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• MPEG-4 Video Player & Recorder
• MP3 & WMA Music Player
• Photo Viewer
• USB 2.0 Hard Disk
• Digital Audio Recorder
User Manual for ARCHOS Pocket AV420
USB Windows® Device
Manual version 1.0
English Language User Manual
Please visit our website to download the most recent manual and software for this product.
AV420
USB Windows® Device
ARCHOS™ POCKET VIDEO RECORDER
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Table of Contents
1 INTRO - Ports, Buttons and Connections 6
2 INTRO - First Time Usage
8
2.1 Plugging in the AC Adapter 8
2.2 Turning on the AV400 8
2.3 Shutting off the AV400 and Battery saving features 8
2.4 Changing the Interface Language 9
2.5 Foreign Character Sets 9
2.6 Charging the Batteries 9
2.7 Caring for the AV400 10
2.8 Hardware Reset 10
3 VIDEO - Playing Video Files 11
3.1 Setting a Bookmark 12
3.2 The Resume Function 13
3.3 Display Format Settings 13
4 Playing Video Files from the Internet 14
4.1 Non Protected Internet Video Content 14
5 VIDEO - Recording Video Files 15
5.1 Setting the Recording Parameters 16
5.2 Where is the Recording Saved? 18
5.3 Copy Protection 18
5.4 Manually Setting the Scheduler 18
6 VIDEO - Automated Yahoo!® TV Recording Scheduler 21
7 VIDEO – Setting the Infrared Emitter Code 23
7.1 Part 1: Choose your Device, Brand and Model 23
7.2
Part 2: Testing the Emitter codes 24
8 VIDEO - Editing Video Files 26
9 VIDEO - Creating MPEG4 video files with your computer 28
How to create an MPEG-4 video file
28
PC Tools
28
Macintosh Users
28
9.1 Installing the PC Software 29
DivX™ Codec
29
Virtual Dub™
29
MPG4 Translator
29
MP3 Sound Codec
30
9.2 Using MPG4 Translator 30
Select Source & Destination Files
31
Change Settings
31
Target & Priority
31
Start
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10 MUSIC - Playing Music Files 33
10.1 Button Control 33
10.2 Play Screen Icons 34
10.3 Browsing through your Music Library 34
10.4 Playing Through your Stereo System 35
10.5 Setting a Bookmark 36
10.6 The Resume Function 36
11 MUSIC – Putting Music onto your AV400 37
11.1 Synchronizing Music from Windows Media® Player (WMP) to the AV400 37
11.2 Comparison of Windows Media Player 10 to Windows Media Player 9 38
11.3 Transferring your CD collection to the AV400
38
11.4 Installing Windows Media
®
Player 9 (WMP9) 39
11.5 Installing Windows Media
®
Player 10 (WMP10) 40
12 MUSIC - Playlists 41
12.1 Playing a Playlist 41
12.2 Creating a Playlist 42
12.3 Saving a Playlist 42
12.4 Adding songs to a Playlist while listening to Music 43
13 MUSIC - Recording Music 44
13.1 Cable Connections for Audio Recording 44
13.2 Recording Procedure 44
Microphone
45
Analog Line-In
45
Incremental Recording
46
13.3 Where is the Recording Saved? 46
13.4 Audio Editing 46
14 MUSIC - Using iTunes™ with your AV400 48
15 PHOTO - Viewing Photos 49
15.1 Viewing Photos 49
Magnifying Photos
50
15.2 Viewing a slideshow 50
15.3 Transferring photos to your AV400 50
16 BROWSER - Using the Browser 52
16.1 Navigating the Directory Structure 52
16.2 File and Folder Operations 53
File Operations
53
Folder Operations
53
Copying and Moving Files and Folders
54
16.3 Using the Virtual Keyboard 55
17 Connecting/Disconnecting* the AV400 to/from your PC 56
17.1 USB Connection Type (‘Hard Drive’ or ‘Windows Device’) 56
17.2 Connecting the AV400 56
Windows® XP
57
Windows® ME and 2000
57
Macintosh™ OS X
58
17.3 Disconnecting the AV400 from your Computer 58
Windows®
58
Macintosh
®
59
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18 SETTINGS 60
18.1 Sound Settings 60
18.2 Play Mode Settings 61
18.3 Clock Settings 62
18.4 Display Settings 63
18.5 Power Settings 64
18.6 System Settings 66
18.7 TV control 67
19 Updating the AV400 Firmware Operating System (OS) 68
Download the Update_AV400.AOS file
68
Read the History.txt File
68
Copy to the AV400
68
‘Hard Drive’ or ‘Windows Device’?
69
Activate the Update
69
20 Technical Support 70
21 Troubleshooting 72
21.1 USB Connection issues 72
21.2 Charging and Power issues 73
21.3 AV400 locks up (freezes operation) or Stops 73
21.4 The Computer locks-up (freezes operation) or Stops 74
21.5 File issues, corrupted data, formatting, and partitioning 74
Windows® 98SE & ME Running Scan-Disk (Error Checking)
76
Windows
®
XP & 2000 Running Check Disk Utility (ChkDsk)
76
22 Technical Specifications 77
23 Legal 78
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Dear Customer,
ARCHOS thanks you for your choice of this exciting AV400 product. Never
before has one been able to record, play, and carry with them, so much
digital media. Be it digital videos, digital music or digital photos, you can
enjoy all of these, on the go, without a computer.
The AV400 is designed to be the companion to your home entertainment
system. With the TV cradle connected to your television, you can slip
your AV400 in and out as desired. Optionally, you can connect it to your
computer with the included USB Cable. By connecting to a computer, you
get the advantages of downloading digital audio and video content from
the Internet. Since it is a PlaysForSure device, you have a wide choice of
music and video content on the Internet. For more information about the
PlaysForSure program, see www.playsforsure.com.
Remember, with the AV400, you can…
• Play MPEG-4 & WMV video files on the built-in screen, a television or video projector
• Record and edit MPEG-4 video files from a television or other video device
•
Listen to MP3, WMA, or WAV music files or PlaysForSure protected music files
• Record music files into digital format directly from your hi-fi without a computer
•
Synchronize your Windows® Media Player music and video library to your AV400
• Use it as a digital voice recorder, it has a built-in microphone
•
View JPEG and BMP images and slide shows
• Copy Pictures or data from CompactFlash™ cards directly to the AV400
•
Store .DOC, .TXT, or any type of data file – it’s a portable hard drive too!
We wish you many years of enjoyment from your AV400 product. Please do
register your product at our website www.archos.com/register/products.
html to ensure that you get access to our help line and to be informed of
free software updates for your product.
Wishing you the best Video, Music, and Photo experience,
The ARCHOS TEAM
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a Hard disk activity indicator (red)
b On indicator (green)
c Battery charger indicator (green)
d Move UP (also increases volume during media playback)
e Move DOWN (also decreases volume during media playback)
f Move LEFT (also plays previous song or fast reverse through song or video)
g Move RIGHT (also plays next song or fast forward through song or video)
h On/Enter/Play/Go – Hold for 4 seconds to turn on
i Escape/Stop/Off – Hold for 4 seconds to turn off device
j Left function button – Activates the left on-screen menu item (p)
Also buttons lock.
k Center function button – Activates the center on-screen menu item (q)
Also speaker on/off
l Right function button – Activates the right on-screen menu item (r)
m LCD/TV button – Hold down for 3 seconds to switch between LCD and
external TV display
n TFT LCD screen 320 x 240 pixels
o Built-in loud speaker (hold down on button k for three seconds to turn
speaker on and off)
p,q,r
Screen function buttons which correspond to j, k, l
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a LCD/TV button – Hold down for 3 seconds to switch between LCD and
external TV display
b Microphone – for making digital voice recordings
c CompactFlash™ Type I slot
a USB 2.0 high speed port (USB 1.1 compatible) to connect the AV400 to your
computer
b Power Connector (use only the supplied Archos power charger/adapter)
c Multi-connect jack* – for headphones, TV Cradle, and AV in/out connections
*The optional multi-connect adapter and AV cable allow for audio and video playing
(cable) and recording (cable+adapter) without the TV Cradle.
Multi-connect Adapter AV Cable
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Please take the time to read though this manual. There are many
things that this device can do that you may not be aware of.
2.1 Plugging in the AC Adapter
• Use only the included ARCHOS charger/adapter.
• Before using for the first time, charge the batteries completely. The
charge indicator (CHG) light just below the navigation pad will start to
blink when the battery is charged.
• You may use the Archos Video AV400 while its battery is charging, but
it will then take longer before the battery is completely charged.
2.2 Turning on the AV400
•
Hold the PLAY/ON bu tto n for 4 seconds. The green “On ”
indicator light will turn on. Be patient, it will take about 8 seconds for the
operating system to boot up.
•
If the unit shuts off after holding the ON button for several seconds, plug
in the Archos adapter/charger to make sure the batteries get charged.
2.3 Shutting off the AV400 and Battery saving features
To shut off the unit, press and hold the STOP/ESC/OFF button for 3 seconds.
In the Power menu [
Setup Power: Battery Operation
] there is a
Power Off parameter. It is factory set to 2 minutes. Thus, if
your AV400 is idle for 2 minutes, it will shut off. This setting can
be changed from one to nine minutes.
In the Power menu [
Setup Power: Battery Operation
]
there is a Backlight Off parameter to save battery power (the
lighting of the screen consumes a lot of the battery power).
It is factory set to 30 seconds. That is, if there are no buttons
pressed, the screen will shut off in order to save battery life.
To turn the screen back on, just click once on any button. See
section 18.5 for a complete explanation.
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2.4 Changing the Interface Language
The AV400 interface can be set to English (default), French, Spanish,
German, or Russian.
• Using the arrow buttons, highlight
Setup and then click PLAY/
ENTER .
• Highlight the Display icon and click PLAY/ENTER
.
• Highlight the
Language parameter.
• Click the Right or Left button to choose the desired language.
• Choose the desired language.
• The language displayed will change immediately.
• Click on the STOP/ESC button
twice to return to the main
menu screen.
2.5 Foreign Character Sets
You have the possibility to display your file names, folder names, and
music tags in various character sets (ex: Korean, Japanese, Simplified
Chinese, etc.). You can find the language files CodePage_name.4FZ
in the font folder under /Archos on the AV400 hard disk or on the
Archos website under the heading Software. If, for example, you would
like to have the Korean language display, then you would copy the file
CP949.4FZ into the folder /system on the AV400 and shut down and
restart the AV400. File names, folder names, and music tags written using
the Microsoft® codepage for the language will now be displayed in that
character set. Only one .4FZ can be used at a time, thus you should only
put one .AFZ file into the /system folder. When an .4FZ language file is
used, the interface language will be set to English.
2.6 Charging the Batteries
Use ONLY an Archos charger/adapter that is specified for the AV400.
Other chargers or adapters may damage the AV400. The green CHARGE
indicator lights up to indicate that the external adapter is connected. The
batteries will charge automatically when the AC adapter/charger is plugged
in. Once the battery is charged, this light will blink, indicating that you can
disconnect the charger/adapter. To charge the battery to the maximum
capacity, continue charging (with AV400 on) for at least an hour after the
charge light starts to blink. The internal battery can only be changed by an
Archos technician. Opening your product will void the warrantee.
* depending on how you use it (start/stop/writing, etc.)
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2.7 Caring for the AV400
The Archos Video AV400 is an electronic product that needs to be treated
with more care than typical consumer electronic products.
• Do not subject it to shock.
• Do not subject it to heat. Keep it ventilated (especially when connected
to a computer).
• Keep the AV400 away from water and excessively humid areas.
• Keep the AV400 away from high electromagnetic fields.
• Keep any connected cords to the AV400 neatly arranged. This light
product could fall if a cord is accidentally pulled by a child.
• Do not open up the AV400. There are no user serviceable parts inside.
Opening will void your warranty.
2.8 Hardware Reset
In the event that your AV400 freezes operation (due to electrostatic
phenomena for example), you can actuate a hardware reset by holding
down on the STOP/ESC button for 15 seconds. In normal operation,
the STOP/ESC button will shut down the AV400 after being held down
for 3 seconds.
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VIDEO - Playing Video Files
Click on the Video icon in main menu, highlight the desired
video file and then click on PLAY/GO . The thumbnail
images on the right side will show you a frame from the
highlighted video file (center) as well as a frame from the file
above and the file below the highlighted one. By clicking on
the Video icon in the main menu, you will enter into a ‘video only’ mode.
