AVerLife Extreme Vision - Lecteur multimédia AVERMEDIA - Free user manual and instructions

USER MANUAL AVerLife Extreme Vision AVERMEDIA

EUROPEAN COMMUNITY COMPLIANCE STATEMENT Class B (EMC)

This product is herewith confirmed to comply with the requirements set out in the Council Directives

on the Approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to Electromagnetic Compatibility

Directive 2004/108/EC.

Safety- Low Voltage Directive 2006/95/EC ErP Directive 2009/125/EC FCC NOTICE (Class B)

This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two

conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any

interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

Federal Communications Commission Statement

NOTE- This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant

to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful

interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy

and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio

communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this

equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by tuning the

equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following

‧ Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

‧ Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

‧ Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.

‧ Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/television technician for help.

CAUTION ON MODIFICATIONS To comply with the limits for the Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules, this device must be

installed in computer equipment certified to comply with the Class B limits. All cables used to connect the computer

and peripherals must be shielded and grounded. Operation with non-certified computers or non-shielded cables may

result in interference to radio or television reception.

Changes and modifications not expressly approved by the manufacturer could void the user’s authority to operate

This B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003.

Cet appareil numerique de la B est conforme a la norme NMB-003 du Canada.

DISCLAIMER All the screen shots in this documentation are only example images. The images may vary depending on the product

and software version. Information presented in this documentation has been carefully checked for reliability; however,

no responsibility is assumed for inaccuracies. The information contained in this documentation is subject to change

©2010 by AVerMedia Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.

No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, or by any means without the prior written

permission of AVerMedia Technologies Inc. AVerMedia Technologies Inc. reserves the right to modify its models,

including their characteristics, specifications, accessories and any other information stated herein without notice. The

official printout of any information shall prevail should there be any discrepancy between the information contained

herein and the information contained in that printout.

"AVerMedia" is a trademark (or registered trademark) of AVerMedia Technologies, Inc. Other trademarks used

herein for description purpose only belong to each of their companies.ii

BATTERY SAFETY INFORMATION

- Store the batteries in a cool dry place.

- Do not dispose of used batteries in domestic waste. Dispose of batteries at special collection points or

return to point of sale if applies.

- Remove the batteries during long periods of non-use. Always remove exhausted batteries from the

remote control. Battery leakage and corrosion can damage this remote control, dispose of batteries

- Do not mix old and new batteries.

- Do not mix different types of batteries: alkaline, standard (carbon-zinc) or rechargeable

- Do not dispose of batteries in a fire. The batteries may explode or leak.

- Never short circuit the battery terminals.

WASTE ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT (WEEE)

The mark of Crossed-out wheeled bin indicates that this product must not be disposed of with your other

household waste. Instead, you need to dispose of the waste equipment by handing it over to a

designated collection point for the recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment. For more

information about where to drop off your waste equipment for recycling, please contact your household

waste disposal service or the shop where you purchased the product.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS This device is designed and manufactured to assure personal safety. Improper use can result in electric shock or fire

hazard. The safeguards incorporated into this unit will protect you if you observe the following procedures for

installation, use, and servicing.

• Read these instructions.

• Keep these instructions.

• Heed all warnings.

• Follow all instructions.

• Do not use this apparatus near water.

• Clean only with dry cloth.

• Do not block any ventilation openings. Install in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions.

• Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators, heat registers, stoves, or other apparatus (including

amplifiers) that produce heat.

• Do not defeat the safety purpose of the polarized or grounding-type plug. A polarized plug has two blades with

one wider than the other. A grounding type plug has two blades and a third grounding prong. The wide blade or

the third prong is provided for your safety. If the provided plug does not fit into your outlet, consult an electrician for

replacement of the obsolete outlet.

• Protect the power cord from being walked on or pinched particularly at plugs, convenience receptacles, and the

point where they exit from the apparatus.

• Only use attachments/accessories specified by the manufacturer.

• Unplug this apparatus during lightning storms or when unused for long periods of time.

• Refer all servicing to qualified service personnel. Servicing is required when the apparatus has been damaged in

any way, such as power-supply cord or plug is damaged, liquid has been spilled or objects have fallen into the

apparatus, the apparatus has been exposed to rain or moisture, does not operate normally, or has been dropped.

• Carefully read and follow the Quick Install Guide and User Manual.

• Do not operate this device outside the temperature range of 5°C–35°C

• Do not drop or shake the device.

