Sony VAIO VGCRB40 Owner's Manual page 180

Preparing Your Multimedia Content
You can use preinstalled Sony
VAIO Media software.
To prepare your multimedia content
VAIO Media Console software can manage different media server features to deliver various file formats.
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VAIO Media Music Server
software to create playlists of music files. The VAIO Media Music Server software automatically makes these playlists
and other music files stored in registered folders, available to Microsoft
computers on your network.
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VAIO Media Photo Server
Center and the client computers on your network. VAIO Media Photo Server software recognizes .JPEG, .BMP, .GIF,
and .TIFF file formats.
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VAIO Media Video Server
Video Server software delivers the recorded contents to the client computers on your network. You can also use a
VAIO computer with Giga Pocket
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MPEG1, MPEG2, DIVX
computers on your network.
Giga Pocket Personal Video Recorder software creates video content called Video Capsules, which are stored in
locations known as cabinets.
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VAIO Media TV Server software delivers an analog stream — You can connect analog devices, such as a VCR, to
a computer equipped with Media Center and stream video to other VAIO computers in your network.
VAIO Media software does not support live TV viewing across the network on your computer equipped with Media
Center,. Only VAIO computers equipped with Giga Pocket software support live TV viewing across the network through the
TV server.
Giga P oc ket P ers onal V ideo Rec order hardware and s oftware features are not ins talled on V A I O
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M edia C enter operating s ys tem
A DI V X enc oder program mus t be ins talled on your c omputer, to enable playbac k of files in DI V X format.
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software programs to prepare your multimedia content for sharing across the network using
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software delivers music files — Use SonicStage
software delivers image files — Use the Photo Server to deliver pictures for Media
software delivers video files — Media Center records TV programs and VAIO Media
software , version 5.0 or later, to create Video Capsules. Video files using DV-AVI,
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, and WMV file formats can be stored in registered folders and accessed by the client
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or SonicStage
Windows XP Media Center and the client
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c omputers running under the M ic ros oft
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Mastering Studio
Windows XP
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