Touch the screen to Hide / Show the overlaid video file information.

8.1The Resume Functions

On the Pockets AV/ARCHOS tab, you will notice the Resume icon. Select this icon for example after having switched off your PMA430 to continue playing the last played

audio or video file from where you left off.

Moreover, if you have stopped a video file in mid play, the next time you highlight that video file, you will notice a movie clipboard icon in the upper menu bar. By clicking on

this icon, the video file will start from the place where you last stopped it.

8.2Display Format Settings

While you are watching a video, you have the following menu items.

Display

You can get file information about the video you are watching or set the audio equalizer.

Video

 

You will notice that you have a number of display format options.

 

These format options allow you to adapt videos recorded in different

 

formats for viewing on the internal LCD screen or on the TV. When

 

watching your video on the LCD, the default format is Maximise, on

 

the TV, it is Full. To choose the most appropriate format option for a

 

particular video file, you can change this setting at any time.

Full

Show the entire image, do not cut off any part of it.

4:3

The image is cropped to have a 4 by 3 aspect ratio and enlarged until it fills the screen

16:9

The image is cropped to have a 16 by 9 aspect ratio and enlarged until it fills the screen horizontally

Max

The size and aspect ratio is chosen automatically to give the best possible perception on the internal LCD.

8.3Playing 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, formats, and encryption methods that it is very possible that the video file you download from the Internet will

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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 PMA430 series can play video files of type MPEG4 Simple Profile which have an MP3, PCM (standard .wav) or IMA-ADPCM (compressed .wav) audio sound track. It can play such video files at a maximum size of 720 by 576 pixels (25 frames/second). The PMA430 will not directly play files of type .mov, .mpg,

.mpeg. If you have video files of these other types that you would like to view on your PMA430, they will have to be converted first. You will have to use the software found in the ARCHOS folder to re-encode them into the proper MPEG4 format with an MP3, PCM, or IMA-ADPCM sound track. See the chapter Creating MPEG4 Video Files with your Computer for details..

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Archos PMA430TM user manual Display Format Settings, Playing Video Files from the Internet