Archos AV400 Series manual

1 • M PEG-4 Vid eo Player & Record er • M P3 & WMA Musi c Pla yer • Pho to Viewe r • USB 2. 0 Ha rd Di sk • D igit al Aud io Reco rder User Manual for ARCHOS P ocket A V400 Manu al ver sio n 2 .0 pn: 103 09 0V2 Englis h La ngua ge Use r Ma nua l Please visit our website to download the most rece nt manual and software fo r this pr[...]

3 9 V I D E O - R e c o r d i n g M P E G 4 V i d e o F i l e s 29 9.1 Setting the Recording Parameters 30 9.2 Where is the Re cording Saved? 32 9.3 Copy Prote ction 32 9.4 Manu al ly S ett ing t he S che dul er 32 10 Automat ed Yah oo! ® TV Record ing Scheduler 35 11 VIDEO – Sett ing the Infrar ed E mitter Code 37 11.1 Par t 1 : Ch o os e yo u [...]

5 Dear Customer , ARCHOS thank s y ou f or your choice of this ex citing A V400 produc t. Never befor e has one been able to carry with him or he r so much inform ation, be it MP3 digital music, MPEG-4 digital videos or digital photos, and be able to e njoy these wit hout a co mputer . W e ar e sur e tha t y our AV4 00 will give you y ears o f l is[...]

7 a L C D / T V b u t t o n – H o l d d o w n f o r 3 s e c o n d s t o s w i t c h b e t w e e n L C D a n d e x t e r n a l T V d i s p l a y b M i c r o p h o n e – f o r m a k i n g d i g i t a l v o i c e r e c o r d i n g s c C o m p a c t F l a s h ™ T y p e I s l o t a U S B 2 . 0 p o r t ( U S B 1 . 1 c o m p a t i b l e ) t o c o n [...]

9 2. 4 Changing the Language The A V400 interf ace can be set to Engli sh (defa ult), Fren ch, or German. • T o c h a n g e t h e l a n g u a g e , m o v e t h e j o y s t i c k t o Setup a n d then click PLA Y/ENTER . • • U s i n g t h e j o y s t i c k t o h i g h l i g h t t h e La nguage parameter . • N o w m o v e t h e j o y s t i c k[...]

11 Whe n you c lic k on this i con in th e mai n s creen , you will be sent directly to the Music f o l d e r . Use the dire ctio n butt ons to highl ight o ne of the factor y installed music se lecti ons and then Click on PL A Y you have adju sted the volume contro l on the headphone cord. By clicki ng on the Music icon in the main menu screen, yo[...]

13 3.3 Artist, Alb um, Title … ID3 T ags ID3 T ag s are information about the recording which foun d insi de of a n has the option of adding informatio n to it. This in formation can include, among other things, the name o f the ar tist (W es Burden), the album name ( Brave New W orld ), the t itle of t he song (Mirror), and a sm all image of the[...]

15 Resume : Start pla ying from the bookm arked po sition. Ignor e : K ee p the b ookmark but start pl aying from the very begi nning. Clear beginni ng. 3.6 The R esume Functi o n Whe n you t urn o n your AV40 0 y ou wi ll som etim es no tic e that t he icon which is highligh ted on the main screen is not the Browse r but rathe r the Resu me icon. [...]

17 4. 2 Creating a Play list T o create a Playlist, press the RIGHT ► b u t t o n w h i l e y o u a r e i n t h e M u s i c browser . A second window will open on the right side to display the Playlist contents. Y ou can now start addi ng songs to t he cur rent Pla ylist. In the left window, search for the songs you would lik e to add to your Pla[...]

19 Wit h th e AV400 se ri es, yo u do not need a co mpute r to cre ate dig ital an analog line source (ex: HiFi system, Boombox, CD Play er , etc) into a standard Windows ® W A V f o r m a t , e i t h e r P C M ( u n c o m p r e s s e d ) o r A D P C M (compr essed). 5.1 Cable Connections f or Audio R ecording If you are using the A rchos TV c rad[...]

21 5.3 Wh ere i s t he Reco rdin g Saved ? The default location for audio recordings is the folder called Music . If you click o n the Music icon in the main me nu, yo u will go to this f older . No tice that the right fun ction bu tton is labeled Record . Each time y ou use this button to reco rd audio i nstead of t he A udioCorder button on the m[...]

23 M U S I C - U s i n g W i n d o w s ™ M e d i a P l a y e r 9 The AV4 00 is desig n ed to w ork seamlessly with Ve r s i o n 9 o f W i n d o w s ® Medi a Play er (WMP9). By instal ling t he Arch os Service Provider plug- in, WMP9 will recogniz e your A V400 as a connected m usic device. Y ou can then easily copy your CD collection to your A V[...]

25 M U S I C - U s i n g i T u n e s ™ w i t h y o u r A V 4 0 0 Macintosh ® c o m p u t e r a n d y o u r A V 4 0 0 i s t o u s e t h e your Maci ntosh ® . Howeve r , for Macint osh ® u s e r s w h o d o w a n t t o u s e t h e AV 4 0 0 w i t h i T u n e s ® , Arch os has develo ped a spe cial i- Tu n e s ® /Da ta /i-Tu nes Plug -in o n the[...]

