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D-VHS Transport Control & Media
Player
This dialog controls both the D-VHS tape
deck, if present, and the built-in Media Player. The name of the
selected tape device is displayed in the group box around the transport
buttons (tape devices are selected from the Main Menu:
Tape->Configure).
The various DVHS Transport
functions are obvious from their icons. The record button will be
greyed out if the current mode is "Disk Only". The record
button will start the disk recording as well if "Tape and
Disk" mode is selected. Stopping a recording in this mode using the
transport control only stops the D-VHS deck. A pop-up informs the user
that recording to disk will continue. The main dialog Stop button can be
used to stop recordings in all modes.
The Media
Player can be used to play most major
media file types (mpeg-2, transport stream, avi, etc). The screen icon
on the right creates a live preview window of the incoming satellite
program. This can be active while a recording is in progress, but only
in the "Disk Only" mode. The preview window cannot be created
while recording to tape.
A shortcut menu
is available by right-clicking on the Media Player window. Of
interest are the "Preserve Aspect Ratio" and "Crop"
selections.
Preserve Aspect Ratio: The default setting is checked.
This forces the aspect ratio of the program to be preserved no matter
how the player window is sized by the user. Black areas will be
automatically be added as required around the top, bottom and sides of
the picture. Un-checking this lets the image always fill the window no
matter how its sized.
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Crop:
Allows filling the view with a specific area of the
picture. The crop dialog displays the current resolution of the
image, in pixels, and provides edit boxes to change the the view
area. This is useful to remove the infamous "grey bar"
at the bottom of HD content from DirecTV. To accomplish this,
set the "Bottom" boundary to 1079 which clips the grey
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