• Do not move the device when it is powered on.

• Power supply cords should be routed so that they are not likely to be walked on or pinched by items placed upon

them or against them.

• Do not overload wall outlets.

Manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories.

Dolby and the double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.

International Headquarter

Address No. 135, Jian-Yi Road Chung-Ho City, Taipei County Taiwan

Website www.avermedia.com/avertv

5.3 WIRELESS NETWORK SETUP (OPTIONAL)8

Q: WHY CAN’T I SEE ANYTHING ON TV SCREEN? 16

Q: IS USB HDD EXTERNAL ENCLOSURE NOT SUPPORTED? 16ENG-2

This Quick Guide gives you the fastest way for hand-on procedure to enjoy multimedia

with AVerLife ExtremeVision Media Player. For more details how to use this device,

please refer to the User’s Manual available on AVerMedia website: www.avermedia.com

The product package contains the following items:

AVerLife ExtremeVision Media Player

High Gain USB Wireless Adapter

Power Adaptor Composite Cable Component Cable

WARNING: Be sure to use the power adapter shipped with AVerLife ExtremeVision Media Player. Other power adapters such as the one with 12V output generally for laptop PC will damage or even burn the device.

HDMI Cable Quick Guide

(Batteries included)ENG-3

If you want to power off the system, please press the “POWER” key on the

• Front Panel LED indicator:

Blue color - Booting-up / Operating

3 Peripheral Connections

• HDMI port (1) is for high-definition video and high-quality audio output.

• Optical S/PDIF port (2) is for high-quality audio connected to an external

decoder or amplifier.

• Component (3) is for video output.

• Composite (4) is for standard resolution (NTSC/PAL) TV output.

• The USB port (5) is for HDD enclosure, flash drive, keyboard, mouse, or

wireless dongle (Optional).

* Contact an AVerMedia representative for a USB Wi-Fi dongle to connect your AVerLife

ExtremeVision Media Player to the wireless network.

• The E-SATA port (6) can be plugged by a SATA Disk.

• The ETHERNET port (7) is to connect to your home router for local area

network connection or Internet connection.

4 Using Remote Control

Use the remote control to navigate the menu, and to select and watch videos, listen to

music, or view photos on your television. For more details about how to use the remote

control, please refer to the User’s Manual.

No. KEYPAD FUNCTION DESCRIPTION

7 SORT Sorting all the files in one folder and re-arrange them in

8 INFO Display media info. When pressing twice, it will show more details

9 REPEAT Video & Music: repeat the current file or all files in this folder or

1. Go to the Menu of DVD films.

2. Choose file path when navigating.

18 SET UP Enter SETUP page.

2. Rewind video with speed 2x,4x,8x...

1. Skip to the Previous/Next page when browsing media files.

2. Skip to the Previous/Next file when playing media files.

25 STOP Stop the media playing.

26 SLOW/SLIDE Slow forward / backward the media with speed 1/2x, 1/4x,1/8x…

27 BGM Add/Remove/Play music files or iMedia station as or background

Copy files or folders between USB storage and SATA HDD, or

32 OUTPUT Switch the video output type with Composite—HDMI sequence.

33 AUDIO Select different languages/audio tracks

34 SUBTITLE Select different subtitles

35 HELP Show help messageENG-7

5.1 Setup for TV Mode

Please set the video source selector of

your TV to match the connection from

your AVerLife ExtremeVision Media Player

For example, if you use HDMI, set the TV

S START-UP PAGE Check the TV display by going to “Setup” → “System Setup” → “TV Mode Setup”→

“Video Output”. The default display of AVerLife ExtremeVision Media Player is

NOTE: You can press “SETUP” button on the remote control to enter Setup Main

through the TV modes to get the correct display mode.

5.2 Wired Network Setup

1. Press “SETUP” button on the remote

control or select “SETUP” mode from

Select “Network Setup” → “IP Setup”,

and Enable DHCP or set your static IP

address according to your local

5.3 Wireless Network Setup (Optional)

AVerLife ExtremeVision Media Player supports wireless Ethernet with a USB Wi-Fi

dongle supplied by AVerMedia. To enable wireless function, please make sure you plug

the Wi-Fi dongle into the USB port before Powering on AVerLife ExtremeVision

Media Player. And please be noted that a USB Wi-Fi dongle not authorized by

AVerMedia is NOT supported.