Other playable file types that may be in this folder are only listed if you
enter the folder via the Browser.
To watch your videos on a television,
you must hold down the LCD/TV button
for three second. The AV400 screen
will go black and the video will be
sent out to your connected television.
Switch your television to auxiliary video
input (often found just below channel
1 – sometimes called L1 or L2). If you
don’t see a clear color image, you may
have to set your AV400 to your local
television standard (NTSC or PAL) in
the Setup > Display settings menu.
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LEFT – Slow /2 Put
the video into slowmotion view. You can
cycle through the values
Normal , ½ , ¼ , and
1/8 speed. The sound
is muted when in slow
motion. While in slow
mode and paused, you
can step image per image
with the LEFT button.
CENTER – Options
Setup: Go to the Setup
menu
Set Screen Format:
Change the screen’s display
format
Set Bookmark: Set a
mark within current video
to return to at a later time.
Save as thumbnail: save
the current image on the
screen as the video file’s
thumbnail in the Video
browser view.
RIGHT - Hide / Show
the overlaid video time
information.
3.1 Setting a Bookmark
If you are watching a video and would like to place a bookmark
in it in order to continue from this point at another time, you
can use the Bookmark function. You simply click on the center
function button labeled Options, then choose Set Bookmark. This will set
a bookmark in the video file at the current position. You can only set one
bookmark per file. When you look at the file in your browser, it will have a
yellow check mark on its icon indicating that this file has a bookmark set
within it. You can have a maximum of 16 files bookmarked. Setting more
bookmarks will then start to erase the oldest bookmarks. The next time
you play this video file, you will be presented with three options:
Resume: Start playing from the bookmarked position.
Ignore: Keep the bookmark but start playing from the very beginning.
Clear: Clear the bookmark from this file and start playing from the
very beginning.
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3.2 The Resume Function
When you turn on your AV400 you will sometimes notice that the
icon which is highlighted on the main screen is not the Browser
but rather the Resume icon. This icon is highlighted when the
AV400 can resume the last played audio or video file.
3.3 Display Format Settings
You will notice in the Options button (center function button), that you
have a number of display format options. In certain cases, depending
on how the original video was recorded, you may want to use these
adjustments.
Default mode : Adjusts the video size to best adapt to the LCD screen.
4/3 aspect: Enlarge the image to fill the screen (usually a vertical fill) and
then cut the sides to completely fill a television screen.
16/9 aspect: Send out a TV signal without the black horizontal bars. Will
not be cropped on the LCD.
No Overscan: Picture will not pass into the overscan area. Entire picture
will always be seen on all televisions.
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Playing Video Files from the Internet
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 AV400.
4.1 Non Protected Internet Video Content
The number of encoding and compression schemes currently used to
create video files is very extensive and seems to change on a weekly
basis. There are so many standards and formats that it is very possible
that the video file you download from the Internet will not play right
away on your device. Due to certain “variations”, even when video files
are formatted in “MPEG4” they may not play right away. The AV400
plays .AVI files that are encoded with the XviD or DivX™ MPEG-4 codec
(compression/decompression). It can play such video files at a maximum
size of 720 by 576 pixels (25 frames/second). It can also play .WMV files
(WMV9SP) up to a maximum size of 352x288. The AV400 will not directly
play files of type .mov, .mpg, or .mpeg.
If you have some video files that do not run directly on your AV400, they
will have to be converted first. Windows Media® Player 10 (Available only
for Windows XP) will convert your video file automatically* when you sync
the file that is on your PC to the AV400. It will display a little message
‘converting’.
You can also use the software MPEG4 Translator included on the AV400
hard disk to re-encode some of your video files into the proper MPEG4
format that the AV400 can play. See chapter 9 for more details.
* Windows Media® Player 10 may not be able to convert (transcode) all file types.
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Pre-record Screen
1. Select VideoCorder on the main
menu screen. In the pre-record screen,
you should see movement on the
sound level bar indicating that sound
will be recorded. Adjust the sound level
by clicking the LEFT/RIGHT buttons.
Before starting the recording, you can
adjust the recording parameters via
the middle function button Settings.
Hold down on
Scheduler button for
3 seconds to hide the overlaid screen
info.
Setup Parameters
2. In most situations, the video
recording will work fine without your
having to adjust the settings. However,
by clicking on the middle function
button, you have access to a number
of parameters that you can change
before you start the recording. See the
table below for descriptions. Click any
function button to return to the prerecord screen.
During Recording
3. Click on the PLAY/PAUSE button
to start the recording. While recording,
you will see the length of time of the
recording in the top left of the screen
as well as a red “record” indicator. Click
on the PLAY/PAUSE
button again to
pause the recording. Click on the STOP/
ESC button to stop the recording.
The AV300 will take a few seconds to
complete the proper saving of the .AVI
video file.
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5.1 Setting the Recording Parameters
You can set the recording parameters
manually to suit your specific needs.
Click the center Settings button while
in the pre-recording screen.
Rename Allows you to change the filename before the recording begins.
Auto Stop
Rec
On, Off. If set to On, the AV400 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 want to stay around
for the two hours to stop the recording. In the screen above, a
recording that you start manually will last for 2 hours. If set to Off,
the recording will continue until you click on the stop button or
until the entire hard disk fills up.
Duration This is the duration of time your recording will last if Auto Stop Rec
above is set to On
.
Pre-record This is a safety margin added to the beginning of a scheduled
recording which was set via the My Yahoo!
®
TV scheduler of your
personal calendar. It affects ONLY those recordings. This is just in
case the clocks between your AV400 and the broadcast station are
different or if the broadcast station starts earlier than expected.
Post-record This is a safety margin added to the end of a scheduled recording
which was set via the My Yahoo!
®
TV scheduler of your personal
calendar. It affects ONLY those recordings. This is just in case the
clocks between your AV400 and the broadcast station are different
or if the broadcast station runs overtime.
Source Composite, S-Video, Auto. You can choose which video input
you want the AV400 to use. Normally, with a good video signal,
you can set it to
Auto, and the AV400 will scan the two inputs to
see which one is receiving video.
Format Auto, 4:3, 5:3, 16:9, 2.35. This is the aspect ratio of the screen
that the AV400 will record. You can set this manually, but in most
cases you can just leave it on
Auto.
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Resolution
TV, LCD. Use this to set the resolution of the recorded image. If you
plan on playing the video most of the time on the built-in screen,
then set it to LCD to record at the screen resolution of 320x240
pixels. Set to TV, it will record at the highest resolution possible.
(Actual resolution depends on 4:3, 5:3, 16:9, or 2.35 recording
format).
Bitrate
500 kb/s, 1000 kb/s, 1500kb/s, 2000 kb/s, 2500kb/s. Use this to
set the encoding quality (similar to the idea of JPEG image quality
settings). The higher the encoding rate, the higher the image quality
but also the more hard drive space is used.
Sampling 32kHz, 48kHz. The sound sampling rate. The higher value gives
a higher quality sound but will take up more space on the hard
drive.
Brightness Use this to increase or decrease the recorded image brightness.
Contrast Use this to increase or decrease the recorded image contrast.
Saturation
Use this to de-emphasize or saturate the colors in the recorded image.
Hue Use this to change the color spectrum in the recorded image.
Reset Change the above settings to the AV400 default settings.
• Once you have finished changing the parameters, click any function
button to return to the pre-record screen.
• Concerning the video standard, the AV400 will automatically recognize
if the incoming video signal is NTSC (American), SECAM, or PAL
(European). There is no need to set anything. You will see the signal
type, as well as the selected aspect ratio on the top left of the prerecord screen.
• Click the LEFT/RIGHT buttons to adjust the sound input level. Too far
to the right will often give an overdriven distorted quality. Too far to the
left may make for a very soft sound. Try a few recordings to get a sense
of what is the best sound level. Do not let the headphone volume fool
you. That can be adjusted independently with the UP/DOWN buttons.
• If you would like to make a recording in another folder instead of the
default “Video” folder, go to the desired folder via the main
Video icon,
then click on the right function button Record.
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5.2 Where is the Recording Saved?
The default location for video recordings is the folder called Video. If
you click on the Video icon in the main menu, you will go to this folder.
Notice that the right function button is labeled Record. Each time you
use this button to record video instead of the VideoCorder button on the
main menu, you set the recording default location to the current folder.
For example, you have a folder called /Video/Television/Documentaries. If
you go to this folder and then make a recording using the right function
button Record, you will set the default record location to this folder.
Now, each time you use the VideoCorder icon to start a recording, your
recording will be saved in the folder /Video/Television/Documentaries.
5.3 Copy Protection
The AV400 video recording system is designed to respect the copyright
protection system. If the source of your video is copy protected, the
AV400 will record in protected mode. You will see a ”P” icon on the
recording screen (not playback) indicating that the file will be a protected
file. Protected files can only be played back on the AV400 that created it.
The file will not play on a computer. Further, the playback of protected
files will be limited to the built-in LCD screen and not to an external
television.
5.4 Manually Setting the Scheduler
If you would like to make a video recording for a future date or time,
you can use the scheduler. You can find it by going to VideoCorder and
then clicking on the right function button Scheduler. You can program
up to twenty different recordings up to one month in advance. Once you
program your dates and times of recording, press the left function button
SAVE. You can now put your AV400 into standby mode by pressing on
the red Standby/wake-up button on your Archos remote control. Once the
scheduler is set, you will see an icon on the top VideoCorder status bar
indicating that it is set to make a timed recording.
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• Click on the right function button Scheduler.
• Set each line to the desired date and time (and channel if you are
using the InfraRed emitter to control your VCR, cable box, or satellite
receiver). Click on the center function button
Title to set the file name
of the scheduled recording. Click on
Save.
• The scheduler icon
indicates that a scheduled recording is set. You
can set the AV400 to Standby.
Empty Scheduler, ready to be
programmed. Once a valid record
time is entered, and the Enter button
pressed, the empty box will get a green
checkmark.
Scheduler after having been set. The
“--- Current” means that the AV400
will record the current video signal (no
channel changing). This is for people
who do not use the stick-on Infrared
Emitter system.
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Notes about setting the Scheduler.
• The scheduler automatically reorganizes the recording events
chronologically.
• In order for a scheduled recording to start, you must leave the AV400
in the main menu screen or set it to standby mode (press Standby/
On button on remote control). That is, if you are listening to music,
watching a video, or looking at photos on your AV400, it will not
interrupt you in order to go make the scheduled recording.
• If you have connected and will be using the IR Emitter system (see
the TV Cradle manual as well as section 6 below) with a video cassette
recorder (VCR) please note that in order for the IR Emitter to properly
control the VCR:
1. Your VCR should not be left in sleep mode.
2. Some VCRs will shut off automatically after a few minutes when left on.
See your VCR user manual for instructions on how to force it to stay on
continuously.
• When the user interface is in English, the Date format is set to Month/
Day.
• 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. For example, the first scheduled item in
the screen above will start recording on the 16th day of June, and end
on the 17th at 2am.
• Once a scheduled recording has been made, or the date of a recording
has been passed, without the recording having been made (the Archos
unit was not in the TV Cradle or not in Standby mode), the schedule
entry will be erased from the scheduler.
• Long recording times (2 hours and more) can create files that are
greater than 2GB each. The AV400 will create multiple files in order to
make long recordings. Thus a long scheduled recording may produce
video files called VID0000, VID0001, and VID0002. This is only in the
case of recordings that are over 2GB in size. This 2GB file size constraint
is due to the Windows™ FAT32 AVI file type specification.
• When you set the scheduler, the AV400 will create a text file its System
folder called DVRTimer.txt. You should not erase this file.
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VIDEO - Automated Yahoo!® TV Recording Scheduler
For those who have a My Yahoo!® account and use the calendar feature,
the AV400 can read the TV programs scheduled into your personal
calendar and thus make scheduled recordings this way. You can sign up
for an account and learn how to use the My Yahoo!® TV and calendar
functions at the Yahoo!® Website (www.yahoo.com).
You must do the following:
1. Connect your AV400 to your computer.
2. Go to your personal Yahoo!® calendar which has your TV programs
scheduled.
3. Choose the Week view – starting with the current day as the
beginning of the week.
4. Click on Printable View to show a cleaner printable version.
5. From your browser menu click on File > Save As… to save the file.
6. Do not change the File Name, but do change the Save as Type to
Web page, html only. Now save the file to the folder System on
your AV400.
