Pioneer DVR-420H manual Playing CDs and WMA/MP3 discs, Playing Video CDs

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Playing CDs and WMA/MP3 discs

The table below shows the basic playback controls for audio CDs, and WMA/MP3 files.

PLAY Press to start playback.

STOP Press to stop playback.

PAUSE Pauses playback, or restarts playback

when paused.

REV SCAN FWD SCAN CD and MP3 only: Press to start scanning. Press again to increase the scanning speed. (There are two scan speeds; the current scan speed is shown on-screen.)

PREV NEXT Press to skip to previous/next track (or folder for WMA/MP3 disc). (You can also use the front panel +/– buttons to do this during playback.)

During playback, enter a track number then press ENTER to skip directly to that track.

Press CLEAR to clear a number entry and

CLEAR	start again.
ENTER

Note

•If you want to play a DTS audio CD, make sure the recorder is connected to a DTS-compatible amp/ receiver with a digital connection. Noise will be output through the analog outputs. Also make sure that STEREO is selected using the AUDIO button (see Switching audio channels on page 43).

•Scanning doesn’t work with WMA tracks.

Playing Video CDs

The table below shows the basic playback controls for Video CDs.

Some discs feature Playback Control (PBC for short) menus. These discs show PBC in the display when you load them and display a menu on-screen from where you can select what to watch.

PLAY Press to start playback.

If RESUME is displayed on-screen, play- back starts from the place last stopped.

STOP Press to stop playback.

You can resume playback from the same point by pressing PLAY. (Press STOP again to cancel the resume function.)

PAUSE Pauses playback, or restarts playback

when paused.

REV SCAN FWD SCAN Press to start scanning. Press repeatedly to increase the scanning speed.

		Press to skip to previous/next track. (You
PREV	NEXT
		can also use the front panel +/– buttons to
		do this during playback.)
		When a PBC menu is displayed, press to
		display the previous/next page.
		During playback, enter a track number
		then press ENTER to skip directly to that
		track.
		Press CLEAR to clear a number entry and
	CLEAR	start again.
		While a PBC menu screen is displayed,
	ENTER	use to select numbered menu items.

BACK CM SKIP Each press skips backward/forward pro- gressively up to a maximum of 10 minutes

forward or three minutes back. Note that this function doesn’t work when playing in PBC mode.

STEP/SLOW During playback, press to start slow- motion playback. Press repeatedly to change the playback speed.

While paused, press to advance a single frame (forward direction only).

RETURN Press to display the disc menu of a Video

CD playing in PBC mode.

Note

•When playing in PBC mode, some playback features, such as search, repeat and program play are not available. You can play a PBC Video CD in non-PBC

mode by pressing	to start playback instead of
PLAY.

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