Copyright 2015 by ELBOX COMPUTER

          Mediator Multimedia CD rev. 2.6EN


Welcome to the Mediator Multimedia World.

Install new drivers using Quick Install script.



This package will give you the option of using excellent sound 
and TV cards in your Amiga fitted with the Mediator busboard.

Additionally, you will find here the fully-working drivers for 
the Radeon 9200 series card, the Voodoo 4 and 5 graphic card 
families and drivers for the Fast Ethernet 100Mbps PCI cards. 

Licence

By using this software, you are agreeing to be bound by the terms 
and conditions of the License Agreement (Licence.txt).

Registration

To register, send an e-mail message to support@elbox.com with 
"subscribe MM CD" in the subject line. In the body, give the CD serial 
number (see the CD-ROM), your full name, e-mail address and where you 
have purchased the MM CD pack.


How to install this CD-ROM software

1. Install the hardware key following the instructions on the package.
2. Use the enclosed automatic installer to install the required
   software components.
3. To configure the Mediator variables use the MedConfig script.

You can always find the info about current Mediator drivers at:
http://www.elbox.com/downloads_mediator.html

The current info on supported PCI card is available in
the Mediator Driver Guide at http://www.elbox.com/mdg.html


TV DRIVERS

To use the TV Drivers, please check that you have a Voodoo card installed. 
The enclosed drivers support the most popular  TV cards based on the 
FUSION 878A and 879A as well as Bt848A and Bt849A chipsets. For the 
complete list, see the TVprefs drawer.

Automatic TV Drivers installation:
Follow the installer scripts.

Manual TV Drivers installation:
1. Copy tv.library to the Libs: drawer.
2. Copy the appropriate TV card prefs file to Envarc:Mediator. 
   Change its name in Envarc:Mediator to TV.prefs.


Note: TV.prefs file defines all the details of the specific TV card
      including RF frond-end model and GPIO lines settings as well 
      as layout of audio connections.

Note: If, despite selecting the TV.prefs file appropriate for the 
      given card, only external video inputs are working, and
      switching to the TV program results only in a bluish or snowy
      window, it means that the card has an RF front-end installed,
      which is not standard for this card. If this is the case, 
      select the proper frond-end in the Tuner preferences file 
      in Envarc:Mediator drawer, which corresponds with the 
      description in the card's front-end (the metal box).

Note: If there are no problems with TV image, but sound is missing, 
      it means that a wrong TV.prefs file has been selected. 
      Change it for another, corresponding with the name in the 
      TV card's package.       

3. Copy the TV file from the appropriate drawer in the TVsystems 
   area to the C: drawer.
4. Copy Broadcast and Cable TV Channels setting files appropriate 
   to your location to any selected drawer on your HDD. 

Note: After installing the drivers, remove the CD-ROM from 
      the drive.

Customising your TV desktop:    

Leave out the TV icon from the C: drawer.
This icon will be used for adjusting image parameters 
(size, contrast, brightness, sat_u, sat_v, hue, others).

TV program parameters:
PLL:        channel frequency [MHz] x 16,
VIDEO_SRC:  0-TV tuner, 1-external (video-in), 2-optional 
            (s-video b&w), 3-optional, 65638-optional (s-video),
            65639-optional            
AUDIO_MODE: 0-tuner, 1-radio, 2-external, 3-internal, 4-mute
CONTRAST:   from 0 to 255, default 108,
BRIGHT:     from 0 to 255, default 128,
SAT_U:      from 0 to 255, default 90,
SAT_V:      from 0 to 255, default 90,
HUE:        from 0 to 255, default 128,
SIGNAL_FMT: 1-NTSC_M, 2-NTSC_MJ, 3-PAL_BDGHI, 4-PAL_M, 5-PAL_N,
            6-SECAM_L, 7-PAL_NC
SIZE:       from 1 to 8; default 4,
BACKDROP:   TV as a backdrop 
FM:         radio,
FULL_FRAME: full TV screen (greater than the regular TV screen)
CLOSE:      close TV window or backdrop 
FREQ_STEP:  0-62.5kHz, 1-31.25khz, 3-50khz

Leave out the icons of the Broadcast Channel drawer and the TV Cable 
channel drawer icons. The complete set of channels available in your 
location is provided in these drawers: just click on the channel icon 
to set on the appropriate TV program.

As not all the frequencies are used by broadcasting stations, we 
recommend renaming icons for the corresponding TV channels (e.g. 
CH27 to MTV) and removing all the other icons, which  are not 
supported in your location.

