User Manual
Pearl-2 User Guide
1. Login to the Admin panel as admin, see Connect to the Admin panel.
2. From the Channels menu, select the channel and click Layouts. The custom layout editor page opens.
3. In the layouts list, select the row for the layout you want.
4. In the items list below the layout editing area, select the video source. The video source settings appear.
5. Uncheck Keep aspect ratio when scaling.
6. In the layout editing area, click and drag to stretch the video source to fill the frame.
7. Click Save.
Use a specific EDID for the video input port
Extended display identification data (EDID) is data provided by a video display device, like a monitor. The
EDIDdescribes the display's capabilities to a video source, such as the graphics card in a PCor other video
output device.
In Pearl-2, the video source uses the EDID information to determine what resolutions, color depth, and other
settings the monitor supports.
EDID is crucial for DVI sources.
The video input ports on Pearl-2 have a factory set EDID. When you connect a video source such as a laptop
or camera to Pearl-2, the video source sees Pearl-2 as if it were a monitor. The EDID that's assigned to the
input port is read by the video source to determine what video signal it needs to send to Pearl-2.
Usually, the video input ports on Pearl-2 correctly emulate a monitor for the connected video source.
However, there are times when you may need to upload a custom EDID, like when your source uses a custom
set of display properties.
When you upload a custom EDIDto an input port on Pearl-2, you can force the port to supply a specific
resolution, color depth, etc to the connected video source.
Upload a new EDID
In most cases, the factory installed default EDID works fine for sources connected to the HDMI ports on Pearl-
2. However, there may be times when a connected video source uses resolutions that you do not want to use.
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