Archos AV420 9.1

9.1 Installing 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 AV400,

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. In actuality, in all cases, a resolution beyond

640x480 does not add any advantage.

Run the program SETUP.EXE (the Archos Installation Utility) found on the

AV400 hard drive in /Data/PC Installation. Please install the programs

in the following order.

DivX™ Codec

This software will install the DivX™ Compression/Decompression onto

your PC. You should shut off any anti-virus programs when installing this

or other codec software. This is not a program that is run by itself. Rather,

it installs background software which allows your computer to do high

quality video compression. This is the MPEG4 compressed video type that

the AV400 knows how to play. You can ﬁnd this codec software, as well

as an application that allows you to play DivX™ videos on your PC, at the

website www.divx.com.

Virtual Dub™

A utility for transcoding one video ﬁle into another. This is a general

purpose transfer and cleanup utility which has many options allowing for

even the most difﬁcult video translations. When you install it with the

Archos Installation Utility, it will automatically unzip. It will prompt you

to save it to C:\Program Files\VirtualDub. You should use this default

directory location. Otherwise you will have to instruct the MPG4 Translator

program where to ﬁnd it.

MPG4 Translator

This program, developed by Archos, is a “Front-end” for the Virtual Dub

program. It has a simple interface which you use and it then tells Virtual

Dub how to process the video ﬁle. It sets all the parameters for Virtual Dub

speciﬁcally to create a video ﬁle in the right size and format to be read by

the AV400. When you run it for the ﬁrst time, the MPG4 Translator will need

to locate the Virtual Dub program. If you did not install Virtual Dub in the

default location, you will have to show the program where Virtual Dub is.