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Matrox G200 MMS – User Guide
Video snapshots
Click the
Video Snapshot
button (
) on the Matrox PC-VCR
remote to save a digital still image (“frame capture”) of the current PC-VCR video window.
Video snapshots can be saved as bitmap (
*.bmp
) or JPEG (
*.jpg
) files. You can adjust the
quality, and as a result the file size of JPEG video snapshots.
Video window cropping
If the Matrox PC-VCR
LINE
or
TV
button is selected, hold
down the [Shift] key, then click the video window display area. This opens a dialog box that
lets you trim the edges of the video window display. This is useful for hiding information
along the edges of a video image or if you just want to see part of your video window display.
You can also hold down the [Ctrl] key, then drag in the video window to crop. To restore
cropping settings, right-click the video window, then click the
Reset Cropping
menu item.
Hot keys
Assign keyboard shortcuts to many Matrox PC-VCR controls.
Audio
With a sound card installed in your computer, you can adjust your computer
sound output with Matrox PC-VCR.
TV tuner
With the TV tuner built into your graphics card, you can:
#
Simultaneously preview up to 30 channels in a single window.
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Change channels with PC-VCR controls.
#
Schedule TV program timer events for different channels.
#
Password-protect certain TV channels (“parental lock”).
#
Auto Scan for tunable TV channels.
#
Define certain channels as your favorites and quickly skip to those channels with the
PC-VCR channel up and down buttons.
To turn some features on or off, click the Matrox PC-VCR mode indicators (
,
,
,
,
). For more information on Matrox PC-VCR features and controls, see its context-
sensitive help. Click “
” on the title bar of a dialog box, then click a dialog box item.
Note:
In a video window with no cropping, the edges of video images may appear distorted.
You normally don’t see this distortion on a TV because most TVs crop the edges of video
images. Professional video equipment doesn’t produce this distortion but consumer-
quality video equipment may. You can use the cropping feature of Matrox PC-VCR to hide
this distortion.