7. Once you disconnect the AV400 from your computer, the AV400 will
automatically update its scheduler with the newly saved TV programs
from your My Yahoo!® calendar. If the AV400 encounters a television
station name that it does not know the channel number for (was
never set), it will indicate so, and direct you to go to the scheduler to
manually assign a channel to the station name.
Notes:
• If the TV programs from your personal calendar do not seem to be
correctly copied to the AV400 scheduler, go to the Archos web site to
make sure that have the very latest version of the AV400 firmware.
Update your firmware (Operating System) as explained in the chapter
“Updating the AV400 firmware”.
• 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 AV400 scheduler when you save the html file to the AV400. If
you want to delete scheduled items, you must do this in the AV400
scheduler itself.
• Missed recordings (because you did not have the AV400 in the TV
Cradle connected to your Television at the record time) will be deleted
from the scheduler.
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• If a personal calendar recording event does not find the station name
in your list of channels, it will put the event into the scheduler and
mark it with a ?, indicating that you must assign a channel number to
the name. Move the cursor to the line containing the ?, and click on
the center function button “Set Channel”. You can now scroll through
the channel numbers and assign a number to the station name for
that event. You only have to do this once.
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VIDEO – Setting the Infrared Emitter Code
This is a one time step to set your AV400 to send the correct infrared codes
to your video cassette recorder, cable box, or satellite receiver in order that
the AV400, via its TV cradle, can turn on and off your video device and also
change its channels. If you do not plan on making scheduled recordings,
then you do not need to install the IR emitter or set the infrared emitter
code.
Before beginning this procedure of setting the emitter code, your AV400
must be connected in the TV Cradle, the IR emitter cable plugged in and
securely stuck in place on your tuner’s (VCR, cable box, satellite receiver)
infrared receiver window. See the TV Cradle instructions for the exact
placement of the emitter.
7.1 Part 1: Choose your Device, Brand and Model
On the main screen, go to Setup then click on TV Control.
1. Select the type of device that you have stuck 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 channel 6 is CNN then you can name it in this screen.
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You can fill these in by hand. Or, if you use the My Yahoo!® personal
calendar to set your recording scheduler, any unknown station name
will be indicated in the scheduler with a ?. You then have the
possibility to assign a channel number to the station name by clicking
on the center function button Set Channel. This avoids having to fill in
all the station names and channel numbers by hand.
7.2 Part 2: Testing the Emitter codes
1. Tune channel select: These four
parameters usually do not need to
be set. Keep the default values to
start with. See the table below for an
explanation of each.
2.
Tune device code (one code
available): Some manufacturers use
only one set of codes for all of their
products. Their codes do not change
from one model to another or from one year to another. In this case,
there will only be one single code. You can now test the
channel
select.
3. Tune device code (multiple codes available): Some makers of
video equipment don’t use the same set of control codes for all of
their products. They have various code sets for various models and
various years. You will have to try each of the codes to find out which
code works with your device. In the example screen, you see the
code C109. If this code does not work when doing the Test: channel
select, advance it to the next code and then test to see if that next
code works.
4. Test channel select: When you press the Test channel select button
(Highlight test channel select and press ENTER button – on AV400),
the AV400 will send a signal through the cradle to the Infrared Emitter
stuck to your device and changes the channel. If the Number of digits
parameter is set to three, it will try to select channel 123. If that
parameter is set to 2 or 1, it will send the code for channel 12 and
channel 1 respectively.
5. Test ON/OFF: When you click on the Test On/Off button, the AV400
will send a signal to the TV Cradle, which will then send a signal out to
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the Infrared Emitter stuck to your device and turn your device on and
off. Click this test button again and your device should change from on
to off or off to on. If pressing this button does not turn on and off your
device, try the next code for your device (step 3 above). If none of the
codes work, check that the infrared emitter is directly over the infrared
sensor on your tuner device.
Note: In some rare cases the ON/OFF functionality may not work.
Parameter Description
Key: -/-- Set this to
On if normally, you have to press this same key on
your device’s remote control in order to select a channel.
Number of digits Set the number of digits that your device can recognize for a
channel.
Example: Set to 3 if you need to choose a channel
greater than channel 99.
Key: Enter Set this to On if normally, you have to press the Enter key
on your device’s remote control after you enter the channel
number.
Example: If you normally press 1, 3, Enter for
channel 13, then you would need to set this parameter to On.
Key Delay Change the delay between the emission of each digit of a
channel. You may need to adjust this if the AV400 seems
to send only half the digits of a channel or more digits of a
channel.
Example: Adjust the key delay and retest channel
select if it sends channel 1 instead of 12 or sends 112 instead
of 12.
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Video files recorded by the AV400 (not internet files) can be modified 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 file. You
will mark a segment of your video file, and then you will tell the AV400 to
CROP it out (delete everything except the marked segment) or to CUT it out
(delete the marked segment from the video file). These operations can be
done multiple times on the same video file. Once finished, you will have the
option to save the edit marks with the video or to write a new video file. If
you save your file with edit marks, you can always go back and change your
edits at another time. The actual video information is not deleted. On the
other hand, you can write a new file which will only include the video parts
that you specified in the edit session. This file will be smaller but you can
never un-edit it.
Beginning of recording
Example 1: You have recorded a music video program and would like to
keep one single music presentation. The rest of the television recording
you do not care to keep. In this case, you would set a Start mark (a) at the
beginning of the desired segment, and an End mark (b) at the end of the
desired segment. You would then choose CROP which would then delete
everything except the designated section.
Example 2: You have recorded a television program but would like to remove
certain sections before the program started, parts during the program, and
the program afterwards because you had recorded a little extra. In this case,
you would make a Start mark (a) at time 00:00 and then forward to the end
of what you want to delete and make your End mark (b), and choose CUT.
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VIDEO - Editing Video Files
Music Video section to keep
(a) (b)
to delete
to delete
(a) (b)(a) (b)
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This part of the video recording will now be cut out. Fast-forward to the
center of the recording and make a Start Mark (c) where the section that
you want to suppress begins, and make an End mark (d) when it finishes.
Again, choose the CUT option and this section will be cut out. Do the same
for the final section that you want to cut out.
IMPORTANT NOTE: When you pause at a given point to make a Start or End
Mark, the actual point of the cut will be the nearest I-Frame. I-Frames are special
frames in the video file which come about every one to four seconds. The editor
can cut ONLY at an I-Frame. It is thus recommended that when you pause at the
point you want to make your Start or End mark, that you click the LEFT button
once (will jump to the previous I-frame) and then click the RIGHT button (shows
the next I-frame) so that you can see your choice of I-Frames to cut at. Go to
the I-Frame you desire and then set your Mark. Trying to set a mark between IFrames is ineffective since the AV400 will just choose the closest I-Frame.
1. Play the file and pause
at the spot you want to
make your Start mark.
Click the RIGHT button
once, then LEFT once,
and choose the I-frame
you want for the mark.
Click on the
Edit function
button and select
Start
Mark.
2. Let the video play.
Now click on Pause at
the location you want
to mark the end of your
segment. Choose your
I-frame and then select
End Mark from the
Edit menu. You can now
click on the
Edit button
again and choose to
Cut
or Crop the specified
segment (blue portion in
the time line.)
3. Continue to mark
other segments that you
would like to delete and
use the edit Cut function.
Once satisfied with your
edits, you can Save Edit
which keeps the edit
points and allows you to
re-edit another time, or
you can Write to new
File which will create a
new edited file named
(old-name_Edit0000).
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How to create an MPEG-4 video file
Please understand that video re-encoding is not always a simple one button
process. Video segments that come from your digital camcorder or which
are freely available on the Internet are encoded in many different ways. If
not already in the proper MPEG4 Simple Profile format, transforming these
videos into this format readable by the AV400 requires use of the below
mentioned software tools. This is due to the relatively new nature of the
ISO (International Standards Organization) MPEG4 video format. Unlike its
predecessors MPEG1 and MPEG2, there are a number of levels in this format
and thus not all MPEG4 video files will work on all MPEG4 players, and older
MPEG1 and MPEG2 files must be re-encoded into this format. Although you
may have a bit of a learning curve in the initial re-encoding of video files,
once you have the process down, it is just a matter of letting your PC or Mac
go to work and create video files for playing on your AV400.
PC Tools
The AV400 is delivered with two Windows® based programs that allow you to
create MPEG4 Simple Profile .AVI video files. They are the
MPG4 Translator
and Virtual Dub™
. The MPG4 Translator will call the Virtual Dub program
and give it the correct parameters to encode your video from its original
format, .avi or .mpg (mpeg 1), and then encode it into a DivX™ based
MPEG4 .AVI file. The file will be scaled in order to be played back properly.
Only MPEG4 files encoded with DivX™ or XviD can be played on the AV400.
Please visit the website of DivXNetworks, Inc (www.divx.com) to download
this codec. This is a free codec. This will allow your PC to create DivX™ type
videos which play on your AV400.
There are other tools available on the Internet, some free and some for sale,
that can also convert your video files into the appropriate MPEG4 video file for
the AV400. See the web site www.mpegmobile.com for a few of them.
Macintosh Users
There are now tools available at the DivX™Networks web site which will allow
you to create DivX™ simple profile files with your Macintosh that are playable
on the AV400.
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VIDEO - Creating MPEG4 video files with your computer
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9.1 Installing the PC Software
If your video file is not an MPEG4 Simple Profile .avi file of the proper size,
you will need to re-encode it using the following utilities. For the AV400,
you will need to create an AVI file that is MPEG4 Simple Profile 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.
Run the program SETUP.EXE (the Archos Installation Utility) found on the
AV400 hard drive in /Data/PC Installation. Please install the programs
in the following order.
DivX™ Codec
This software will install the DivX™ Compression/Decompression onto
your PC. You should shut off any anti-virus programs when installing this
or other codec software. This is not a program that is run by itself. Rather,
it installs background software which allows your computer to do high
quality video compression. This is the MPEG4 compressed video type that
the AV400 knows how to play. You can find this codec software, as well
as an application that allows you to play DivX™ videos on your PC, at the
website www.divx.com.
Virtual Dub™
A utility for transcoding one video file into another. This is a general
purpose transfer and cleanup utility which has many options allowing for
even the most difficult video translations. When you install it with the
Archos Installation Utility, it will automatically unzip. It will prompt you
to save it to C:\Program Files\VirtualDub. You should use this default
directory location. Otherwise you will have to instruct the MPG4 Translator
program where to find it.
MPG4 Translator
This program, developed by Archos, is a “Front-end” for the Virtual Dub
program. It has a simple interface which you use and it then tells Virtual
Dub how to process the video file. It sets all the parameters for Virtual Dub
specifically to create a video file in the right size and format to be read by
the AV400. When you run it for the first time, the MPG4 Translator will need
to locate the Virtual Dub program. If you did not install Virtual Dub in the
default location, you will have to show the program where Virtual Dub is.
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MP3 Sound Codec
If MP4SP detects a suitable MP3 codec on your PC, it will use it, and your
video file sound track will be MP3. Otherwise, it will use the standard IMA
ADPCM codec. There are MP3 encoders (usually packaged together as
an encoder and decoder) available on the Web for you to download. If
you choose to use the LAME codec, make sure that you have a version
built with the ACM front-end. You can find other MP3 codecs on the
web by using the search terms ACM, MP3 and CODEC in your favorite
web search engine. Once this MP3 codec is installed into your system,
MPG4 Translator will be able to create final video files with MP3 sound,
even if the source video file does not have an MP3 sound track.
If you are unsure what codecs (audio
and/or video) have been installed on your
computer, you can see the list by going to
the following location.
For Windows XP, click on Start > Settings
> Control Panel > Sounds and Audio
Devices Properties > Hardware >
choose Audio Codecs, then click on
Properties. You will find a list here of
all the audio codecs that are installed
on your computer. Decoding of MPEG 2
video files is currently not supported by
MPG4 Translator. These are usually .mpg
or .mpeg format files, not the required AVI file. There are other tools
found on the Internet (FlaskMPEG, Rippack, etc.) that may be downloaded
in order to help you with these file types. A good starting place is the
website www.digital-digest.com.
9.2 Using MPG4 Translator
To the left you see the image of the main MPG4 Translator program. When
you first run the program, if the DivX™ codec has not been installed yet,
you will be notified. You should download the codec and install it on your
computer. If the Virtual dub program has not been installed, you will also
be notified, and you should install it (either with the Archos Installation
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Utility or the Virtual Dub website). If you
have placed the Virtual Dub program in
a folder other than the default, it will
ask you to locate the file.
