Unibrain iZak manual

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iZak™ User Guide November 2004 Congratulations of buying your iZak™ Portable Media Center. iZak™ is a Portable Digital Multimedia Storage and Player device that you can connect to any PC or Mac via USB-2 (plug & play) in or der to copy your favorite contents (music, movies, pictures, data files). Once you have tr ansferred your data to iZ[...]

iZak™ User Guide T able of Content s TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................................... 3 TECHNICAL SUPPORT INFORMATION ................................................................................ 5 FEATURES OF IZAK™ ..................................................[...]

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iZak™ User Guide T echnical Support Information All technical support questions should be directed to the following email address: support@unibrain.com This address is monitored throughout the day by Unibrain’s 1394 support team, who will respond quickly and with the required technical accuracy, to your questions. For pricing and marketing info[...]

iZak™ User Guide Features of iZak™ Light Design Everything you love about multimedia, movies, music and photos is brought to you with iZak™. The slim and elegant design of iZak™ lets you bring along enough storage capability of up to 80Gbytes or up to 1,000,000 Photos in VGA, or 20,000 MP3 songs, or 80 MPEG4 (DivX) movies, or 15 MPEG2 (DVD)[...]

iZak™ User Guide PC/Mac connection iZak™ can be connected to any PC or Mac via USB interface supporting all file form ats: FAT32, NTFS, HFS+ (Mac OS extended). With up to 480 Mbps transfer rate (in USB-2 connections) you can quickly move large multimedia files from your host to iZak™. Please notice that you don’t need external power adaptor[...]

iZak™ User Guide Remote iZak™ is equipped with an elegant infrared remote control providing standard DVD functionality buttons. It is small in design (just 150 x 50 mm) and as thinnest possible (8mm). Please refer to the chapter “TV Connection” for a detailed description of the remote functionality. Firmware up date You will be able to upgr[...]

iZak™ User Guide Aw a r ds Unibrain Awarded Top Honors for iZak™ as the winner of “The Best of RetailVision Awards”™ for Har dware products at the 2004 RetailVision Europe, held September 21-23 in Munich, Germany. The RetailVision is the premier global event for the retail channel. “The Best of Ret ailVision Awards”™ honours excelle[...]

iZak™ User Guide Package Content s Before proceeding with the product installation and usage, please verify that you received the following: Item Part picture Part Description Check ( √ ) Re-order codes 1 Your iZak™ portable media center with 40GB or 80GB Hard Disk capacity. Please notice that the device is not intended to be opened by the us[...]

iZak™ User Guide Item Part picture Part Description Check ( √ ) Re-order codes 5 AV Cable Standard (Composite RCA, S-Video mini DIN, Left/Right Analogue Audio RCA) USA: 8013 Europe/Asia: 24-ZAVSTD-CAB Bar code: 81985700 813 4 6 Digital Audio Cable SPDIF Coaxial (RCA to mini jack) USA: 8019 Europe/Asia: 24-ZSPCOP-CAB Bar code: 81985700 819 6 7 U[...]

iZak™ User Guide Moreover you can buy from Unibrain optional cables that provide better video signal quality: Item Part picture Part Description Order codes 1 ` AV Cable for YPbPr (YPbPr Color Component Video - 3 RCA, Left/Right Analogue Audio RCA) USA: 8014 Europe/Asia: 24-ZAVYUV-CAB Bar code: 81985700 814 1 2 AV Cable for SCART RGB (SCART with [...]

iZak™ User Guide CD Content s iZak™ is accompanied with the required CD that has this manual in Acrobat PDF format. The folder structure “Firmware”, “Music”, “Pictures”, “Movies”, is the same as the iZak™ device and can be used as backup in case you format the disk of iZak™. In detail: “Acrobat”: contains Adobe Acrobat R[...]

iZak™ User Guide 4. Maya - Battlefield Music by Yannis Kyris 5. RISKO - A cigarette Music by Fotis Halkias - Lyrics by Adonis Karalis Each one of the above five music contents are encoded in five music format: AAC: stored in the subfolder “AAC” MP3: stored in the subfolder “MP3” OGG Vorbis: stored in the subfolder “OGG” WAV: stored in[...]

iZak™ User Guide PC/Mac Connection As is already mentioned, iZak™ automatically operates as an external USB-2 hard disk of 80GB or 40GB data storage (depending on the model) when connected to a PC or Macintosh.. Your system will automatically recognize iZak™ as an external hard disk in which you can copy any file(s) you want (music, movie, pi[...]

iZak™ User Guide “Acrobat”: contains Adobe Acrobat Reader. Install it in case you don’t have, in order to read the iZak™ manuals that are in .pdf format. “ Firmware”: this is the folder in which you copy the latest iZak™ firmware files found at Unibrain’s web site. Inside this folder there are two (2) subfolders: • “Font” fo[...]

iZak™ User Guide In order to safely remove your iZak™ from your system please follow the same procedures as for any Plug n Play external USB device. Specifically: Double click on the taskbar icon to “Unplug or Eject hardware”. The adjacent dialogue box will appear displaying the PnP external devices. In the current example you can see iZak?[...]

iZak™ User Guide USB support for Win98SE users As has been already mentioned, the accompanying CD contains the “W98SE” folder that provides the USB drivers for the Windows 98 SE users. The installation procedure can be done in one of the following ways: Setup Installation 1. Double click on the "SETUP.EXE" icon 2. When the installat[...]

iZak™ User Guide TV Connection iZak™ provides high quality video and audio out put when connected to your TV set and audio system. The TV connection is straightforward. Just connect iZak™ to your TV set (NTSC or PAL) using the included AV cable. Plug the Power Supply adaptor to the USB connection on the iZak™ and then into the electrical ou[...]

iZak™ User Guide Analogue Audio Setup The simplest configuration is when the analogue audio system of your TV set is used. In this case, no matter the type of AV cable you use (the default providing Composite/S-Video signal, or one of the optional cables providing Video Component YPbPr or SCART) the analogue audio is provided to the stereo input [...]

iZak™ User Guide Font s in iZak™ T echnology iZak™ supports the t rue type Unicode fonts. The re is a default font in cluded in the firmware that supports most of the major lan guages in Europe and US. It is b ased on the freetype v. 1.3 library and it is NOT using the byte code inter preter. User Defined Font s iZak™ has the unique feature[...]

iZak™ User Guide The Remote Control The iZak™ remote has all the functional capabili ties to fully contro l your device and enjoy your multimedia files. Each time any of its buttons is pressed, the TV led becomes yellow (it blinks) . The next figure describes each button’s functionality. DVD TITLE POWER On/Off DVD MENU Text SUBTITLE position [...]

iZak™ User Guide Remote Control Keys iZak™’s Remote Control has a full set of buttons in order to provide to the user complete control of the device. In the next paragraphs is described the functionality of some important buttons, while in the sequent table, there is a list of all keys and their functionality in b rief. VIDEO OUTPUT This key [...]

iZak™ User Guide 24 Functionality Button Movie Music Picture Settings HOME Displays the main menu Displays the main menu Displays the main menu Displays the main menu (not when you select Firmware update) TITLE DVD TITLE applicable ONLY for .IS O files N/A N/A N/A MENU DVD MENU applicable ONLY for .IS O files N/A N/A N/A POWER POW ER On/Off POWER[...]

iZak™ User Guide Remote Control Battery Inst allation iZak™’s Remote Control uses one (1) 3Volts CR2025 type Lithium Battery. This battery is packaged separately from the remote control. To load it into the remote, do the following: • Remove the battery compartment cover/holder. • Load the battery onto the battery cover/holder. • Positi[...]

iZak™ User Guide Menu Functionality This paragraph presents the various menus and their functionality when operating iZak™. Main Menu This is the menu (as shown in the adjacent figure) that appears when you power on your iZak™ device. You have four (4) main selections that you can access with the navigation buttons and by pressing PLAY/ENTER:[...]

iZak™ User Guide Music By selecting the Music menu, you will see the adjacent image on your TV set. In the right side you can see the directory structure of Music files as organized in your device’s hard disk. Each directory is named under left/right brackets: “[“, “]”. For example in the directory named “[Jazz]” we stored various j[...]

iZak™ User Guide Settings The iZak™ settings menu is extremely important in order to correctly configure your device and benefit from its advanced features. In the following paragraphs there is detailed description of the various settings and parameters. Languages iZak™ provides the unique feature to support as many languages as possible for [...]

