Pioneer DVR-3100 operating instructions Using the Home Menu, Playing Video CD/Super VCDs

04Getting started

Playing Video CD/Super VCDs

The table below shows the basic playback controls for Video CD/Super VCDs.

Some discs feature Playback Control (PBC for short) menus. These discs show PBC in the display when you load them and display a menu on-screen from where you can select what to watch.

PLAY Press to start playback.

If RESUME is displayed on-screen, play- back starts from the place last stopped.

				Press to stop playback.
		STOP
				Video CD only: You can resume playback
				from the same point by pressing PLAY.
				(Press STOP again to cancel the resume
				function.)
				Pauses playback, or restarts playback
			PAUSE
				when paused.
				Press to start scanning. Press repeatedly
REV SCAN		FWD SCAN
				to increase the scanning speed. (There are
				two scan speeds; the current scan speed
				is shown on-screen.)
				Press to skip to previous/next track. (When
	PREV		NEXT
				a PBC menu is displayed, press to display
				the previous/next page.)
				During playback, enter a track number
				then press ENTER to skip directly to that
				track.
				While a PBC menu screen is displayed,
			CLEAR	use to select numbered menu items.

CM SKIP Video CD only: Each press skips forward 30 seconds. Use to a maximum of 4 mins.

Note that this function doesn’t work when playing in PBC mode.

STEP/SLOW During playback, press to start slow- motion playback. Press repeatedly to change the playback speed.

While paused, press to advance a single frame (forward direction only).

RETURN Press to display the disc menu of a Video CD/Super VCD playing in PBC mode.

Note

•When playing in PBC mode, some playback features, such as search, repeat and program play are not available. You can play a PBC Video CD/Super VCD in

non-PBC mode by pressing	to start playback
instead of PLAY.

Using the Home Menu

From the Home Menu screen you can access all the features of the recorder. Press HOME MENU to display the Home Menu screen:

Timer Recording	Disc Setup
Disc History	Initial Setup
PhotoViewer	Video/Audio Adjust
Disc Navigator	Play Mode
DV Record

Use the(cursor) buttons followed by ENTER to select the option you want. To exit the Home Menu, press HOME MENU.

ENTER

HOME

MENU

Home menu options

Timer Recording	Disc Setup (page 70)
(page 48)
Disc History (page 67)	Initial Setup (page 75)
PhotoViewer (page 68)	Video/Audio Adjust
	(page 72)
Disc Navigator (page 35,	Play Mode (page 40)
page 58)
DV Record (page 54)

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