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ASUS Live Readme File                   
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System Requirements
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 * ASUS AGP-V3000ZXTV, AGP-V3400TNT/TV, AGP-V3800/TV, AGP-V3800/TVR, AGP-V3800 Deluxe,
   AGP-V3800 Ultra Deluxe, AGP-V6600 ,AGP-V6800 Deluxe display card.
 * DirectX 6 or higher version.
 * Windows 95, 98 , 98 SE , NT or Windows 2000.
 * Windows NT(with Service Pack 3 or greater)
   just supports AGP-V3400, AGP-V3800, AGP-V6600, AGP-V6800.
 * Windows 2000 just supports AGP-V3400, AGP-V3800, AGP-V6600, AGP-V6800.  
     
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Using ASUS Live 
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 * To execute ASUS Live,  please run : 

     "C:\Program Files\ASUS\ASUSLIVE\ASUSLive.exe"
     Assume Windows95/98/NT/2000 is installed on drive "C".

     or Click "Start"->"Program"->"ASUS LIVE"->"ASUSLive"
     
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Uninstall ASUS Live 
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 * To uninstall ASUS Live,  please click 
   "Start"->"Program"->"ASUS LIVE"->"Uninstall"
   It will remove all registry entries and programs

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 Limitation   
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 * For Windows 2000 users:
   1. ASUS Capture driver does not work correctly with ABIT-BP6 MotherBoard.        
 
 * For WINDOWS NT users:
   1.Because WINDOWS NT does not support directx 6 or greater,
     you just can run in capture mode.
   2.The WINDOWS NT display driver must upgrade to version 3.68 or greater.

 * For Japan WINDOWS 98/SE users :
   Because of Japanese special font issue, you may get some unusual display
   format when you use large font. You had better use small font to avoid 
   these problems.

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Release Notes (Version 4.0 Release)       Apr.5,2000         
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 * Fix ASUS Capture drivers for Windows NT and Windows 2000 to take 
   effect when change Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation and 
   Video Standard.
 * In Windows NT and Windows 2000, ASUS Capture drivers does not
   support NTSC-N. 
 
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Release Notes (Version 4.0 Beta 4)       Mar.28,2000         
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 * Add "Mouse Shadow" function in the ASUS panel Setup menu to enable
   or disable the effects of the mouse shadow.
 * Solve capture driver can not work in some motherboards.
 * Add ASUS codec to enable running UYVY capturing and compressing.
 * Fix VFW returning status message that can not show correct message
   in Chinese edition in Windows NT and Windows 2000. 
    
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Release Notes (Version 4.0 Beta 3)       Mar.15,2000         
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 * Support V3400 for WINDOWS NT and WINDOWS 2000.
 * When clicking the minimize button,the main frame will not minimize 
   in the task bar.  

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Release Notes (Version 4.0 Beta 2)       Feb.24,2000         
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 * Support V6800 
 * Replace a all new user interface.
 * Add auto timer recording function.
 * Add Odd/Even field skip function. (only in Live mode)
 * Support Windows NT and Windows 2000. 
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Release Notes (Version 3.5)       Nov.10,1999         
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 * Fix some error display problems under Japanese WINDOWS 98 SE. 
 * Fix capture filename cannot rename error. ( This bug is only occured 
   between version 3.5 beta1 and version 3.5 beta2 )   
    
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Release Notes (Version 3.5B2 (Beta2) )       Oct.11,1999         
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 * Add Captured File(s) List dialog box. It displays these files (snapshot
   or video recording) you have captured. You may double click the file
   you want to view or play under the captured files list box. You may
   press <F4> whenever you want to show this dialog box.
 * Add status message while capturing data, it tells user how many MBs 
   we have captured and how many available MBs left can be captured.
   Note : ASUS Live will reserve 30 MB free space every partition for 
          capturing because of avoidance of disk data transfer error from 
          disk fragmentation. If you meet any capture trouble, try to 
          defragment HD before you start capture.
   
