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Playing 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.
4.1 Non 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.