Archos 400 9.3 , 9.4

9.3 Display Format Settings

You will notice in the Options button (center function button), that you

have a number of display format options. In certain cases, depending

on how the original video was recorded, you may want to use these

adjustments.

Default mode : Adjusts the video size to best adapt to the LCD screen.

4/3 aspect: Enlarge the image to ﬁll the screen (usually a vertical ﬁll) and

then cut the sides to completely ﬁll a television screen.

16/9 aspect: Send out a TV signal without the black horizontal bars.

No Overscan: Picture will not pass into the overscan area. Entire picture

will always be seen on all televisions. Will not be cropped on the LCD.

9.4 Playing Video Files from the Internet

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 Gmini 400 series

can play video ﬁles of type MPEG4 Simple Proﬁle which have an MP3 or

IMA-ADPCM audio sound track. It can play such video ﬁles which have a

maximum size of 640 x 400 pixels (30 frames/second). The Gmini 400 will

not directly play ﬁles of type .mov, .mpg, .mpeg, or .avi ﬁles created with

codecs (compression/decompression) other than the XviD and DivX™

MPEG4 codecs. If you have video ﬁles of these other types that you would

like to view on your Gmini 400, they will have to be converted ﬁrst. You

will have to use the software

included on the Gmini

400 hard disk to re-encode them into the proper XviD or DivX™ MPEG4

format with an MP3 or IMA-ADPCM sound track. See chapter 10 for more

details.