Select Source & Destination Files
In the example above, a source file 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 30). Next,
you must then tell the program where to place (Set Destination file)
the newly recoded version of the file (don’t worry, it will not erase the
original). You should give it a new descriptive name, such as shown above
Lemans_AV400.avi. Make sure you add the .avi extension. If you forget,
Windows® will give you an error when you try to launch it.
Change Settings
Next, you can change the parameters (Change Settings) of the DivX™
encoder to adjust the level of
quality of the final image. Like
MP3 music, the higher the bit rate
setting is made, the higher the
quality of the music, or video in this case, that you will get. However, this
will also take up more space on your hard disk. A setting of 900 kbps will
give you a nice looking image for viewing on a television. For near DVD
quality, you can set it up to 1200 kbps.
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Target & Priority
You should select the target as AV400. You will see a Priority box appear.
This control is to allow you to select which feature of the video to be
guarded. If for example you are
re-encoding a video file that is
800x600 in resolution and 30
frames per second, this is beyond
the maximum resolution that the
AV400 can play. Thus, the MPG4 Translator program will have to decrease
the resolution. Choosing LCD optimizes the final video format for viewing
on the built in LCD screen. Choosing the TV option will optimize the movie
to keep the highest possible frame rate. You can see what the size and
frame rate will be by looking at the Video Image Size: Destination
parameters. When choosing TV, it is understood that the output will be
optimized for a television, and not the built-in screen.
Start
Click on
Start
and the program will call Virtual Dub to start processing the
video. Depending on the power and speed of your computer, this could
take real time (a 60 minute long video re-encoded in about 60 minutes)
or much longer. As shown to the left, you will
see the progress as it processes the video file.
If the
Start
button is grayed out, it would be
for one of two reasons. 1) The source file is
not a true AVI file. Even if the file name ends
with .avi, the internal file data determines if it
is truly an AVI file. 2) The Virtual Dub program
was not located when MPG4 Translator was
started up. Close the program, restart it,
and make sure you locate the Virtual Dub
program.
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When you click on this 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 file system (Browse hard
drive) or by music characteristics (Album, Artist, title, Genre,
Year). Use the UP, DOWN, and PLAY buttons to locate one of
the factory installed music samples and then Click on PLAY . If you hear
nothing at first, make sure you have adjusted the volume control on the
headphone cord.
Current Directory Play Order Play Mode: One Directory Status: Playing Volume (maximum: 99)
Artist* or parent folder
Album* or current folder
Song title* or file name
Next track to be played
Relative location in the track
Song elapsed time
Song time remaining
Song Length
Battery level (full)
Time of Day
File format and rec info
*Album picture
Volume level meters
Go to setup options Show Music Options Browse the hard disk for other tracks
*If the file contains these tag data
10.1 Button Control
Increase the Volume
Click once: Play the previous song in
the folder or playlist (during first 10
seconds of song) otherwise go to the
beginning of the song.
Hold: Fast reverse through the song.
Click once: Play the next song in the
folder or playlist.
Hold: Fast forward through the song.
Stop Song
Decrease the Volume
Play/pause/resume song
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MUSIC - Playing Music Files
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To lock the AV400 buttons, press and hold the left
function button for three seconds. The AV400 will
display the message “Buttons locked!” on the bottom
of the screen. Press this again for three seconds to
unlock the buttons.
10.2 Play Screen Icons
Status Play Order Play Mode
Stopped
- no icon Play once
AV400 is currently
playing from a Playlist
Blinks while
playing a track
Repeat playing
Folder: Play all tracks
in the current directory
Pause
Shuffle (random)
track selection
All: Play all tracks on
AV400
Recording a track
Single: Play a single
track then stop
Queue: User can
queue the next track to
be played *
Scan: AV400 plays
first 15 seconds of
each track*
* See the PlayMode section under the Settings chapter of this manual for details.
10.3 Browsing through your Music Library
The ARClibrary is your AV400’s music library. It is a system for indexing
your music by album, artist, song title, etc. When you synchronize music
files from your PC using Windows
Media® Player to the AV400, the
ARCLibrary will get updated to include
the new songs you have added. As
shown in this screen capture, you can
select your music by Artist, Album,
Song Title, Genre, or Year.
All music files that you purchase
have internal ‘tags’ which identify
the artist, the album, and the song
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title. If your music files do not have
internal tags (ex: WAV file format or
untagged WMA or MP3 files) then
the ARCLibrary will put them under
the category (
Unknown). Audio files
created with the microphone will be
indexed as Artist = (
ARCHOS) and
Album = (Audio Recordings).
You can reach the PlayMode settings
screen from Setup > PlayMode. The
play mode determines how your music
is played (just the current folder of music, all music, one file, etc.). See
Playmode in the section Play Screen Icons above for a description of
how each one works.
10.4 Playing Through your Stereo System
To play your music through your stereo system, you can connect your
TV Cradle audio outputs to your stereo or purchase the optional Traveler
Cable kit and plug it in directly.
Connecting from the included TV Cradle
Connecting with the optional travel kit cable
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10.5 Setting a Bookmark
If you are listening to a song, or
perhaps a long recording, and
would like to place a bookmark
in it in order to pick up from
this point at another time, you can use
the Bookmark function. You simply click on
the center function button labeled Options,
then choose Set Bookmark. This will set a
bookmark in the audio file at the current
position. You can only set one bookmark per file. When you look at the file
in your browser, it will have a yellow check mark on its icon indicating that
this file has a bookmark set within it. You can have a maximum of 16 files
bookmarked. Setting more bookmarks will then start to erase the oldest
bookmarks. The next time you play the audio file, you will be presented
with three options:
Resume: Start playing from the bookmarked position.
Ignore: Keep the bookmark but start playing from the very
beginning.
Clear: Clear the bookmark from this file and start playing from the
very beginning.
10.6 The Resume Function
When you turn on your AV400 you will sometimes notice that
the icon which is highlighted on the main screen is not the
Browser but rather the Resume icon. This icon is highlighted
when the AV400 can resume the last played audio or video file.
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11
MUSIC – Putting Music onto your AV400
Your Archos™ product is a certified PlaysForSure digital
device which means that wherever you find music for
sale on the Internet with this symbol, you can be certain
that they will ‘Play for sure’ on your AV400*.
The AV400 is designed to work seamlessly with Windows
Media® Player (WMP) versions 9 and 10. The Windows
Media® Player software is used to download digital media
content from the Internet to your computer and organize it. You will also
use it to sync (copy) the contents of your Windows Media® Player media
library to your Archos™ device. See the comparison chart below for an
explanation of the different features available when running Windows
Media Player 9 and 10 or check out the web site www.playsforsure.com.
*Subscription services require you to be running Windows Media® player 10.
11.1 Synchronizing Music from Windows Media
®
Player (WMP) to the AV400
The Synchronize button in WMP (Windows Media® Player) is a one way
sync button. That is, it will add music, video, and photo
files to your AV400 so that you have the same digital
media on your AV400 as you have in your Windows
Media® Player library. Of course, you can choose to sync
only certain songs or sync your entire library. On WMP10, you can click
the button Set up Sync in the
Sync tab and then check the box labeled
Synchronize Device Automatically. This is the auto-sync advantage
of WMP10. If this box is checked, then each time you
connect your AV400 to your PC, Windows Media
®
Player
will automatically start up and check to see if there are
any new music, videos, or photos in your library, and if
so, will then send them to your AV400. You also have the possibility to
decide what types of media automatically sync when you connect your
AV400. For example, you may only
want music files to be synchronized.
On the other hand, with Windows
Media® Player 9, you have to tell it
what you want to sync, it cannot
synchronize automatically when you
plug it in.
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Note for WMP10 users: Files added to your AV400 from another
computer or files which are recorded from an analog source can only
be added to your Windows Media® Player Library by opening the AV400
device in Windows® Explorer and dragging the item to the media.
11.2 Comparison of Windows Media Player 10 to Windows Media Player 9
Windows® Media Player 10 is only available for Windows® XP (service Pack
1) and newer operating systems. It is worth your while to upgrade to
Windows® XP (home or professional) and to Windows® Media Player. The
list below shows the advantages.
Functionality WMP9 WMP10
Auto-synchronize the WMP library to Archos
AV400 on connecting to PC
no yes
Can synchronize subscription music (‘to go’
services) to your AV400
no yes
Carefree USB disconnection (no special green
arrow unmount procedure)
no yes
Will convert video files* to play on your AV400
if not in correct format
no yes
Supports protected Internet video downloads
no yes
PlaysForSure audio content
*Microsoft reserves the right to limit which video file formats it will convert with WMP10
11.3 Transferring your CD collection to the AV400
The process of transferring music from a CD into files for your AV400 is
known as ‘ripping’. It is actually a transcoding process, taking the CDA (CD
Audio) format and converting it to WMA or MP3 format which the AV400
can read. There are many music ripping programs on the market, but
the easiest thing to do is to use Windows Media® Player to do it. In fact,
when you place a music CD in your computer, Windows® will ask you if
you would like to rip it. Depending on the power of your computer, to rip a
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60 minute CD, it will take anywhere from
10 minutes to 60 minutes. Once this
is done, the album will become part of
your music library. Connect your AV400
to your computer with the supplied USB
cable. Now, go to the Sync tab and tell
Windows Media® Player to synchronize
that album to your AV400. It will then
transfer that album to your AV400.
Note: Some music CDs have a special
copy protection system that will not
allow Windows Media® Player to make
music files from them.
11.4 Installing Windows Media
®
Player 9 (WMP9)
If you have Windows® 98SE, ME, and 2000, you
should use Windows Media® Player 9. You can
visit the Microsoft® Website to download the
very latest version, or install the version found
on the AV400 itself.
Copy the Installation folder and run the installer
First, make sure the AV400 is in Hard Drive mode. From the main menu
of the AV400 go to Setup, then System, and then set USB to Hard
Drive using the RIGHT button.
1) Connect the AV400 to your computer with the supplied USB cable.
(See the section of the manual on connecting the AV400 to your computer
if you are unfamiliar with the computer connection.)
2) Open the hard drive
AV400 with Windows® Explorer (or double click
on it in My Computer).
3) Open up the folder named Archos and then open the folder
PC
Installation. Double-click on the file named Setup.exe (it may just be
shown as Setup).
4) Click on the + icon next to the Windows Media
®
Player 9 installer to
see which languages are available. Double-click on the desired language
and follow the on-screen instructions.
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11.5 Installing Windows Media
®
Player 10 (WMP10)
You must be running Windows® XP (Service Pack 1 or better) in order to
install Windows Media® Player 10. Please visit Microsoft’s PlaysForSure
Website (www.playsforsure.com) and download the very latest version of
Windows Media® Player.
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12
MUSIC - Playlists
A Playlist is a list of songs that the AV400 will
automatically play one after the other. The AV400 can
load one playlist at a time into its internal memory. You
can create new playlists, add or delete songs from a
playlist, or Save a playlist as a file (file type .m3u) to be
used another time. There is no limit to the number of
playlists you can save on the AV400 hard disk. Playlists are indicated by a
special list icon (circled icon to the left).
12.1 Playing a Playlist
To play a Playlist, you simply scroll to the
Playlist, such as ‘Jazz Music’ shown to the
left, and click on PLAY . The list of songs
will be loaded into the internal memory
of the AV400 and then be displayed in a
separate panel.
Click on PLAY and the songs will be played in the order shown. To
shuffle the music entries in a random order, you can click on Playlist,
then choose Shuffle. You can open a Playlist file
(Playlistname.m3u)
on
your computer with a text editor such as Notepad, and you will see that it
is merely a list of files to be played along with the hard disk path to find
them. If you delete a Playlist from
your AV400, you are only deleting
the list and not the music itself.
Example of the contents of the .m3u Playlist file ‘Jazz Music’.
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12.2 Creating a Playlist
To create a Playlist, press the RIGHT ►
button while you are in the Music browser.
A second window will open on the right
side to display the Playlist contents. You
can now start adding songs to the current
Playlist. In the left window, search for the
songs you would like to add to your Playlist.
Once the song is highlighted, click on the
Add function button to add it to the Playlist.