iZak™ User Guide Video Settings These settings configure the provided Video Outputs Format: • NTSC Composite/S-Video • PAL Composite/S-Video • NTSC Component • PAL Component • NTSC SCAR T • PAL SCART • High Definition TV at 480 • High Definition TV at 720 • High Definition TV at 1020 • VGA (at 1024x768) Use the ▲▼ navigati[...]

iZak™ User Guide Screen Saver Select the time interval to enable the screen saver, when your iZak™ device is idle. As you can see there are three (3) predefined time intervals of 5, 10 and 30 minutes, or you can disable the screen saver. Use the ▲▼ navigation buttons to select your setting. Press the HOME button of the remote to save the se[...]

iZak™ User Guide DivX(R) VOD Your iZak™ device supports the new DivX® Video-On-Demand (VOD) feature. With this feature, you have the possibility to purchase or rent DivX VOD movies, downloaded from the internet, and playback in your iZak™ DivX Certified device. From the “DivX(R) VOD” option of the “Setting” menu you can see (as in th[...]

iZak™ User Guide .ISO Comp atibility Only with iZak™ you can create your own Virtual DVD Library, by storing your private collection of DVDs (.ISO format) and watch them as if they were running from the original DVDs. Once the movies are stored in iZak™ as .ISO files, you can play them with full DVD functionality such as: Menu, Chapter select[...]

iZak™ User Guide DivX Comp atibility DivX® is a new format for digital video, much like MP3 is a format for digital music. DivX® is the brand name of a patent-pending video compression technology created by DivXNetworks, Inc. The DivX ® codec (short for compression-decompression) is based on the MPEG-4 compression standard. This codec is so ad[...]

iZak™ User Guide DivX® VOD Comp atibility Your iZak™ device supports the new DivX® Video-On-Demand (VOD) feature. With this feature, you have the possibility to purchase or rent DivX VOD movies, downloaded from the internet, and playback in your iZak™ DivX Certified device. Follow the next steps to access and playback DivX VOD movies: 1). S[...]

iZak™ User Guide XviD Comp atibility XviD is an ISO MPEG-4 compliant video codec. It is not a product; it's an open source project which is developed and maintained by lots of people from all over the world. iZak™ is fully compatible with XviD form at and can play any movie encoded with this compression format. In order to be able to creat[...]

iZak™ User Guide S pecifications Supported Audio Files Formats WMA, WAV, MP3, AAC, AC3, OGG Vorbis Supported Audio Outputs F ormats Dual Stereo analog audio, Coaxial S/PDIF digital Audio (supports compre ssed Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS pass through). Supported Video Files Formats MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (AVI, VOB, ISO), MPEG-4 (AVI, DivX, XviD). Supported [...]

iZak™ User Guide Recovery Procedure iZak™ is provided to you with preformatted hard disk (NTFS) and default directory structure as shown in the adjacent snap-shot. In case of accidental loss of this directory structure, follow the next steps in order to recover: Ve r i f y Be absolutely sure that you don’t have any files in the “Music”, ?[...]

iZak™ User Guide Using the same Disk Utility select the “Volume Format” to be “Mac OS Extended” (see adjacent figure) and write in the “Name” box the volume label. Click on Erase. In a few seconds the volume will be formatted and you will be ready to copy the recovery files You can also format iZak™ as FAT32 but this will have the l[...]

iZak™ User Guide Safety Information Before starting enjoying your iZak™ please read carefully the following paragraphs related on the safety issues of your device, in order to extend its life. Power on/off precautions iZak™ Remote Control provides the POWER ON/OFF button that controls the power status of your device. It is highly recommended [...]

iZak™ User Guide Electricity and power plug Careful attention must be paid to the following points in order to avoid operational faults with the equipment and to prevent electric shock, fire and injury: • When removing the power cable from the socket, always pull on the plug and never on the cable. ! Do not connect and remove the mains cable wi[...]

iZak™ User Guide USB Booster Adaptor As you already know, iZak™ can be connected to your host PC via the USB cable, that is included in the product’s package. In most of the cases the host PCs can provide the required power supply from its USB port via this cable in order to correctly operate you iZak™ device. BUT, there are few reported ca[...]

iZak™ User Guide 42 Declaration of Conformity iZak™ has successfully passed th e EN 55022 (Emi ssions Environment) a nd EN 55024 (Immunity Environment) EMI test procedur es. Subsequently, this pro duct is fully CE compliant and assigned with the CE mark. Moreover iZak™ is a Class B dig ital apparatus that meets all requirements o f the Canadi[...]