Espow RM, RMVB, DIVX User Manual

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RM/RMVB/DIVX

Media Player User’s Manual

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CONTENTS

Introduction………………………………………………………………….2 Warning………………………………………………………………………2

1. Product Specification…………………………………………………….4

1.1 Function List…………………………………………………………….4

1.2 Parameter List…………………………………………………….…….5

1.3 Quick Install……………………………………………………………..7

2. Key Functions of Remote Controller…………………………………..10

3. User Guide………………………………………………………………14

3.1 Main Interface……………………………………………………….…14

3.2 Main Menu……………………………………………………………..15

3.3 Video Play………………………………………………………….…..16

3.4 Music play………………………………………………………….…..19

3.5 Photo play……………………………………………………….……..20

3.6 Text (E-Book)…………………………………………………………..23

3.7 File List……………………………………………………….…………25

3.7.1 File Folder Operation………………………………………….…….25

3.7.2 File Management……………………………………………………26

3.8 Settings………………………………………………………………...30

3.9 Software Upgrade…………………………………………………….32

4. FAQ………………………………………………………………………34

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INTRODUCTION

This guide shows you how to use and set up your product. Please read it carefully before operation the unit for you can exactly understand the using skill.

We repair the damaged goods not caused by users. Body cases are not included in repair. This warranty does not cover damage due to accident. Misuse abuse or negligence and it doesn’t extend to any modification, conversion and alteration.

In order to improve the function and capability of our products, we reserve the rights to improve it without notice.

WARNING

1. To prevent fire and electric shock, don’t expose the unit to the moist or rain places. Don’t splash the unit with water or other liquid.

2. Strong shock may damage the HDD. Please backup your data,

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we are not responsible for the data lose.

3. Keep the unit away from magnetic devices, which may cause damage of the data stored in the unit.

4. Please don’t interrupt the transfer progress while upload or download file by an USB cable, otherwise the data may be damaged.

5. The player will generate heat during work, so it is recommended the user to put it at a ventilative place to dissipate the heat, which is good for its steady operation.

6. We may improve the function and capability of the product without notice.

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Chapter I Product Specification

1.1 Function List

◆ Video play: Supporting RM, RMVB, MPEG1(VCD), MPEG2(VOB), MPEG4(DIVX, XVID), AVI, DAT, MJPEG, etc video formats.

 Photo play: Supporting multi-picture preview and slide show in full

screen. Slide show supports verious kinds of special effects. It supports JPEG, BMP, TIFF, GIF and other photo formats.

 Music play: Supporting WMA, MP3, WAV and other music

formats.

 Optional hang-up subtitle: Supporting *.TXT、*.PSB、*.SMI、*.SRT、

*.SUB、*.ASS、*.SSA, only suit for AVI format hang-up subtitle.

 It supports USB HOST 2.0 interface and hot swap of devices, and

can directly display the files in USB devices such as U disk, HDD enclosure, digital camera, digital video and card reader.

 Support power supply bu USB (optional).  It has high-speed USB 2.0 interface (up to 480MB/s) and can

serve as, without external power supply, mobile hard disk. User can directly access and manage the content in the built-in hard disk through computer (optional).

 File management functio n: Without connecting it with computer,

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user can do file copy or deletion within the built-in hard disk(optional), USB device or card, or among them.

 Multi TV display modes: HDV 720P progressive, NTSC interlace,

NTSC progressive, PAL progressive, NTSC composite, PAL composite.

 Firmware upgrade: It is carried out through copying special files to

the external memory card, which is convenient and fast.

 It supports SATA HDD, capacity from 20GB-500GB (IDE hard disk

optional).

 It supports SD, SDHC, MMC, MS cards (CF, XD optional); can

play all the video, audio, photo file, interview text and manage files in the above mentioned cards.

 It supports remote control.  Language support: Simplified Chinese (or Traditional Chinese),

English.