The song will be added to the Playlist and a
small mark next to the music icon will be made to indicate that it is in the
Playlist. Continue searching and adding songs in this manner until you are
satisfied. You can also click the Add or Insert button when highlighting
a folder. All the contents of the folder and its subfolders will be added or
inserted into the current playlist.
You can jump back and forth between the browser and the playlist by
clicking on the LEFT ◄ and RIGHT ► buttons. A Playlist can have a
maximum of 5000 songs. We recommend that you save your Playlists.
12.3 Saving a Playlist
It is recommended that each time you
create a Playlist, you save it to a separate
folder called
Playlists
. These lists take
very little space on your hard disk and
if well named, give you easy access to
your favorite songs. Go to the Playlist by
selecting Music from the main menu and
then click on the RIGHT ► button. You will
then see the list of songs in the current
Playlist. Click the LEFT function button then
choose Save.
ATTENTION: Make sure that your left window is the Playlists folder,
because the open window on the left is the location the AV400 will be
saving your Playlist to.
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Save – Saves the current playlist to the folder open in the left window. The
* next to the playlist name indicates that this playlist has not been saved.
Close – Closes the windows and returns to the main menu screen.
Rename – Renames the current playlist.
Shuffle – Randomly shuffles the order of the songs in the current playlist.
Clear – Clears the contents of the current playlist.
Button Move – Allows you to change the place in the list of the highlighted
song. Click on
Move and then click on UP or DOWN to move the song up
or down the list. Click OK when finished.
Button Delete – Will delete the highlighted song from the Playlist. It will
not delete the actual song itself from your hard disk, just from the current
Playlist.
Important: Once you save a Playlist it is important that you do not move or rename the
actual MP3 files as the Playlist searches in the original file location. If you need to move your
MP3 files to a different folder, you’ll have to recreate your Playlist.
12.4 Adding songs to a Playlist while listening to Music
This can only be done if you have entered your Music
folder via the Music icon and not by the general
browser. To add the song you are listening to or any
other song to the current Playlist, do the following:
• While playing a song, click on Options and choose
Edit Playlist. A browser window and the Playlist will
open.
• Click on the LEFT ◄ button to go to the hard disk
browser window.
• Select the song or folder of songs to add, then click
the button Add.
• Click ESC to return to the playing screen.
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With the AV400 series, you do not need a computer to create digital
music files. It is capable of recording from the built-in microphone or
an analog line source (ex: HiFi system, Boombox, CD Player, etc) into a
standard Windows® WAV format, either PCM (uncompressed) or ADPCM
(compressed).
13.1 Cable Connections for Audio Recording
If you are using the Archos TV cradle, then you will have to plug the
Red and White connectors of the AV IN cables to the output of your Hifi
or other audio device that you are recording from. If you are using the
optional multi-connect adapter and AV cable, you should plug the AV
cable into the AV IN side of the adapter, and then plug the adapter into
the AV400. Now connect the Red and White connectors of the AV cable to
the output of your Hifi or other audio device that you are recording from.
13.2 Recording Procedure
Before the actual audio recording begins, there is a pre-recording screen
which will allow you to adjust your recording settings.
1. From the home screen, select AudioCorder then click on ENTER/GO
.
2. In the pre-recording screen, adjust
the recording level* by clicking on the
LEFT and RIGHT buttons. Click on the
right function button to start recording.
Attention, the first time recording you
should adjust your
Settings.
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MUSIC - Recording Music
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3. Click on Settings to reveal the recording parameters s creen as sho wn
a bov e . Be sure to s e t t h e c o rre ct
Sour ce. You wil l hear silence during
recording and playback if the incorrect
source is chosen.
4. Once you have clicked on the Start
button, you can pause the recording by
clicking the same function button (now
labelled
Pause), or stop the recording
by clicking on the STOP
button.
* You should try some test recordings before deciding on which recording level gives the
best sound quality. Don’t be tricked by the volume of the headphones which can be
adjusted independently with the UP and DOWN buttons.
Microphone
The built-in microphone is located on the top of the AV400 unit. Make
sure that you have selected Microphone as the input source in the prerecording Settings screen.
Analog Line-In
You can record from any line-level audio source to the AV400. Make
sure that you select the Analog Line-In as the input source in the prerecording Setup screen. If you have the TV cradle unit, you can plug the
Red and White connectors of the AV In cables to the output of you home
stereo system or the audio device you are recording from. If you have the
optional multi-connect adapter plug, you can enter a stereo audio signal
into the AV400 directly. Be careful that the source audio is supplying a line
level and not an amplified signal (turning down the volume on the player
will work if you are using the headphone out signal of your audio device).
An amplified signal will make for a terribly distorted recording. You can
also use a high quality pre-amplified microphone, such as the one Archos
sells as an option.
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Incremental Recording
While recording, you will notice the center function button
labeled Next. This allows you to create incremental recordings.
That is, the current recording stops and a new recording
instantly begins. The next recording has an additional number appended to
its name. Thus if you create multiple incremental recordings, you might, for
example, have files names of REC0000_01, REC0000_02, etc. This is good
for recording old cassettes and old vinyl records. You can click on the Next
button during the blank space between each song. That way, each song of
the vinyl disk or audio cassette will be one single MP3 file.
13.3 Where is the Recording Saved?
The default location for audio recordings is the folder called Music. If you
click on the Music icon in the main menu, you will go to this folder. Notice
that the right function button is labeled Record. Each time you use this
button to record audio instead of the AudioCorder button on the main
menu, you set the recording default location to the current folder. For
example, let’s say you have a folder called
/Music/Voice/Lectures
. If you
go to this folder and then make a recording using the right function button
Record, you will set the default record location to this folder. Now, each
time you use the AudioCorder icon to start a recording, your recording will
be saved in the folder
/Music/Voice/Lectures.
13.4 Audio Editing
Audio files (microphone recordings / analog recordings / FM Remote
Control (optional)) can be modified by deleting the sections you do not
wish included. If you would like to edit an audio recording, you have the
possibility to “crop out” the exact section of the recording you would like
to save. For example, you have recorded a lecture of 33 minutes and 22
seconds in length. You would like to cut out and save just one particular
important section from 12 minutes and 15 seconds to 21 minutes and 5
seconds. The diagram below illustrates the situation.
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Desired audio section
00:00 (0min 0sec) 12:15 21:05 33:22
To keep just this section (cropping it), you will:
• locate this file from the Browser mode
• Select
Edit from the File menu in order to enter the edit mode
• In the edit mode, set the cut-IN point (12:15 in our example)
• Next, set the cut-OUT point (21:05 in our example)
• Save the edit
Highlight the file to edit and select Edit
from the file menu. Only files which have
been created with the AV400 recording
function will show Edit in the file menu.
Files created from CDs or downloaded
cannot be edited. Once you enter the
edit mode, the audio file will play in a
continuous loop so that you will be able
to hear how your edit sounds.
Use the fast-reverse and fast-forward
buttons (LEFT/RIGHT buttons) to locate
the points you want the new file to
start and end. These are the cut-IN
and cut-OUT points. Once you have set
these points, you can save the edit. In
this example, a new file VOICE_01_Edit.
mp3 will be made. Your original file is
left untouched. You will notice that your
Cut-IN and Cut-OUT times are marked
just above the file name.
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MUSIC - Using iTunes™ with your AV400
The easiest way to transfer music files between a Macintosh
®
computer and your AV400 is to use the Macintosh Finder™
to drag and drop the files to and from your Macintosh®.
However, for Macintosh® users who do want to use the
AV400 with iTunes®, Archos has developed a special i-Tunes® plug-in. You
will find it in the folder /Data/i-Tunes Plug-in on the AV400 hard disk
or from the Archos website. In this folder you will find a plug-in for Mac
OS 9.x and another folder for Mac OS 10.x. You will also find a JPEG image
illustrating where you need to copy the plug-in to. Once this is done,
iTunes™ will recognize the AV400 as a ‘Device’.
To make your user experience easy as possible, please keep in mind the
following.
1) Music purchased at Apple’s on-line music store are copy protected with
a proprietary encryption system. The ARCHOS device will not be able to
play this purchased music. It will happily play MP3 format files without
problem.
2) When you create your Playlists with iTunes® (you can only create Playlists
from songs that have been copied to your AV400), your Macintosh® will
save these Playlists to the root directory of your AV400. It will not save
them to the AV400 Playlists directory. It would be best to use the AV400
itself to make Playlists (section 12.2) and then save these Playlists in your
Playlists folder.
3) When you drag and drop MP3 files from your iTunes® library to your
AV400, the i-Tunes® program will look at the ID3 tag information of the
MP3 file, and create a folder on the root of your AV400 using the name of
the Artist as the folder name. Then it will take the Album name ID3 tag,
and create a subfolder with that album as its name. Finally, it will take the
MP3 song itself and place it into that album subfolder. Thus, although it is
a clean structure of artists and albums, i-Tunes® does not follow the AV400
convention of placing the music into the Music folder first.
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15
PHOTO - Viewing Photos
The AV400 series support the viewing of JPEG (.jpg) and
Bitmap (.bmp) image formats. Progressive JPEG images are
not supported. The AV400 will resize the image to fit on
the built-in screen or on a television screen if you choose
the television output. The yellow bar above the list of files
indicates that you are in the ‘Photo Only’ mode, meaning that only files of
type JPEG or BMP will be visible in the directory. The three images on the
right are thumbnail sized pictures
of the highlighted file (center) and
the picture just before and just
after the highlighted file.
If you are viewing photos on a
television, it is recommended that
you set the Image Display setting
to Progressive to eliminate any
possible screen flicker. You will
find this in the menu Setup >
Display.
15.1 Viewing Photos
When you click Enter on a highlighted image file, the AV400 will display
the image in the carrousel, either alone, within a group of 4 images, or
within a group of 9 images. A red rectangle will surround the selected
photo. Click on Enter again to display the image in full screen. Once it
is displayed as a full screen image, you can rotate it, magnify it, or set it
as the AV400 screen background (Wallpaper).
1 x 1 image 2 x 2 images 3 x 3 images
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Rotate picture 90° left
Rotate picture 90° right
View next photo
View previous photo
• Click the left function button #-Pic to change the number of photos in
the carrousel view.
• Click the center function button Picture to display the picture options.
• Click on the right function button Hide to hide the picture name and
function buttons.
Magnifying Photos
Once the picture is displayed in full screen, clicking the PLAY/GO button
will magnify the image up to three levels. Each successive click of the
PLAY/GO button will magnify the picture one more level. You can use
your direction buttons to move the picture around in order to see the
desired magnified area. The small + signs on the bottom left of the screen
indicate the level of magnification, either +, ++, or +++. Click on STOP/
ESC to go back to an unmagnified view.
15.2 Viewing a slideshow
By clicking on Slideshow, the AV400 will present
each picture in the current folder for a set amount
of time and then go on to the next picture. You
can set the amount of time that each picture
stays on the screen under Setup > PlayMode
> Picture Pause. This parameter is the number
of seconds each picture displays on the screen.
15.3 Transferring photos to your AV400
To transfer pictures from your digital camera directly into the AV400, you
will insert your digital camera’s Compact Flash™ card* into the slot on
the left side of the AV400. Insert the card when the main menu screen
is displayed.
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When you insert the card, the AV400 will
recognize it and open up two browser windows.
The left window will show the contents of your
CompactFlash™ (CF) card* and the right window
will show the contents of your AV400’s hard drive.
Navigate to the folder on your CF card which
contains your photos (in this example
/DCIM/
113CANON
). Move to the right window (click right
button) and navigate to the folder you would like
to save your photos to (you can create a new folder if you need to by
clicking on the center file button).
Photos from CompactFlash™ on the
left, and your AV400 hard disk on the
right. Choose destination folder then
choose File > Copy All.
Your files will be copied to the folder
on the right side of the screen. You
can now pull out the CF card from the
AV400.
If your image files are not seen in the left screen, you may have to go the Setup
> System > Show all files parameter and set it to On. Once set to on, all file
types, regardless of their extention (.txt, .raw, .pdf, etc.) which are on your CF
card will be visible in the left browser screen. You cannot copy files to your CF
cards from your AV400.
*If your camera uses SmartMedia™, Memory Stick® (MS), MultiMedia Card (MMC),
or Secure Digital™ (SD) memory cards, you can purchase the optional Archos 4-1
CompactFlash™ adapter which will allow these card types to be read by the AV400.
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BROWSER - Using the Browser
The browser is used to navigate the file system on the
AV400. The file system is FAT32, the same type of file system
that is found on Windows® based computers. That is, it is a
hierarchical system which includes folders and subfolders.