27 • C l i c k o n t h e l e f t f u n c t i o n b u t t o n to put the video into slow- m o- tion view . Y ou can cyc le throug h the v alues Normal, ½ , ¼ , and 1/8 s peed. The so und i s mut ed when in slow motion. While in slow mode and paused, you can step image per image with the LEFT button. 8.1 Setting a B ookmark If you are watching a [...]

29 Pre- recor d Screen 1. Select V ideoCorder on the main menu screen. In the pre-reco r d screen, you should see movement o n the sound level ba r i ndicati ng th at so und will be recorded. Adjust the sound lev el by cli cking th e LEFT /RIGH T button s. Bef ore star ting th e recor d in g, yo u can adjust the record ing para meters via the middl[...]

31 Res o l u ti on Bitr ate Samp ling 32kHz, 48kHz . The sound sampl ing rate. The higher value gives a higher quality sound but will take up more space on the har d drive. Brig htness Use this to incre ase or decrea se the recorded i mage bri ghtness Contrast Use this to inc rease or de crease t he recorded image con trast Satur ation Hue Use this[...]

33 Notes ab out se tting t he Sched uler . 34 • When t he use r i nter face i s in Eng li sh, th e Da te for mat is se t to M on th/ Day . • If the end t ime is earlier than the start t ime, th en it is assum ed that you s tart recording on the st art date, and th e rec ording e nds on the the sc reen ab ove will s tart reco rding on the 16 th [...]

35 Fo r th o s e wh o ha v e a My Y a ho o ! ® ac coun t an d use the c ale nda r fea tu re, the AV 400 can read th e TV prog rams sc hedule d into y our pers onal calendar and thus make scheduled recordi ngs thi s w ay . Y ou can sign up for an acc ou nt an d le ar n ho w to use the My Y a hoo ! ® T V a n d c a l e n d a r func ti ons at th e Y [...]

37 V I D E O – S e t t i n g t h e I n f r a r e d E m i t t e r C o d e 11. 1 P a r t 1 : C h o o s e y o u r D e v i c e , B r a n d a n d M o d e l On the m ain screen, go to Set up then click on TV Control. 1. Select the type of device that you have stuck your IR Emi tter to. Y ou have t he choice of either a VCR ( v i d e o c a s s e t t e r[...]

39 off . Click this test button again and your device s hould change from on to off or off to on. If press ing this bu tton does not tu rn on and off your device, t ry the next code for your devic e (step 3 above). If none o f the codes work, check that the i nfr ared emitter is directly over the infr ared sensor on yo ur tuner device. Pa ram e t e[...]

41 IMPORT ANT NOTE : Wh en you pause at a given poin t to make a Start or End Mark, the actual point of the cut will be the near est I-Fr ame. I-Fr ames are special can cut ONL Y at an I - Frame. It is thus recommended that when you pause at the poin t you wa nt to make your Start or End mark, that you click the LEFT button once ( will jump t o the[...]

43 13. 1 I n s t a l l i n g t h e P C S o f t w a r e you w ill need t o re-e ncode it u sing the foll owing utili ties. F or t he A V4 00, resolut ion up to 720 x 576 (de pendin g on frame rate) and a sound track that is stereo MP3 or WA V . I n ac tualit y , in all cas es, a re soluti o n beyon d 640x48 0 doe s n ot add any advantage. Run the pr[...]

45 Next, you can c hange th e par ameters (Change S etti ngs) of the DivX™ enco der to adjus t the Like MP3 music, the hi gher the bit rate setting is made, the hi gher the quality of the mus ic, or video in this case, t hat you wi ll get. Howev e r , this will al so take up more space on your hard disk. A setti ng of 90 0 kbps will give you a ni[...]

47 P H O T O - V i e w i n g P h o t o s Th e A V400 series supp ort the viewing of JPEG (.j pg) and Bitmap ( .bmp) i mage fo rmats. Prog ressive JPEG images are built - in screen or on a television screen if you choose the or BMP will b e visibl e in the directo ry . T he three images on the right are thum bnail size d pictur es of t he the pic tu[...]

49 Whe n yo u i nse rt the card, th e A V40 0 will recogni ze it and op en up two b rowser windows . The left window will show the contents of your CompactFlash™ (CF) card* and t he right w indow will show the cont ents of your A V400’s hard drive. Naviga te to t he folder on your CF card which contains your photos (in this example ). Mo ve to [...]

51 fol d er . 15. 2 N a v i g a t i n g t h e D i r e c t o r y S t r u c t u r e Depending on where you are i n the directory system, you will have t he Brow ser . Atte nti on, ther e is a set ting in the Setup > Syst em men u called . If th is is s e t to Off the sy ste m se tt ing to On . File s that it can not pla y wil l be . Info made, et [...]

