Still frame Frame advance Frame reverse

Searching for a desired scene

(SEARCH)

DVD.I Video CD.

Searching by time/frame number

(Time search/Frame search)

FRM/TIME

Press to select the frame input mode or the time input mode.

÷With Video CD, only time search is available.

Frame : 0/219113

Time : 0.00

Select the desired time/frame number with the number buttons.

Example : To select 21 minutes 43 seconds

→ → →

÷With DVD, search cannot be performed for time/frame numbers which overlap titles.

Press SEARCH.

PLAY

÷Pressing or is also available except .

÷Playback starts from the selected elapsed play time.

÷For frame searching, the still frame mode is set at the speci- fied frame. (The accuracy in terms of frame may not be achieved exactly depending on the disc in use.)

Example)

Discs in which slideshow is recorded movie DVDs (24 frame).

÷Time Search/Frame Search are not possible with discs that do not provide playback time indications within a title when you press DISPLAY (see page 25).

Point

÷To cancel the Title, Chapter/Track/Time display that is flash- ing, press CLEAR twice.

÷Using a menu to select is also possible for some titles. In this case, press MENU to display the menu screen and select

while the display is being displayed .

Note

÷With DVD, Time search may be impossible with certain ti-

tles. In this case, the

mark is displayed.

÷When performing DVD or Video CD Time Search, playback may start from a slightly different time than that specified.

÷On DVD discs, Time search is not possible during the stop mode.

÷Search using the above operation is not possible during PBC playback of Video CDs.

÷An error may occur when a frame search is conducted us- ing several frames before or after the breaks in titles and chapters: this happens because of the way in which DVD are constructed.

Still frame/

Frame advance/

Frame reverse

DVD.I Video CD.

Frame advance/Frame reverse (Playback the picture by 1 frame)

STEP

Press.

STEP

: The picture will be advanced by one frame each time the button is pressed.

STEP

: The effect differs according to the following set- tings. (DVD only)

REV STEP/REV PLAY in ADV. SETUP (see page 48) is set to

Frame : The picture will be reversed by one frame each time the STEP button is pressed.

VOBU*:The picture will be reversed in VOBU each time the STEP button is pressed.

÷The picture may not be advanced/reversed by 1 frame de- pending on such disc as movie DVD (24 frame) for exam- ple.

÷If still images appear shaky when playing back DVD stop- motion frames, see page 31 and set the Still Picture to “Field”. (Vertical resolution becomes half but eliminates burriness of the picture when in the picture.)

STEP

÷If VOBU is selected, each time the is pressed, play- back is reversed by 0.4 seconds to 1 second.

*VOBU = Video Object Unit:

In DVD-VIDEO, it is the smallest unit that forms a stream and, at the time of playback of 1 VOBU, is from 0.4 seconds to 1 second.

DVD.I Video CD.

Still picture

Press STEP .

Note

÷There is no sound when viewing still frames or when ad- vancing one frame at a time.

÷Pause may not be possible with certain discs. In this case,

the mark is displayed.

÷When you press PAUSE , playback is paused and background color (for example, blue) appears on the TV screen.