Nero Mobile User Manual
Nero Mobile Manual
Nero AG
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REV 1.0 – 1.2.1.2
Contents
Contents
1 General information 5
1.1 Conventions of the manual 5
1.2 About Nero Mobile 6
1.3 Versions of Nero Mobile 7
2 Technical information 8
2.1 System requirements 8
2.1.1 Operating system 8
2.1.2 Processor 8
2.1.3 Memory 8
2.1.4 Communication between PC and smartphone 8
2.2 Formats supported 9
3 Installing Nero Mobile on a PDA or smartphone 10
4 User interface of Nero Mobile 11
4.1 Nero Mobile on PDA and smartphone 11
4.1.1 Control on PDAs 12
4.1.2 Key controls on smartphones 13
4.2 Menu button 14
4.3 Enable button 14
4.4 Settings 15
4.4.1 General Settings screen 15
4.4.2 Audio Settings screen 17
5 Main menus 18
6 Content Browsers main screen 19
6.1 Creating a Media Library 20
7 Jukebox main screen 21
7.1 Playback control 22
8 Music Library main screen 23
8.1 Playing music 24
9 Slide Show main screen 25
9.1 Creating a new slide show 26
9.2 Settings for slide shows 26
9.3 Playing slide shows 27
9.4 Editing a slide show 27
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Contents
10 Video Library main screen 29
10.1 Playing videos 30
11 Collections main screen 31
11.1 Playing a collection 32
11.2 Editing a collection 33
11.3 Allocating new content to a collection 35
11.4 Creating a new collection 36
12 Index 37
13 Contact 39
13.1 Contact details 39
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General information
1 General information
1.1 Conventions of the manual
In order to make best use of this manual, please note the following conventions:
Symbol Meaning
Indicates warnings, preconditions or instructions that have to be
1. Start…
Æ
Î
OK
Chapter
[...]
followed strictly.
Indicates additional information or advice.
A number at the beginning of a line indicates a request for action. Carry out these actions in the order specified.
Indicates an intermediate result.
Indicates a result.
Indicates text passages or buttons that appear in the Nero Mobile program interface. They are shown in bold face.
Indicates references to other chapters. They are executed as
links and are shown in red and underlined.
Indicates keyboard shortcuts for entering commands.
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General information
1.2 About Nero Mobile
Nero Mobile is the new and impressive media suite that provides a central repository for a
wide range of media files, turning smartphones and personal digital assistants (PDA) into
powerful mobile media centers.
Nero Mobile's integrated media archive makes accessing all types of media file much easier
and also provides direct access to them when the user is away from their PC. The required
media files - videos, music or photos - are loaded onto your PDA or smartphone at the click
of a mouse with the help of the Nero 7 Premium Suite installed on the PC.
Key functions at a glance:
Content Browsers
Here you can access all files in the local system and use the Nero Media Home
Server to access all media files in your local network and play them immediately or assign them to a collection or to the Nero Mobile media library.
Music Library
Here you can manage and play your music tracks as well as compile new music collections. The Music Library shows information about the track, artist, and
even the album, as well as supporting the latest audio format HE-AAC v2,
which offers exceptional quality while keeping the file as small as possible.
Slide Show
Here you can manage your photos and slide shows, play slide shows, compile
new photo collections and add background music and visual effects.
Video Library
Here you can manage and play your videos as well as compile new video collections. The integrated v
Nero Digital™ Video. Nero Digital™ not only supports the superior audio and video
functions of standard MPEG-4, but also navigation by chapters, subchapters, and
DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Collections
Here you can manage and play existing collections as well as compile new collections comprising music and videos. You can also specify the order in which
the components of the collections are played or play them at random. A userfriendly search function within the Media Library provides fast access to the
files you want.
Jukebox
The Jukebox shows the music tracks, videos or photos currently playing. It also
provides a user-friendly control bar. The Jukebox is automatically displayed after a defined time without user interaction.
Nero DigitalTM
Nero Mobile is the ideal application for making files in the MPEG-4, H.264 AVC
Video and MPEG-4 Audio formats available on mobile devices. An important component here are integrated Nero Digital
include navigating by chapters, using subchapters and song texts, converting entire
albums to a single MP4 file as well as the option to custom design covers.
UPnP™ Networks
Nero Mobile also supports browsing and streaming via UPnP™ networks. Files
are played directly from your media center such as Nero MediaHome for in-
stance.
Additional functions coming soon:
ideo player supports MPEG-4 SP/ASP, H.264/AVC and
TM
and Nero Digital Audio
TM
functions: these
In the near future you will also be able to receive television and radio from
a number of streaming sources using Nero Mobile.
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General information
1.3 Versions of Nero Mobile
Three different versions of Nero Mobile are available:
Nero Mobile
This version is a component of the Nero 7 Retail version. It provides full functionality, but
certain patent-protected codecs such as Nero Digital
only available for 30 days from initial utilization. All of the other functions are available for
an unlimited time.
Nero Mobile Trial
This is the Web demo version of Nero Mobile. Full functionality is available for 30 days. After this period you cannot use Nero Mobile Trial again.
