Archos PMA430TM Creating MPEG4 Video Files with your Computer, How to create an MPEG4 video file

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In this example, the menu option Move, would move the

file Anderson Draft from the

folder

/PMA430/Documents/text/pl

ain to the folder /PMA430/Video. The menu command always applies to the highlighted item. Remember that the source window is the one with the highlighted item, and the destination window is the other one. You can close

and open the second window with the LEFT and RIGHT buttons or by using the Folders icon on the menu bar.

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12 Creating MPEG4 Video Files with your Computer

How to create an MPEG4 video file

Please understand that video re-encoding is not always a simple one button process. Video segments that come from your digital camcorder or which are freely available on the Internet are encoded in many different ways. Your files are thus maybe not in a format the PMA430 can play (see the section Playing Video Files from the Internet in the Video Application chapter for more information). This is due to the relatively new nature of the ISO (International Standards Organization) MPEG4 video format. Unlike its predecessors MPEG1 and MPEG2, there are a number of levels in this format and thus not all MPEG4 video files will work on all MPEG4 players, and older MPEG1 and MPEG2 files must be re-encoded into this format. You can convert these files using the software you received with your PMA430. You might find this process initially complex, but once you have converted the first file, it will be a routine to convert other files into a format that will play on your PMA430.

PC Tools

The PMA430 is delivered with two PC based programs that allow you to create MPEG4 Simple Profile .AVI video files. They are the MP4 Translator and Virtual Dub™. The MP4 Translator will call the Virtual Dub program and give it the correct parameters to encode your video from its original format, .avi or .mpg (mpeg 1), and then encode it into an MPEG4 .AVI file. The file will be scaled in order to be played back properly. You will also need an MP3 audio codec (available freely on the Internet) in order to create the proper sound track for the movie.

12.1Installing the PC Software

If your video file is not an MPEG4 Simple Profile .avi file of the proper size, you will need to re- encode it using the following utilities. For the PMA430, you will need to create an AVI file that is MPEG4 Simple Profile with a resolution up to 720 x 576 (depending on frame rate) and a sound track that is stereo MP3 or WAV. A resolution of 320 x 240 is adequate for watching on the internal LCD screen. However, videos that you intend to watch on an external TV, a resolution of 640 x 480 is recommended.

You will find an Installer to install MPEG Translator and Virtual Dub™ in the ARCHOS folder on your PMA430. Please turn off any anti-virus software for the time of the installation and install the programs in the following order.

MPEG 4 codec (Compression/Decompression)

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