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  • Page 1 Please do register your product on our website (www.archos.com/register) to ensure that you get access to our help line and to be informed of free software updates for your product.

  • Page 2: Important Safety Instructions

    Important Safety InStructIonS Read these instructions. Keep these instructions. Heed all warnings. Follow all instructions. Do not use this apparatus near water. Clean only with dry cloth. Do not block any ventilation openings. Install in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions. Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators, heat registers, stoves, or other apparatus (including amplifiers) that produce heat.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    1. VIDEO SETTINGS ......15 1.4 PUTTING VIDEOS ONTO YOUR ARCHOS 1.5 RECORDING VIDEO ......17 2. ...
  • Page 4 4.4 PLAYING A SLIDESHOW ....40 4.5 VIEWING PHOTOS WHILE LISTENING TO MUSIC . . 40 4.6 TRANSFERRING PHOTOS TO YOUR ARCHOS 5.  usIng The brOwser ... 42 5.1 NAVIGATION .

  • Page 5: Introduction

    On the Left Side of the Device: Press and hold to switch on/off. Press once to switch the display of the image between TV and built-in LCD screen. Press and hold to lock the buttons of your ARCHOS device. Main Navigation Buttons:     OK   Menu ...
  • Page 6 • Connect your ARCHOS • Charge the battery of your ARCHOS • Connect a compatible external device to your ARCHOS the optional Docking Adapter. • Record external video via the optional DVR Station. On the Left Side: AV Out Jack Audio: plug in the supplied headphones.
  • Page 7 LED INDICATORS Hard Disk Drive activity indicator   the light flickers when the hard drive is active (playing/transferring files). Battery charge indicator   - light on: the battery is charging. - flashing: the battery is fully charged. ON/OFF indicator Video display indicator the light is on when the image is displayed on an external display.
  • Page 8 Home Screen The Resume Icon • Sometimes the Resume icon is highlighted in the Home Screen when you turn on the ARCHOS you can resume the last-played music or video file, if it was interrupted before the end. • If the Resume icon is grayed out, it means that no music or video file playback can be resumed.

  • Page 9: Interface Language

    CHANGING THE LANGUAGE • The interface of your ARCHOS English, French and German. • More languages are available from www.archos.com. See Updating the Firmware for instructions on installing these language packs. To change the system’s language: From the Home Screen, press screen.

  • Page 10: Product Care

    Do not open it up. There are no user-serviceable parts inside. Opening will void your warranty. HARDWARE RESET In the event that your ARCHOS (due to electrostatic phenomena, for example), you can reset it by pressing the device charges via your ™...

  • Page 11: Playing Video

    When browsing in video mode, only video files are shown. THE VIDEO LIST • the Video List (default view) only shows the video files in the Video folder of the ARCHOS hard drive (it does not show videos located in subfolders). • To view videos from a...
  • Page 12 • the Video Browser allows you to navigate to other folders within the Video folder. It is based on the Archos File Browser. See: Using the Browser . Both views display a motion thumbnail of the highlighted • video as well as various information about the video file.

  • Page 13: Video Playback

    Resume video will resume playing the highlighted video from the bookmark. Clear bookmark will remove the bookmark from the highlighted video file. Resume video and Clear bookmark only appear in the menu when a bookmarked video file is highlighted (icon: Reset thumbnails will delete all user-defined thumbnails and restore motion thumbnails.
  • Page 14 VIDEO PLAYBACk BUTTON CONTROLS During video playback, the buttons of your ARCHOS will act as follows: accelerated fast forward fast rewind accelerated fast rewind VIDEO PLAYBACk MENU ITEMS Info displays a message box with all the available information about the current video file.

  • Page 15: Video Settings

    Set bookmark sets a bookmark at the current spot in the video. Only one bookmark per file is allowed. You can bookmark up to 16 files. Video files with a bookmark appear with the Save frame as... Thumbnail: saves the current image as a new thumbnail for this file (overwrites the previously set thumbnail, if any).

  • Page 16: Putting Videos Onto Your Archos ™ Device

    Video folder of the ARCHOS • Copy and Paste your video files from your computer into the Video folder of your ARCHOS for details on how to connect your ARCHOS computer). PLAYSFORSURE ™ Your ARCHOS...

  • Page 17: Recording Video

    CREATING COMPATIBLE VIDEO FILES WITH YOUR COMPUTER If some of your videos don’t play on your ARCHOS you may need to transcode them to a compatible format. • The easiest way to do this is by using Windows Media Player 10 to transfer videos to your ARCHOS Media Device’...

