Naxa NMV-179 User Guide

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DIGITALAUDIO AND VIDEO PLAYER

WITH 2.8 TOUCH SCREEN,SPEAKER & CAMERA

NMV-179

INSTRUCTION MANUAL

Table of Contents
Precautions
Basic Features
Basic Operation

System Configuration
Power On
Power Off
Volume Adjustment
Connection to PC and Data Exchange
Charging
Low Power
File Storage
How to use TF card
How to insert and pull out TF card
General Button /Icon Description

Main Menu Interface
Music Mode

Music Interface Description
Music Setting Interface
Lyrics Display

Video Mo de
Picture mode
Radio Mode

FM Recording Interface

Ebook Mode
Camera Mode

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Camera Setting Interface
Video Camera Setting Interface
Video Camera Interface
PC Camera

Explorer Mode
Application

Recorder
Calendar
Stopwatch
Calculator
Notebook
Input Method

System Setting

Player Information
Set Time
Language
Display
Calibrate
Power Off Setting
Default Settings
Upgrade
Other Setting

Video Conversion Tool

Operating Platform
What format can video files be recorded into
What format can picture files be taken into
Automatic Installation
Manual Installation
Video File Conversion
Recording Video and Taking Pictures
Notices

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Precautions

For the correct use and good performance of the player, the user
must fully understand the manual as well as strictly follow the
instructions provided.

Avoid high temperature (above 35 C) or low temperature (

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below -5 C).

Never knock the main machine violently.
Never contact with chemicals such as benzene, thinner etc.
Do not close to strong magnetic field, electric field etc.
Keep away from direct sunlight or heating appliances.
Never privately dissemble, repair or modify the player.
Using the player and the earpiece during bicycling, car and

motorcycle driving is likely to cause danger.

Never use higher volume, which may damage your hearing

ability.

Divide scraped packing, batteries, old electronic products

and dispose them properly.

Basic Features

Brand new touch screen OS for direct and convenient operation
240*320, 260,000 color high speed TFT screen
Music player: compatible with MP3 WMA, and WAV formats，
Recorder: for FM and MIC recording and compatible with MP3

and WAV formats

Picture browser: for JPEG, BMP, formats
Video player: for playing video of AVI,RMVB, 3GP format
Support Camera, Video camera or PC camera
FM Radio
E-Book browser
Compatible with TF Card
Settings: for setting and activating various features

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ADFU restoration and USB upgrading mode enabled
USB2.0 high speed transmission

Basic Operation

System Configuration

OS: Windows XP/2K/ME/98 (driver installation needed) /Linux
9 and above /Mac OS 10 / Windows 7
CPU: Pentium-133MHz at least
Memory: 32MB at least
Hard disk free space, 100MB at least
Video card: above 640*480, enhanced color at least (16 bits)

Power On

Slide the switch to On and the player will be powered on in 3
second. The player will prompt "Welcome"and then enter the
main interface.

Power Off

When the player is on, slide the switch to Off and the player
will be powered off in 3 seconds.

VolumeAdjustment

Under Music, FM radio or Video mode, press +, - button to
adjust volume.Press+to add volume, and press- to reduce volume.

Connection to PC and Data Exchange

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Connect the player to PC with the USB cable, and the player will
enter U disk mode. Press MENU button or safely remove U
disk, and the player will be under USB ch arging mode. In USB
charging mode, touch the screen or press MENU to enter the
main applications interface.

Charging

This player has high capacity lithium battery. For charging,
connect the player to the USB port of the PC or to a charger.

Low Power

When battery power is low, the player will prompt and power off
and enter Standby mode auto matically. Do not power on and
charge the player instead.

Chargercurrent specification recommended: 400-500mA.

File Storage

Files of different types should be stored under different directories.
For example, music file should be stored under MUSIC dir.
Record file stored under RECORD dir . Picture files under
PICTURE dir. Video files VIDEO dir. Text files TXT dir. the
corresponding application unable to find the file If it is not saved
in this way,

How to use TF card

When this player is connected to PC, two movable disks will be
found. The first one is the internal memory, and the second one is
TF card. If no card inserted, the second disk can not be

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opened. This player is compatible with maximum 8GB T F
card.

