95 in the Safe mode, select the Hollywood Plus board in the Device 
    Manager, manually change the Memory Range to a different setting for the
    Hollywood Plus and reboot.

3.  The REALmagic Configuration can be run but when the DVD-Station is started
    (or the Media Player with an MPEG file ) the system hangs.

    Check the Device Manager for a conflict in the IRQ resources and make the
    necessary change(s).

4.  The MPEG files play and the audio can be heard but the video is a solid color.

    Run "REALmagic Configuration" and select "Auto Calibration." Or, make sure
    that the output of the Display Adapter is routed to the Hollywood Plus input
    and the Display Adapter's output is routed to the monitor.

5.  The picture is waving.

    Run "REALmagic Configuration," select "Border Adjust" and adjust the 
    STABILITY: smoothness of the two vertical sides.

6.  MPEG 1 files run normally, but DVD movies are shaky.

    Make certain that the DVD-ROM drive is connected as a Master on the IDE 
    controller. And, if your version of Win 95 is OSR2, turn ON the DMA flag in
    the "Device Manager-DVD ROM drive-Settings-DMA."

7.  When running Video CD on the CD-ROM drive, the playback is shaky.

    Connect the Video CD drive as a slave to the hard disk and not on the same
    controller with the DVD-ROM drive. If you are using the original release 
    of Win 95 make sure you have installed the Microsoft fix (IOSYSUPD.EXE - from
    their web site). This fix smoothes the playback of Video CDs from the 
    slave drives.

8.  I get an "MMSYSTEM error 275" when I try to play a DVD encrypted movie.

    This can happen if you are using the original release of Win 95 and you have
    the CD-ROM drive as a slave to the DVD-ROM drive. Use the ESDI_506.PDR of OSR2 
    in the subdirectory IOSUBSYS of Windows/System.

9.  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.   
    
10. 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.

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

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

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

14. Playing DVD under WIN98(Beta version) will show better performance if you run
    MSCONFIG, General, Advanced and Disable UDF file system. 

15. When playing a movie from AUV and seek to a point in the movie,
    the Audio/Video gets out-of-synch.
    It will happen on some systems, in this case pause before seeking.
     	 
16. The maximum refresh rates allowed with the Hollywood Plus MPEG playback depends
    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	100 Hz
		1152 x  864	 85 Hz
		1280 x 1024	 85 Hz (75 with some boards)
		1600 x 1200	 80 Hz


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