Because you will be putting hundreds of files on your AV400,
it is STRONGLY ADVISED that keep a neat and orderly file structure.
Otherwise, you will be spending time searching for files and not listening
or watching them. We suggest that on the first level of your file structure,
you include the folders: Data, Music, Playlists, Photo, Video, and Voice.
The folders Music, Photo and Video are special folders in that the icons
on the main screen lead to these folders and then places you directly in
that folder. If these folders are deleted, you will be placed at the root level
(highest level) of the directory hierarchy.
16.1 Navigating the Directory Structure
Just below the top status bar, you
can see the path to the directory
you are currently viewing.
To navigate the directory structure you will use:
ENTER Open the highlighted folder (directory) or Play the
highlighted file.
ESC/STOP
Go back to the main menu.
Go to the parent directory (go back up one level).
Example: Go from folder /Music/Wes Burden/ to /Music.
You can also use the Left navigation button to go to the parent
directory.
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Move the cursor up and down to the previous or next file or
folder.
16.2 File and Folder Operations
Depending on where you are in the directory system, you will have the
option to manipulate files and folders. From the main menu, click on
Browser. Attention, there is a setting in the Setup > System menu called
Show all files. If this is set to Off, the AV400 will only display file types
.mp3, .jpg, .avi, etc. That is, it displays only the file types that it knows
how to play. To see all your files, including ones it cannot play, change
the Show all files system setting to On. Files that it cannot play will be
preceded by the unknown file type icon .
File Operations Folder Operations
Info: Show file information such as song length, video length, photo
size, number of kilobytes used of hard disk space, date file was
made, etc.
Delete: Delete the file permanently from the AV400. (Before it is
deleted, the AV400 will ask “Delete file: xxxxx ?”. Use
the function keys to reply Yes or No. For folder, it will delete
the entire contents of the folder. It will ask “Delete folder:
xxxxx and all files therein?” Use the function keys to reply
Yes or No.
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Rename: Change the name of the file or folder to something new. You
will be sent to the virtual keyboard (see section 16.3) to enter
the new file or folder name.
Create: Create a new folder in the current level of the directory. You
will be sent to the virtual keyboard (see section 16.3) to enter
the new folder name.
Copying and Moving Files and Folders
By using the unique Archos double browser system, you can copy or move
files from one location in the file structure to another (1000 files per folder
maximum). You simply click on the RIGHT button, and a second browser
window will open. The double browser can be used in:
Photo View: Left browser is an inserted memory card and right
browser the AV400 hard disk.
Music View: Left browser is the AV400 hard disk and right browser
the music Playlist.
Browser View: Two browser windows to browse two different parts of
the AV400 hard disk.
In the Browser mode, you can jump between the two windows using the
LEFT and RIGHT buttons. Where the cursor is highlighting a file or folder,
that window is the source for the copy. The destination folder will be the
other window. For example, we want to copy the file Project X.doc from
the HD/Data/Files from Work folder to the HD/Data/Backed up
Files folder. We must start from the main screen Browser mode.
1) Locate the file to copy. 2) Click the RIGHT button to open a
new browser window.
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3) Click the RIGHT button again to
move the cursor to the right browser
and find the desired destination folder.
4) Move back to the left browser (LEFT
button), highlight the file to copy, and
select copy from the file menu. The
file will be copied to the folder in the
right browser. Entire folders can also be
copied or moved in this same manner.
16.3 Using the Virtual Keyboard
It is recommended that you create folders and rename files or folders
from your computer when it is connected to the AV400. The computer
keyboard is much easier. Often times, however, you are not near your
computer and you must enter the text directly with the AV400. For this,
the virtual keyboard screen will appear.
The new text that you are typing in Cursor
Each key has an upper case and lower case
character (lower case mode shown here).
Press ENTER
to enter thehighlighted key.
Hold down on the LEFT or RIGHT buttons to
move the cursor within the line.
Change keyboard between upper case and
lower case
Confirmation to use the entered text Backspace button
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17.1 USB Connection Type (‘Hard Drive’ or ‘Windows Device’)
Your device comes configured as a Windows® Device and will be
immediately recognized by your computer if you are running Windows
®
XP (with Service Pack 1 minimum) and Windows Media® Player 10. If you
have another version of Windows®, not sure what version of Windows® XP
you have, or if you are using a Macintosh®, then you will need to change
the USB (Universal Serial Bus) Port setting on the AV400. You will do this
by going to main menu item Setting > System > USB Port and change
it to ‘
Hard drive
’.
17.2 Connecting the AV400
See the instructions below for your particular operating system.
Preferred connection order
1) Connect the power adapter to the AV400.
2) Plug the USB cable into your running computer.
3) With the AV400 off, plug in the other end of the USB cable to
your AV400.
4) Turn on the AV400.
* Note that when the AV400 is connected to a computer, it will use more energy
than usual. Your battery power will be consumed at a higher rate than normal. If
the AV400 looses power while connected to your computer you could damage your
directory structure and/or loose data. Thus, you should always use the AC adapter
when connected to your computer. Be careful to understand the disconnection
procedure also since disconnecting incorrectly can lead to data loss or computer/
AV400 freeze up. The AV400 is not compatible with Windows
®
NT, Windows® 95,
or Windows
®
98 (first edition). Windows 98SE® (second edition) drivers must be
downloaded from the Archos web site. While connected as a hard disk to your
computer, the AV400 buttons are blocked and are no longer functional.
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Connecting/Disconnecting* the AV400 to/from
your PC
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Windows® XP
Please verify* that you have Windows® XP and it is
updated it to at least, Service Pack 1. You must also
have Windows Media® Player 10 (WMP10) installed on your
computer. This way, you can take advantage of connecting it
as a ‘Windows Device’. You can just connect it to your PC
as enumerated above and you can then see it in Windows
®
Explorer and WMP10. Without Windows® XP Service Pack 1 (a free update)
or Windows Media® 10, you cannot use it as a Windows® recognized
‘Device’ and will have to follow the instructions for Windows® ME & 2000
below.
* Right-click on ‘My Computer’ select ‘Properties’, and then look in the tab labeled
‘General’.
Windows® ME and 2000
Attention: Before connecting
the AV400 to your computer
with the USB cable, go to
Setup > Settings > USB
Port and change the setting
to ‘
Hard drive
’. When
connected to your computer,
the AV400 will be recognized
as a Mass Storage Device
and display automatically
within a few seconds of
being connected. You will
see a new drive letter, such
as E: in My Computer called
JUKEBOX. You can now use
the hard disk called JUKEBOX
like any other external hard disk. Simply access it using Windows®
Explorer to drag and drop files to and from the AV400’s hard disk. If it is
not automatically recognized, please refer to the troubleshooting section
at the back of this manual.
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Macintosh™ OS X
If you have OS X, you must update to version
10.2.4 or newer. This is a free update from Apple
®
Computer. You must also change the AV400’s
USB Port setting to ‘
Hard Drive
’. From the main
menu, go to Setup > Settings > USB Port and
change the setting to ‘
Hard drive
’. You will now
simply plug the AV400 into your Macintosh® as
enumerated above, and within a few seconds, the
AV400 will be recognized as a mass storage device
(Hard Disk) and mount on the desktop. You can
now use the Hard disk called JUKEBOX like any other external hard disk.
17.3 Disconnecting the AV400 from your Computer
Windows Device Mode
Verify that no data is being transferred between your AV400 and your
computer (the HDD light on your AV400 is not flickering). You can now
safely unplug the USB cable from your AV400 and/or computer.
Hard Drive Mode
DO NOT SIMPLY PULL OUT THE USB CABLE AT ANY TIME!
WARNING: You must properly remove (unmount) your AV400 from the
computer before disconnecting the USB cable to avoid loss of data or
freezing the computer and/or the AV400.
Windows
®
To safely disconnect the AV400 hard disk, click on the system tray remove
icon (green arrow as shown below) and follow the instructions. Wait until
you get a message saying that you can safely unplug the device before
disconnecting the USB cable.
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1. The safe remove icon is in the system tray next to the clock.
Windows® XP Windows® 2000 & Windows® ME
2. Click on the icon to eject (unmount) the AV400 from the computer and select
the ‘Safely remove’ message.
Windows® XP
3. There will be a message indicating that it is now safe to disconnect the AV400.
You can now go ahead and unplug the USB cable from the AV400.
Macintosh
®
Drag the AV400 hard disk icon towards the trashcan,
the trashcan will become a big arrow as shown in the
screen shot to the left. Drop the hard disk icon onto
the arrow. The hard disk icon will disappear from the
desktop. You can now safely unplug the USB cable
from your AV400 and/or computer.
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18
SETTINGS
From the home screen, select the Setup option to reveal the menu
options for various settings.
18.1 Sound Settings
If you would like to customize the sound quality, you can adjust
the Bass, Treble, and other audio settings to suit your particular
taste. Normally you will do this while listening to music so that you
can hear the changes you make. Simply click on the LEFT function
button Setup while listening to music.
• Once in the Setup screen, move over to the Sound icon and click again
on ENTER . Use LEFT and RIGHT
to change a parameter’s value. You
will hear these changes instantly.
• Use the UP and DOWN buttons to
select a different parameter.
• Click on STOP/ESC when finished.
You will return to the Setup screen.
• Click on STOP/ESC again and
you will return to the music playing
screen.
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The Sound Parameters
Parameter Description
Built-in Speaker Turns on and off the built-in speaker. Same as long press on
the center function button.
Volume
00 - 99
Bass 10 levels. Decreases or Increases the low frequencies.
Treble 10 levels. Decreases or Increases the high frequencies.
Balance 10 levels. Favors the right or left channel of the Stereo signal
Bass Boost 10 levels. Increases the very low frequencies
Reset button Readjusts all settings to their default values
18.2 Play Mode Settings
If you would like the AV400 to play through an entire folder
of songs, play songs at random (shuffle), or any of the other
playing options, you can set these parameters in the PlayMode
settings. Click on the LEFT function button Setup while listening
to music or via the main menu item Setup and then choose
Playmode.
Parameter Description
Folder Play all tracks in the current directory or current album
All Play all tracks on the AV400
Single Play a single track then stop
Queue While the current song is playing, click on Navigate, find the
next song you want to play, then click Play. This is your queued
song. You can only queue one song at a time. See the Playlist
section to prepare multiple songs to play. Once the current
track is finished playing, your queued track will be played. If
you do not queue another track at this time, the AV400 will play
the next song in the directory.
Scan Each track in the directory is played for 15 seconds. This allows
a quick sample of each song. If you want to play the whole
song, click on the Play button during those first 15 seconds.
The AV400 will then revert to single directory mode and play
the rest of the songs in the directory without scanning.
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Repeat &
Shuffle
Normal: Plays your songs one after the other and then stops
after the last song.
Repeat: Continuously plays through the current set of songs
(Artist, Album, folder, or playlist)
Shuffle: Randomly play through the current set of songs
(Artist, Album, folder, or playlist)
ARCLibrary
Off: From the Music icon, you will just browse music files in
the folder
Music
.
On: (Only in USB Port mode ‘
Hard drive
’) Browse music via
its tag characteristics but the ARCLibrary must be updated
manually.
Automatic: ARCLibrary is automatically updated when the
USB cable is disconnected from your device.
Update
ARCLibrary
Available only in USB Port mode ‘
Hard drive
’. Scans through
all music and play lists in the
Music
and
Playlists
folders and
updates the ARCLibrary.
Picture Pause Pi cture Pau se sets the amoun t of ti me pause d betw een
pictures in the slideshow mode. See the Photo chapter for
more details.
18.3 Clock Settings
The AV400 has an internal real time clock. The time
of day is shown on the top right of the screen in
either 24 hour or 12 hour display mode. To set it,
go to Setup then select Clock.
Choose parameter Choose Value for
highlighted parameter
When finished setting the parameters, move down to the Set button, then
click on the ENTER/GO button . The clock time and date are now set.
Click on the STOP/ESC button to go back to the main settings menu.
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18.4 Display Settings
These settings regulate the interface language and the presentation
of the screen.
Setting Description
Language The AV400 can be set to English (default), French, German,
Spanish, or Russian.
TV Standard NTSC (USA), PAL (Europe). In order to view images or vid
eos on an external television, select one option to send the
video signal compatible with your country’s television system.
Countries other than European or American will use one of
these two systems.
