DVD-R/RW compatibility, DVD+R/DVD+RW compatibility

Introduction—Continued

DVD-R/RW compatibility

•Compatible formats: DVD-Video, Video Recording (VR)*

* Edit points may not play exactly as edited; screen may go momentarily blank at edited points.

•Unfinalized playback: No

•WMA/MP3/JPEG file playback on DVD-R/RW: No

DVD+R/DVD+RW compatibility

Only DVD+R/DVD+RW discs recorded in “Video Mode (DVD Video Mode)” which have been finalized, can be played back. However, some editing made during the recording may not be played back accurately.

Compressed audio compatibility

•Compatible formats: MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3), Windows Media Audio (WMA)

•Sampling rates: 32, 44.1 or 48kHz

•Bit-rates: Any (128Kbps or higher recommended)

•VBR (variable bit rate) MP3 playback: No

•VBR WMA playback: No

•WMA lossless encoding compatible: No

•DRM (Digital Rights Management) compatible: No (DRM-protected audio files will not play in this player—see also DRM in the “Glossary” on page 50)

•File extensions: .mp3, .wma (these must be used for the player to recognize MP3 and WMA files – do not use for other file types)

About WMA

WMA is an acronym for Windows Media Audio and refers to an audio compression technology developed by Microsoft Corporation. WMA content can be encoded by using Windows Media® Player for Windows® XP, Windows Media® Player 9 Series, or Windows Media® Player 10 Series.

Microsoft, Windows Media, and the Windows logo are trademarks, or registered trademarks of Microsoft Cor- poration in the United States and/or other countries.

About DivX

DivX is a compressed digital video format created by the DivX® video codec from DivX, Inc. This player can play DivX video files burned on CD-R/RW/ROM discs.

Keeping the same terminology as DVD-Video, individ- ual DivX video files are called “Titles”. When naming files/titles on a CD-R/RW disc prior to burning, keep in mind that by default they will be played in alphabetical order.

Displaying DivX subtitle files

The font sets listed below are available for DivX external subtitle files. You can see the proper font set on-screen by setting the Subtitle Language (in “Language settings” on page 43) to match the subtitle file.

This player supports the following language groups: Group 1: Albanian (sq), Basque (eu), Catalan (ca), Dan- ish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), Faroese (fo), Finnish (fi), French (fr), German (de), Icelandic (is), Irish (ga), Italian (it), Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt), Rhaeto- Romanic (rm), Scottish (gd), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) Group 2: Albanian (sq), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Hun- garian (hu), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Slo- venian (sl)

Group 3: Bulgarian (bg), Byelorussian (be), Mace- donian (mk), Russian (ru), Serbian (sr), Ukrainian (uk) Group 4: Hebrew (iw), Yiddish (ji)

Group 5: Turkish (tr)

DivX, DivX Certified, and associated logos are trade- marks of DivX, Inc. and are used under license.

•Some external subtitle files may be displayed incor- rectly or not at all.

•For external subtitle files the following subtitle format filename extensions are supported (please note that these files are not shown within the disc navigation menu): .srt, .sub, .ssa, .smi

•The filename of the movie file has to be repeated at the beginning of the filename for the external subtitle file.

•The number of external subtitle files which can be switched for the same movie file is limited to a maxi- mum of 10.

DivX video compatibility

•Official DivX® Certified product.

•Plays all versions of DivX® video with standard play- back of DivX® media files.

•File extensions: .avi and .divx (these must be used for the player to recognize DivX video files). Note that all files with the .avi extension are recognized as MPEG4, but not all of these are necessarily DivX video files and therefore may not be playable on this player.