Requirements
Cinemix supports:
- Pentium MMX processors and higher
- graphics cards: VESA 2.0 compliant, Matrox, ATI, VooDoo
- sound cards: Sound Blaster, SB 128 PCI, SB Live!, VIA 82Cxxx, ES137x, CS42xx, Intel 8xx, SIS 6xx/7xx, CMI 8xxx, MSS, ...
- CD/DVD and HDD drives - IDE bus and most popular SATA
- file systems: ISO9660, FAT, NTFS and EXT2
- file formats: MPG, AVI, ASF, MP3, WMA, OGG, ...
- video codecs: DIVX3, DIVX4, DIVX5, XVID, 3IVX, MPEG, MSMPEG4x, ...
- audio codecs: MP2, MP3, AC3, WMA, OGG, ...
- DVD and VCD films
- sound only in stereo
- subtitles in time and frame format
Cinemix does not support:
- TV tuners
- some sound cards (mostly the newer ones like High Definition Audio, Sound Blaster X-Fi)
- 4,5,6 channel sound and via SPDIF connector
- remote control
- network adapters and network generally
- CD-ROMs and hard drives on SCSI, USB etc.
- USB pendrives and generally USB mass storage devices
- RAID systems
- mouse
Minimum hardware requirements:
- Pentium MMX processor (recommeded 400 MHz or better - depends on the movie)
- 32 MB RAM (might work with less)
- PCI graphics card with 4 MB RAM VESA 2.0 compliant (e.g. Riva, ATI, S3, SIS)
- ISA sound card (SB 16 or compatible, SB AWE 32-64, Crystal CX4235)
- CD-ROM drive 12x
Recommended hardware:
- AMD Athlon/Duron, Intel Celeron/P3 ~700 MHz
- 64 MB RAM
- AGP graphics card with 16-32MB RAM (Matrox, ATI, nVidia)
- PCI sound card (SB128, SB Live!, VIA 82Cxxx, CMI 8xxx)
- CD-ROM drive 40x or DVD
TV-out on graphics cards
In most cases to display picture from a computer on a TV the only thing you have
to do is to connect them and power up the computer. That's because when during
initialization BIOS detects that a TV is connected it activates TV-out function.
Here's what needs to be done:
- Turn off the computer,
- Connect the TV and computer,
- If you have Riva TNT2 or older card disconnect the monitor cable form graphics card,
- Turn on TV, switch it to AV and turn on computer,
- If you can see the picture on TV then everything is OK.
When displaying the picture on TV resolution is limited to 800x600 but it has no particular influence when watching movies.
Chinch + Mini Jack -> Euro-Scart adapter
You can use this adapter when it's more convenient to connect cable with Euro-Scart plug to TV. It's advantage is that it allows playing sound through TVs speakers.
(view of plug from pins side)