  • Page 18: Playing Music

    • When new music is added to the Music folder of the ARCHOS the ARCLibrary will need to be updated. By default, this is done automatically, but you can choose to do it manually via the ‘Update ARCLibrary’ option in the ARCLibrary (also see: System Settings ).
  • Page 19 THE MUSIC BROWSER • the music browser allows you to navigate the Music folder of your device’s hard drive. It is based on the Archos File Browser. • To use it, highlight ‘Browse Hard Drive’ in the initial ArcLibrary view and press OK.

  • Page 20: Playing Music

    Clear bookmark will remove the bookmark from the highlighted music file. Resume song and Clear bookmark only appear in the menu when a track with a bookmark is highlighted (icon: Show playlist opens a playlist edition window on the right (see: Playlists ).
  • Page 21 MUSIC PLAYBACk BUTTON CONTROLS During music playback, the buttons of your ARCHOS will act as follows: accelerated fast forward press once: back to the beginning of the song, or previous song (in the first 10 seconds of a track) hold: fast rewind...

  • Page 22: Music Settings

    ARCHOS device. allows you to select a track to be played after the current one is over.

  • Page 23: Sound Settings

    ARCHOS will play the next track in the folder or album.
  • Page 24 • Volume adjusts the output volume. • Built-in loudspeaker the loudspeaker is always on. the loudspeaker is always off. Automatic the built-in loudspeaker automatically turns off when you plug in headphones or an AV Cable. • Bass Boost Frequency adjusts the lower frequency that will be boosted. •...

  • Page 25: Equalizer Screen

    2.5  PlaylIsTs • A playlist is a list of audio tracks that the music player will automatically play one after the other. • On your ARCHOS edit as many playlists as you want. • In the Archos icon. •...

  • Page 26: Playing A Playlist

    Note: when you delete a playlist, you are only deleting the list and not the music itself. PLAYING A PLAYLIST Highlight the Playlist line of the ArcLibrary, press OK. • • Select a playlist using / , press OK. A panel showing the contents of the playlist will open on the right.
  • Page 27 Add to playlist will add the highlighted track, folder, artist or album at the end of the playlist. Insert in playlist will insert the highlighted track, folder, artist or album before the selected item in the playlist. To jump back and forth between the left and right panels, •...

  • Page 28: Editing A Playlist

    Clear clears and closes the current playlist. Shuffle randomly shuffles the order of the songs in the current playlist. Sound will display the sound settings screen (See: Sound settings ). Press to exit this screen. EDITING A PLAYLIST To edit an existing playlist: Highlight the playlist and use the Show playlist menu item.

  • Page 29: Putting Music Onto Your Archos ™ Device

    ARCHOS • Copy and Paste your music files from your computer into the Music folder of your ARCHOS for details on how to connect your ARCHOS computer). You can easily create audio content with your computer by using Windows Media MP or WMA format.

  • Page 30: Recording Audio

    PLAYSFORSURE ™ Your ARCHOS This means that whenever you download a protected video or music file from an Internet platform bearing the PlaysForSure play on your ARCHOS 2.7  reCOrdIng audIO • Your ARCHOS AudioCorder function. • You can make microphone recordings directly with...

  • Page 31: Using The Audiocorder

    • Audio files recorded by your ARCHOS • as follows: Artist = (Archos: Audio Recordings), Album = (Unknown). 3.1  audIOCOrder seTTIngs sCreen This screen allows you to adjust audio input settings for your recordings. Use / to highlight a different parameter, then use / to select a different setting.

  • Page 32: Built-In Microphone Recording Procedure 2

    • Set Title allows you to give a personalized title to the recording (See: Using the Virtual keyboard ). • Format you can choose between PCM (uncompressed) and ADPCM (compressed) WAV format. • Source choose between microphone or analog line-in (only with the optional DVR Station or DVR Travel Adapter ).

  • Page 33: Line-Level Recordings

    You can also start recording to a new file directly by choosing the Save file and start a new recording menu item while you are recording. 3.3  lIne-leVel reCOrdIngs Your ARCHOS device can also record from external line-level ™ audio sources, with the optional DVR Station or DVR Travel...