For video of very high-definition, streaming with a wired connection between AVerLife

ExtremeVision Media Player and home router is recommended. Playing music and

photo with wireless connection is fine

1. Press”SETUP“button on the remote control or select “SETUP” from the Main Menu.

2. Press “Network Setup” button Select

“Network Wizard” from Network set up

menu to start setup wizard and choose

3. AVerLife ExtremeVision Media Player scan

displays all available networks,

choose the right one for you.

4. If the network you choose is locked by password, a “Lock” icon will be shown. And the

signal strength is indicated by the RED (poor quality), YELLOW (fair quality) or

GREEN (good quality) light.

5. Select “Key Value”. Enter your password.

The key length of each Key Format is

described in the table below. For WPA and

WPA2 format, AVerLife ExtremeVision Media

Player will detect and switch automatically.ENG-9

English Deutsch Français Italiano Español Português Русский

Key Format Key Length

WPA‐PSK/WPA2‐PSK 8digitsormore

5.4 Firmware Upgrade

There’re two ways to upgrade the firmware. Go to ”Setup” in the main menu and select

‘Version’. The first way to upgrade the firmware is by “Internet Upgrade”, which in

convenient without the necessity of a PC. Make sure AVerLife ExtremeVision Media

Player is connected to the Internet beforehand.Follow the steps below:

1. Go to “Setup Main Menu”, Select

“Version”, and choose ‘Firmware

2. Choose “Internet Upgrade”, the system will automatically search available firmware

code from the Internet.

3. Select ‘Yes’ if you like to proceed. Please

be noted that the power must not be off

during the process, otherwise the

firmware can be crash and AVerLife

ExtremeVision Media Player will not able

4. When the process is successfully finished, AVerLife ExtremeVision Media Player

will reboot automatically.

5. An alternative way is to choose “USB Upgrade”. The latest firmware binary file is

compressed and located on http://www.avermedia.com

. Download the firmware file,

store it in your USB flash disk and uncompress it. The “upgrade.bin” file must be

stored in the root directory for AVerLife ExtremeVision Media Player to detect it.

6. Insert the USB disk to the USB port of AVerLife ExtremeVision Media Player. Go to

“Set Up” → “Version” → “Firmware upgrade” → “USB Upgrade”.

7. Select “Yes” to proceed or “No” to cancel. Please be cautious that the power MUSTENG-10

NOT be turned off during the process.

8. When the process is successfully finished, AVerLife ExtremeVision Media Player

will reboot automatically.

UPnP AV compliant content severs on

boot-up and list them on UPnP column of

the main menu. No additional setup is

necessary on the AVerLife ExtremeVision

Media Player itself.

Note:If you need to connect AVerLife

ExtremeVision Media Player to your computer, please download from www.avermedia.com if UPnp

6.2 Network Neighborhood (Samba Client)

As long as the network is linked and no firewall is blocking the shares from remote sites,

there is no additional set-up to enable this feature.

Following steps show how to access media

through the Samba Client Protocol.

1. Select “My Network Places” in the main

menu and all available sources will be

detected and shown automatically.

2. Press “Down” button to choose the one

target machine and navigate to the

destination files you like to play.ENG-11

English Deutsch Français Italiano Español Português Русский

6.3 Local Storage Device

AVerLife ExtremeVision Media Player supports USB flash disk, USB HDD and eSATA HDD. In the main menu, just choose “MultiMedia” and navigate to play the files you like.

Note: The number of USB ports can be extended by a USB hub, please be careful of the

extra power consumption for the extra devices. AVerLife ExtremeVision Media Player

itself supplies limited power (1.1A) for the USB port.

1. Go to “MultiMedia” at the Main Page.

2. Select the name of your storage device

from the list and press “COPY” button.

3. Select the origin and destination. Press

“OK” button if you want to proceed or “No” to

7.1 Playing Music, Photo and Video files

For the supported file format and container in detail, please refer to the user manual.

Some frequent usage of functions is highlighted as follows:

1. Viewing Video Information: Press “INFO”

button to get video information; press again

2. Searching elapsed time and percentage of a

music or video playing: Press “0(GOTO)”

button on the remote control unit to enter

time seek mode, and press the numeric

buttons directly for a certain percentage of

the file being played.

3. Photo Slide Show: Press ‘OK’ for the selected photo in thumbnail for full-screen

display and press again

to start the slide show.