Note: The backdrop color, which is replaced by the backdrop TV screen 
      is specified in Envarc:Mediator/Background

To be able to watch TV, use the screen modes, which support the overlay
function: 16-bit PC, 24-bit BGR or 32-bit BGRA.

If opening TV is attempted in the mode which does not support overlay,
the TV program will display the following message:
Error: p96PIP_OpenTagList () failed.

This message means that the Picasso96 system is not able to open the
overlay window.

Under certain situations, the P96 system may also refuse opening 
the window due to the error in comunication of the Picasso96
system with AmigaOS3.9.
To prevent this error coming up, it is usually enought to set the Icon
Quality to GOOD in Workbench prefs (instead of BEST). Also, when the
system is started, do not keep the CD_ROM in the drive.

Note:
Instead of using TV command directly, you can control TV screen
parameters with the GUI written by 3rd party developers.

We recommend: 

the TvR program by Robert Krajcarz
file: http://www.ppa.pl/artykuly/download/tvr32.lha

and 

the SuperTV program by Peter Gordon
file: http://www.petergordon.org.uk/files/stv_1-0.lha
web: http://www.petergordon.org.uk

VHI STUDIO DRIVERS

The Mediator Multimedia CD includes drivers for the VHI Studio program
<http://www.vhistudio.de>
Install TV.vhi according to VHI Studio program manual.


SOUND DRIVERS

To use the Sound Drivers, please check that you have a Voodoo card 
installed. The enclosed sb128.audio AHI drivers support all the 
most popular Sound Blaster PCI128 sound cards based on the ES1370, 
ES1371, ES1373, CT5880 and EV1938 chipsets and Sound Blaster 4.1 
Digital sound cards. The fm801.audio AHI driver supports sound cards 
based on Fortemedia FM801-AU chipset.

To use the sound card you have to install the AHI sound system first.

Automatic TV Drivers installation:
Follow the installer scripts.

Manual Sound Drivers installation:
1. Copy mixer.library to the Libs: drawer.
2. Copy sb128.audio (fm801.audio) to Devs:AHI
3. Copy SB128 (FM801) to Devs:AudioModes


4. Copy Mixer, Mixer.info, Mixer.guide, Mixer.guide.info, 
   mixerlogo.iff to any selected drawer on your HDD 
   (default Sys:prefs). Read the Mixer Guide before using 
   the Mixer GUI.

Note:
Instead of the Mixer GUI by Richard Brooklyn included in 
the MM CD you can control your sound card mixer with the GUI 
written by 3rd party developers.
 
We recommend:

GhostMix by Matthew Allatt
file: http://aminet.net/hard/drivr/GhostMix.lha
web: http://homepages.gotoadsl.co.uk/~allattm/Amiga.html

and

Taski Mixer by Pawel Filipczak
file: ftp://taski.com.pl/pub/TaskiMixer.lha
web: http://taski.com.pl/loader.php


Customising your Sound desktop:    

Leave out the Mixer program icon.


Note: Some Codec AC'97 chips do not support the 3D control 
      properly. If the sound is played back improperly, 
      switch off this function (Mixer: 3D control - mute).

Note: The Fortemedia fm801.audio driver supports the following 
      Mediator models: Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, 
      Mediator PCI 4000Di, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D,
      Mediator 3000Di, Mediator PCI 1200TX, Mediator PCI 1200SX, 
      Mediator PCI 1200LT4, Mediator PCI 1200LT and Mediator PCI ZIV.       The Fortemedia fm801.audio driver does not support 
      Mediator PCI 1200 busboard.
      If you want to use Fortemedia FM801-based card in A1200 
      upgrade your Mediator PCI 1200 to Mediator PCI 1200TX.


GRAPHIC DRIVERS

The enclosed 2D graphic drivers support the following cards in the
full scope of their functions:

Voodoo Banshee 16MB
Voodoo3 2000 16MB SDRAM/SGRAM
Voodoo3 3000 16MB SGRAM/SDRAM
Voodoo4 4500 32MB
Voodoo5 5500 64MB

Radeon 9000/9200/9250

Automatic Graphic Drivers installation:
Follow the installer script.

Manual Graphic Drivers installation:
Copy the enclosed Voodoo.card to Libs:Picasso96 drawer 


FAST ETHERNET DRIVERS

The enclosed Fast Ethernet Drivers support the RTL8139 based 100Mbps cards.

Automatic Fast Ethernet  Drivers installation:
Follow the installer script.

Manual Fast Ethernet Drivers installation:
Copy enclosed FastEthernet.device to Devs:Networks drawer 


Current links to 3rd party MEDIATOR software you can always find at
http://elbox.com/downloads_mediator.html

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