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Harmony 4E

User Manual

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Page 1: ...Harmony 4E User Manual...

Page 2: ...y their respective companies c Visual Circuits 1999 2003 All rights reserved No portion of this manual may be copied by any means without the prior consent of Visual Circuits Visual Circuits Corporati...

Page 3: ...e interference at his or her own expense The Hamony 4E complies with Part 15 EN61000 3 2 of the FCC rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 This device may not cause harmful inter...

Page 4: ...Member States relating to electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits Each amended by Council Directive 93 68 EEC of 22 July 1993 on the harmonization of CE marking requirement...

Page 5: ...OVERVIEW Overview 1 Installation Guide 3 Editing Driver Settings 15 Troubleshooting Overview 23 Troubleshooting Tips 25 Contacting Visual Circuits Corporation 31 Appendix 33...

Page 6: ...Contents...

Page 7: ...tion 4 Cable Installation A V Breakout 5 Driver Installation Windows 2000 NT 4 0 6 Starting Playback 14 Editing Driver Settings 15 Driver Editing Utility Harmony VccReg exe 15 Common Driver Parameters...

Page 8: ...d Servers 21 Multi Threading and Drive Mapping 21 Troubleshooting Overview 23 Server Setup Check 23 Getting Started 24 Troubleshooting Tips 25 BIOS Settings 25 Blue screen 25 Message says Harmony Driv...

Page 9: ...nnels pause when a new file is started on a channel 29 No audio 29 More than one board will not play or make a few horizontal lines on the screen 30 Contacting Visual Circuits Corporation 31 Contactin...

Page 10: ...iv Contents...

Page 11: ...video along with either Dolby Digital audio or Stereo PCM audio via S PDIF Alternately Harmony 4E can also output RGB sync on green or component video The Harmony 4E card also supports a dynamic On Sc...

Page 12: ...for channels 1 2 and the output labeled CH3 4 is designated for channels 3 4 Note Visual Circuits does not carry cable adapters and accessories see page 36 for details Application Interface API for th...

Page 13: ...ecurely in the PCI slot when the system power is applied damage to the Harmony 4E board may occur CAUTION It is possible to damage system components primarily the system s mainboard if power is applie...

Page 14: ...of the chassis and that the outer edge of the card rests securely according to the chassis design Consult with the chassis manufacturer for specific guidelines Figure 2 Installation of Harmony 4E Card...

Page 15: ...e the Universal Cable in place with the two screws 4 Attach the patch cables to the Universal Cable as per the installation 5 If desired connect Y adapter audio cables 1 8 inch 3 5 mm stereo phone plu...

Page 16: ...kip ahead to Part 2 NOTE Apply strain relief as required when attaching patch cables The set screws will easily support the Universal Cable strain but will not take into account the weight and strain...

Page 17: ...d appears as 4 devices to the system Therefore you will be prompted by Windows to install a driver for each individual video channel 1 Install the decoder card s according to the board s user manual P...

Page 18: ...my device and click Next Figure 5 Search For Suitable Driver For My Device Screen 3 Windows will ask where to look for the location of the driver file for this device Select the location of the suppl...

Page 19: ...5 Now that the driver is installed for this channel select Finish You may be asked to reboot your system Do NOT reboot your system Click No and continue the procedure for installing additional channel...

Page 20: ...isplay a list of the known drivers for this device so that I can choose a specific driver and then click Next Figure 9 Display List of Known Drivers Screen 8 The Hardware Wizard will have already foun...

Page 21: ...lation Screen 10 A dialog box will appear informing you that this device does not have a digital signature and will ask you if you still want to install it click Yes Figure 12 Digital Signature Not Fo...

Page 22: ...nstallation Full Driver Install Choose this option to install the driver and all software You will be asked a series of questions to configure the driver Your current parameter settings will be overwr...

Page 23: ...iar with the driver settings Harmony SDK User Manual Contains information about writing programs that use the driver Uninstall MPEG 2 Drivers Select this to uninstall all Visual Circuits driver and ap...

Page 24: ...ations are closed Run Harmony Vidserve the playback application located under Visual Circuits programs Browse to the MPEG file desired and open it Click Load and wait for the position counter to stop...

Page 25: ...gned specifically for editing the VCCmpeg2 driver settings There are four tabs containing different parameters descriptions of these parameters and driver default settings The four tabs in Harmony Vcc...

Page 26: ...e Value field and click the set button If you want to restore the default value click the set to default button General Network 0 The driver cannot read files over the Windows NT network 1 The driver...

Page 27: ...drive Default 1 Single MPEG storage drive normal operation Range 1 4 See Dual Card Servers on page 21 for more information MaxFileRead Set the largest file read the driver will perform It must be larg...

