Plug & play, Preview window, Rebooting – Philips PCVC665K User Manual
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Plug & Play
An operating system principle for connecting hardware to your computer. The idea is to automatically
recognize the new hardware and to load the appropriate drivers without restarting your computer. With
USB devices this usually means that you will have to perform an installation procedure only once, i.e. the
first time you connect the new hardware. After this first time, you will not have to restart the computer
when connecting the camera to the USB port. The USB driver will detect the camera as newly connected
hardware. It can be used within a few seconds without the need to restart the computer.
Preview Window
The window within the capture application that is used to display live, or moving, video.
Property page
A window with camera setting tabs that appears when you click on a setting menu item within an
application. This setting menu item can have different names in different applications, but is usually called
'Settings', 'Preferences', 'Video settings' or something similar.
Rebooting
Restarting your PC to initialize all original settings and finalize all settings changed during an installation
procedure.
Resolution
Typically given in terms of pixels, this is used to describe overall video size. This is related to quality in
that the higher the resolution, the better the quality and the more pixels.
TWAIN
Standard software interface for imaging applications. If a hardware device has a TWAIN driver, it can be
used as an image source for TWAIN-compatible imaging applications. Choose your TWAIN source in the
imaging application itself. Then choose 'Acquire' to start the TWAIN driver for the TWAIN source.
USB
Universal Serial Bus, used for connecting external devices to the PC without having to restart your PC.
Video for Windows
Developed by Microsoft, this is a standard for displaying video on the Windows desktop. Windows 98 has
this built in.
Video stream
A collection of images that combine to form motion - or moving - pictures (also known as movies or video
clips).
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