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A AR RC CH HOS OS MOBILE VIDEO REC MOBILE VIDEO RECO ORDER RDER
A AV V 500 SERIES 500 SERIES
Video Player & Recorder / Music Player & Recorder / Photo Wallet & Viewer / USB 2.0 Hard Drive
English Language User Manual
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User Manual for ARCHOS AV 500 series
Version 2.4
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Dear Customer,
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ARCHOS thanks you for your choice of this exciting AV 500 product. The AV 500 is designed to be
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3 We wish you many years of enjoyment from your AV 500 product. Please do register your product at our website www.archos.com to ensure that you get have access to our help line and to be informed of technical support and free software updates for your product. Wishing you the best Video, Music, and Photo experience, ™ The ARCHOS TEAM *For full information on compatible fi le formats, see the technical specifi cations. Please take the time to read though this manual. There are many thing
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5 8 VIDEO – Editing Video Files 31 9 VIDEO – Creating MPEG-4 Video Files with your Computer 34 9.1 Installing the PC Software 35 9.2 Using MPEG-4 Translator 36 10 MUSIC – Playing Music Files 39 10.1 Button Control 40 10.2 Play Screen Icons 40 10.3 Browsing through your Music Library 42 10.4 Playing Through your Stereo System 43 10.5 Setting a Bookmark 43 10.6 The Resume Function 44 11 MUSIC – Putting Music onto your AV 500 45 ® 11.1 Synchronizing Music from Windows Media Player (WMP) to the AV
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7 22.3 Connection (2): Breaking your regular TV Connection 85 22.4 Connection (3): Put the TV docking pod between your TV and Tuner 85 22.5 Connection (4): Connect the AV 500 to the TV docking pod 86 22.6 Connection (5): the S-Video In 87 22.7 Connection (6): the Infrared Emitter 87 23 Replacing the battery 89 23.1 “Thin” version 89 22.2 Standard version 90 24 Technical Support 91 25 Troubleshooting 94 25.1 USB Connection issues 94 25.2 Charging and Power issues 95 25.3 AV 500 locks up (freezes
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9 a On indicator b Hard drive activity indicator (read/write) c Battery charger indicator (blinks when battery is charged) d Infrared sensor for the remote control e Loud speaker f Move UP (also increases volume during media playback) g Move DOWN (also decreases volume during media playback) h Move LEFT (also plays previous song or fast reverse through song or video) i Move RIGHT (also plays next song or fast forward through song or video) j Accelerate UP – go up the list of items at high spee
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11 IINTRO – First NTRO – First T Tiime Usage me Usage 2 2 2.1 Charging 2 .1 Charging the the battery battery ™ • Use only the included ARCHOS charger/adapter. • You can charge the internal battery of the AV 500 by plugging the included adapter/charger directly into the device, or you can charge it by plugging the adapter/charger into the (optional) TV docking pod and connecting your AV 500 to the Pod. • Before using for the fi rst time, charge the battery completely. The charge indi
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13 • Keep the AV 500 away from high electromagnetic fi elds. • Keep any connected cords to the AV 500 neatly arranged. This light product could fall if a cord is accidentally pulled by a child. • Do not open up the AV 500. There are no user serviceable parts inside. Opening will void your warranty. 2.7 Hardware 2 .7 Hardware Reset Reset In the event that your AV 500 freezes operation (due to electrostatic phenomena for example), you can reset the AV 500 by holding down on the STOP/ESC
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15 Video Browser Action Icons Hide the Thumbnails Reset thumbnails. The thumbnail images on the right side of the screen will be reset to their original default setting. 3.1 3.1 V Viideo Playback deo Playback Action Icons Action Icons While a video fi le is playing, click on the Select action button. The action icons on the right of the screen allow you to make video adjustments to your personal taste. Play & Sound Settings Use this setting if you would like to have the video fi le
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17 V VIDEO – Playing V IDEO – Playing Video Files from the Internet ideo Files from the Internet 4 4 ® When using Windows Media Player 10, you will have the advantage of being able to download ™ protected video content from the Internet. When you see the PlaysForSure symbol on a web site for ® Windows Portable Media Center (PMC)**, then these protected downloads will be playable on your AV 500. 4 4.1 Protected Internet V .1 Protected Internet Video content ideo content If you check th
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19 V VIDEO – Recording V IDEO – Recording Video Files ideo Files 5 5 With your (optional) TV docking pod or AV cable properly connected to a VCR, cable box, or satellite receiver, making a recording is simple. 5 5.1 .1 V Viideo recording connections deo recording connections See the relevant chapter for instructions on connecting the TV docking pod to your television system. To connect you AV 500 to your TV (or another tuner such as a VCR, cable box or satellite receiver) using an (op