How to insert and pull out TF card

How to insert: with the front (the side with characters) of the
T F card up (towards the screen of the player), slightly
push to insert into the card holder of the player to connect.
After the card is inserted, the player can play the files in the
T F card.

How to pull out: slightly push the T F card and the T F
card will partly come out, and then pull the card out.
Note: please insert or pull out the card when the player is off, or
the internal files of the player will be lost or damaged.

General Button /Icon Description

Button /Icon

Main Menu Interface

This player provides a touch screen
OS for direct operation. The main
menu interface is shown in the
picture below:

1. The system date and time is shown on the upper left corner of
the main menu interface . The battery is shown on the
upper right corner of the main menu interface.

2. Under the main menu interface,touchan icon on the screen,and
the player will enter the selected mode.

3. After the player enters a mode, touch the icon on the

Description

Return to upper directory
Return to main menu
Delete file or folder
Return to previous operation interface

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bottom right corner or press and hold the MENU button to return
to the main menu interface.

Music Mode

In the main interface, touch the Music icon to enter music mode.

Music Interface Description

Button /icon

Music Setting Interface

Click one of the 4 buttons at the bottom of the interface to enable

Number of the song being played / Total songs
Playing mode
Playing sequence
Playing style
Song playing progress bar. Drag the bar to
adjust playing progress.
Volume bar. Drag the bar to adjust volume.
Touch it to switch to previous song, long
press for fast rewind
Play /pause /stop the current song. Click the
play button, and the button will be change to
pause button. After a song is finished, it will
change to stop button.
Touch it to switch to the next song, press and
long press for fast forward

Description

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an appropriate function.

Icon

Click Browser to enter different song lists ­main directory, card directory, all songs, ID3
list, play list, and tag list.
Click Settings to choose

SRS setting:

USER Click USER to enter user
setting interface. Drag the bar or
chick the options to set the
functions. Click OK to confirm
the settings.
EQ setting: click to enter User
EQ setting interface, move up
or down the bar to select sound
effect, and click OK to confirm.

Add list
Add tag

Click return to play screen.

Song information display.

Lyrics Display

The player is compatible with lyrics files of*.LRC format and
enables playing song with synchronous lyrics. The name of the
lyrics file should be the same as that of the song file. When there
are the lyrics with the same name of the song being played under
the play list directory, the lyrics of the song will be displayed on
the playing interface.

Video Mode

In main interface, click the video icon to enter Video mode.

Description

WOW,WOWHD,

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Directly click the video file on the screen to start playing the
selected video.
When play a video file, the up/down buttons and the progress bar
will appear automatically by touching the screen.

Button

Picture mode

1. In main interface, click the Photo icon to enter Picture mode.

Description

Browse: local directory, card directory, tag list

Tag: directly click the icon
and a box pops out and
prompts tag saved .

Play: click and it will change to pause button ,
and click again to continue playing.

Touch it and the Volume bar will pop out at the
bottom. Drag the bar to adjust volume.

Return to main menu
Fast rewind: long press for fast rewind. Short press
for the previous video file.

Fast forward: long press for fast forward. Short press
for the next video file.

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Click to change to the List mode.

2. Directly click the thumbnail to browse pictures. Click the
picture, and the buttons will appear automatically at the bottom
of the screen.

Button

Description

Manual play: click the button, and the button will
change to ,and click again to enter auto play mode.

Main dir and card dir. return to upper directory to
browse picture list.

Slide interval: 1 -5 seconds

Previous picture

Next picture

Return to the main menu

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Radio Mode

1.In the main interface,
click the Radio icon to
enter radio Mode.

2.If no headphone, the player
will prompt the user to insert a
headphone.

Button/Icon

Description

Radio channel list,click to show radio channel list.

Manual search: click to enter manual search mode
; short press or button to manually search up
/down for radio channels, and the player is mute
where no channel being found.

Auto search: click to enter auto search mode. All
channels can be automatically searched and saved.
After search is completed, the player will play
radio at the preset channel 1.During channel search
, click or button to stop auto search.

