Archos AV 700 9.2 Using MPEG-4 Translator , 9.2 Using MPEG-4 Translator

MP3 Sound Codec

If MPEG-4 Translator detects a suitable MP3 codec on your PC, it

will use it, and your video ﬁ le sound track will be MP3. Otherwise, it

will use the standard IMA ADPCM codec. There are MP3 encoders

(usually packaged together as an encoder and decoder) available on

the Web for you to download. If you choose to use the LAME codec,

make sure that you have a version built with the ACM front-end. You

can ﬁ nd other MP3 codecs on the web by using the search terms

ACM , MP3 and CODEC in your favorite web search engine. Once

this MP3 codec is installed into your system, MPEG-4 Translator will

be able to create ﬁ nal video ﬁ les with MP3 sound, even if the source

video ﬁ le does not have an MP3 sound track.

If you are unsure what codecs (audio and/or video) have been

installed on your computer, you can see the list by going to the

following location.

For Windows XP, click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices Properties > Hardware ,

choose Audio Codecs , then click on Properties . You will ﬁ nd a list here of all the audio codecs that are installed

on your computer. Decoding of MPEG 2 video ﬁ les is currently not supported by MPEG-4 Translator. These

are usually .mpg or .mpeg format ﬁ les, not the required AVI ﬁ le. There are other tools found on the Internet

(FlaskMPEG, Rippack, etc.) that may be downloaded in order to help you with these ﬁ le types. A good starting

place is the website www.digital-digest.com.

9.2 Using MPEG-4 Translator

Here you see the image of the main MPEG-4 Translator program.

When you ﬁ rst run the program, if the required codec has not been

installed yet. You should download the codec and install it on your

computer. If the Virtual dub program has not been installed, you will

also be notiﬁ ed, and you should install it (either with the ARCHOS™

Installation Utility or the Virtual Dub website). If you have placed the

Virtual Dub program in a folder other than the installer default folder, it

will ask you to locate the ﬁ le.

Select Source & Destination Files

In this example, a source ﬁ le 24 hours of Lemans.avi has been

selected as the source video. You can see on the bottom of the window

its original characteristics (width 720, height 576, frame rate 30). Next,

you must then tell the program where to place (Set Destination ﬁ le)

the newly recoded version of the ﬁ le (don’t worry, it will not erase the

original). You should give it a new descriptive name, such as shown

above Lemans_AV 700.avi . Make sure you add the .avi extension.

Change Settings

Next, you can change the parameters (Change Settings) of the

encoder to adjust the level of quality of the ﬁ nal image. Like MP3

music, the higher the bit rate setting is made, the higher the quality

of the music, or video in this case, that you will get. However, this will

also take up more space on your hard drive. A setting of 900 kbps will

give you a nice looking image for viewing on a television. For near

DVD quality, you can set it up to 1200 kbps.