Video Output
Internal LCD
or External TV. To display via the built-in LCD
screen or to view the display via an external television. Hold
ing the LCD/TV button for three seconds will also alternate be
tween these two options. Be sure your television is selecting the
correct external input.
LCD Brightness
0, 1, 2. The 3 brightness levels for the built-in LCD screen. Setting
to a lower value will give you a longer battery autonomy
.
Image Display Interlaced, Progressive. This is the way the video output will
be sent to the television. When viewing still images (JPEG and
BMP) on a television screen, set this to
Progressive to reduce
possible flickering in the image.
Video OSD Amount of time the On Screen Display shows video information
when starting a video.
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LCD Stability This setting is only for some models. Use this to reduce any LCD
screen flicker you might have. Move the setting to the left and
right to get the clearest image.
Appearance Change the interface appearance
Setting Description
Wallpaper On, Off. When set to On, the selected picture (next item) will
be displayed as the AV400 screen background.
Picture name
This option will display the names of the JPEG images in the
AV400’s System folder that can be used for screen backgrounds
(Wallpaper). You can add your own JPEG images to the
System
folder by dragging and dropping a JPEG file from your computer.
You should use JPEG images with small dimensions, ideally 320
x 240 pixels (large files slow down the display)
.
Font Outline If your screen background is a dark color, it will be difficult to
see the black text on the screen. Set Outlined font to
On to
have a more visible white outlined font.
Color scheme Allows you to choose what color you would like to have for the
status bar above and the screen buttons below.
Cursor color Changes the color of the cursor background.
Previous settings
Click this button to return to the settingss last set.
18.5 Power Settings
These settings will help you to save battery power thus allowing
a longer battery autonomy.
You can set the AV400 to conserve
power for both modes of operation
(when it is powered from the
battery, or when it is connected to
the AC charger/adapter (DC-Power
operation).
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Parameter Description
Power Off 1-9 minutes. The number of minutes of user inactivity (no
buttons pressed) before the AV400 shuts off. During the
playback of music or video files, this setting takes effect only
after the files are finished playing.
Backlight Off 10-90 seconds, Never. The time of user inactivity (no
buttons pressed) before the AV400 turns off the screen
to conserve power. During the playback of video files, this
setting only takes effect once the file is finished playing.
Hard disk 10-90 seconds. The number of seconds from the time of
the last file access before the AV400 tells the internal hard
disk to stop spinning. The longer this time is set, the more
often the hard disk is turning and the quicker the response
time when accessing files. However, as it is set longer, it will
quickly consume your battery.
Caution: This setting should
only be changed by experienced users.
Standby 1-9 minutes, Never. The number of minutes of user
inactivity (no buttons pressed) before the AV400 goes into
Standby mode. When powered by the AC charger/adapter
(or connected to a powered TV Cradle), the AV400 will not
completely shut off. It will go into Standby mode. This way, it
can wake up to make a scheduled video recording.
A typical use of these settings is to set the power off, screen off, and hard
disk to low values when used in battery mode. When the power adapter
is plugged in, you do not need to conserve energy and thus keeping the
Power on and the Backlight on makes using the AV400 more agreeable.
Increasing the hard disk value beyond the default may actually discharge
the battery even when the Charger/adapter is plugged in. Note also that
your unit will run hotter when the backlight and hard disk are on for long
periods of time.
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18.6 System Settings
The System settings allow
you control over the low level
parameters of the AV400.
Parameter Description
Show all files On (default), Off. If set to Off, the Jukebox will only display
the file names of file types, with their corresponding icons,
that it knows how to play. If set to
On, the Jukebox will display
the names of ALL the files on the hard disk (using a ? icon
for unknown types), even if they cannot be viewed or played,
such as .tif or .pdf for example. This setting is important when
inserting memory cards into the CompactFlash™ slot
. Setting it
to ON will allow the Jukebox to transfer all the files from the card
media regardless of file type. If set to OFF, it will only display file
types that the AV400 is capable of playing.
USB Port
Windows Device (default), Hard drive.
When set to Windows Device, your AV400 will
use the MTP (Media Transport Protocol) whenever
it is connected to a Windows XP (SP1 or higher)
operating system with Windows Media
®
Player 10
is installed. It will be seen as an AV400 ‘Device’ in
Windows® Explorer.
When set to Hard drive, your AV400 will act as
an external hard drive (mass storage device) when
connected to a computer. Use this mode for all nonWindows XP operating systems.
Update
Firmware
Used to update the AV400 to a new version of the Operating
System. See chapter 19.
Firmware
Version
Displays the current version of the OS (Operating System) and
DRM (Digital Rights Management) system.
Product Key Each AV400 device has a unique product key number.
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Hard Disk Displays the amount of free and used space on the AV400’s
hard disk. Reported number of megabytes is binary based
counting (1 kb=1024 bytes). Thus each reported MB represents
approximately 1.05 megabytes (decimal). Formatting also takes
up space.
18.7 TV control
See chapter 7 VIDEO – Setting the Infrared Emitter Code for a complete
explanation of when and how to use this setting.
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Updating the AV400 Firmware
Operating System (OS)
Archos periodically updates the Operating System (OS) and makes
it available for free download on the ARCHOS website (www.archos.
com). Updates to the Operating System include new features, feature
improvements, and bug fixes. You should check to make sure that you are
running the most recent version of the OS. Each time the AV400 starts
up, the OS version is displayed on the screen (example: OS Version 1.1)
on the bottom right. You will find the most recent version of the OS and
its version number at the Archos website (www.archos.com) under the
customer support section.
Download the Update_AV400.AOS file
When you click on the link to
download the new OS file (the file
name is Update_AV400.AOS), your
browser may warn you that the
contents of the download may harm
your computer. This is because the
Windows® system does not know
what a .AOS file is. Be assured
that Archos has made every effort
to ensure that the file does not
contain viruses. Click on the option
Save to download this file to a convenient place, such as My Documents,
in order to later copy this file to your AV400. If your AV400 is connected to
your PC, you can even save it directly to the AV400.
Read the History.txt File
You will also find next to the firmware download, a text file which details the
list of changes from the previous version of the OS.
Copy to the AV400
When updating your Operating System, you must keep the AC charger/
adapter plugged into the AV400 so that it will not shut down due to low
batteries while you are performing the update. Connect your AV400 to your
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computer (section 17.2), and
then copy the Update_AV400.
AOS file to the AV400.
‘Hard Drive’ or ‘Windows Device’?
If your AV400 is seen as a Hard, then you simply need to drag the
Update_AV400.AOS file onto this icon, and Windows® will place the
file into the top most directory (root) of the AV400. It should not
be placed inside any folder within your AV400.
If your AV400 is seen as a Windows® Device, then you will have
to open the AV400 Device in Windows® Eplorer and drop the
Update _ AV400.AOS into the Data folder (not the Media folder).
If there is already an older version of the Update_AV400.AOS file on your
AV400, Windows® will ask if you want to overwrite the current file. Click on
Yes. Once this file is copied, safely disconnect (section 17.3) the AV400 from
the computer.
Activate the Update
Next, go to the System parameters under Setup and then scroll down
to
Update Firmware
and click on it. The AV400 will search for the .AOS
file and will ask you to click Yes, to start the
update. Follow the on-screen instructions. When
completed, the AV400 will restart itself and you will see the new OS version
displayed on the bottom right of the screen.
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• For warranty and services purposes, keep your sales receipt for proof of
purchase. The serial number can be found in the battery compartment.
• If technical support (Telephone or E-mail) determines that your product
needs to be returned, please contact the place of purchase to have your
product repaired or replaced (depending on problem type). Customers
who purchased directly from the Archos website should fill out the RMA
return request form on the website.
• There is an FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions section at the ARCHOS
Website www.archos.com that can help answer many of your questions.
• If you need technical help, you may contact ARCHOS directly in your
own language via these phone numbers. For other countries, please
use e-mail technical support.
DO NOT USE phone or e-mail support for marketing
and sales questions. These numbers are to aid those
who have technical difficulties / malfunctions.
------------Telephone Support---------------------------------------------------
949-609-1400 (USA, Canada)
01 70 20 00 30 (France)
0207-949-0115 (UK)
069-6698-4714 (Germany)
09-1745-6224 (Spain)
02-4827-1143 (Italy)
020-50-40-510 (Netherlands)
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E-mail Support--------------------------------------------------------
tech-support.us@archos.com English (United States and Canada customers)
tech-support.eu@archos.com English or French (Europe and the rest of the planet)
tech-support.de@archos.com German (Germany)
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Technical Support
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WWW.ARCHOS.COM
Worldwide Offices
United States & Canada Europe & Asia
ARCHOS Technology
3, Goodyear - Unit A
Irvine, CA 92618 USA
Phone: 1 949-609-1483
Fax: 1 949-609-1414
ARCHOS S.A.
12, rue Ampère
91430 Igny
France
Phone: +33 (0) 169 33 169 0
Fax: +33 (0) 169 33 169 9
United Kingdom Germany
ARCHOS (UK) Limited
3 Galileo Park
Mitchell Close
West Portway Andover
SP103XQ Andover
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0) 1264 366022
Fax: +44 (0) 1264 366626
ARCHOS Deutschland GmbH
Bredelaerstrasse 63
40474 Düsseldorf
Germany
Tel: +49 211 1520 384
Fax: +49 211 1520 349
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Troubleshooting
21.1 USB Connection issues
Problem: I cannot get my AV400 to be recognized by the computer.
Solutions:
• If you are running an operating system other than Windows® XP
(Service Pack 1) with Windows Media® Player 10 or higher, the USB Port
setting should be set to ‘
Hard Drive
’. Go to Setup > System > USB
Port and set it to ‘
Hard Drive
’. Only Windows® XP (Service Pack 1)
with Windows Media® Player 10 or higher will allow for the USB Port
‘
Windows Device
’ setting.
• Shut off and reboot the computer and the AV400 and then try connecting
again in the preferred order mentioned in section 17.2.
• Only if using Windows 98SE, you must first install the Windows98SE
drivers found at the Archos web site (www.archos.com).
• If you installed the Windows 98SE driver on your Windows® XP, 2000,
or ME edition, this could cause problems. Uninstall that driver and then
reinstall the generic Windows® Mass Storage Device driver.
• If using a USB hub, try connecting without using the hub (some hubs
are not powered and may not work with the AV400).
• If using a USB port in the front of your computer, try a USB port in the
back. Front USB ports are often from non-powered hubs.
• Do not connect to a USB port repeated through a keyboard.
• On old computers, the USB driver software on your computer may be
out of date. Find your USB chipset type by going to My Computer >
Properties > Device Driver > Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controllers >
Host Controller. You may have a chipset VIA, Intel, SIS or another. It
is possible that you do not have the latest software drivers for these
chipsets. For VIA updates, check out www.viaarena.com. For Intel
check out www.intel.com. For SIS, uninstall the driver and reinstall the
Windows default USB controller drivers.
• If using a laptop computer and a docking station, try connecting
without the docking station.
• Macintosh® users must update to 10.2.4 or higher (OS X users).
• On older computers, make sure in your system BIOS the USB port is
checked “ON” not “Off”. Usually this just happens on old machines.
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• On older Win98SE computers, if there is a line “lastdrive=” in the
config.sys file, make sure that it is “lastdrive=z”.
• If the Files Allocation Table (FAT) gets corrupted, the AV400 may not
show up in Windows XP for over one minute, and then it comes up as
local drive. Use DOS Utility ChkDsk as shown below.
•
Windows® XP may recognize the AV400 hard disk but yet not assign a
drive letter to it. Right click on My Computer and select
Manage. Then
select Storage, then Disk Management. Within this window you may
see the hard drive and be able to assign a drive letter by right-clicking
on the hard disk, and selecting the option Change drive letter and
paths…
Problem: What do I do if I try to disconnect via the green arrow but keep
getting “The device ‘Generic Volume’ cannot be stopped now. Try stopping
the device again later.”
Answer: Shut off any program that might be accessing data on the
AV400, including Windows® Explorer. If this does not work, shut down all
programs, wait 20 seconds, then try the green arrow one or two times
again. If this does not work, you should shut down the computer and
disconnect the USB cable once the computer is off.
21.2 Charging and Power issues
You do not need to fully discharge the batteries before recharging them.
Problem: You do not need to fully discharge the batteries before
recharging them.