Save channel

Delete channel

Change to channel of lower frequency

Change to channel of higher frequency

Radio mode change: click and the button will
change to , and channel search will be paused.

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Enter FM station recording interface

Select frequency range: China, Japan, Europe and US.

FM Recording Interface

1. In Radio mode, click to
enter FM station recording
interface.

Button /Icon

E-book Mode

1.In the main interface, click the E-book
icon to enter the mode.

2.Select a TXT file to enter E-book
browser interface.

Description

Stop, click it and it will change to play icon
to enter recording mode

Save the recorded file.

View recorded file.

Record settings

1.Recording format: WAV &MP3 formats.

2.Quality: high, medium, low.

3.Recoding gain volume: level 1, 2, 3.

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Button /Icon

Camera Mode

1.In the main interface,click the Camera icon to enter the mode.

2.In the menu, select one of 3 functions: camera, video camera

Description

Manual browse: click it and it will change to to

enter auto browser mode.
Auto browser time setting: 10 seconds, 15 seconds
, 20 seconds, 25 seconds, 30 seconds.
Save and pick tag, click to show
the tag list, and then click to save
or select tag. Click or the part
outside Save tag box to exit from
the tag setting box.

Skip to: click to show Skip to
dialogue box, and click or
to select the skip percentage.
Click outside part of the Skip
to box to exit.

TXT file browser: local directory, card directory.

Previous page

Next page

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and PC camera.

Camera Setting Interface

1.Click camera to enter the mode.

2.In frame interface, touch the screen and top & bottom button
bar will appear. Touch again, and the up/down button bar will
disappear.

Button

Description

Switch to video camera mode.

Number of pictures that can be taken.

Self Shootting time setting:5 seconds, 15 seconds,

20 seconds, off. Default setting is off.

Return to the main menu.

View the pictures.

Picture mode settings

1.Special effect:

White balance: auto, indoor, outdoor. Default

setting is auto

Brightness: value range -3 to +3. Default setting is 0.

Exposure mode: auto, indoor, outdoor. Default

setting is auto

Special effect: off, black & white, sepia, negative.

Default setting is off.

2.Save path: local device, card device.The default

is local device Shutter sound: off, sound effect 1,

sound effect 2 and sound effect 3; Default setting

is sound effect 1.

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3.Date stamp: off, date stamp or date and time
stamp. Default setting is off.

To make no settings, touch the screen outside
the menu to exit.
Resolution switch: 320x240, 640x480, 1024x768,
1280x960. 2048*1536
Take picture

Take white balance
setting as an example:

Click or to select among different mode, then click screen
to confirm selection and exit.

Video Camera Setting Interface

1. Touch the screen and top/bottom button bar will appear. Touch
again and the button bar will disappear.

Button

Description

Change to camera mode.
3 exposure modes: Auto (default), indoor (lamp)
and outdoor (sun).

4 types of special effects: black & white, negative

, sepia, off (default).

Return to the main menu.

View video file.

Video camera mode setting

1.Brightness:value range -3 to +3. Default setting

is 0.

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2.Save path: local device, card device. The default
is local device.

To make no settings, touch the screen outside the
menu to exit.

Resolution switch: 176x144, 224x176, 320x240.

Video Camera Interface

Click to enter video recording interface, touch the screen and
a button bar will be displayed at the bottom.

Note: the video recording time is shown in the middle, on the
left is the recorded time, and on the right is the available time
remaining for video recording.

PC Camera

Select PC Camera
function to enter PC camera mode,
the player will detect if USB
cable has been connected.

With the video conversion tool, this player can be used as a PC
camera on PC to produce video or picture files. Please refer to
Chapter Video Conversion Tool for more details on how to use
the tool.

Start video recording

Button

Description

Video recording: click to pause video recording.

Save video file, and return to video setting interface.

Explorer Mode

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In the main interface, click the Explorer icon to enter the mode
: Flash Memory and Card Memory (not displayed if no card
inserted). All files and file folders in the player can be listed, and
the user may play the compatible music, video, e-book and
picture files under this interface; or, the user may directly delete
the selected files.

Application

In the main interface, click the Application to enter the mode.