  • Page 34: Viewing Photos

    THE PHOTO WALL • the Photo Wall (default view) shows thumbnails of your photos. It only shows the picture files in the current folder of the ARCHOS ’s hard ™ drive (it does not show pictures located in subfolders). at any...
  • Page 35 THE PHOTO BROWSER • the Photo Browser allows you to navigate the Photo folder of your device’s hard drive. It is based on the Archos File Browser. • To use it, highlight ‘Browse Hard Drive’ in the PhotoLibrary view and press OK.
  • Page 36 See: Using the Virtual keyboard . Set as wallpaper (only appears in photo wall view) defines the current picture as your ARCHOS background image. Slideshow starts a slideshow from the highlighted image...

  • Page 37: Viewing Photos

    Highlight a picture file, press OK to view it. The menu overlay will disappear automatically after a few seconds. PHOTO VIEWER BUTTON CONTROLS When viewing photos, the buttons of your ARCHOS will act as follows: zoom in previous photo zoom out close photo viewer When zooming, / / / are used to scroll.
  • Page 38 Rotate left rotates the picture 90° counterclockwise. Rotate right rotates the picture 90° clockwise. Set as wallpaper defines the current picture as your ARCHOS background image. Start slideshow starts a slideshow from the current image. Settings will display the photo settings screen (see next chapter).

  • Page 39: Photo Settings

    4.3  PhOTO seTTIngs You can access the Photo Settings screen via the Settings Menu item while viewing pictures. Use / to highlight a different parameter, then use / to select a different setting. • Picture Pause defines the time that each picture will be displayed during a slideshow.

  • Page 40: Playing A Slideshow

    4.4  PlayIng a slIdeshOw • To view a slideshow, highlight a picture file in the Photo Wall, PhotoLibrary or Photo Browser and choose the Slideshow menu item. • You can also start a slideshow while viewing photos: choose the Start slideshow menu item or simply press OK. •...

  • Page 41: Transferring Photos To Your Archos ™ Device

    ™ arChOs  deVICe There are several methods for you to transfer your own photos to the Pictures folder of the ARCHOS • Connect your ARCHOS copy the pictures from your computer’s hard drive to the (see: Computer Connection ), or sync them using ARCHOS ™...

  • Page 42: Using The Browser

    5. usIng The brOwser The Archos navigate the file system of your ARCHOS hard drive. In the Home Screen, highlight the Browser icon and press OK to enter the File Browser. You will see two panels: • the one on the left is the panel that you usually use to navigate through your device’s hard drive,...

  • Page 43: Navigation

    5.1  naVIgaTIOn BROWSER BUTTON CONTROLS • Use / to select a file or folder, then press OK or • To go back up one level in the folder hierarchy, press . • Press at any time to leave the Browser and go back to the Home Screen.

  • Page 44: Copying And Moving Files And Folders

    Copy all files allows you to copy all the files in the current folder to the location defined in the other browser panel. Move allows you to move the highlighted file or folder to the location defined in the other browser panel. Sound will display the sound settings screen (see: Sound Settings ).

  • Page 45: Using The Virtual Keyboard

    5.2  usIng The VIrTual KeybOard The virtual keyboard is an interface that allows you to type in text, for instance to rename a file or folder, or when you want to give a title to a playlist that you have just created. VIRTUAL kEYBOARD BUTTON CONTROLS place cursor at end of file name place cursor at...

  • Page 46: Keyboard Function Keys

    Once you are satisfied with the new name for the file, folder or playlist, you can save it by using the Validate current name menu item. 5.3  usIng The Pdf reader • Your ARCHOS ™ support. • In the Browser, PDF files are displayed with this icon: To open a PDF document, highlight the PDF document in the File Browser and Press OK.
  • Page 47 PDF READER BUTTON CONTROLS next page previous page press: fit to width (if zoomed) press: exit PDF reader FOLLOWING HYPERLINkS • Some PDF documents have hyperlinks (for instance, a table of contents, links to an external website, etc.). • Links are surrounded by a blue outline, a highlighted link (active link) is surrounded by a red outline.
  • Page 48 PDF READER MENU ITEMS Previous page goes to the previous page in the document. Next Page goes to the next page in the document. Go to page... allows you to select a specific page. Use left/right to select a page number. Press OK to go to this page.