4. Location Directory Navigation: Press “MENU”

button to go to the ‘directory’ baron the top of

the screen. By pressing the numerical

buttons on the remote control unit during

navigation will sort the file names by the first

letter of the key pressed. This will help you

find the targeted file among many.

5. If you would like to use some functions (like iMEDIA or audio settings etc) while

you’re navigating directories and files, always press hot keys such as ‘HOME’,

‘SETUP’…on the remote control unit instead of just pressing ‘BACK’ button

numerous time. Then it will be easy to go back to where you were in a long directory

path by pressing ‘MULTIMEDIA’ hot keys.ENG-13

English Deutsch Français Italiano Español Português Русский

7.2 Web Browser & RSS Wherever you stay in the user interface,

press “Home” button on the remote control to

return to the main menu as shown below.

Select the icon which shows ‘Web Browser’

and press “OK” button.

The homepage of the web browser will be

displayed, then you can surf the web using

the remote control or keyboard and mouse.

An USB keyboard and mouse can be

plugged to facilitate the web surfing. Make sure you plug it before you enter the Web

If you like to use the remote control unit for web browsing, press “INFO” button to have

the URL bar like below:

A virtual keyboard is also available there by pressing

to ease ‘key in’. Press the

HELP button for help; you’ll get instructions of all function hot keys like below.

When there’s an RSS(Really Simple Syndication) icon like

means the page can be viewed with RSS format used to publish frequently updated

works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video. An RSS document

(which is called a "feed", "web feed" or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus

metadata such as publishing dates and authorsh

ip. Web feeds benefit publishers by

letting them syndicate content automatically.

To add the feed into the RSS list of AVerLife

ExtremeVision Media Player, please click on the

icon on the page.ENG-14

Press “ok” to confirm or “Cancel” to skip.

Go into the RSS page from the main page,

and select the one you like to view. There’re

already some built-in feeds.

7.3 Play Internet Radio- Live 365™

Live365™ is an Internet radio service that provides unlimited on-demand access to

thousands of radio stations. The audio is streamed directly over the Internet. Follow

below steps to access the radio stations:

1. Make sure your network setting is correct and be able to access internet.

2. Select “iMedia” from main menu or press “iMedia” button on the remote control.

3. Select “Live 365” and press “OK” button on remote control.

4. Select a catalog you prefer from the list, or

select “All Broadcasts” to browse all radio

English Deutsch Français Italiano Español Português Русский

5. Select a radio station from list, and press

“OK”, “Play” button to play it.

stands for a radio station.

Note2: Press “BGM” hotkey on the

remote control to add the station into

background music list.

You can use the AVerLife ExtremeVision Media Player to listen to ShoutCast station

without the need for a PC.

1. Select “iMedia” from main menu or choose

2. Navigate to choose one to play.

Because the content is directly streaming from the Internet, please be patient while

the content is being loaded.

Without computer, you can see the photos

from Flickr through AVerLife ExtremeVision

Please follow the steps：

1. Enter “IMedia” button，choose “Flickr”，the

Interestingness and Recent parts will be

shown on screen as below：ENG-16

2. Surfing the photos and press ”OK” button，you can see the full size photo. Press

“OK” again, the playback will be repeated。

3. Press “Search” button will allow you to

search your favorite photos from Flickr。

FAQ Q: Why can’t I see anything on TV screen?

Answer: Please select the correct signal input on your TV set. If you connect the player

to TV via HDMI, please select the right HDMI port no. on your TV set; if you connect the

player to TV via A/V port, please select the right A/V port no. on your TV set.

Q: Why can’t I connect the player to my home network?

swer: If you use wireless connection, please make sure the right encryption way is

selected and right password is entered. Choose the ‘iMedia’ icon on the main menu and

presses “Enter “button; you’ll see if an IP address is assigned.

Q: Is USB HDD External Enclosure not supported?

swer: Please use external power supply for USB HDD External Enclosure.DEU-1

High Gain USB Wireless Adapter

6.2 Network Neighborhood (Samba Client)

High Gain USB Wireless Adapter

High Gain USB Wireless Adapter

Vaya a “Set Up” → “Version” → “Firmware upgrade” → “USB Upgrade”.

High Gain USB Wireless Adapter

e seleccione “Firmware upgrade”

“Set Up” → “Version” → “Firmware upgrade” → “USB Upgrade” (Configurar –

‘HOME’ (PÁGINA PRINCIPAL), ‘SETUP’

ou seleccione “All Broadcasts” (Todas as