Nero Mobile Pro
This version provides full functionality and unlimited accessibility of all codecs. It is distributed through the Nero online web shop (
Codecs are needed for encoding (editing) and decoding (playing) audio and video files. With
Nero Digital
data CD for instance with no perceivable loss in quality.
TM
codec you can fit the entire audio and video contents of a DVD on a regular
TM
(MPEG-4/AVC, MP3, MPEG-2) are
www.nero.com).
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Technical information
2 Technical information
2.1 System requirements
2.1.1 Operating system
Microsoft® PocketPC/Smartphone
Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 5.0
2.1.2 Processor
Intel® XScale™.
Minimum required frequency:
200 MHz (audio + video software)
▪
24 MHz (LC AAC audio)
▪
Freescale i.MX21/31.
Minimum required frequency:
ARM4 compatible.
Minimum required frequency:
TI OMAP 17xx/24xx
2.1.3 Memory
1.25 MB + codecs (1.4 MB) + languages (0.2 MB) + skins (1.3 MB) = approx. 4 MB for full
installation
78 MHz (HE-AAC audio)
▪
200 MHz (audio + video software)
▪
24 MHz (LC AAC audio)
▪
78 MHz (HE-AAC audio)
▪
200 MHz (audio + video software)
▪
24 MHz (LC AAC audio)
▪
78 MHz (HE-AAC audio)
▪
2.1.4 Communication between PC and smartphone
Microsoft® ActiveSync
USB cable
Bluetooth® connection
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Technical information
2.2 Formats supported
Audio codecs Video codecs Pictures File formate
MPEG-2/4
LC-ACC
HE-AAC
(AAC+)
HE-AAC V2
MP3
Ogg Vorbis
AMR
Nero Digital
profiles
Mobile
Mobile AVC
Portable
Portable AVC
Device-
specific profiles
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
SP/ASP
MPEG-4
AVC/H.264
Nero Digital
audio profiles
Mobile
iPod audio
JPEG
Slide show with
background
music
Network
support
HTTP
streaming
UPnP™
RTP/3G
streaming
MP4
MP3
AAC
WAV
AVI
3GP
OGG
MOV
AMR
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Installing Nero Mobile on a PDA or smartphone
3 Installing Nero Mobile on a PDA or smartphone
The prerequisites for installing Nero Mobile on your PDA or smartphone are automatically
met when Nero 7 is installed. Simply connect your PDA or smartphone to your PC. Then just
follow the instructions in the installation dialog that is displayed.
In detail, proceed as follows:
1. Connect your PDA or smartphone to your PC as described in the instructions for the respec-
tive device.
Æ A dialog window asking if you wish to install Nero Mobile is displayed.
2. Click on the OK button.
Æ The Nero Mobile Installation Wizard is displayed with its initial screen.
3. Click on the Next button.
Æ The second screen of the Installation Wizard, License Agreement, is displayed.
4. Click on the Accept button.
Æ The third screen of the Installation Wizard, Installation, is displayed and shows the pro-
gress of the installation process. Once the installation process is complete, a dialog window informing you of this is displayed.
If Nero Mobile is already installed on the connected PDA or smartphone, a dialog window
informing you of this is displayed. Click on the Yes button to continue with the installation
process or the No button to cancel it.
5. Click on the OK button.
Æ The fourth and last screen of the Installation Wizard is displayed.
6. Click on the Exit button.
Î You have installed Nero Mobile on your PDA or smartphone. The Nero Mobile product
icon for starting the application appears in the program folder for the PDA or smartphone:
Nero Mobile
When you purchase Nero Mobile Pro, you will receive a new installer that you must start on
your PC with the smartphone or PDA connected. The first screen of the installation wizard is
then displayed and you can install Nero Mobile Pro as described above.
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User interface of Nero Mobile
4 User interface of Nero Mobile
4.1 Nero Mobile on PDA and smartphone
You can use Nero Mobile on a smartphone or on a PDA. The interfaces for both are essentially the same apart from two buttons that appear on the PDA interface but not on the
smartphone interface.
Fig. 1:Nero Mobile on PDA and mobile phone
The following buttons are available on PDA and smartphone:
Menu
Enable
Opens the menu of the screen currently displayed.
Activates the selection.
The function of this button changes depending on the screen content:
Go Back
Select
Edit
Returns to the previous screen.
Confirms the selection made in the screen.
Lets you edit collections, for example.
The following buttons are additionally available on PDA:
Returns to the Nero Mobile start screen.
Opens the Jukebox, the interactive playback screen, directly.
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User interface of Nero Mobile
4.1.1 Control on PDAs
Nero Mobile screen
Menu button
Returns to the start
screen
Enable button
Opens the Jukebox directly
Fig. 2:Control elements for PDAs
The joypad and stylus pen are used as follows to control Nero Mobile on PDAs.
Quick tap
Touching and drag-
ging
Selects menu icons or individual menu items, for example
(corresponds to a mouse click).
Selects multiple menu items (corresponds to clicking and
dragging with the mouse).
Used to navigate through the application. The arrow keys
are used for selection, the center key to confirm the selection.
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