 It supports time selection play.  It supports background music.  It supports continue to play video when power cut off (manual)

1.2 Parameter List

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Power Supply Positive voltage for inside and negative voltage for

outside. Remote Controller

Full-function infra-red remote controller, with panel

display in Chinese and English. Video Output

AV out，YpbPr, HDMI Audio Output Supporting Stereo output File System FAT32, NTFS Photo Format

JPG、BMP、TIFF、GIF

Music Format

MP3、WMA

Format

RMVB、AVI、MPG、MPEG、 M2V、DAT、VCD、DVD

TV-Mode

Video code

MPEG1、MPEG2、MPEG4（DIVX， XVID）、MJPEG、RMVB

Audio code

MP3、MPEG、AC、AC3、WMA

Resolution

480i、576i、480P、576P、720P USB Power Support power supply by USB (optional) USB2.0 USB2.0 interface with transmission rate of 480Mbps

(computer being connected). USB HOST USB2.0 host interface with transmission rate of

480Mbps.It supports devices with USB interface, such

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as USB hard disk, digital camera, photographic

camera and USB card reader. Work Condition

Work temperature: +5~+50 °C, humidity < 90%

Storage temperature: -20~+70 °C, humidity < 95%

1.3 Quick Install

Please confirm the type of your TV set before use.

Please perform the following steps for a common TV set:

Connect the TV set by AV wire. In this condition, the YPbPr AV wire with is in no use.

Step 1: Connect the TV set. Please insert the AV wire in the AV interface on the player, and respectively insert the lotus form plugs at the other end of the AV wire in the input interfaces on TV set by color. After the TV set is successfully connected, insert the configured power adapter (switch to ON position for the player with switch), and switch the TV set to AV mode, and then it can output.

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Step 2: Settings The HD media player defaults that the output to TV set is normal. If you find any normality, switch to normal display state by pressing the

TV-Mode key on the remote controller.

Please perform the following steps for a HDTV set:

It is recommended you to connect the TV set by the YPbPr AV wire with green, blue and red lotus form plugs so as to enjoy better AV effect. To generate sound, you should insert the red and white plugs (representing right and left sound tracks) of AV wire in the corresponding interfaces on TV set when you use YPbPr AV wire.

Step 1: Connect the TV set. Insert the green, blue and red plugs at one end of YPbPr AV wire in corresponding YPbPr interfaces on TV set, and at the same time insert the red and white plugs (representing right and left sound tracks) in corresponding interfaces on TV set, and insert the headset-type plugs of the two AV wires in YPbPr and AV interfaces of the player.

Take note not to connect the yellow lotus form plug of the AV wire

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to the TV set, or the video effect may be affected.

After the TV set is successfully connected, insert the configured power adapter (switch to ON position for the player with switch), and switch the TV set to YPbPr input port, and then it can output.

Step 2: Settings

The HD media player defaults PAL composite output mode. If the color

on TV YPbPr displays abnormal, in the main menu interface, press the TV-MODE key on the remote controller to perform switch and set the display resolution as 720P (1280×720), and then you will see normal display (please confirm that your TV set supports 720P HD display mode.) Press the SET key on the remote controller to set the Screen Display Ratio in the settings menu as that matching your TV dimension ratio. Please set it as 4:3 for the TV set in dimension ratio of 4:3, and 16:9 for the TV set in dimension ratio of 16:9.

Please connect HDMI cable with your TV (which support HDMI

function), then switch the TV to HDMI mode when you need HDMI function. It’s very convenient.

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Now, all the installation settings are finished, and then you can fully enjoy the unlimited fun brought by the HD media player.

Chapter II Key Functions of Remote Controller

Refer to the following table and pictorial view for the key values and functions of remote controller, and user can select corresponding key as actual need.

Key Value Key Function Power Supply

Stand by/switch on

Mute Enable/disable the mute TV-Mode Shortcut key used to switch to output mode

NTSC-PAL-720P. It is available only in main interface

and settings page.

Movie Shortcut key to enter movie playing page layout Music Shortcut key to enter music playing page layout HD Shortcut key to switch 720P output mode Photo Shortcut key to enter photo playing page layout

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E-book Shortcut key to enter E-book reading page layout P/N Shortcut key to switch PAL and NTSC Preview Shortcut key to enter previewing page layout Angle For each press, the photo will rotate 90 degrees

clockwise.

16:9 Output switch between 16:9 menu and 4:3 menu. Zoom Zoom image Set Shortcut key to enter SET page layo ut OSD Under File Management page, copy or delete the

selected files.

