Archos AV420 Playing Video Files from the Internet, Non Protected Internet Video Content

4Playing 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 AV400.

4.1Non Protected Internet Video Content

The number of encoding and compression schemes currently used to create video files 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 file you download from the Internet will not play right away on your device. Due to certain “variations”, even when video files are formatted in “MPEG4” they may not play right away. The AV400 plays .AVI files that are encoded with the XviD or DivX™ MPEG-4 codec (compression/decompression). It can play such video files at a maximum size of 720 by 576 pixels (25 frames/second). It can also play .WMV files (WMV9SP) up to a maximum size of 352x288. The AV400 will not directly play files of type .mov, .mpg, or .mpeg.

If you have some video files that do not run directly on your AV400, they will have to be converted first. Windows Media® Player 10 (Available only for Windows XP) will convert your video file automatically* when you sync the file that is on your PC to the AV400. It will display a little message ‘converting’.

You can also use the software MPEG4 Translator included on the AV400 hard disk to re-encode some of your video files into the proper MPEG4 format that the AV400 can play. See chapter 9 for more details.

* Windows Media® Player 10 may not be able to convert (transcode) all file types.

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