Pioneer DV-300-S, DV-300-K Compressed audio compatibility, WMA Windows Media Audio compatibility

01Before you start

Compressed audio compatibility

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

•Sampling rates: 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz

•Bit-rates: Any (128 kbps 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 39)

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

WMA (Windows Media™ Audio) compatibility

This player can playback Windows Media Audio content.

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 or Windows Media Player 10 series.

Windows Media is trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

This product includes technology owned by Microsoft Corporation and cannot be used or distributed without a license from Microsoft Licensing, Inc.

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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, individual 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 32) to match the subtitle file.

This player supports the following language groups:

Group 1	Albanian (sq), Basque (eu), Catalan (ca),
	Danish (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),
	Hungarian (hu), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro),
	Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl)
Group 3	Bulgarian (bg), Byelorussian (be),
	Macedonian (mk), Russian (ru), Serbian
	(sr), Ukrainian (uk)
Group 4	Hebrew (iw), Yiddish (ji)
Group 5	Turkish (tr)

•Some external subtitle files may be displayed incorrectly 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 maximum of 10.

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