Eurocom M590K EMPEROR - Manual (Page 105)

Modules
PC Camera Module 7 - 5
7
EMAMCAP
The EMAMCAP video viewer can capture video files to .avi format, and is useful
for basic general purpose video viewing and testing (a number of commercially
available programs support advanced video capture features).
1. Run the EMAMCAP program from the Start > Programs/All Programs > USB2.0
1.3 PC Cam menu (it is recommended that you set the capture file before the
capture process - see Set Capture File below).
2. Go to the Capture menu heading and select Start Capture.
3. On the first run of the program (if you have not set the captured file) you will be
asked to choose a file name, size (see the sidebar - Pre-Allocating File Space)
and location for the captured file.
4. Click OK to start capturing the video, and press Esc to stop the capture.
5. If you wish to, you may go to the File menu and select Save Captured Video...,
choose a file name and location, and then click Open (you can view the file using
the Windows Media Player).
Set Capture File
In the EMAMCAP program you will only be asked to set the capture file name on
the first run of the program. When you run the program the next time the file will
automatically be overwritten with the newly captured file. To avoid overwriting files
you can go to the Set Capture File.. option in the File menu, and set the file name
and location before capture. Set the name and location then click Open
(you can
choose Cancel to ignore the file size if prompted).
Pre-Allocating File
Space
You may pre-allocate
the file size for the cap-
ture file in the EMAM-
CAP program. You can
choose to ignore this by
clicking Cancel.
Pre-allocating space on
the hard disk can im-
prove the capture quali-
ty (particularly of large
capture files), by reduc-
ing the amount of work
the hard disk has to do
in finding space for the
video data as it is being
captured.
You may find it helpful to
defragment the HDD be-
fore capture.