Archos AV420 User Manual

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User Manual for ARCHOS Pocket AV420 USB Windows® Device Manual version 1.0

English Language User Manual

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AV420

USB Windows® Device

ARCHOS™ POCKET VIDEO RECORDER

Table of Contents

1 INTRO - Ports, Buttons and Connections 6

2 INTRO - First Time Usage

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

PC Tools

Macintosh Users

9.1 Installing the PC Software 29

DivX™ Codec

Virtual Dub™

MPG4 Translator

MP3 Sound Codec

9.2 Using MPG4 Translator 30

Select Source & Destination Files

Change Settings

Target & Priority

Start

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

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

Analog Line-In

Incremental Recording

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

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

Folder Operations

Copying and Moving Files and Folders

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

Windows® ME and 2000

Macintosh™ OS X

17.3 Disconnecting the AV400 from your Computer 58

Windows®

Macintosh

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

Read the History.txt File

Copy to the AV400

‘Hard Drive’ or ‘Windows Device’?

Activate the Update

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)

Windows

XP & 2000 Running Check Disk Utility (ChkDsk)

22 Technical Specifications 77

23 Legal 78

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

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

INTRO - Ports, Buttons and Connections

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

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.

INTRO - First Time Usage

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.)

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

VIDEO - Recording Video Files

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!

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.

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.

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.

• 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.

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.

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.

• 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.

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.

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.

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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