Recorder

Click recorder to enter internal MIC recorder interface. The
operation is the same as that of FM recorder.

Calendar

Click or buttonto select month and year. Select date by
directly clicking the number on the screen and the number will
become blue color.

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Stopwatch

Click Start counting Next or Clear at the bottom to realize
different functions. As counting begins, Start counting will
change to Pause .

Calculator

Simply press the corresponding button.

Notebook

Only valid in Simplified Chinese
and English writing.
Input characters in the input box.

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Input Method

1. Click Chinese button to use Chinese input mode, as shown
above. After input, choose the appropriate Chinese character on
the keyboard.

2. Click button to enter numbers & symbols input mode,
and the keyboard is as follows:

3.Click return to return to Chinese input interface, or click

English input interface.

4. After input, click button at the left bottom to save,
and the player will automatically jump to notebook file list
interface. Click to return to the input interface.

System Setting

In the main interface, click the system
settings icon to enter the mode.

Switch input methods, from left to right:
English, numbers & symbols, Chinese, all
input methods (can be used to recognize three
types of characters).

From left to right: delete the character before
cursor, space and enter.

Delete all characters
Delete the previous character

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Player Information

Relevant read-only product information

Set Time

1.Time format: on or off.

2.Time and date: click and to set.

Language

languages available for selection: English, Simplified Chinese,
Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, France, German, Spanish
, Portugal, Dutch, Italian. Simply click to select the appropriate
language.

Display

1. Backlight time
Click and to set.
There are 9 options: 0 second, 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 15 seconds
, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes and 30 minutes.

2.Brightness adjustment
There are 5 options: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. The higher the level is, the
brighter the LCD is.

Calibrate

When the touch screen position is not accurate, recalibrate with
this function.
After the player enters this mode, touch the center of calibration
sign + to calibrate.

Power Off Setting

Sleep time: click and to set.
There are 6 options: off, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 60

Click the corresponding to icon to set.

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minutes and 120 minutes. The setting will change to the default
value Off if re-start the player.

Default Settings

After the player enters this mode, the player will prompt an auto
warning about whether to restore system default setting or not.
Click Ok to restore factory default settings. Click Cancel to
abandon this restoration.

Upgrade

After clicking this icon, the player will enter hardware
upgrading warning interface. At this point, connect the player to
the USB port of a PC to update the firmware of the player. Touch

cancel on the screen to abort this upgrading.

Other Settings

Format device: click format system disk or format card to
start formatting, and the selected item will become blue color.
The system will pop up a confirmation box as follows:

Select device: click U disk or

MTP device to select the
device connection mode with PC,
and the selected item will
become blue color.

Video Conversion Tool

Video conversion tool is used to convert AV files into advanced
AVI or WMV video file format to make them viewable on this
player; or to take pictures or record video files when this player

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is used as a PC Camera.

Operating Platform

For Windows2000, Windows XP,Vista, DirectX, Version9.0 or
above should be used. It is not recommended to use this tool
under Windows98 or Windows Me.

What format can video files be recorded into

This tool can be used to record video files of 320*240, 30-frame
AVI format.

What format can picture files be taken into

This tool can be used to take picture files of 320*240, JPG
format file.

Automatic Installation

Start PC, enter Windows system, place the tool installation CD
into the CD-Rom, and the installation will be automatically run.
Please follow instructions to click next step button, and click

off button when installation is completed successfully.

Manual Installation

If automatic run is not set up in the PC, then the installation
needs to be started manually:
First, double click the Setup.exe file under the root directory of
the CD to start the installation guide; follow instructions to click

next step button, and click off button when installation is

completed successfully.

Video File Conversion

1. Running this tool.

2. Adding AV files

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Run software, click the add file button on the right side of
the input file column to add AV files to be converted, and a
dialogue box will automatically pop out for adding one or more
AV files.
After the file is added, the path of the AVfile will be displayed in
the input file field as shown below; and, relevant information
of the added file,such as the check box, file name and path,status
and file length, will be displayed in the status column.

