Dolby Laboratories P/N 91659 manual DolbyRemote Overview, DolbyLoad, Requirements

DolbyRemote Installation and Operation

Chapter 1

Introduction

1.1DolbyRemote Overview

The DolbyRemote application is used to remotely control the entire range of Dolby Laboratories Inc. Dolby Digital encoders. Key features of the software include:

!Control of several Dolby professional audio products from a single instance of the DolbyRemote application, hardware permitting.

!Off-line mode, without the presence of a unit, to create and edit parameter files. Off-line mode may be useful to demonstrate the operation of an encoder without the presence of the encoder hardware.

!Save a unit configuration in a file on a PC. Restore the unit’s configuration from a saved DolbyRemote file.

!Export an encoder’s configuration in human readable form in either text or HTML format.

1.2DolbyLoad

The DolbyLoad application, for downloading new encoder firmware, is included with DolbyRemote as a convenience to customers. See the encoder firmware upgrade documentation for downloading instructions.

1.3Requirements

1.3.1PC System Requirements

The minimum PC system requirements include a Pentium® 90 processor and either:

•Windows® 95 with 16 Megabytes of memory, or

•Windows®NT 4.0, Service Pack 3, and 24 Megabytes of memory.

Additional memory may be needed to run other applications simultaneously.

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