ATI Technologies 137-40188-60 specifications Digital VCR, Saving and compressing captured video

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Digital VCR

The Digital VCR provides simple controls and powerful capture options. You can capture a clip of

full-motion video and audio from your video source and save it as an MPEG or AVI file. You can play captured files in the File Player (see File Player on page 78.) The Schedule feature lets you record TV programs on the dates and times you specify (see Schedule on page 83).

Note

Because TV-on-Demand records to your hard drive, you cannot use the Digital VCR in TV-on-Demand mode (see TV-on-Demand™on page 36). Instead, use the Export function when you are in TV-on- Demand mode (see To export time-shifted video on page 38.)

To start the Digital VCR

When you capture video (see To record a clip of video and audio on page 35) from TV, the Digital VCR opens automatically. If you want the Digital VCR to prompt you before recording, click the Prompt before Recording checkbox in the Digital VCR tab of the TV Player Setup page (see Digital VCR settings on page 40).

Saving and compressing captured video

The Digital VCR Custom Settings... page lets you compress your captured video and save it in several industry-standard formats (see Recording Quality in Digital VCR settings on page 40). The quality of the video that you capture depends on the following conditions:

•speed of your system (CPU)

•amount of system memory (RAM)

•performance of your hard disk

•size of the video capture window

•Video codec (encoder-decoder) used