
VoverlaX User Manual
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Version 1.0.0.2
4. Hardware Installation
Un-plug the PC’s power cable, open PC case, locate a free PCIe slot (can be of any lane), plug in the
VoverlaX
card and screw it firmly to the back-panel.
Plug in video cables between the external video input/output devices and
VoverlaX
. To view the
incoming video mixed with overlaid text/graphics, external TV monitors need to be connected to the
output sockets of the
VoverlaX
card. Alternatively, video capture cards like
Inventa MPEGIO2 /
USBOSDM2
etc. can be used to accept video and overlay output signals from
VoverlaX.
5. Software Installation
Software installation has two steps: device driver software installation and application software
installation.
5.1
After hardware installation and PC reboot, MS Windows will inform that new hardware is found:
5.2
Put the
VoverlaX
installation CD into PC’s CD/DVD drive, click “Next” button, let Windows
search for device driver specifically from the “
drv
” folder on the installation CD Disk: search the
drv\x86
if the Windows is 32-Bit, or search the “
drv\x64
” folder if the Windows is 64-Bit. During
the driver installation, ignore those warnings such as “Windows cannot verify the publisher of this
driver software…” etc, select “Install this software anyway” to keep going, until the driver is
installed, then check the Windows’ “ControlPanel” to make sure the
“
System->Hardware->DeviceManager”
window’s
“Sound, video and game controllers
”
category has line “
VoverlaX 1.0
” listed without question/exclamation mark for each
VoverlaX
card: