Gateway Connected DVD Player User manual

User Guide
Gateway Connected DVD Player

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Contents
1 Checking Out Your Gateway Connected DVD Player. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Player overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Front controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2 Setting Up Your Player. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
About your home network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installing Gateway Media Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Computer requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Connecting the player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting to your audio/video system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installing batteries into the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Installing the network card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Turning on your player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Setting up digital audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Navigating the player’s setup menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Configuring Dolby Digital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Configuring MP3 audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Configuring CD audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Configuring LPCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Configuring for other formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Setting up analog audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Navigating the player’s setup menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Adjusting the speaker balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Configuring Pro Logic virtual surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Adjusting center delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Adjusting surround delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Defining the speaker set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Setting up the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Navigating the player’s setup menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Wireless access point setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Wireless peer-to-peer setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Wired Ethernet setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Setting the IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Changing the player name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
3 Customizing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Setup menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Using the remote control in Setup menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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Setting up languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Setting up video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Setting up parental controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4 Using Gateway Media Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Compatible file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Opening Media Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Importing media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Importing media directly from your hard drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Importing media using plugins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Scheduling automatic scans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Working with media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Listing media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Editing media file attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Deleting media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Working with playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Creating a new playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Editing a playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Renaming a playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Deleting a playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Importing a playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Working with slide shows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Creating a new slide show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Editing a slide show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Renaming a slide show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Deleting a slide show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Viewing and changing network settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Changing the computer name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Selecting the network card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Changing the language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
5 Playing Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Playing discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Accessing advanced features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Playing photo CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Playing computer media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Entering Network mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Exiting Network mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Playing music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Playing a playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Playing movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Viewing pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
6 Maintaining and Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Maintaining your player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

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Network troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
DVD troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Getting help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
A Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
B Safety, Regulatory, and Legal Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

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Chapter 1
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Checking Out Your Gateway
Connected DVD Player
■Features
■Controls
■Connectors

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Features
With your Gateway Connected DVD Player, you can play DVDs, CDs, and digital media
files on your home network.
■PC Card slot for wired or wireless access to a Microsoft Windows®-based home network
■Capable of streaming digital content from your computer to your TV, including
MPEG1/MPEG2 video, JPG photos, and MP3/WMA audio files
■Dolby Digital decoding and output
■Composite video, S-Video, and component video outputs (including progressive scan)
■Optical and coaxial digital audio jacks
■5.1-channel audio jacks
Compatiblefileformats
Compatiblediscs
■DVD (Region 1, North America)
■Dolby Digital 5.1
■Audio CD (CDDA)
■Video CD (VCD and SVCD)
■MP3 files on CD-R and CD-RW
■Kodak Picture CD
Format Supported specification
Photo ■JPG/JPEG (at least 108 × 171 pixels)
■BMP
■PSD
■PCT
■TIFF
Audio ■MP3 (bit rate greater than 80 kbps)
■WMA (bit rate greater than 48 kbps)
■M3U (playlist)
■PLS (playlist)
Video ■MPEG-1 and 2 (not greater than 3 MB/sec)
■AVI (most types)
■DVR-MS (better, good, and fair qualities)

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Playeroverview
Frontcontrols
POWERbutton
Press to turn the player on and off.
When the button is pressed, the green Power LED turns on and the player enters On (fully
operational) mode. Press the POWER button on the remote control to switch between On
and Standby (low power) modes. When the player enters Standby mode, the red Power
LED turns on. When the player is off, the Power LED turns off.
MICjacks
Insert ¼-inch microphone plugs here for karaoke.
Soundcontrols
VOL Rotate to adjust the microphone input volume.
ECHO Rotateto adjust the echo effect for the microphone input.
Power button Sound controls DVD playback
controls Menu
button
Menu controls
MIC jacks

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Menucontrols
Left, Right, Up, and
Down buttons
Press to navigate the on-screen menus. You can use these
buttons as an alternative to the remote control’s arrow buttons.
ENTER Press to make on-screen selections. You can use this button as
an alternative to the remote control’s ENTER button.
CONNECT Press to connect the player to the network. You can use this
button as an alternative to the remote control’s CONNECT
button.
Up button
Down button
Connect button
Enter button
Right buttonLeft button

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DVDplaybackcontrols
OPEN/CLOSE Press to open and close the disc tray.
PREV Press to skip to the previous chapter or track while
in playback mode.
NEXT Press to skip to the next chapter or track while in
playback mode.
STOP Press to stop playback, and press again to return
to the menu on the DVD. Press PLAY to resume
playback.
PLAY Press to start playback.
PAUSE Press to pause playback and view the current
frame. Press PLAY to resume playback.
MENU Press to view the DVD menu.
Open/close button Menu button
Prev button Play button
Next button Stop button
Pause button