  • Page 49: Computer Connection

    6. COMPuTer COnneCTIOn 6.1  ‘wIndOws MedIa deVICe’ Or ‘PC hard drIVe’ There are two connection modes for your ARCHOS to connect to your computer. When your ARCHOS is turned on and you connect it to a computer, a screen will pop up on the ARCHOS mode to be used for this connection (see Connection Steps).
  • Page 50 The ARCHOS device will appear in ‘My Computer’. ™ • You can now put your own files onto the ARCHOS synchronize your music, videos or photos to the ARCHOS using Windows Media copy your media files directly via Windows the Media , then Music , Video or Pictures folder. Other types of files must go into the Data folder.
  • Page 51 • The ARCHOS will be ™ automatically recognized as a mass storage device (Hard Drive) and mounted on the desktop. • You can now use the ARCHOS like any other external hard drive. device, ™ will be device, ™ ™...

  • Page 52: Disconnection

    • Verify that no data are being transferred between your ARCHOS indicator on your ARCHOS • You can unplug the USB cable from your ARCHOS and/or computer. WINDOWS ME, 2000 AND XP (PC HARD DRIVE MODE ONLY) ® DO NOT SIMPLY PULL OUT THE CABLE AT ANY TIME!
  • Page 53 ™ disconnecting the USB cable to avoid loss of data or freezing. • On your desktop, drag the ARCHOS device’s icon towards the trashcan, which will turn into a big eject symbol. • Drop the icon onto this eject symbol:...

  • Page 54: Setup Screen

    7. seTuP sCreen • In the Home Screen, press (press again if you want to go back to the Home Screen). • Select one of the settings icons (Language, Display, Appearance, etc.) and press OK to enter the corresponding settings screen. • Once you are in a settings screen: use / to highlight a different parameter.

  • Page 55: Display Settings

    • Language Choose between English, French or German. Visit www.archos.com to check the availability of other languages that you can download and install. • Far East Font lets you use other character sets. See: Other Character Sets . 7.2  dIsPlay seTTIngs TV SETTINGS •...

  • Page 56: Lcd Settings

    • External Display Choose between Composite / S-Video / Component / RGB. This setting determines what type of display your ARCHOS device is sending video signal to. ™ LCD SETTINGS • LCD Brightness adjusts the level of brightness of the built-in screen.

  • Page 57: Clock Settings

    • Background color defines the background color if you have disabled use of a wallpaper. • Theme defines the theme color for your icons. • Font color Defines the font color. • Previous settings Highlight and press OK to discard any changes you may have made since entering this screen.

  • Page 58: Power Settings

    These settings will help you save battery power, thus allowing a longer battery autonomy. You can adjust settings for both battery operation and DC-Power operation (when the ARCHOS a powered DVR Station or to a wall outlet via the Archos Docking Adapter) BATTERY OPERATION / DC-POWER OPERATION •...

  • Page 59: Tv Control

    Caution: this setting should only be changed by experienced users. Your ARCHOS device will consume more power as these • ™ parameters are set to higher values (the backlight and hard drive in particular consume much power).

  • Page 60: System Settings

    7.7  sysTeM seTTIngs This settings screen will allow you to configure several key features of your ARCHOS your preferred USB port mode, firmware updates, etc. It will also give you information about the current firmware version, the storage space that is currently used/available, etc.
  • Page 61 Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) whenever it is connected to a PC with Windows and Windows Media able to synchronize your media library automatically every time you connect your ARCHOS computer. PC Hard Drive: the ARCHOS hard drive (mass storage device) when connected to a computer.

  • Page 62: Updating The Firmware

    7.8  uPdaTIng The fIrMware • The firmware is the operating system (OS) of your ARCHOS device. • It is periodically updated to bring new features, improvements and bug fixes. • Firmware Updates are available for free from www.archos.com/firmware. TO CHECk WHETHER YOU HAVE THE LATEST FIRMWARE VERSION: From the Home Screen, press Highlight System and press OK.
  • Page 63 Highlight Update Firmware and press OK. • • Your ARCHOS ™ Plug it into your computer, then into the ARCHOS Press a button to continue. • The new firmware will be installed on your device. as explained in this manual ™...

  • Page 64: Optional Functionalities

    • The ARCHOS DVR Travel Adapter allows you to record from ™ an external video source (such as the ARCHOS Mini-Cam) when you are on the move. • You can purchase these optional accessories from www.archos.com.