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Release Notes (Version 3.5B (Beta) )       Oct.6,1999         
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 * Re-Design all setup dialog boxes as property-sheet format. 
 * Add hardware prefiltering function, you may select this option at 
   "Video Format" setting box under Live mode.
 * Support SECAM signal.
 * Add Video Recording may capture AVI file size more than 2G bytes.
   (See "capture.txt" for more detail describe )
 * Disable V3000 Bob display method option temporal.
 * Add a new data binary file "asusfreq.ini", this file is designed to 
   store your TV channel data and turning result, and it is put in your 
   ASUS Live installed directory. You may backup this file to keep your 
   channel setting even you re-install or upgrate new version of ASUS 
   Live.
   Note : For TV channel data storing , it is only work under autoscan 
          mode.

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Release Notes (Version 3.42)                Sep.29,1999         
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 * Remove capture driver install procedure from ASUS Live setup wizard.
   Form now on, please download and install newest display driver to
   update capture driver.
   Note: Newest capture driver version 3.8.1.4 will be installed by
         V3400/V3800 display driver v2.25.

 * Add capture driver version information display, you can click <About>
   under capture mode to see the capture driver version information for
   current use.
 * Add Hot-key F9 to switch the OSD video parameter ( like hue,color,
   contrast... etc. ) adjustment, you may use <up>, <down>, <right>, 
   <left> key to select these items also.
 * Add video macrovision detecting function. If you try to use video 
   recording source which has macro vision protection, you can not capture
   it by ASUS live capture function.

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Release Notes (Version 3.4)                 August.4,1999         
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 * Fix the HD DMA mode check error problem.
   
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Release Notes (Version 3.4 Beta1)                 July.16,1999         
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 * Update ASUS capture driver. (3.8.1.2 -> 3.8.1.3 )
 * Fix the Sony Play Station game video can not show properly problem.
 * Support new channel mode names "full scan mode" now. 
   If your country is not supported within our default country cable 
   list, you may try to use this fullscan function let ASUS Live find 
   the possible tuner frequency in your location.
 
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Release Notes (Version 3.3)                 July.5,1999         
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 * Fix the capture driver V3.8.1.2 is error under PAL mode.  
 * Add video display on WINDOWS wallpaper function. Since this version 
   is beta test, so we haven't put this function on our UI panel. Now it 
   design to use hot key <F8> to switch wallpaper/normal mode, next version
   we will put this function on our UI control panel.
   There are some important notice when you use wallpaper display :
   (1) Wallpaper display function only execute in Live-mode. 
   (2) You should not replace your wallpaper when you watch video under 
       wallpaper display mode.
   (3) On-Screen video parameter adjustment is disable under wallpaper
       display mode.   
 * Support ASUS V3000/TV card now. Since the new capture driver V3.8.1.2
   is only design for V3400 and V3800, so when install program prompt 
   if you want to install capture driver, please select NO for V3000/TV
   users.
   
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Release Notes (Version 3.3 Beta)                   June.22,1999         
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 * New capture driver V3.8.1.2 is release.
 * In early version, ASUS Live has Live3400 and Live3800 two version,
   It depends on the display card you install on your machine, but now
   we integrate Live3400 and Live 3800 together, and call this version 
   "ASUS Live".
 * Support more channel mode : West Europe cable , Netherlands cable,  
   West Europe air and Netherlands air.
 * Add ASUS capture driver detection, if the capture driver you install
   is not suit for ASUS Live, it will give a warning message.
 * Fix the problem that system cannot memorize channel list when you 
   finish auto-scan under Hongkong cable or Hongkong air channel mode.
        
