Archos AV 500 series Camcorder User Manual


 
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VIDEO – Playing Video Files from the Internet
VIDEO – Playing Video Files from the Internet
When using Windows Media
®
Player 10, you will have the advantage of being able to download
protected video content from the Internet. When you see the PlaysForSure
symbol on a web site for
Windows
®
Portable Media Center (PMC)**, then these protected downloads will be playable on your
AV 500.
4.1 Protected Internet Video content
4.1 Protected Internet Video content
If you check the PlaysForSure™ website (www.playsforsure.com) you will nd web retailers who offer rental,
subscription, or purchasable video content. Remember, web sites must carry the PlaysForSure™ symbol in
order for their videos to play on the AV 500.
4.1 Non Protected Internet Video Content
4.1 Non Protected Internet Video Content
The AV 500 plays .AVI les that are encoded with in MPEG-4 format. It can play such video les at a maximum
size of 720 x 576 pixels (25 frames/second). It can also play .WMV les (WMV9 SP) up to a maximum size of
352 x 288**. The AV 500 will not directly play les of type .mov, .mpg, or .mpeg.
The number of encoding and compression schemes currently used to create video les is very extensive and
seems to change on a weekly basis. There are so many standards and formats that it is very possible that the
video le you download from the Internet will not play right away on your device. Due to certain “variations”, even
when video les are formatted in “MPEG-4” they may not play right away.
If you have some video les that do not play directly on your AV 500, they will have to be converted rst. Windows
Media
®
Player 10 (Available only for Windows XP) will convert your video le automatically when you sync the
le that is on your PC to the AV 500. It will display a little message ‘converting’.
* MPEG-4: ISO standard by Moving Picture Experts Group ; AVI: audio/video le container by Microsoft. MPEG-4 SP with B-frames AVI up to
704x480@30f/s NTSC or 720x576@25f/s PAL.
** Microsoft WMV9 SP up to 352x288@30f/s and 800 kb/s ; supports WM DRM.
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You can also use the software MPEG-4 Translator included on the AV 500 hard drive to re-encode
your video les into the proper MPEG-4 SP format that the AV 500 can play. See the chapter
Video – creating MPEG-4 video les with your computer for more details.