Answer: The specifications are under the condition that the screen
backlight goes off after 30 seconds (for music) and the user does not
access the machine, it just sits and plays. If you get significantly less time
from a full charge, call our technical support hot-line.
21.3 AV400 locks up (freezes operation) or Stops
Problem: The AV400 locks-up. None of the buttons work.
Solution: If the ‘
Lock buttons
’ is set, none of the buttons respond.
Hold down the left function button for three seconds to turn off the ‘
Lock
buttons
’ function. A freeze up could also be caused by electrostatic
phenomena. That is, static electricity has temporarily knocked out the
AV400. Hold down on the STOP/OFF
button for 15 seconds and the
AV400 will shut off. Restart it normally now.
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21.4 The Computer locks-up (freezes operation) or Stops
Problem: The computer locks-up.
Answer: Most likely because you did not use the green ‘safely remove
hardware’ icon in the system tray in order to remove the AV400 from your
computer.
21.5 File issues, corrupted data, formatting, and partitioning
Problem: I want to clean up my AV400’s hard drive, but Windows® will
not let me use the standard hard drive cleaning tools.
Answer: This is because Windows® sees your AV400 as a Windows
Device and not a hard drive (USB Port is set to Windows Device
in Setup > System). Do not change back to hard drive and run a
defragmenter program.
Problem: On the AV400, I find new file names and folder names that I
never created or they have strange gibberish names.
Answer: (Valid only in USB Port = Hard drive mode) Most likely,
the AV400’s file allocation table (FAT) has been corrupted. This could
have been due to the AV400 shutting down (due to low battery power)
while reading or writing to your computer via the USB connection. To fix
a corrupted FAT problem, you should use the Error Checking utility or the
Check Disk utility explained at the end of this section. Attention: Windows
and Macintosh often write extra files to the hard disk such as finder.def or
System volume info. These are normal and will not harm the AV400.
Problem: Can I defragment the AV400’s hard drive?
Answer: The AV400 maintains an optimised file system and does not need
to be defragmented. Defragmenting will cause unexpected problems.
Problem: I have copied files to my AV400 via USB from my computer, but
now I cannot see these files on the device.
Answer: You have probably transferred a file which the AV400 cannot
play, for example a PDF, MOV, or DOC file. Go to the System Settings
under Setup on the main screen and you will find a parameter called Show
all files. If you set it to on, the AV400 will show all files, even if it cannot
play the file (you must browse via the browser mode from the main menu
screen). The browser will show a ? icon indicating that it is not one of the
standard file types that it can play.
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Problem: I want to reformat the AV400’s hard disk.
Answer: You can do this, but it will erase ALL of the data on your AV400.
Sometimes this may be necessary if your FAT (File Allocation Table)
becomes so corrupted that nothing seems to fix your file problems. First,
as explained below, you should run ScanDisk or the DOS chkdsk (Check
Disk) program to try to fix your problem. If this doesn’t fix your problem
and you are sure you must reformat the AV400 hard disk, then go to the
screen Setup > System and press and hold the Right function button
for three seconds. A button “Format HD” will appear. Use this button to
format the AV400’s hard drive. Remember, doing this will erase all the
data on the hard disk!!!
Problem: I would like to partition the AV400 hard disk.
Answer: If you know how to partition a hard disk, this is OK. The AV400
will, however, only recognize a FAT32 partition. Thus it will just see and
use that partition of the hard disk which is a FAT32 partition. You must
always then remain in USB Port Hard drive mode.
Problem: My files have disappeared from the AV400.
Answer: To see all your files, make sure the setting Show all files is set
to ON. Also make sure that you browse your files via the Browser mode
and not a filtered view such as Photo, Music, or Video.
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Windows® 98SE & ME Running Scan-Disk (Error Checking)
•
Quit all running applications.
• Properly connect the AV400 to your computer as explained in chapter 17.2.
•
Make sure external AC adapter is powering the AV400.
•
Right click on the AV400 hard disk in Windows
®
Explorer and select
Properties.
•
Select the Tools option and run the Error checking program
•
Make sure you check the box to automatically fix errors.
• Be patient, this may take a while. Windows® may ask you to restart the
computer to make certain Windows files available. This is OK, click on Yes.
Windows® XP & 2000 Running Check Disk Utility (ChkDsk)
If you still have problems with the file system on your AV400 you can try
to fix it using the DOS utility, check disk (chkdsk). Do the following;
•
Make sure external AC adapter is powering the AV400.
•
Quit all running applications.
• Properly connect the AV400 to your computer as explained in chapter 17.2.
•
Wait patiently (up to 5 minutes) for Windows XP to show the local drive
as mounted.
•
Open a DOS window. Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt.
• At the prompt, type chkdsk e: /f. Use e: or f: or whatever drive letter is
representing your AV400. The /f argument tells the program to automatically
fix errors.
•
Be patient, this may take a while.
•
When it is finished, exit the DOS Window and properly disconnect the
AV400 from your computer.
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ARCHOS VIDEO AV400 series
Storage Capacity Model AV4xx : xx = Size of Hard Drive in Gigabytes*
Computer Interface
High Speed USB 2.0 (compatible USB 1.1)
Image Playback JPG and BMP (4, 8, 24 bit) images, 10 Mbytes maximum size
Audio Playback
Stereo MP3 decoding 30-320 kb/s CBR & VBR, WMA,
WAV, WMA PDDRM, PlaysForSure download and
subscription.
Audio Recording Stereo WAV (PCM & ADPCM)
Video Playback
MPEG-4 SP with B frames (up to 704x480 @ 30f/s in NTSC
– 720x576 @ 25f/s in PAL. WMV9 SP (up to 352x288)
Sound track: MP3 or WAV IMA-ADPCM stereo sound
tracks.
Plays Portable Media Center (PMC) protected video
content. DivX® 4.0 & 5.0†.
Screen Depending on model, either a 3.5 or 3.8 inch color TFT LCD (QVGA)
320x240 pixels 262 thousand colors.
Television Video output in PAL (EU) or NTSC (US) standard.
Playback Autonomy** Up to 12 hours audio, up to 4 hours video.
Scalability
Free Operating System updates downloadable from ARCHOS website
Ports CompactFlash™ slot to read CompactFlash™ type 1 memory cards
AV Connections Audio/video Multi-connect jack. Includes connections for audio/video
IN and audio/video OUT.
Power source Removable Lithium-Ion battery pack. Comes with external charger/
adapter.
Physical Dimensions 127 x 82 x 21 mm (5.0 x 3.2 x .83 inches) - 274 grams
Temperature Range 5 °C to 35 °C running ; -20 °C to 45 °C storage
System Requirements PC: Windows 98SE***, ME, 2000, XP, Media Center, 800 MHz, 128 MB
RAM, USB 2.0
Mac: OS X (10.2.4) or higher
*1 GB = 1 billion bytes, formatted capacity is less.
**Depending on usage (stop/start/writing).
***Requires a driver download from the Archos website.
†DivX® 4.0 & 5.0 files compatible with MPEG-4 SP with B-Frames AVI (MPEG-4: ISO
standard by Moving Picture Experts Group ; AVI: audio/video file container by Microsoft ;
DivX is a registered trade mark of DivXNetworks, Inc).
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Technical Specifications
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Warranty and Limited Liability
This product is sold with a limited warranty and specific remedies are available to the
original purchaser in the event the product fails to conform to the limited warranty.
Manufacturer’s liability may be further limited in accordance with its sales contract.
In general, the manufacturer shall not be responsible for product damages caused
by natural disasters, fire, static discharge, misuse, abuse, neglect, improper handling
or installation, unauthorized repair, alteration or accident. In no event shall the
manufacturer be liable for loss of data stored on disk media.
MANUFACTURER SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. EVEN IF INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY
THEREOF IN ADVANCE.
ARCHOS licensor(s) makes no warranties, express or implied, including,
without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness
for a particular purpose, regarding the licensed materials. ARCHOS’s
licensor(s) does not warrant, guarantee or make any representations
regarding the use or the results of the use of the licensed materials in
terms of its correctness, accuracy, reliability, correctness or otherwise.
The entire risk as to the results and performance of the licensed materials
is assumed by you. The exclusion of implied warranties is not permitted by
some jurisdictions. The above exclusion may not apply to you.
In no event will ARCHOS’s licensor(s), and their directors, officers,
employees or agents (collectively ARCHOS’ licensor) be liable to you for
any consequential, incidental or indirect damages (including damages
for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business
information, and the like) arising out of the use of inability to use the
licensed materials even if ARCHOS’ licensor has been advised of the
possibility of such damages. Because some jurisdiction do not allow the
exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages,
the above limitations may not apply to you.
Please see your sales contract for a complete statement of warranty rights, remedies
and limitation of liability.
Furthermore, warranty does not apply to:
1.
Damages or problems resulting from misuse, abuse, accident, alteration
or incorrect electrical current or voltage.
2.
Any product tampered-with or damaged warranty seal or serial number label.
3. Any product without a warranty or serial number label.
4.
Batteries and any consumable items delivered with or in the equipment.
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Legal
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Warnings and Safety Instructions
CAUTION
To prevent risks of electric shock, this unit must only be opened by qualified service personnel.
Power off and disconnect the power supply cable before opening the unit.
WARNING
To prevent fire or shock hazard, do not expose the unit to rain or moisture.
Use of this product is for personal use only. Copying CDs or loading music, video,
or picture files for sale or other business purposes is or may be a violation of
copyright law. Copyrighted materials, works of art, and/or presentations may require
authorization to be fully or partially recorded. Please be aware of all such applicable
laws concerning the recording and use of such for your country and jurisdiction.
FCC Compliance Statement
FCC Compliance
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with limits for a Class B digital
device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide
reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This
equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not
installed and used in accordance with instructions, may cause harmful interference
to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not
occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference
to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment
off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more
of the following measures:
• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the
receiver is connected.
• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
CAUTION: Modifications not authorized by the manufacturer may void users
authority to operate this device.
FCC Part 15 - Operation is subject to the following two conditions:
1. This device may not cause harmful interference;
2. This device must accept any interference received including interference that may
cause undesired operation.
Electrostatic Discharge
Note: During electrostatic discharge, the product may be malfunctioning. Reset to
return normal operation. The AV400 reset is actuated by pressing and holding the
STOP/ESC button for 10 seconds. The unit will power off. Restart normally.
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Copyright Notice
Copyright ARCHOS © 2005 All rights reserved.
This document may not, in whole or part, be copied, photocopied, reproduced,
translated or reduced to any electronic medium or machine-readable form without
prior consent, in writing, from ARCHOS. All brands and products names are registered
trademarks and the property of their respective owners. Specifications are subject to
change without notification. Errors and omissions accepted. Images and illustrations
may not always match contents. Copyright
®
ARCHOS. All rights reserved.
Disclaimer of warranty: to the extent allowed by applicable law, representations and warranties
of non-infringement of copyrights or other intellectual property rights resulting from the use of the
product under conditions other than as here above specified, are hereby excluded.
LCD Pixel Policy
The LCD screen on your Archos AV400 unit has been manufactured to rigorous
standards to provide a high quality viewing experience. Nevertheless, your LCD
screen may have slight imperfections. This is not particular to the Archos screen,
but to all devices which have LCD screens regardless of the original manufacturer of
the LCD. Each product vendor guarantees that his screen will contain no more than
a certain number of defective pixels. Each screen pixel contains three dot elements
(Red, Blue, and Green). One or all of the dots in a given pixel may be stuck on or
stuck off. A single dot stuck off is the least noticeable. All three dots of a pixel stuck
on is the most noticeable. Archos guarantees that its AV400 screen will have no
more than 1 defective pixel (regardless if that pixel has one or more defective dots).
This means that during the period of guarantee for your country or jurisdiction, if
the screen on your product has two or more defective pixels, Archos will repair or
replace your AV400 product at its cost. Thus, one defective pixel is not grounds for
replacement or repair of the product.
Avoiding Hearing Damage
This product respects the current regulations for limiting the output volume of
consumer audio devices to a safe level. By listening to your device with headphones
or earbuds at high volumes, you run the risk of permanent damage to your ears.
Even if you get used to listening at high volumes and it seems normal to you, you
still risk the possibility of damaging your hearing. Reduce the volume of your device
to a reasonable level to avoid permanent hearing damage. If you hear ringing in your
ears, reduce the volume or shut off your device. This device has been tested with the
Archos supplied earphones. Other manufactures earphones may produces volume
levels higher or lower than the Archos delivered earphones.
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