3. File conversion

1) Select the file to be converted
In status column, on the left side of each AVfile name, there is a
check box and a sequence number. The check box is used to
choose a plurality of AVfiles to be converted, and the newly
added AV files are checked as default setting. If a file is not
checked, it indicates that this AV file will not be converted. In
addition to directly tick the check box, the AV file may also be
selected or removed by right clicking the mouse over the file and
choosing select or remove in the pop-out window. To remove
any AV file from the adding list, simply right click the mouse over
one or more AV files, select remove , and the files will be
removed from the list.

2) Select the storage path of the video files
This conversion tool uses C:\ as the default path for storage of
video files. Before file conversion, click the video storage path
button on the right side of the output file column to specify
the location for saving the video file. When the browse file

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folder dialogue box pops out, select the specified storage path,
and then click confirm button.

Afterwards, the path in which the video files are stored will be
displayed in the output file column of the conversion tool
interface.

3) Properties setting
Before converting AV files, some important parameters of the
video files need to be set, such as the type (AVI or WMV), the
intercepted part and the length of the video file, image exchange,
image quality. There are two methods to enter the properties
setting interface:
A. After selecting one or more AV files, click the settings button

in the output information column to enter;
B. After selecting one or more AV files, right click the mouse and
select settings to enter;

Select here does not mean checking the AV file in the check
box, but using the mouse to click file name to make the file
background color blue.

4) Start converting file
Confirm that the check box of the AV file to be converted is
checked. Press the conversion button inthe tool interface
to start, the tool begins to convert all selected AV files of which
the check box has been checked, and the file status will be
changed from not processed into being converted , and the
conversion progress bar will be displayed in the conversion
progress column at the same time.

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In addition to the above file conversion methods, the AVfiles
stored in the hard disk may also be selected and converted by
right clicking the mouse and selecting the start video conversion

in the pop-out menu, and the tool will automatically run and

directly start file conversion.

Recording Video and Taking Pictures

1.Opening the video window
When the PC camera is connected, the tool will automatically
pop out the video window; when the PC camera connection is
completed, and the video window is in hidden status, click the
icon on the right side of the tool interface to make the video

window shown. If the PC camera is not connected, click

the button and the tool will prompt PC camera not connected .

2.Recording video and taking pictures
Default storage directory is the same
as the storage directory of the
converted video files, which can be
specified by clicking the icon in
the select directory window.The
changed path will be displayed in the
path column. Click icon to enter the PC camera setting
interface to change parameters for recording video or taking pictures.

3.Recording and playing video
Record: in the viewfinder status of the video interface, click the
icon to start recording video files, and video recording will
be displayed at the bottom of the video interface. When a video
file is being recorded, the start icon becomes a pause icon, and at
the same time the stop icon is active.
Pause: under the recording mode, click the icon to pause
recording,and at the same time the start and stop record icons are
active.

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Stop:under recording or pause recording mode, click the icon
to stop recording and save the video file to the specified
directory, and at the same time the start icon is active; return to
the viewfinder interface, the thumbnail icon of the video file will
be displayed at the bottom of the viewfinder interface.
Play video: when the recorded video file is saved, click the
icon in the video interface to preview the thumbnail icon of the
video file, and click icon to switch between thumbnails;
double click the thumbnail icon of the file to open a play window
and start playing the video files.

4.Taking and previewing pictures
Taking pictures: in the video interface under viewfinder mode,
directly click the iconto take pictures, and at the same time
picture files are saved under the specified directory.
Previewing pictures: upon completion of storage, pictures are
displayed in thumbnail icons at the bottom of the interface; click

icon to switch between thumbnails, and double click the

thumbnail icon of the pictures to start preview.

Notices

1. To convert files of RealPlay, QuickTime or MPEG2 formats,
please first install appropriate decoder.

2. To convert files of RealPlay, QuickTime or MPEG2 (DVD)
formats, if the files cannot be directly played with the Windows
Media Player in the PC, then an appropriate decoder for the
Windows Media Player shall be installed. Until the files can be
played properly with the Windows Media Player can proper
conversion be completed, or this tool will not run properly.

3. This tool cannot be used to produce sound or display Chinese
characters in the AVI video file converted from Flash animation
(SWF file).

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