Archos AV 500 series VIDEO Automated Yahoo!, TV Recording Scheduler

• If the end time is earlier than the start time, then it is assumed that you start recording on the start date, and the

recording ends on the following day at the end time.

• Once a scheduled recording has been made, or the date of a recording has been passed, without the recording

having been made (the AV 500 was not connected to the pod or not in Standby mode), the schedule entry will

be erased from the scheduler.

• Long recording times (2 hours and more) can create ﬁ les that are larger than 2 gigabytes (GB) each. The AV

500 will create multiple ﬁ les in order to make long recordings. Thus a long scheduled recording may produce

video ﬁ les called VID0000, VID0001, and VID0002. This is only in the case of recordings that are over 2 GB in

size. This 2 GB ﬁ le size constraint is due to the Windows® FAT32 AVI ﬁ le type speciﬁ cation.

• When you set the scheduler, the AV 500 will create a text ﬁ le in its System folder called DVRTimer.txt. You

should not erase this ﬁ le.

VIDEO – Automated Yahoo!

TV Recording Scheduler

For those who have a My Yahoo!® account and use the calendar feature, the AV 500 can read the TV programs

scheduled into your personal calendar and transmit these to your AV 500 to be included in the AV 500 scheduler.

This way, you do not have to input all your scheduled recordings manually. You can sign up for an account and

learn how to use the My Yahoo!® TV and calendar functions at the Yahoo!® Website (www.yahoo.com).

Please note: Using the scheduler is particularly useful when you have the TV docking pod and

you have set up the Infrared connector. Otherwise, the AV 500 will be unable to change channels

on your tuner. It will record the currently selected channel. Furthermore, the AV 500 needs to be

You must do the following:

1. Connect your AV 500 to your computer.

2. Go to your personal Yahoo!® calendar which has your TV programs scheduled.

3. Choose the Week view – starting with the current day as the beginning of the week.

4. Click on Printable View to show a cleaner printable version.

5. From your browser menu click on File > Save As … to save the ﬁ le.

6. Do not change the File Name , but do change the Save as Type to Web page , html only. Now save the ﬁ le to

the folder System on your AV 500.

7. Once you disconnect the AV 500 from your computer, the AV 500 will automatically update its scheduler with

the newly saved TV programs from your My Yahoo!® calendar. If the AV 500 encounters a television station

name that it does not know the channel number for (was never set), it will indicate so, and direct you to go to

the scheduler to manually assign a channel to the station name.