■ appendix C Using Power Cinema A P P E N D I X ▼ C USING POWER CINEMA C-1
■ appendix C Using Power Cinema Software Installation: Power Cinema resides in a separate HDD partition to Windows. When you press the “P” button while the notebook is off, the computer boots to the Linux environment and launches the Power Cinema application. If you are required to re-install Windows O/S or when you have purchased a new or upgraded HDD, you need to observe the following steps before installing Power Cinema. 1. Partitioning.
■ appendix C Using Power Cinema 2. Installation. 2-1 Before installing Linux system, please make sure you have a "4th partition" on the HDD and it should be 500MB. If not, please create a new one. 2-2 Insert the PCM4 Linux installation disc into the optical drive and reboot the system. 2-3 When system finished booting from the optical drive, you should see a warning message. Read it carefully. 2-4 In the step above, follow the on-screen instruction.
■ appendix C Using Power Cinema Using Power Cinema: PowerCinema is an integrated player for Audio CDs, music clips, photos, DVD/VCD movies, and video clips. To watch or listen to different types of media, click a content button on the Welcome page. The corresponding function opens, allowing you to enjoy the type of media you have selected. Finding and Playing Content Click or press Enter to open folders and to play or view media files. To go up a folder level, click the onscreen up arrow.
■ appendix C Using Power Cinema N Next/End Esc Quit P Previous/Beginning Spacebar Pause Q Mute 0-9 Enter numbers 0-9 S Stop A Angle T Step B Scan backward U Subtitles E Step backward Music Clips Use this function to listen to music files in MP3 and WAV formats. Click Device to select a media source. You can select CDROM (for media on a CD), USB Devices (for media on a removable device), or HDD (for media in hard disk folders).
■ appendix C Using Power Cinema Click a video clip to play it. Whenever you move the mouse during playback, player controls appear at the bottom of the screen. These player controls include the following: Play (plays the movie), Stop (stops movie playback), Pause (pauses movie playback), and Quit (returns to the Welcome page). These controls automatically disappear several seconds after the mouse stops moving.
