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Here are some common questions and answers handled by our
support staff, along with some tips and tricks that we have found useful.
What kind of DVD is EARTHLIGHT?
What will EARTHLIGHT do on a computer that it won't do on a DVD-Video
player?
Does EARTHLIGHT play on Macs as well as PCs?
What is the running time?
Is the audio true 5.1 channel?
Isn't NASA video in the public domain?
How do I play EARTHLIGHT in my DVD-Video player?
What are the minimum PC system requirements for EARTHLIGHT?
How do I install EARTHLIGHT on my DVD-ROM-enabled PC?
How do I access EARTHLIGHT's interactive menus?
What is an EARTHLIGHT album?
How can I find out the location of a particular video Earthview?
How do I display the geographical subtitles?
How do I customize EARTHLIGHT's screensaver settings?
How do I uninstall EARTHLIGHT from my PC?
EARTHLIGHT is a trail-blazing
"hybrid" DVD, both a DVD-Video and a DVD-ROM. It is equally at home in a
DVD-movie player and a DVD-equipped desktop or laptop computer.
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EARTHLIGHT uses a newly developed computer
program called SceneSaver™ to transform all its video and music into next-generation
full-screen video screensaver. Whenever the computer is idle for a specified period of
time, the screen automatically displays the same high-resolution full-motion Earthviews as
on a DVD-player. SceneSaver™ also installs a bonus collection of high-resolution
still images and several short video clips on the computer's hard drive so the screensaver
will operate with or without the EARTHLIGHT disk in the DVD drive. The EARTHLIGHT
screensaver is completely customizable. You can can mute the music, use password
protection, play any number of Earthviews in any order (including random), and even add
your own videos and stills to the screensaver images.
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Does EARTHLIGHT play on Macs as well as PCs?
Commercially available Macs do not
currently play DVDs. A Mac version of EARTHLIGHT may eventually be produced if there
is sufficient demand for it.
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EARTHLIGHT's basic sequence of 28
Earthviews runs for 80 minutes. Its 5 "virtual albums" average 25 to 30 minutes
each. Viewers can also select Play All Albums to have all the albums play one after
another (about 2˝ hours). With Continuous Loop turned on, EARTHLIGHT will play endlessly.
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Yes. EARTHLIGHT's 80 minutes of original
music were especially composed, performed, recorded, and compressed to produce true
5.1-channel AC-3 Dolby Digital® Surround Sound audio featuring 6 fully discrete channels.
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Isn't
NASA video in the public domain?
Raw NASA video is in the public domain.
The producers of EARTHLIGHT spent almost a year researching the best NASA footage of the
Earth from space. The particular edited Earthviews contained in EARTHLIGHT along with the
music that accompanies them are ©1998 Mill Reef Entertainment.
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To begin watching EARTHLIGHT, simply insert the disc in
your DVD-Video player. The basic sequence of 28 Earthviews(totaling approximately 80
minutes) begins playing automatically.You may also skip quickly from one Earthview to the
next by pressing the >>| button on your remote control.
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The minimum system requirements to play EARTHLIGHT on a
personal computer are:
Pentium 133 CPU
16 MB RAM
DVD-ROM drive
MPEG-2 decoder with Dolby Digital® Surround Sound
SVGA 16-bit 2MB video card
Microsoft Windows® 95
25 MB free disk space on hard drive
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On most systems, the EARTHLIGHT installation program will
begin automatically once you insert the disc in your DVD-ROM drive. If not, type
d:\earthlig\setup.exe (assuming d: is the letter of your DVD-ROM drive). Be prepared
for an exciting roar, because EARTHLIGHT plays a sound file of a Space Shuttle liftoff
during installation. EARTHLIGHT installs a screensaver program on your PC featuring
all 28 full-screen video Earthviews plus an additional collection of high-resolution NASA
stills and shorter video clips. This collection is installed on your hard drive so
the screensaver will operate whether or not you have the EARTHLIGHT disc in your computer.
After EARTHLIGHT reboots your computer, you will be invited to visit the EARTHLIGHT
Web site to register your product, get information on technical support, and, if you like,
download additional images to add to your collection of Earthviews. You also have
the option of viewing a series of local HTML files with useful EARTHLIGHT information,
including detailed descriptions of the bonus screensaver images.
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Press Menu on your remote control when you are ready to
explore EARTHLIGHT's additional features. Then select Play Selection to see your options
for EARTHLIGHT viewing. Notice the Turn On Continuous Loop option. If you click on
this item, any of your selections (whether the whole program,one album, all albums, or a
single Earthview) will replay continuously until you click Turn Off Continuous Loop.
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What do we mean by an album? Select Play Album and then
select any one of the titles for a unique sequence (a "virtual album") of 12 or
13 different Earthviews. You may also select Play All Albums to play all five albums one
after another. The >>| button on your remote control will skip quickly through any
of these sequences.
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Wonder where on Earth you are? Return to the Main Menu
and select Show Location. From here you can turn on geographical location subtitles in any
one of eight languages. Select English and then Play All Earthviews. You will see the
location, altitude, and compass orientation displayed over the video. For a map
showing the space shuttle location return to the Show Location menu and click View
Tracking Maps. This will take you to a series of screens that lead to maps of the Space
Shuttle's location for any of the Earthviews. Note that some of the Earthviews contain
several shots of the Earth and have a separate map for each of them.
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On most systems you may use the buttons on your remote
control to turn subtitles on and off and change subtitle languages. From the Main Menu,
select Viewing Hints and read through the six screens for detailed instructions on these
and other EARTHLIGHT shortcuts
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To customize your screensaver, right click on your
desktop, and then click Properties and Screensaver. This opens a window where you can
select or deselect EARTHLIGHT as your screensaver, choose the amount of time before the
screensaver comes on, and enable password protection. Now click Settings to explore
more EARTHLIGHT features. In the EARTHLIGHT Basic Settings window, you can instruct
the screensaver to mute the music, to play images at full screen or native resolution, and
to display images from your hard drive, the DVD drive, or both. Consult the Help
screen for further details on these options. You may also select Random Play,which
displays the images in a random, ever-changing sequence. For more advanced features
click Advanced to go to the Advanced Settings window. Here you may preview, add and
subtract screensaver images and change the order in which they are displayed. The VOB
files in the Play list are the 28 main Earthviews. You may also add any of your own image
files to the Play list. The easiest way to do this is to drag and drop them from a
Windows Explorer window.
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Perform the following steps to uninstall EARTHLIGHT from
your personal computer:
1. Open the Control Panel
2. Double click Add/Remove Programs
3. Select EARTHLIGHT
4. Click on Remove button
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