Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product AV400 Series Archos
Go to page of 39
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 .
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.
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 .
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 .
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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).
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 .
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.
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 ® .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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 .
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 lo.
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 .
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.
An important point after buying a device Archos AV400 Series (or even before the purchase) is to read its user manual. We should do this for several simple reasons:
If you have not bought Archos AV400 Series yet, this is a good time to familiarize yourself with the basic data on the product. First of all view first pages of the manual, you can find above. You should find there the most important technical data Archos AV400 Series - thus you can check whether the hardware meets your expectations. When delving into next pages of the user manual, Archos AV400 Series you will learn all the available features of the product, as well as information on its operation. The information that you get Archos AV400 Series will certainly help you make a decision on the purchase.
If you already are a holder of Archos AV400 Series, but have not read the manual yet, you should do it for the reasons described above. You will learn then if you properly used the available features, and whether you have not made any mistakes, which can shorten the lifetime Archos AV400 Series.
However, one of the most important roles played by the user manual is to help in solving problems with Archos AV400 Series. Almost always you will find there Troubleshooting, which are the most frequently occurring failures and malfunctions of the device Archos AV400 Series along with tips on how to solve them. Even if you fail to solve the problem, the manual will show you a further procedure – contact to the customer service center or the nearest service center