53 15. 3 U s i n g t h e V i r t u a l K e y b o a r d from your com pu ter when i t is con ne cte d to th e AV400. The co mpu te r keyboard is much easi er . Often tim es, ho wever , you are not near your computer and you must enter the text directly with t he A V400. F or thi s, the v irtual ke yboar d screen will a ppear . The n ew te xt t hat y[...]

55 Yo u m u s t u p d a t e y o u r o p e r a t i n g s y s t e m t o a m i n i m u m of version 9.2. Once done, you will not need any sp ecial driver s or extensio ns. Y ou simply plug the A V400 into your Macinto sh as enum erated above, and within a few se con ds , t he AV40 0 wi ll be r eco gni ze d as a m ass storage device (Hard Disk) and mou[...]

57 5. Windows will indicate when it has Fini sh. Do not unplug the A V400 fro m the computer yet. your comp uter . Upo n resta rt, it will automa tically re cogni ze the conn ected device (the AV400). It w ill be seen as another hard disk in Windo ws ® Explorer . 16. 2 D i s c o n n e c t i n g t h e A V 4 0 0 f r o m y o u r C o m p u t e r WARNI[...]

59 S E T T I N G S From the home screen, select the Setup o p t i o n t o r e v e a l t h e m e n u options for various settings. 17. 1 S o u n d S e t t i n g s If you would like to customize the sound quality , you can adjust the Bass, T rebl e, and other audio settings t o suit yo ur p articular tast e. Normally you will do this whil e listenin [...]

61 Play Mo de AV 4 0 0 i s c u r re nt l y p la y i ng fr o m a Pl a yl i st Folder : P lay all tr acks in the c urre nt dir ectory All : Pla y all tr acks on AV4 00 Single : P lay a single track then s top Queue : User can q ueue the next tra ck to b e played † Scan : 62 17. 3 C l o c k S e t t i n g s The A V400 has an inter nal real time clock[...]

63 Set ting Des cript io n Language The A V400 can be set to English (default ), French, or Germ an. TV Standard NTSC (USA ), PAL (Europe ) . In order t o v iew images or videos on an ex ternal televisi on, select one opti on t o se nd the video sign al c ompat ible with your c ountry ’s tele vision syst em. Countries other than European or Ameri[...]

65 Increasing the hard disk value beyond th e default may actuall y discharg e the batt ery even whe n the Char ger/a dapter is plug ged in. Note also that your un it will run hotter when the backl ight and ha rd disk are on fo r long periods of time. 17. 6 S y s t e m S e t t i n g s The S ystem set tings allo w you co ntrol over the low level par[...]

67 68 • F o r w a r r a n t y a n d s e r v i c e s p u r p o s e s , k e e p y o u r s a l e s r e c e i p t f o r p r o o f o f purchase . The serial number for the AV 420 model can be found in the batter y compartm ent. • I f t e c h n i c a l s u p p o r t ( T e l e p h o n e o r E - m a i l ) d e t e r m i n e s t h a t y o u r p r o d u c[...]

69 WWW .A RCHOS.COM United Stat es & Canada Europe & Asia ARCHOS T echnology 3, Go odyear - Uni t A Irvine, CA 9 2618 USA Phone: 1 949- 609-1483 Fa x : 1 9 4 9 - 6 0 9 - 1 4 1 4 ARCHOS S . A. 12, rue Am père 91430 Igny Fr ance Phone: +33 (0) 169 3 3 169 0 Fa x : + 3 3 ( 0 ) 1 6 9 3 3 1 6 9 9 United Kingd om Germ any ARCHOS (UK ) Limited 3 [...]

71 show up in Windows XP for ov er one minute, and then it com es up as loca l drive . Use D OS Utili ty ChkDsk as sho wn below. • Probl em : What do I do if I try to disconnect via the green arrow but keep getti ng “The device ‘Generi c V olume’ cannot be stopped now . T ry stoppin g the d evice again later . ” Answ er : Shut off any pro[...]

73 Probl em : I want to r eformat the A V400’ s hard disk. Answ er : Y ou can do this, but it will erase ALL o f the d ata on your A V400. Sometimes t his may be necessa ry if your F A T (File Al location T ab le) as e xplained be low , you should run ScanDis k or the DOS chkdsk (Check and you are s ure you must re form at t he AV40 0 hard disk, [...]

75 ARCHO S VIDEO AV400 series Storage Capacity Mod el AV4 xx : xx = Siz e o f H ard Dri ve in Gi gaby tes * Computer Interface High Speed USB 2 .0 (compatible USB 1 .1) Image Playback JPG and BMP (4, 8, 24 bit ) imag es, any size Audio Playb ack Stereo MP3 decoding 30-320 kb/s CB R & VBR, WMA, WAV . Audio Recording Ste reo WA V (PCM & ADPCM[...]

77 Warnings and Saf ety Instr uctions CAUTION Po we r of f a n d d i s c on n e ct th e p o we r su p pl y c ab l e be fo r e op e ni n g th e u ni t . WARNIN G Use of t his produ ct is for personal u se only . Copying CDs or lo ading musi c, vi deo, copyright law. C opyrighted materials, work s of a rt, a nd/or p resentations may requi re author i[...]