■ 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 multimedia player launch key 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 2.3 The Wizard will appear. In the Wizard, choose Primary Partition to create a primary partition and click Next. 2.4 It will show 550MB and click Next. 2.5 Choose “Do not assign a drive letter or drive path” and click Next. 2.6 Choose “Do Not format this partition” and click Finish. Now, this partition is ready for Power Cinema to be installed.
■ appendix C Using Power Cinema 3. Installation. 3-1 Before installing Linux system, please make sure you have followed and performed the pre-installation instruction in the previous section. 3-2 Insert the PCM4 Linux installation disc into the optical drive and reboot the system.
■ appendix C Using Power Cinema 3-6 When installation is finished, turn off the system. 3-7 Press the Power Cinema Launch button to start Power Cinema. Note: If you made a mistake in the steps above, (for example, you didn't type "YES" in the 4th step), the system will exit to a Linux shell. If you still want to install PCM Linux, you can continue the installation by typing "install.sh" in the command prompt and you will return to the installation steps as above.
■ 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.
