Advanced MP3/WMA/JPEG and audio CD features

Advanced MP3/WMA/JPEG and audio CD features

The DV27A DVD player has the ability to handle MP3,WMA and JPEG files, when these are burned onto 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 features of the DV27A relating to audio-CDs and for CD-ROMs that contain MP3,WMA and JPEG files. Operation of both types of discs on the player is 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 disc 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

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:

1The user command indicator.

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

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

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

5For 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.

9The 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).

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 in each directory (files that can be played) are displayed on the screen. Pressing PLAY while the cursor is on a valid file 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: the user is free to navigate around the disc directory structure (while playback is stopped). Valid files in each directory are displayed on the screen. Pressing OK while the cursor is on a valid file will cause the file to be added to the programmed list, (or removed from the list if it had been added previously).

Playlist mode: no navigation of the disc may be performed; the player starts at the beginning of the programmed playlist, and plays through to the end.

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). 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.