Page 28: ...rChannel x 4 x number of cards 800000 hex e g 1 card 1800000 hex 2 card 2800000 hex This parameter will be set correctly by the installer for the number of cards you chose Default 0 NT 2000 automatica...

Page 29: ...nge 0 2 Special InitOnOpen 0 Files are loaded smoothly without a disturbance to the video output 1 The decoder chip is reinitialized whenever a new file is loaded Output is black after load until it p...

Page 30: ...Late mpgLoadNext calls will be ignored 1 Playback will always resume Default 1 Range 0 1 MaxCards The number of channels to initialize can be fewer than the actual number of channels in the bus for te...

Page 31: ...s should read files from a different physical hard drive You must configure your application so that MPEGs are read from the correct drives by the correct channels If MaxDisks is left at the default v...

Page 32: ...Dual Card Servers 22...

Page 33: ...onfirm that all video and audio cables are connected properly Video output is compatible with TVs or videos monitors not standard VGA computer monitors Select the correct input type for the display Ex...

Page 34: ...lay and Black check boxes are not selected on the main window Using the Browse button select a file for channel 1 and click Open Note the Position window and see that the counter has stopped increasin...

Page 35: ...h device into the system and rebooting Usually starting with the VGA AGP card if not on board Try placing the Harmony 4E card in a different PCI slot Message says Harmony Driver not found when Harmony...

Page 36: ...e same display Try using other cables Note that the output of the decoder board will not display on a PC monitor Dolby Digital MPEG files cannot play on the analog output Stuttering files during Playb...

Page 37: ...ng playback Review the original source material and determine if the timecode are correct for the tape or if the encoding session was actually started and closed on the correct frames SMPTE time codes...

Page 38: ...to a file If so the data may be corrupt Make sure that NTSC is not being played to PAL or vice versa the vertical resolution is 576 in PAL and 480 in NTSC Set the PAL setting in Harmony VCC Reg to ag...

Page 39: ...r at a time Close all programs using the Harmony driver and run Harmony Vidserve again All channels pause when a new file is started on a channel Be sure buffers are fully loaded prior to playing As t...

Page 40: ...More than one board will not play or make a few horizontal lines on the screen Make sure BIOS is not set to PnP operating system Verify number of boards and number of channels using Harmony VccReg exe...

Page 41: ...supplier for support collect the following pieces of information The serial number of the decoder board The date of purchase of the unit The name of the distributor or sales representative who sold t...

Page 42: ...United States 1 800 250 5533 Outside of the United States 763 571 7588 Returning Materials to Visual Circuits Corporation If the decoder board has problems that cannot be corrected over the telephone...

Page 43: ...o output POWER All four channels active 10 5w Typical playback to TV PCI Voltages 3 3V 2 8A TV 12V 0 09A 12V Not used AUDIO PARAMETERS Sampling rates supported 32khz 44 1 khz 48khz 96 khz Frequency re...

Page 44: ...or PAL software selectable Encoder Broadcast quality digital video encoder with post filtering Resolution CCIR 601 720x480 NTSC or 720 x 576 PAL Driver supports automatic selection of SIF format for...

Page 45: ...works well for video is the Belden series 9221 mini coaxial cable but other cable manufacturers can also be used Ambient temperature Operating 0 deg C to 40 deg C Non operating 40 deg C to 60 deg C MI...

Page 46: ...erly grounded within the D Sub and that proper strain relief is provided to prevent separation of wires from the pins or connectors Also ensure that all connectors whether BNC RCA or other are of high...

Page 47: ...TABLE Pin No Harmony 1 GROUND 2 AUDIO L 3 3 COMP 3 4 LUMA 3 5 AUDIO L 2 6 COMP 2 7 LUMA 2 8 AUDIO L 1 9 COMP 1 10 LUMA 1 11 AUDIO L 0 12 COMP 0 13 LUMA 0 14 NOT USED 15 AUDIO R 3 16 CHROMA 3 17 AUDIO...

Page 48: ...Appendix 38 20 AUDIO IN L 21 AUDIO R 1 22 CHROMA 1 23 VIDEO IN 24 AUDIO R 0 25 CHROMA 0 Pin No Harmony...

Page 49: ...dware description 33 I InitOnOpen 19 installing 4 L latent images 27 M MaxDisks 17 21 MaxDMA 17 MaxFileRead 17 MinDMA 17 MinFileRead 17 mounting bracket 3 MPEG 21 26 29 multiple drives 21 N Network 16...

Page 50: ...2 VideoVSize 19 Vidserve 29...

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