7.10PICTURE IN PICTURE/PICTURE BY PICTURE

When Crystalio II is in “Picture In Picture” (PIP) mode, there is a small sub-picture on top of the main picture, which comes from another video input source. In PIP mode, you can:

Adjust the position of the sub-picture

Adjust the size of the sub-picture

Adjust the transparency of the sub-picture

Crop the 4 sides of the sub-picture

When Crystalio II is in “Picture By Picture” (PBP) mode, main picture is shifted to one side and a sub-picture, which comes from another video input source, appears in the other side (they are side by side). In PBP mode, you can:

Adjust the position of the line splitting the main picture and sub-picture

Adjust the position of the sub-picture

Adjust the size of the sub-picture

Crop the 4 sides of the sub-picture

You can choose to have a frame on the sub-picture and/or main picture

Main picture and sub-picture can be swapped

When main picture is in passthru mode, PBP mode will be ignored

Video Input:

You can select any of the video input sources as the sub-picture, but with the following exceptions:

When video source

Video source of

of main picture is

sub-picture can not be

HDMI 1

HDMI 2

HDMI 2

HDMI 1

 

 

HDMI 3

HDMI 4

 

 

HDMI 4

HDMI 3

 

 

Component 1

Component 2

 

 

Component 3

Component 4

 

 

Audio Input:

The audio mapped to the video source of sub-picture is the same as defined in Audio Input Select (see Section 5.4.1). However, in a simlar way to video input, there are exceptions:

When audio input of

Audio input of

main picture is

sub-picture can not be

HDMI 1

HDMI 2

 

 

HDMI 2

HDMI 1

 

 

HDMI 3

HDMI 4

 

 

HDMI 4

HDMI 3

 

 

Analog audio 1

Analog audio 2, nor Analog audio 3

 

 

Analog audio 2

Analog audio 1, nor Analog audio 3

 

 

Analog audio 3

Analog audio 1, nor Analog audio 2

 

 

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VPS3800 specifications

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