Theatre Video Specifications

 MultipointUSA video performance specifications conform to the following specifications:

 Full range video adjustments including newly added contrast and saturation controls
along with original brightness, yellow/blue and red/green controls.

* Four default video profiles : Original, Vivid, Bright, and Theater.

* The ability to create, define and save video profiles of your own!

* New Microsoft DirectX Video Acceleration WHQL certified. Supports DVD video playback
by utilizing hardware MPEG video decoding circuits

* Enhanced screen capture by utilizing ASUSTek's proprietary interpolation technology.
Option of capturing as original DVD video frame size (video source) or current video
window size is available.

* Enhanced video de-interlacer and UV up-sampler.

* Widescreen monitors are supported with correct aspect ratio display of 16:9 movies
and letterboxed 4:3 movies.

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Playback Formats
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* Supports playback of all DVD formats: DVD Video, DVD Video Recording (on DVD-RAM
or DVD-RW), cDVD (DVD on CD-R/RW), cdDVD, and miniDVD.

* Supports playback of Super Video CD and Video CD 2.0 discs.

* DVD files can be played and previewed directly from any folder in your HDD.

* Compatible with new DVD-RAM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+RW or DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive with
1394, ATAPI, SCSI or Card Bus interface.

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Navigation and User Controls
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* Enhanced Toolbar navigator: speed slider added. Customize your toolbar by deciding
what functions you would like to include. Options of showing toolbar only under full
screen mode is also provided.

* Video windows always on top option.

* Mouse scrolling setting: customized mouse scroller functions include "Shuttle Reverse/
Forward", "Previous/Next Chapter", "Volume Adjustment" or "Time Seek".

* Time Seek with duration from 1 to 600 seconds by using "Page Up" and "Page Down".

* DVD Auto-Resume playback: if a movie playback is interrupted, the next time you will
have the freedom to view from the beginning of the movie or resume from the point of
interruption.

* Slow/Fast/Step forward/backward playback from speeds of 1/8X (Express Menu only) to 32X!

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Miscellaneous
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* Microsoft WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Lab) certified with Windows XP,
* Title information and dynamic bitrate monitor displays current position in title and
video bitrate (fixed or variable), audio encoding type, channel information and audio
bitrate.

* Optimized for Intel SSE2 (Streaming SIMD Extensions 2) and AMD 3DNow! Professional
(in new generation of Athlon and Duron processors) instruction sets.

* New i-Power DVDonet.com portal for the latest DVD news and resources. Portal pages can be
updated and viewed later offline.

* Minimized Skin Technology: four newly designed and revised skins including Crystal XP,
Oscar XP, Neo XP and Epiphany XP. With each skin, you can toggle between the full
functioning version and a minimized version for desktop space efficiency.

* Import and export your favorite DVD bookmarks from/to another computer.


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ADDITIONAL FEATURES OF ASUSDVD XP
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* Dolby Headphone support (*)

* AB repeat function

* Proprietary "Dual Subtitles" technology. Suitable for language learning along with
AB repeat function

* Closed Captioning decoder

* Digital Zoom function

* System diagnostic tools including a DMA enabling/status detecting tool for all kinds
of system chipsets from Intel, VIA, SiS, ALi and AMD. Supports Windows XP,
Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE and Windows 95 OSR2.

* Supports Microsoft HID (Human Interactive Devices) interface for HID compliant
multimedia keyboards like those from Logitech, Microsoft, or other input devices
to control ASUSDVD XP directly .

* OSD (On Screen Display) support. Can change font type, font size, font color,
display duration, display location and background OSD color.

* Information page in ASUSDVD XP configuration displays player status, display
mode, video/audio/subpicture attributes and complete hardware information.

* Visual bookmark viewer and flexible bookmark management. No need to manually write
scene descriptions for each bookmark.

* Visual chapter viewer

* Multi-user parental control and user management

* Flexible screen capture to any folder, Windows desktop, or Windows Clipboard

* Option of displaying widescreen movies in Letterbox or Pan&Scan mode. Under
Pan&Scan mode, you can hold down the mouse button and drag in order to pan the video.

* Plays a wide range of media files as well as audio CD and Video CD

Audio CD Tracks (*.CDA)
DVD-Video object files (*.VOB)
DVD-Video Recording object files (*.VRO)
Dolby Digital AC-3 audio files (*.AC3)
MIDI Audio files (*.MID; *.RMI)
MPEG-1/2 files (*.MPG; *.MPEG)
MPEG-1 Audio Layer-2 files (*.MP2)
MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 files (*.MP3)
Playlist files for MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 (*.M3U)
Playlist files for ASUSDVD XP (*.PLS)
MPEG-1 Video files (*.M1V)
MPEG-2 Video files (*.M2V)
Microsoft Waveform audio files (*.WAV)
Windows Media files (*.ASF; *.WM; *.WMA; *.WMV)
Video for Windows files (*.AVI)
Video CD files (*.DAT)

Note(*): optional features


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HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY
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 Supports video playback acceleration hardware in display chips or integrated chipsets
from ATI, Intel, NVidia, PowerVR, SiS, Trident and VIA/S3. Acceleration functions
include Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (iDCT; only for ATI), Hardware Motion
Compensation and Subpicture Alpha Blending units.


* ASUSDVD XP is fully optimized for multimedia instruction sets such as
AMD 3D Now! Professional, Enhanced 3D Now!, 3DNow!, Intel Streaming SIMD Extensions 2
(SSE2), SSE and MMX.

* Compatible with new DVD-RAM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+RW or DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive with
1394, ATAPI, SCSI or Card Bus interface, as long as the drive conforms to the SFF8090
command set and SBP-2 (if applicable).

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GENERAL PLAYBACK PERFORMANCE AND QUALITY ISSUES
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* In 2 Speaker Mode (Audio Configuration), the "A3D/DirectSound3D" selection may have
weaker audio volume as compared to using "Stereo" or "Dolby Surround". This is a normal
occurrence.

* Limitations about playing DVD files on a HDD:

- The user should open "VIDEO_TS.IFO" (For DVD Video Format) or "VR_MANGR.IFO" (For DVD
Video Recording Format)to play the file set.
- DVD Auto-Resume function will be unavailable.
- Bookmarks may be set during initial playback but will not be available for recall when
playing the file set again.


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MICROSOFT (tm) DIRECTSHOW SUPPORT
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* ASUSDVD XP is Microsoft (tm) DirectShow complaint. Interactive DVD titles or games
can utilize ASUSDVD XP DirectShow filters to decode high-resolution MPEG-2 video clips or
high quality Dolby Digital audio files inherent in such titles or games.

The newest DirectX Runtime must be installed for the filters to work properly.