ATI Technologies 137-40188-60 - Manual (Page 39)

Using Your ATI Multimedia Center 39
Digital VCR
The Digital VCR provides
simple controls and
powerful capture options.
You can capture a clip of
full-motion video and audio from your video source and save it
as an MPEG or AVI file. You can play captured files in the File
Player (see
File Player on page 78.) The Schedule feature lets
you record TV programs on the dates and times you specify (see
Schedule on page 83).
To start the Digital VCR
When you capture video (see To record a clip of video and
audio on page 35) from TV, the Digital VCR opens
automatically. If you want the Digital VCR to prompt you
before recording, click the Prompt before Recording
checkbox in the Digital VCR tab of the TV Player Setup page
(see
Digital VCR settings on page 40).
Saving and compressing captured video
The Digital VCR Custom Settings... page lets you compress
your captured video and save it in several industry-standard
formats (see Recording Quality in
Digital VCR settings on
page 40). The quality of the video that you capture depends on
the following conditions:
• speed of your system (CPU)
• amount of system memory (RAM)
• performance of your hard disk
• size of the video capture window
• Video codec (encoder-decoder) used
Note
Because TV-on-Demand records to your hard drive,
you cannot use the Digital VCR in TV-on-Demand
mode (see
TV-on-Demand™ on page 36). Instead,
use the Export function when you are in TV-on-
Demand mode (see
To export time-shifted video on
page 38.)