Panasonic DMR-ES15 warranty Using menus to play MP3 and still pictures JPEG/TIFF, Playing MP3

Using menus to play MP3 and still pictures (JPEG/TIFF)

Numbered

buttons

u,i

g

	e,r,w,q
DIRECT	ENTER
NAVIGATOR	FUNCTIONS
SUB MENU
	RETURN
	STATUS

Regarding MP3 and still pictures (JPEG/TIFF)

•Compatible formats: ISO9660 level 1 or 2 (except for extended formats) and Joliet

•Maximum number of files (tracks) and folders (groups) recognizable: 999 files* (tracks) and 99 (including the root folder) folders (groups)

*Total number for all the MP3, JPEG and other type of files

•This unit is compatible with multi-session but reading or play of the disc may take time if there are a lot of sessions.

•Operation may take time to complete when there are many files (tracks) and/or folders (groups) and some may not display or be playable.

•The display order on this unit may differ from how the order is displayed on a computer.

•Depending on how you create the disc (writing software), files (tracks) and folders (groups) may not play in the order you numbered them.

•This unit is not compatible with packet-writing format.

•Depending on the recording, some items may not be playable.

Regarding MP3

•File format: MP3

Files must have the extension “.mp3” or “.MP3”.

•Bit rates: 32 kbps to 320 kbps

•Sampling frequency: 16 kHz/22.05 kHz/24 kHz/32 kHz/44.1 kHz/ 48 kHz

•This unit is not compatible with ID3 tags.

•If there is a large amount of still picture data etc. within an MP3 file, play may not be possible.

Regarding still pictures (JPEG/TIFF)

•File format: JPEG, TIFF (non-compressed RGB chunky format) Files must have the extension “.jpg”, “.JPG”, “.tif” and “.TIF”.

•Number of pixels: between 34 x 34 and 6144 x 4096 (Sub sampling is 4:2:2 or 4:2:0)

•This unit cannot play images that have resolutions beyond the range shown.

•Operation may take time to complete when playing TIFF format still pictures.

•The unit is not compatible with MOTION JPEG.

•You can play MP3 and still pictures (JPEG/TIFF) on this unit by making folders as shown below. However, depending on how you create the disc (writing software), play may not be in the order you numbered the folders.

•When the highest level folders are “DCIM” folders, they are displayed first on the tree.

Structure of MP3 folders

Structure of still pictures

Prefix with 3-digit numbers in

(JPEG/TIFF)

the order you want to play

Files inside a folder are

them.

displayed in the order they

were updated or taken.

tree

tree

P0000001.jpg

P0000002.jpg

001 Group

002 Folder

Order of

001

001 track.mp3

Order of

001

P0000003.jpg

002 track.mp3

P0000004.jpg

play

003 track.mp3

play

P0000005.jpg

002 Group

003 Folder

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003 Group

001 track.mp3

004 Folder

P0000006.jpg

002 track.mp3

P0000007.jpg

003 track.mp3

P0000008.jpg

24

004 track.mp3

P0000009.jpg

001 track.mp3

P0000010.jpg

002 track.mp3

P0000011.jpg

003 track.mp3

P0000012.jpg

Playing MP3

CD

You can play CD-R, CD-RW discs which contain MP3 files that have been recorded on a computer.

The screen shown at right is
	Playback mode is set to MP3.
displayed when you insert a disc
containing MP3 files and still pictures	To display pictures,
	please select Pictures Menu from FUNCTIONS.
(JPEG/TIFF).
Press [ENTER], and follow the steps	ENTER
below.

1 Press [DIRECT NAVIGATOR].

							Selected group
G: Group no.		Menu			No.		Group
					1	: 101
		G		1
T: Track no. in the group					Total		Track	Tree
		Total		1
					1		001-Baby
Total:	Track no./Total track	T
			1/ 111		2		002-Simple
	no. in all groups				3		003-Aganju
			No.		4		004-Around
		0	-- 9		5		005-River
			Prev.		6		006-Every
					7		007-Cada
			Next
					8		008-O
					9		009-Winter
		ENTER			10		010-Distante
							Page 001/002

• Files are treated as tracks and folders are treated as groups.

2 Press [e,r] to select the track and press [ENTER].

Play starts on the selected track.

•“ ” indicates the track currently playing.

•You can also select the track with the numbered buttons.

e.g., 5: [0] Ô [0] Ô [5]

15:[0] Ô [1] Ô [5]

To show other pages

Press [u] (Previous) or [i] (Next).

nTo select other group

1 Press [q].

G:Selected group no. /Total group no. If the group has no track, “– –” is displayed as group number.

Menu			1	: 101	Tree
G		8				G	7/25
			TotalMP3 music			Track	Tree
T		14
Total			1111 001-Baby
	40/111		2	101
				002-Simple
			3	102
				003-Aganju
				103
0	No.	9	4	104004-Around			Groups that
	--		5	005-River
				105
			6	106
	Next			006-Every			contain no
			7	108007-Cada
	Prev.			107
			8	109008-O			compatible files.
				001
			9211 009-Winter
ENTER			10	201010-Distante
				202	Page 001/019

2 Press [e,r] to select a group and press [ENTER].

The file list for the group appears.

To stop playing

Press [g].

To return to the previous screen

Press [RETURN].

To switch to Pictures menu

(Ô page 25, “To select Pictures Menu”)

To exit the screen

Press [DIRECT NAVIGATOR].