Dolby Laboratories DX4 manual MPEG 4 playback, What is MPEG 4?, How to play MPEG 4 CDs

MPEG 4 playback

This DVD player lets you play videos saved in the popular MPEG 4 format. Every day there are plenty of MPEG 4 files world-wide being transmitted, shared and distributed. This device not only supports DVD playback but also includes the latest MPEG 4 video decoding technology.

What is MPEG 4?

MPEG 4 is an ISO/IEC standard developed by the MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group), a committee that has also developed other standards that have won the Emmy Award as MPEG 1 and MPEG 2 (DVD uses this standard for video applications).

MPEG 4 is a very efficient, digital video compressing standard that reduces the size of MPEG 2 videos up to one eighth of its original size. Most of the video streaming media are based on this technology, such as DivX, WMV, etc. MPEG 4 is therefore the most popular technology used for

transmitting and distributing videos.

How to play MPEG 4 CDs

1.Press the OPEN/CLOSE button.

Insert a CD into the tray and press the button again to close the tray.

2.Select a folder or AV file that has been saved on the CD. Press the arrow buttons to make your selection.

3.Press the ENTER/PLAY button. Playback starts.

How to create home-made MPEG 4 discs

1. Download the files from the Internet or copy the video data from other video sources by using your PC/Mac application, and save the MPEG 4 file as an avi, asf or other file type.

2. Insert a blank CD-R/RW into the CD-R/RW drive of your PC or any other disc burner.

3. Write the MPEG 4 files onto the CD-R/RW disc by using a CD burning software (e.g. Nero Burning, Clone CD, etc.).

4. Finish the disc and eject it.

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