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Back
Networkcardslot
Insert a network PC Card into this slot.
Audiojacks
5.1 channel (surround
sound) Connect to the analog audio inputs of a 5.1-channel amplifier.
2 channel (stereo) Connect to the left/right analog audio inputs of a TV, stereo, or
2-channel amplifier.
Coaxial (digital audio) Connect to the coaxial digital audio input of a 5.1-channel amplifier.
Optical digital audio Connect to the optical digital audio input of a 5.1-channel amplifier.
Network card slot Video jacks
Audio jacks
5.1 channel (surround sound) 2 channel (stereo)
Coaxial (digital
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Audioconnectionqualities
Videojacks
Audio connection Quality
2 channel (stereo) Fair
5.1 channel (surround sound) Good
Coaxial (digital audio) Better
Optical digital audio Best
Cb/Pb (component/
progressive blue) Connect to the Pb/Cb video inputs of your TV.
Y (component black
and white) Connect to the Y video input of your TV.
Video out (composite) Connect to the Composite Video input of your TV.
Cr/Pr (component/
progressive red) Connect to the Pr/Cr video inputs of your TV.
S-Video out Connect to the S-Video input of your TV.
Cb/Pb
S-Video out
Y
Cr/Pr
Video out (composite)

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Videoconnectionqualities
Video connection Quality
Video out (composite) Good
S-Video out Better
Component/progressive Best

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Remotecontrol
POWER
TITLE SETUP
OPEN/CLOSE
MY
MUSIC
MY
PHOTOS
MY
VIDEOS
DISPLAYSEARCH
RETURN
MENU
CONNECT
ENTER
PAGE
REV FWD PREV NEXT
ZOOM VIDEO OUT REPEAT A-B
SLOW AUDIO SUBTITLE ANGLE
PAUSE/STEP STOP PLAY
PAGE
123
456
789
0CLEAR
ABC DEF
GHI JKL MNO
PQRS TUV WXYZ
Numeric keypad
Menu controls
Media playback
controls
Networking
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Main controls

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Maincontrols
Networkingcontrols
Numerickeypad
Press these buttons to input numbers (such as the chapter, track, or time) in on-screen
menus.
POWER Press to switch the player between Standby (low power)
and On (fully operational) modes.
The blue LED behind the front arrow buttons on the
player lights when the unit is On.
This button works only when the POWER button on the
front of the player is pressed.
TITLE Press to display DVD title menus for discs with multiple
titles. If a disc has a single title, TITLE functions like
MENU.
SETUP While disc playback is stopped, press to open the
Welcome to Setup screen for adjusting DVD and
Network settings.
OPEN/CLOSE Press to open and close the disc tray.
MY MUSIC Press to display the player’s My Music folder on the TV,
which lists the music media files available on your
networked computers. If a computer has not been
detected, only the Connect menu appears.
MY PHOTOS Press to display the player’s My Photos folder on the TV,
which lists the JPG image files available on your
networked computers. If a computer has not been
detected, only the Connect menu appears.
MY VIDEOS Press to display the player’s My Videos folder on the TV,
which lists the MPEG movie files available on your
networked computers. If a computer has not been
detected, only the Connect menu appears.
CONNECT Press to search the network for shared media. A menu
willshowyou theMy Music,My Photos,andMyVideos
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Menucontrols
Mediaplaybackcontrols
Arrow buttons Press to navigate on-screen menus.
ENTER Press to confirm menu settings.
SEARCH Press to jump to a specific time, title, chapter, or track
during disc playback.
DISPLAY Press to display current disc time and status information.
MENU Press to view the DVD’s main menu.
RETURN Press to return to the
Welcome to Setup screen.
REV Press repeatedly to scan backward at variable speeds.
FWD Press repeatedly to scan forward at variable speeds.
PREV Press to skip to the previous chapter or track.
NEXT Press to skip to the next chapter or track.
ZOOM Press to zoom in or out at various levels of magnification.
VIDEO OUT While playback is stopped, press repeatedly until the setting matches your video
cable connection. For more information, see “Turning on your player” on page 22.
REPEAT Press to set special playback functions, including Repeat.
A-B Press to repeat an audio or video segment between two points (A and B). For more
information, see “Repeating a scene or segment” on page 73.
SLOW Press repeatedly for slow motion playback at variable speeds.
AUDIO Press to select among available audio tracks/formats/channels during
DVD/SVCD/VCD playback.
SUBTITLE Press to select among available subtitle languages during DVD/SVCD playback.
ANGLE Press to view alternate angles during DVD playback (if available).
PAUSE/STEP Press once to pause playback, then press again to step forward one frame at a time.
STOP Press once to stop playback (press PLAY to resume). Press twice to stop playback
and reset to the beginning of the disc.
PLAY Press to start playback.

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Chapter 2
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Setting Up Your Player
■Installing Media Server
■Connecting the player to your
audio/video system
■Setting up your network

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Overview
This chapter describes how to connect your Gateway Connected DVD Player to your TV,
audio system, and home network. You need to complete these steps in the following order:
1Set up your network and make sure that your home network is working correctly.
2Install the Gateway Media Server program and start it for the first time.
3Connect the player to your TV, audio system, and network.