Screen layout, Player mode | Arcam DV89 instruction

Advanced MP3/WMA/JPEG and audio CD features

The DV89 DVD player has the ability to handle MP3, WMA and JPEG files, when these are burned on to a CD-R or CD-RW disc. Picture/Photo CDs are also playable. These file types may be mixed together, if desired.

This section explains the more sophisticated CD-based features, for audio CDs and for CD-ROM discs containing MP3, WMA and JPEG files. The operation for audio-CDs and other CD-ROMs is very similar, except that CD-ROMs can have directories and sub-directories, while audio-CDs do not have a directory structure.

In this section of the document, we use the term ‘CD-ROM’ to refer to a CD-R or CD-RW disc containing MP3, WMA or JPEG files, and including Picture/Photo CDs.

All of these advanced features use on-screen menus, so a TV monitor is required.

Screen layout

When an audio-CD or CD-ROM is detected by the DVD player, the disc navigator screen is displayed.

STOP Browse Disc Track	86:28:15 00:03:27
/MP3–44100–320kbp Up	PAF PD

1 2People

2Chillin

3FeelingGood

4TheWord

5 YourLove

bl When playing CD-ROMs, tag information from MP3 and

WMA files is displayed here, if present on the disc. bm Helpful messages to the user are displayed here. When

the disc is loaded, the PAF button (7) is highlighted. This means that loading the disc and pressing PLAY or OK is enough to set the disc playing.

Player mode

When playing audio-CDs or CD-ROMs, the player can be in one of three modes:

Browse mode: the user is free to navigate around the disc directory structure (while playback is stopped). Valid files/ tracks in each directory (audio-CD tracks or files that can be played) are displayed on the screen. Pressing PLAY while the cursor is on a valid file/track will start playback from that point, continuing to the end of the disc. Alternatively, the ‘PD’ or ‘PAF’ buttons can be used to start playback.

Programme mode: Press PROG on the remote control to enter ‘Programme’ mode to choose the order in which the files/tracks are played. Playback must be stopped first.

‘Programme’ mode operates differently for audio-CDs and MP3 discs, and is explained on page 17.

Playlist mode: The player is in this mode when a programmed sequence of files/tracks is being played. No navigation of the disc may be performed in this mode; the player starts at the beginning of the programmed playlist and plays through to the end.

DV89

Mp3 Info:
2People.mp3
2People.mp3
Artist:	Jean-Jaques Smoothie
Album:
Album:
Song:	2 People
Comment:			320kbps/44100H
Genre:	Disco		Year: ----
		Browse. press ‘OK’ to play.
		Browse. press ‘OK’ to play.

The screen shown above is the disc navigator screen, in this example showing a CD-R containing MP3 files. The following items can be identified:

1 The user command indicator.

2 The mode of the player. This is described in more detail below.

3 The current track number and the total number of tracks in this directory (for CD-ROMs), or on the whole disc (for audio-CDs).

4 The playback time of the current track, and the total playback time.

5 For CD-ROMs, this area shows the current directory.

6 ‘Up’ – for CD-ROMs, selecting this button changes directory to one level above the current one. This button is not shown for audio-CDs, or if the current directory is at the top level.

7 ‘PAF’ – Play All Files on the disc. Starting from the first valid file/track, all valid files/tracks on the disc are played, in the order found.

8 ‘PD’ – Play Directory. (CD-ROMs only). Starting from the first valid file in the current directory, all the (valid) files in the current directory are played.

9 The names of the tracks in this directory. For audio-CDs, the text ‘Track 1’, etc., is shown here. For CD-ROMs, the text shown here is based on the file name of the track.

bk When playing CD-ROMs, the full name of the file being played is displayed here (subject to screen space).

Browsing the disc (Browse mode)

By default, the disc navigator is in ‘Browse’ mode. In this mode, the user can navigate around the disc (using the cursor pad for direction and ‘OK’ to select an option). When a file/track

is highlighted, the tag information for that file (if available) is displayed in the lower portion of the screen. Use the ‘Up’ button to move to a higher-level directory; to enter a lower-level directory, press OK when the directory name is highlighted.

At any time, press PLAY or OK to begin playback from the file/track highlighted currently. Navigation around the current directory is possible during playback, but playback stops automatically if you attempt to navigate out of the current directory. Please note the following:

Fast forward and fast rewind do not work with MP3 or WMA playback.

Skipping forward past the end of a directory with CD-ROMs causes playback to continue from the next directory containing valid files. Skip-back can be performed only as far as the beginning of the current directory.

Directory trees may be up to 10 directories deep.

Long file names, of up to 64 characters (Joliet standard), are supported.

Only sample rates of 44.1kHz and 48kHz are supported for MP3 and WMA files.

For MP3 playback, the following constant bit rates are supported: 32, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 160, 192, 256 and 320 kilobits per second. Variable bit rate (VBR) between 96kb/s and 320kb/s is also supported.

For WMA playback, the following constant bit rates are supported: 48, 64, 80, 96, 128, 160 and 192kb/s.

CD-ROM discs may contain files other than MP3, WMA or JPEGs, but these are not displayed on the screen.