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21 5 5.3 .3 S Setting the Recording Parameters etting the Recording Parameters Y ou can set the recording parameters manually to suit your specifi c needs. Click the Setup action icon in the VideoCorder’s pre-recording screen. Rename Allows you to change the fi lename before the recording begins. Auto Stop Rec On, Off. If set to On, the AV 500 will stop recording after the duration set in the next line. For example, you want to record a television show for two hours but do not wan
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23 5.5 Copy 5 .5 Copy Protection Protection ® The AV 500 video recording system is designed to respect the Macrovision copyright protection system. If the source of your video is copy protected, the AV 500 will record in protected mode. You will see a ”P” icon on the recording screen (not during playback) indicating that the fi le will be a protected fi le. Protected fi les can only be played back on the AV 500 that created it. The fi le will not play on a computer. Further, the playback of pr
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25 • If the end time is earlier than the start time, then it is assumed that you start recording on the start date, and the recording ends on the following day at the end time. • Once a scheduled recording has been made, or the date of a recording has been passed, without the recording having been made (the AV 500 was not connected to the pod or not in Standby mode), the schedule entry will be erased from the scheduler. • Long recording times (2 hours and more) can create fi les that are
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27 Notes: • If the TV programs from your personal calendar do not seem to be correctly copied to the AV 500 scheduler, go to ™ the ARCHOS web site to make sure that have the very latest version of the AV 500 fi rmware. Update your fi rmware (Operating System) as explained in the chapter Updating the AV 500 fi rmware Operating System. ® • If you change your Yahoo! personal calendar by deleting some TV programs and adding new ones, only the new programs will be added to the AV 500 schedul
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29 7.1 7 .1 P Part 1: Choose your Device and Brand art 1: Choose your Device and Brand Select the Settings action icon and click on the TV Control icon. 1. Select the type of device that you will stick your IR Emitter to. You have the choice of either a VCR (video cassette recorder), Cable Box , or Satellite Receiver . 2. Select the brand of your device. 3. Click on Tune IR Emitter button. 4. The TV Channels button allows you to give names to each channel. For example, if cha
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31 V VIDEO – Editing V IDEO – Editing Viideo Files deo Files 8 8 Video fi les recorded by the AV 500 can be modifi ed by deleting the sections you do not wish included. The editing you can do is either cropping or cutting of particular segments of the video fi le. You will mark a segment of your video fi le, and then you will tell the AV 500 to delete everything except the marked segment (crop) or to delete the marked segment (cut) from the video fi le. These operations can be done multiple t
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33 1. Play the fi le and pause at the spot you want to make your Start mark. Select the Set a mark-in here action icon. Let the video play – you will notice a small blue mark. 2. Now click on Pause at the location you want to mark the end of your segment. Select the Set a mark-out action icon. Now that you have defi ned a segment in the video, you can click the Remove selected part or Keep selected part action icon. Although the set-mark action icons are available, you can only
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35 9.1 9 .1 IInstalling the PC Software nstalling the PC Software If your video fi le is not an MPEG-4 Simple Profi le .avi fi le of the proper size, you will need to re-encode it using the following utilities. For the AV 500, you will need to create an AVI fi le that is MPEG-4 Simple Profi le with a resolution up to 720 x 576 (depending on frame rate) and a sound track that is stereo MP3 or WAV. In actuality, in all cases, a resolution beyond 640x480 does not add any advantage. MPEG-4 codec
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37 Select Source & Destination Files In the example, a source fi le 24 hours of Lemans.avi has been selected as the source video. You can see on the bottom of the window its original characteristics (width 720, height 576, frame rate 24). Next, you must then tell the program where to place (Set Destination fi le) the newly recoded version of the fi le (don’t worry, it will not erase the original). You should give it a new descriptive name, such as shown above Lemans.avi . Make sure you
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39 M MUSIC – Playing Music Files USIC – Playing Music Files 1 1 0 0 When you click on the music icon in the main screen, you will be sent directly to the ARCLibrary. From here you can choose to either browse your music by the fi le system (Browse hard drive) or by music characteristics (Album, Artist, title, Genre, Year). Use the LEFT, RIGHT, UP, and DOWN buttons to locate one of the factory installed music samples and then click on PLAY. If you hear nothing at fi rst, make sure you have
