Multimedia Center™ 8.x

Multimedia Center is ATI’s award winning PC based suite of applications designed for multimedia enjoyment. Included are:

• EazyConnect™ - network support for streaming Live or captured content from an All-in-Wonder to other PCs with Built By ATI Graphics in a home network.
• TV Player – for integrated TV playback on a PC (requires an All-in-Wonder or TV WONDER card)
• DVD Player – Fully featured DVD playback
• VCD Player – for playback of authored or created VCDs
• CD Player – Integrated with online database to provide Title / Artist info
• File Player – Provides playback of many standard captured file formats
• MMC Library – Manage and maintain multimedia content easily
• FM Player – Play, Pause and record FM Radio*

*Requires an All-in-Wonder® 9600 PRO

MMC 8.x runs on Windows® XP, Windows® 2000, and Windows® ME. In addition, Microsoft® DirectX® 9 is recommended.

For Windows® 9X/SE users, MMC 8.x will run using the Windows® ME drivers. However, support for capturing WMV9 content is not provided by Microsoft for Windows® 9X/SE. In addition, Windows® ME or Windows® 9X/SE systems with All-in-WonderS are not recommended as servers for EazyConnect™ functionality.

In addition to a built by ATI Radeon or All-in-Wonder card, the following list provides minimum system requirements:

• Sound Card with DirectSound drivers
• Motherboard with AGP or PCI bus slot
• USB Port (for RF remote control)
• PIII 500, AMD Athlon 500 or better recommended
• 128 MB of memory recommended
• Windows 98(SE), Windows ME, Windows 2000 or Windows XP
• DirectX 9

On a home network where one PC has an All-in-Wonder installed, users will be prompted during initialization of the TV Player to be a server or client. Only one All-in-Wonder may be a server with this release of MMC. Installing MMC on other computers in the house that have either Built By ATI graphics cards or All-in-Wonders users will install the client application. For this first release of EazyConnect™, four client connections are supported.

Client PC’s may request a live TV session or captured content playback from the server. This streamed session may be viewed by all clients. Controls are provided to support channel change requests from multiple clients, scheduling request conflicts as well as a network status utility. Refer to the MMC 8.8 User Guide for further details.

Upgrading to the most recent version of MMC requires your original software CD for validation purposes. If you cannot locate your original CD, please contact ATI customer support at ati.com.

For Existing users of MMC 8.7, the following list provides the new and improved features of MMC 8.8:

• EazyConnect™
• Use your All-in-Wonder to serve live TV or recorded programs to other PC’s on your home network! Client PC’s with ATI Radeon based graphics can now run EazyConnect™ TV and receive streamed TV, change channels, and set a Personal Video Recorder request on the server, and enjoy local control over pausing, replaying, or fast forwarding through a program.
• Personal Video Recorder MPEG4 capture
• Three new presets capture direct to MPEG4 format. Users may edit presets or create personalized MPEG4 settings.
• FM Radio
• Autoscan – For owners of AIW 9600 PRO’s, FM Radio player now supports an autoscan function, populating the available station list with detected frequencies and allowing users to rapidly assign to presets, add station identifiers or create a preferred station list.
• MMC Library
• Export to MPEG4 – Export .VCR format files to MPEG4 file format easily.
• TV Player
• Show Scheduled events – On the pop up menu for record in the TV Player, users have easy access to the Scheduled Events page.
• Unified MMC install
• MMC 8.8 provides an upgrade path for All-in-Wonder, Built By ATI Graphics, and TV WONDER owners.
• MPEG-4
• MPEG-4 capture is compatible with ISO 14496-2, Advanced Simple Profile Format Addendum video encode function

For Existing users of MMC 8.6, the Following list provides the new and improved features of MMC 8.7:

• EazyLook™
  • MULTVIEW™ support - with the addition of an ATI TV WONDER™ PRO or TV WONDER™, users may have Picture-in-Picture display, or watch one channel while recording another, controlling volume and channel changes on each tuner independently through their Remote Wonder™.
  • TVTV for PC - integration with FAST TVTV’s online program guide information for European broadcasters. End users with internet connections and TVTV for PC accounts can scan guide listings, search on show name, date and time, genre, or actors to schedule a recording event.
  • Teletext - integrated into the EazyLook™ user interface is Teletext support, controlled access to Teletext information through the Remote Wonder™.
• File Player
  • Animated slide show transitions - create slideshows of your favourite digital images and watch them transition from one picture to the next.
  • Audio track support - set your slide show to music, using MP3 audio files on your system

For Existing users of MMC 8.5, the Following list provides the new and improved features of MMC 8.6:

• FM Radio Player
  • FM-on-Demand™ pause, replay or export to *.MP3 file format radio broadcasts on FM stations.
  • Scan / seek, 10 presets, channel naming
  • Alarm and sleep functions
  • Schedule recording events
• EazyLook™
  • Channel surfing in EazyLook™
  • Export TV-on-Demand™ files from MMC Library in EazyLook
• Multimedia Center Library
  • User defined file types may be displayed in MMC Library
  • Right click in MMC Library to add user files
  • Support for digital images to use in Slide Show.

For existing users of MMC 8.1, the following list provides the new and improved features of MMC 8.5:

• EazyLook™ - Remote Wonder User interface
  • Simple, onscreen information for Remote Wonder™; selections while using television for display.
  • Instantaneous feedback for remote control selections
  • Extended information on playback options within TV, DVD or File Player.
  • Multimedia Center™; Library entries searchable and selectable from the TV screen
  • Advanced, integrated help on screen
• File Player
  • Slide show in EazyLook™ mode
  • Multiple file format Playlist support in EazyLook™
• Multimedia Center Library
  • File filter sorting through EazyLook™
  • Advanced date filtering through Remote Wonder™ and EazyLook™
  • Select and play Slide Show of Still Capture images

• Support for MULTVIEW™ when combined with an ATI TV WONDER™ PCI card
  • Picture-in-Picture (PiP)
  • Picture-outside-Picture (PoP)
  • Record one while viewing another
  • Watch while channel surfing.
• VideoSoap™ - advanced filtering and noise reduction for personal video recordings
• Improved MPEG encode performance and quality including
  • True field based capture and TV-on-Demand™
  • Improved overall quality at half the bitrate.
• Extended automatic file naming options
• User remappable custom capture presets
• User configurable AVI Audio and Video codecs
• Support for MS WMV9 (a.k.a. "Corona")
• AVI Files larger than 2 Gig.
• Adds the Closed Caption (CC) database which includes:
  • the ability to search CC data for TV-on-Demand™
  • the ability to seek based on CC data for TV-on-Demand™
  • the ability to seek and search based on CC data for captured ATI VCR files
• Fast access to the most recently recorded content
• DVD now includes:
  • support for still capture
  • support for simultaneous dual sub-titles
  • improved S/PDIF support
  • improved title compatibility
• Media Library can now:
  • Protect files from deletion
  • Recommend content for deletion (disk clean up)
  • Export "m3u" style playlists
• File Player now supports the ThruView™ desktop mode

If you are a European customer with a All-in-Wonder or TV WONDER product with Multimedia Center 8.7 or newer, you will have a free trial subscription code printed in on the CD sleeve that the Multimedia Center install CD comes packaged in. This trial code gives you 6 months of free use of the EPG services of FastTv. This includes the ability to find TV programs in your area, and to use the web-site to schedule the recording or viewing of programs on your All-in-Wonder or TV WONDER product.

If you wish to continue using the tvtv for PC services with your PVR, please visit tvtv website for more information.

Support for all tvtv aspects including creating an account, registering a product and any questions regarding subscriptions including purchasing or canceling a subscription should be forwarded to tvtv support via tvtv online support form.

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