Direction key, up

Direction key, down

Direction key, left

Direction key, right

OK Select and confirm

Next page, Next song

Previous page, Previous song

Volume + Add volume Volume - Depress volume

Fast Forward

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Select and play/pause

Rewind

Background Background music Stop/Back Select and stop/back Subtitle Select the subt itle language for movie (only support

AVI format hang-up subtitle)

Sound Track Switch the sound track for AV play

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Remote Controller Pictorial View

Chapter III User Guide

3.1 Main Interface

Figure 3.1 Main Interface Function: The main interface is the entrance to all cards, hard disk partitions and settings. User can enter the main menu or settings page of any drive letter through this page.

Operation:

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Press direction Key“

／ ”to select, then press “OK” to confirm and

enter interface.

In this page, user can switch the output between NTSC C-PAL-720P （through the shortcut key TV-Mode. (Suggestion: For the LCD TV set, it is necessary to adopt 720PYPbPr output.)

3.2 Main Menu

Figure 3.2 Main Menu Function: The main menu page is the entrance to all media such as movie, music, photo, text and file.

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Operation: Press direction Key“

／ ”to select, then press “OK” to confirm and

enter interface.

In any page, user can enter corresponding full display by pressing the shortcut key Movie, Music, Photo.

3.3 A V Play

Select the Movie icon on the main menu page (Shown as Figure 3.3.1) , and press the OK key to enter movie file list(Shown as Figure 3.3.2), and then enter full screen play. Or press the shortcut key Movie to directly enter full screen.

Figure 3.3.1

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Figure 3.3.2 AV Preview Operation instruction about AV Preview page: Press the OK key to play movies in full screen.

Press the direction keys “

/ ” to select one movie and press the OK

key again to play it in full screen. Press the direction keys “

/ ” to back and enter the catalog, also user

can enter the catalog by pressing the OK key. Press “Stop/Back” to back;

Operation instruction about full screen play mode: Press Volume+/Volume- to adjust volume Press Mute to enable/disable the mute. Press AUD to switch among the left track, right track or stereo

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Press .

to pla y next movie in the same catalog

Press

to pla y previous movie in the same catalog

Press

、、 to fast forward, rewind, play/pause

Press “Stop/Back” to stop current movie and back to the TV preview menu.

In full screen play, press the OSD or OK k ey to pop up the function options of current movie, including Previous, Rewind, Play/Pause, Fast Forward, Next, Back, Zoom, Subtitle, Play Time and Time Selection Play.

Operation instruction about time selection play: Press the direction keys “

/ ” to select the hour/minute/second of the

play time and press the direction keys “

/ ” to search the time you

need, and then press the OK key to search the play time for play.

Operation instruction about subtitle play:

When play AVI movie with hang-up subtitle, press SUB (subtitle)

in screen or SUB in controller to open or close subtitle. There is no hang-up subtitle function for RM or other format movie, the SUB can’t work.

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3.4 Music Play

Select the Music icon (shown as Figure 3.4.1) in the main menu page, and press the OK key to enter music play list, and then enter the music play page (shown as Figure 3.4.2). Or press the shortcut key Music to directly enter music play page.

Figure 3.4.1

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Figure 3.4.2 Music Play Operation instruction about music play page: Press OK to play selected music; Press direction keys

／ to select music, then press OK to confirm

and play; Press the direction keys “

/ ” to exit and enter the catalog, also user

can enter the selected catalog by pressing the OK key. Press

to select next music

Press

to select previous music

Press Volume+/Volume- to adjust volume Press Mute to enable/disable the mute. Press Stop/Back to stop playing music.

3.5 Photo Play

Select the Photo icon (Shown as Figure 3.5.1) in main menu page, and press the OK key to view photo catalog (Shown as Figure 3.5.2), and then enter full screen play, or press the shortcut key Photo to directly enter full screen.

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Figure 3.5.1

Figure 3.5.2 Photo Catalog View In this page, you can select the catalog you need and enter it, select any photo in the catalog and press the OK key to enter multi-format preview interface (Shown as Figure 3.5.3).

