Using a Mouse with Multi-Median

Media Preview

Media Preview shows the title, sequence number in the playlist, current playing time, and the preview screen for the selected media file.

Figure 9: Media Preview

Full Screen View

Full Screen View expands the current video or image file to fit the entire screen. To view a file in Full Screen View, press the Full Screen button on the remote control. To view detailed information about the current playing media file, return to Media Preview by pressing the Full Screen or Esc button or press 0 on the remote control to open the control panel.

TV View

Before watching a TV channel, you must select the TV card. Please refer to “Setting Environment” on page 13 for instructions. TV View is also similar to the Movie View. Once set up, you can select television channels from the TV View using the Enter button on the remote control. With the TV playing in full screen view, you can change the channel using the using the number buttons on the remote control.

Digital Camcoder View

Digital Camcoder View supports all the digital camcoder devices that can be connected to the IEEE1394 port using the DV format. Once connected, you can view the image on your camcorder’s screen and control the camera using

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the remote control. You can also control playback of recorded video or record the video as a movie file to your HDD using the Play, Pause, F.FWD, and REW buttons on the remote control.

Internet Radio View

Internet Radio View shows the internet radio station according to its genre. Multi-Median automatically updates the internet radio station list via internet. The genre of internet radio stations are Rap/Hiphop/R&B, Rock/Metal, Jazz/ Blues, Classic, Dance, Pop, Oldies and World.

Multi-Median can be controlled with mouse connected to the USB or serial port of your PC. If you move the mouse pointer to the top or bottom of the screen, the control panel (control bar or shortcut bar) appears. All the buttons on the control panel can be controlled using the left mouse button.

Changing Program Settings

You can adjust all settings in Multi-Median using just the remote control. Click the “Setup” icon (gear wheel) to access the “Setting” screen. Use the remote control joystick to navigate the menus and press in on the joystick to select an option. To exit a sub-menu, push the joystick to the left or click the Back button using the mouse. Options for the Setting menu are described below.

Back

For all menus, select the “Back” option to return to the previous menu, view, or step.

Common

Multi-Median provides a powerful media database that scans the media files on your PC, allowing you to select media files without searching through multiple folders. By default, Multi-Median is set to scan the “My Music”, “My Video”, and “My Pictures” folders under “My Documents”. You you modify which folders are scanned or choose to scan a TV card attached to your PC through the “Scan Media” menu option.

Music

Use the Music menu option to change various settings related to the My Music view, including the background image. You can also change the repeat option (Play All, Repeat All, Repeat Folder and Repeat Song) for your music playlist, turn on/off the shuffle option, and set the folder view to group by “Album”, “Artist”, or “Genre” based on the tag information of MP3 and OGG files.