The Advanced settings - This only applies if BeoPort or BeoMedia 1 is part of your setup

Option programming

If your PC is part of a BeoLink setup (with BeoPort or BeoMedia 1) you may need to program it to the correct option.

Consult your Bang & Olufsen retailer for further information.

Main PC

It is possible to have several computers set up in a BeoLink system. To indicate which PC is the distributor of e.g. N.MUSIC, you must indicate under Main PC, whether the PC is the main, or secondary PC.

  • Click the Yes button to indicate a main PC or...
  • ...Click the No button to indicate a secondary PC.

Play timer

Control a Timer to make it play an audio or video source, if your PC is part of a BeoLink setup. This function is useful if you e.g. want a wake-up Timer to play from an audio system, or if you want to watch the news every night directly on your PC screen. You can also select the source Standby, to make your sources switch off automatically at a specific time every night.

Note that all settings for Timer programming must be set on the connected source (e.g. your audio system or your television).

  • Click ON to activate the Play Timer, or...
  • Click OFF to de-activate the Play Timer.

Mix sound

Sound from any available Master Link source can be mixed with PC sound. If e.g. you want to listen to a CD and sounds from a PC game simultaneously, set mixed sound to ON to listen to both sounds from your speakers.

Default source

When you start up BeoPlayer the source PC is selected automatically per default. You may want to change this setting, if you don't want to listen to PC sounds.

  • Click PC to select PC as your default setting, or...
  • Click None to make BeoPlayer start up without any source being active.

BeoPort USB box

Along with each PC software update comes software for the BeoPort box. The ‘Update firmware’ key checks if you have the latest version of the software (e.g. from the Internet or a CD-rom) installed in the BeoPort box.

  • Click the Update firmware button.
  • Follow the instructions on the screen.

Link frequency

In order to receive sound and pictures from your video system, you must tune in the particular channel number on which this signal is distributed. For certain Bang & Olufsen systems, the link frequency is found automatically. You can adjust the link frequency manually even in a Bang & Olufsen system which supports automatic search. This is done by checking the option 'Manual' before clicking 'Find'.

The on-screen instructions inform you whether the frequency is found automatically. If it is, this frequency is stored.

NOTE: The US version of BeoPlayer/BeoPort does not support transmission of video sources from the main room to the PC.

If the frequency is not found automatically...

  • Follow the instructions on the PC screen, which will guide you through to find the link frequency manually.

  • Video system settings

    Before you can watch television on your PC screen, you must make sure that you have made the correct country and Video system settings. Some areas and countries, such as France, use a SECAM television system. If you live in such an area, you may have to make Video system adjustments when using a link room product. If e.g. you want to watch certain set-top box channels or videotapes using the PAL system, you must change the Video system setting in the Configuration menu to PAL.

    Contact your retailer for information about available TV tuner cards and their handling of the PAL and SECAM systems.

    How to make Video system settings...

    Press CONFIG located under SETUP in the control bar.

    • Select the tab ADVANCED and in the section ‘Link frequency’, click the Manual check box and press Find.
    • Follow the instructions on the screen. Once you have initiated a search by pressing OK, you can change ‘Video system’.
    • To change video system select PAL instead of SECAM.