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Figure 3.5.3 Photo Preview Operation instruction about Photo Preview page: Press the OK key to play the selected photo in full screen.

Press direction keys ／／／ to select photo, and press OK to confirm and enter full screen play.

Press

to next page

Press

to previous page

Press Stop/Back to back Preview catalog

Operation instruction about full screen play mode of photo: Press “

” to start or pause photo slide show.

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Press

to sho w next photo；

Press

to sho w previous photo；

Press the Angle key one time to rotate the photo 90 degrees. Press the Zoom key to zoom the photos, and then press the direction keys to move the photos. Press the Stop/Back key to enter Photo Preview page.

In full screen play status, press the OK key to pop up the function options of current photo, including Previous, Play/Pause, Next, Rotate, Back and Zoom.

3.6 Text In main menu page, select the Text icon (Shown as Figure 3.6.1) and press the OK key to enter Text Catalog View page (Shown as Figure

3.6.2). Or use shortcut key “E-book” to enter text reading page layout.

Figure 3.6.1

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Figure 3.6.2 Text Catalog View Operation instruction about text catalog view: Press the OK key to enter view page of the selected text.

Press the direction keys “ / ” to select text and press the OK key to enter text full screen view mode.

Operation instruction about text full screen view mode: Press the direction keys “

/ ” to page up or down the text row. Press to next page Press

to previous page

Press Stop/Back to exit text catalog view。

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3.7 File List

3.7.1 Folder Operation In main menu page, select the File icon (Shown as Figure 3.7.1.1) and press the OK key to enter File List Management page (Shown as Figure 3.7.1.2).

Figure 3.7.1.1

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Figure 3.7.1.2 Folder Catalog Folder operation instruction: Press OK to confirm and enter the selected folder

Press direction keys

／ to select folder，and press OK to

confirm and enter the selected folder；

Press direction keys

／ to select folder，and press OK to

confirm and play the selected folder；

Press direction keys

／ to back and enter the folder。

Press Stop/Back to back.

3.7.2 File Management

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Figure 3.7.2.1 File Management Page

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Figure 3.7.2.2 File Operation Selection

Operation instruction about file management page: Press the directions keys “

/ ” to select files and press the direction

key “ ” to select one, and then a “ ” mark will occur at the right of the

selection file, refer to Figure 3.7.2.1.Press the down key “

” again to

cancel the selection.

Figure 3.7.2.3 File Copy Path Selection Press the OSD key to pop up file operation options (copy/delete), refer to Figure 3.7.2.2.

On the page shown in Figure 3.7.2.2, press the direction ke ys “

/ ”

to select Copy or Delete, and then press the OK key to confirm it.

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On the page shown in Figure 3.7.2.2, press the OSD key to cancel the selection of Copy or Delete to return to the page shown in Figure

3.7.1.2. Select Copy to enter the page shown in Figure 3.7.2.3, press the

direction keys “

/ / / ” to select the copy path, press the OK key

to start copy (Shown as Figure 3.7.2.4), and after that press the OK key again to confirm the copying.

Note: The copy path shall be different with the path for file selection.

In the page shown in Figure 3.7.2.3, you can cancel the copy operation and back to file management page by pressing the Stop/Back and OSD keys. If Delete is selected, the selected files will be deleted.

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Figure 3.7.2.4 Copying File

3.8 Settings

In the main interface, select the SET icon and press the OK key to enter the settings page, or press the shortcut key SET in any status to enter the page (Shown as Figure 3.8.1).

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3.8.1 Settings Page

Operation instruction about settings operation page: Press the direction keys “

/ ” to select the options to be set, press

the direction keys “ / ” to change the value of the options, and press the OK key to confirm and save the change.

Press the shortcut key TV-Mode to change the TV output settings in turn.

The options that can be set in settings menu are described as follows:

1. Language: Simplified Chinese (or Traditional Chinese), English

2. Photo Display Speed: The display time of each photo for slide show.

3. Photo Display Mode: The interlude mode for photo change in slide show.

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4. Music Repeat Mode: Set the music play mode as Single Play or Continuous Play.

