Creative Portable Media Center Managing Content

Managing Content 5-1

Managing Content

Zen Portable Media Center plays many different types of content, including video

files, audio tracks, recorded TV programs and still pictures.

When you transfer video and audio files to your player, Windows Media Player 10

changes them into WMV or WMA files respectively. Windows Media Player 10

changes recorded TV programs in DVR-MS format to the WMV format. Still picture

files are unchanged, but your player only displays pictures that are in the JPEG

(.JPG) format. Windows Media Player 10 may take longer to change video files that

are not already in the WMV format.

You can acquire content from many legal sources. Here are some suggestions:

• Videos — purchased from online movie stores or digitized home video footage.

• TV programs — recorded programs from a digital video recorder, running on

Windows XP Media Center, or recorded TV programs from a Windows XP Media

Center Edition computer.

• Audio tracks — ripped from personal audio CDs, home studio recordings or

purchased from online music stores.

• Pictures — purchased from online stores, encoded from your personal digital

camera or scanned from printed pictures.

When you transfer a

video that has a

combined video and

audio bitrate greater

than 800kbps,

Windows Media Player

10 changes the bitrate

to less than 800kbps.

You can check a

video’s bitrate from

the Windows Media

Player 10’s Library

view.