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Release Notes (Version 3.2 Beta)                   June.1,1999         
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 * Correct capture driver cannot set default problem :
 
   (1) In early version (before v3.1), if user want to use ASUS codec 
       to capture video stream data from ASUS Live , he must adjust capture
       file format to UYVY format and set compressor to ASUS codec, these
       steps are not convenient for user , and these configurations are 
       not recallable. That means user should reset these parameter every time
       ,this is very annoyed. This version fix this problem. 
   (2) Add ASUS Codec ASV1 and ASV1 high quality two options for compressor
       and take ASUS codec ASV1 as the default codec
       
 * Vary some function and operation :
 
   (1) Rename the original "Capture Single Frame" to "Snapshot" and "Capture
       Video" to "Video Recording". Replace "Snapshot Setting" to "Open AVI 
       File" icon on main control panel.
   (2) In snapshot mode , user can capture video stream data as image 
       consecutively, and show these images on desktop concurrently. It 
       also support plug-in picture viewer or image processing program 
       like Photoshop ( user can make setting in Snapshot Setting ), the 
       default picture viewer is WINDOWS mspaint (paint brush) but user can
       coordinate any image viewer he likes.
   (3) Similar to Snapshot, Video Recording also provide user capture any
       video stream data capability and playback on desktop. For convenience,
       all recording video files are automatically append number on capture 
       filename until user change filename in this version .
       
 * Add AVI trans-code to MPEG1 or MPEG2 video file format function, but this
   is extra option, is not free for this version. (so all MPEG trans-code 
   function option is disable in this version)
 
 * Add IDE device DMA mode state on/off checking :
 
   If you want to capture video with the maximum performance (704*480 30
   frames/sec ), you must enable your hard disk DMA transfer mode on if 
   you use EIDE HD, then it will get the maximum data transfer capability
   on video capture process to achieve the maximum performance goal. How
   to turn on DMA mode is implement on ASUSLive Tip Message Windows, when
   you execute ASUSLive first time, it will show this message dialog if you
   didn't not set DMA transfer mode.

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Release Notes (Version 3.1 Beta)                       May.7,1999         
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 * Support more channel mode : JAPAN cable, UK cable, Honk Kong cable, 
   CHINA air,Taiwan air, JAPAN air, UK air, Honk Kong air, Germany air
   and US air channel mode
 * Support frequency tuning function for each channel (click 'SET' button
   under control panel, and click 'Tunning' button to run, or use 
   CTRL-F hot key to execute tunning)
 * Support channel autoscan calibration function (click 'SET' button 
   under control pannel, and click 'Calibrate' button for validation, 
   then you can adjust the calibrate index value (0 - 9) to acquire
   the autoscan tolerance range 

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Release Notes (Version 3.00)                       Apr.21,1999         
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 * support various video format and capture size
   NTSC-M, NTSC-N, NTSC-4.43, PAL-M: 704x480, 352x240, 176x120, 88x60
   PAL-BGHI, PAL-N, PAL-4.43: 704x576, 352x288, 176x144, 88x72
 * in capture mode, click on the 'Capture Settings' button to bring up 
   the 'Capture Settings' dialog box. Then, customize your capture 
   settings. (frame rate, audio capture, capture time,...) 
 * support video compression 
 * support Always-On-Top (move cursor over the play window,click right 
   mouse button to bring up the context menu, check the 'Always On Top' 
   item)
 * support two display method, Bob and Weave, in the live mode 


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Release Notes (Version 2.21)                       Dec.14,1998                   
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 * Remove the "Capture Time Limit" option on the "Set Capture File" 
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Release Notes (Version 2.20)                       Oct.03,1998                   
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 * support ASUS TV tuner Box
 * provide on-line help 
 * support DirectX 6
 * support high resolution still image capture
   NTSC: 352x240, 704x480, 1056x720, 1408x960, 1760x1200
   PAL:  352x288, 704x576, 1056x864, 1408x1152, 1760x1440
 * support different dimensions of capture window
   NTSC-M, NTSC-N, NTSC-4.43, PAL-M: 352x240
   PAL-BGHI, PAL-N, PAL-4.43: 352x288
 * click the button 'Show/Hide Video Source Options' to show or hide 
   video source options on the display window. Then, you can set 
   brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, video connector and video 
   standard by clicking the left, right, up and down buttons on the 
   panel.
 * shortcut key
    <Ctrl+S> Full-screen 
    <F5>     Capture single frame
    <F6>     Capture frames
    <F7>     Capture video
 * play Video for Windows AVI file 


***** For ASUSLive, the first release version is v2.20 *****