5. Movie Repeat Mode: Set the movie play mode as Single Play or Continuous Play.

6. Screen Display Ratio: Set the TV screen dimension. If the screen ratio of your TV set is 4:3, set it as 4:3; If the screen ratio of your TV set is 16:9, set it as 16:9

7. TV output settings: HDV progressive (720P), NTSC interlace, NTSC progressive, PAL interlace, PAL progressive, NTSC composite, PAL composite.

8. Auto Play: Set switch-on auto play mode. You can enable or disable it.

9. Default Settings: Restore factory settings.

3.9 Software Upgrade

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Figure 3.9.1 Upgrade File Selection Page You can copy the upgra de files to the memory device for upgrade, and press the OK key in file management page to select the equipment upgrade file (with the postfix of img often) shown in Figure 3.9.1, press the directions keys to move left or right, select “Tick”, and press the OK key to start to upgrade system software. During upgrade process, the upgrade speed will be displayed in percentage on the screen. The system will restart automatically after upgrade.

Note:

(1) Do not power off during upgrade; (2) Suffixal name “.img” is special for upgrade, do not save

the file name as “.img” in the folder

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Chapter IV FAQ

1. How to format the newly purchased hard disk? (1) If the hard disk of media player you purchased is internal one,

please install the hard disk to your media player, then take out the USB wire attached with the player, and insert its MINI end in the USB interface of the player and the other end in the USB interface of a computer. After Find new USB device is displayed on the computer, open the Control Panel - Management Tool – Computer Management;

(2) Select Disk Management in Computer Management and you

will see an uninitialized disk shown as Figure 4.1

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Figure 4.1

(3) Right click the uninitialized disk partition, and select Initialize Disk

in the menu popped up, shown as Figure 4.2

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Figure 4.2 (4) After the initialization, part the disk. It is recommended to part the disk by FAT32 partition (NTSC is ROM partition). Use PartitionMagic

8.0 tool if you want the memory of FAT32 exceeds 32G. (5) After the partition and the formatting are finished, back to My Computer and find corresponding hard disk partition built in the player to copy photo files, music files and AV files into it, and then you can enjoy the player programs on the TV set.

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2. How to restore it if no output of the player is displayed on t he TV

set due to HD Output 720P wrongly set on common TV set?

Switch off the hard disk player and then restart it, after 15 seconds or more, restore to common TV mode through the TV-Mode key on the remote controller. Press the TV-Mode key to switch among NTSC-PAL- 720P.

3. How to restore factory settings?

Press the SET key on the remote controller to enter the settings interface, select the Default Settings option, and then press the OK key to return to factory default status.

4. How to change the interval tim e for photo p lay?

Press the SET key on the remote controller to enter the settings interface, select the Photo Display Speed option, press the left and right direction keys to select the interval time you want, and then press the OK key to save it.

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5. Why it cannot switch to full screen display after the 16:9 key is

pressed during movie play?

For the first time to use the player, you should select the actual display ratio of your TV set in the settings. After your correction selection, it defaults full screen display for the movie with display ratio of 16:9 on the TV set with display ratio of 16:9, while for the movie with display ratio of 4:3, press the 16:9 key on the remote controller to display it in full screen on the TV set with display ratio of 16:9, and vice versa.

6. Why the file name cannot be foun d in movie catalog?

There are 5 ways in this player to view files: One, displaying all supporting files, which can be entered through the File option on the main menu. Two, only displaying the AV files, which can be entered through the Movie option on the main menu. Three, only displaying the music files, which can be entered through the Music option on the main menu. Four, only displaying the photo files, which can be entered through the

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Photo option on the main menu.

Five, only displaying the text files, which can be entered through the Text option on the main menu. If you view the movie catalog through the Photo option, the movie files in corresponding catalog will not be displayed.

7. How to operate Background music?

Press Background key when play the photo, and then th ere will be a symbol of music appears on the top right coner, that means music function is working. Press Background again to close music playing. Attention: be remember that there should be music file in the hard disk or memory card, otherwise this function is useless.

8. How to operate HDMI function?

Please connect the HD Media Player with TV by HDMI cable and modulate the TV to HDMI mode. If the boot-strap menu display abnormality, you just to modulate the TV mode to HDV progressive. Attention: to avoide signal disturbance, please do not use AV and

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YPBPR cable when use this function.

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