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The TV application puts a television viewing window on your desktop. To use it, you need a video capture card connected to a video capture card connected to a video output source. The output source can be a VCR, TV or a cable box.

stampTV preferences are the same as the Media preferences application.

The difference between the TV application and CodyCam is that you can FTP video data from CodyCam.

stampTV includes quite a few features: fullscreen, overlay support, named presets, audio control, wheel support and complete keyboard control.

Accessing the menus
When stampTV is running, you can right-click the application's window and access it's menus:

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Channel: Will allow you to select which channel you want to watch, identified by channel codes. Next Channel and Previous Channel will do what you expect.

Presets: We recommend that you rather use Presets then Channel. This function gives you a quick access to the named channel presets, as well as the creation and edition of those presets.

Back to the Last Channel: The function is handy when you want to switch between two channels.

Video Preferences: To change your TV card's settings using Zeta's media preferences panel.

Video Size: To select the size of the video among the tuner's best supported resolutions.

The Locked (Scale) option gives you the possibility to choose among two different behaviors when you resize stampTV's window. If the option is active (the menu item is checked), then stampTV will use a video stream of a constant size what ever the size of the window is, and will scale the frames in real-time to fit the window. The result is that the image quality is decreased, and the processor has much more work to do if it doesn't use an overlay. On the other hand, resizing is faster, and you can resize the window as you wish to almost any size.

Full Screen Mode: To select which resolution and refresh rate should be used in full screen mode. The video size will be automatically selected to be as big as possible in the selected mode.

Image Tuning: To control the image quality. Provides direct access to the brightness, contrast and color saturation settings.

Audio: First selected the right audio control (Source). It is likely to be the "Line" or "Line out" item, but that depends on your system. Mute allows you to mute the selected source, while Volume gives fine control on the volume. The Volume Up and Volume Down item allow you to do the same with the keyboard as well: Use the up and the down arrows.

Preferences: allows you to control which options are activated:

- No Tab: Choose whether stampTV's window should have a title tab or not.
- On Top: Enabled it will force stampTV's window to remain above all others.
- Window can't be Moved Offscreen: Will force stampTV's window to always remain entirely in the monitor's frame.
- Occupy All Workspaces: Choose whether stampTV should be present in every workspace, or only on the current one.
- Disable Screen Saver: Will prevent BeOS's screen saver to be activated while stampTV is running.

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