User Manual

POSITION
WIRE #
SIGNAL NAME:
BOTTOM-LEFT
12
n/c
13
n/c
14
n/c
15
n/c
Pioneer LaserDisk/DVD DB-15 Female
The ground connections to pins #11 and #15 may need to be disconnected when
used with Pioneer DVD players. The usage of these pins are different from those of their
LaserDisk counterparts.
In general, you send a command to a Pioneer LaserDisk/DVD player as two ASCII
characters (with occasional variables), followed by a <carriage return> character (0Dh).
The LaserDisk/DVD player will then respond when it has completed the task with an up-
per case ʻRʼ followed by a <carriage return> character (0Dh). A number of different
commands can be stacked together and then followed by a single <carriage return>
character (0Dh) to get them all rolling. The LaserDisk/DVD player will go through all of
these commands in the order they were entered and then return an ʻRʼ followed by a
<carriage return> character (0Dh) when it has finished the last command. This can save
a lot of string space if you are sending complicated strings to the LaserDisk/DVD player.
The majority of commands which you might need to use are all pretty simple two or
three character ones. The one complicated ʻsearchʼ command is handled transparently
to you when you insert a LaserSearch character in the string being sent to the
LaserDisk/DVD player (the Br-SDC must first be told it is running a Pioneer player). This
string only performs a search for the starting frame of the show on the LaserDisk/DVD
player. For this reason it is normally followed by a ʻPLʼ (play) command in the same
string.
A typical start string for a LaserDisk/DVD show is:
! LaserSearch ʻPʼ ʻLʼ <CR> (ʻRʼ) (<CR>) end-o-string
Translated into HEX ASCII, this string would be displayed on the String Setup Menu
as:
! serch 50h 4Ch 0Dh (52h) (0Dh)
Notice that after the LaserSearch command we have to then tell the LaserDisk/DVD
to start playing, and that this command is followed by one <carriage return> character to
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