  • Page 65: Recording Procedure

    All video recordings made by your ARCHOS in the Video/Recordings folder. If you wish to keep them in a different location, you can use the Move function of the Archos file browser after recording (see: Using the Browser). ™ RECORDING PROCEDURE...
  • Page 66 Scheduling Parameters • Auto Stop Rec Options: ON/OFF. If set to ON, the ARCHOS the duration set in the Duration parameter. If set to OFF, the recording will continue until you press or until the entire hard drive fills up.
  • Page 67 • Format Options: Auto/4:/5:/16:9/2.5. This is the aspect ratio of the screen that the ARCHOS device will record. You can set this manually, but in most cases you can just leave it on Auto. calendar. It affects ®...
  • Page 68 • Resolution Options: Optimal/VGA. Use this to set the resolution of the recorded image. You can leave this on Optimal. Optimal will give the smoothest image quality, with a smaller file size. • Bitrate Options: 500 kb/s, 1000 kb/s, 1500 kb/s, 2000 kb/s, 2500 kb/s.

  • Page 69: Copy Protection

    You will see a ‘P’ icon on the recording screen (not during playback), indicating that the file will be a protected file. • Protected files can only be played back on the ARCHOS device that created them, and not on a computer. •...
  • Page 70 2Gb in size. This 2Gb file size constraint is due to the Windows FAT32 AVI file type specification. ® • When you set the scheduler, the ARCHOS a text file in the System folder (DVRTimer.txt), you should not erase this file. user interface is set to English, the date ™...
  • Page 71 AUTOMATED YAHOO! If you have a My Yahoo! feature to schedule TV programs, you can use your ARCHOS device to read the TV programs scheduled into your personal calendar and transfer these to its own Scheduler. If you do not have an account, you can create one and learn...
  • Page 72 TV programs and adding new ones, only the new programs will be added to the ARCHOS you save the html file to the ARCHOS to delete scheduled items, you must do this in the ARCHOS scheduler itself. • Missed recordings (because you did not have the ARCHOS connected to the DVR Station at the record time) will be deleted from the scheduler.
  • Page 73 • Before beginning this procedure of setting the emitter code, your device must be connected to the DVR Station, which must be powered with the charger/adapter. • The infrared control works through the reflection of the infrared signal within a room. In order to improve the reception of this infrared signal on your tuner (VCR, cable or satellite box), you could rearrange the position of the DVR Station and/or the tuner such that there are...
  • Page 74 For example, if channel 6 is CNN where you live, then you can give channel 6 that name in this screen. Or, if you use the My Yahoo! scheduler, the ARCHOS channel number to a station name given from your scheduled TV programs.
  • Page 75 Test channel select: When you press the Test channel select button (highlight test channel select and press OK), the ARCHOS ™ Station’s infrared emitter and change the channel on your tuner (VCR, cable box, or satellite receiver). If the Number of digits parameter is set to three, it will try to select channel 12.

  • Page 76: Recording Audio (External Source)

    Delay Change the delay between the emission of each digit of a channel. You may need to adjust this if the ARCHOS device seems to send only half the digits of a channel or more digits of a channel. Example: Adjust the key delay and retest channel select if it sends channel 2 instead of 12 or sends 112 instead of 12.

  • Page 77: Usb Host Connection

    8.5  usb hOsT COnneCTIOn • With the optional Docking Adapter or DVR Station, you can connect compatible USB devices to the ARCHOS, in order to transfer files or pictures. • These devices can be Mass Storage Class (MSC) devices,...
  • Page 78 Note 1: you may not always be able to copy files to your external USB device from your ARCHOS Note 2: you cannot connect your ARCHOS connect an external device to your ARCHOS ™ to a computer and ™...

  • Page 79: Technical Specifications

    TeChnICal  sPeCIfICaTIOns CAPACITY: • 0 GB Hard Drive store up to 10 hours of videos Movies , 00,000 photos DISPLAY: • .5’’ TFT (20x240 pixels), over 16 millions colors. VIDEO PLAYBACk* • MPEG-4 ASP (IPB) and stereo sound up to 720x480 @ 0 f/s (NTSC), 720x576 @ 25 f/s (PAL).

  • Page 80: Audio Recording

    External: charges via computer USB port. • Optional Power charger/adapter available. SCALABILITY: • Download firmware updates from www.archos.com. PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS 404 • Approx. 102 x 78 x 15 mm : 4.0” x .1” x 0.6”. • Weight: 192g – 6.8 oz.

  • Page 81: Lcd Pixel Policy

    Picture Experts Group ; AVI: audio/video file container by Microsoft) without GMC and quarter pixel. Microsoft WMV MP@ML up to DVD resolution. Subject to availability. See www.archos.com. H.264 up to DVD resolution. AAC sound. Subject to availability. See www.archos.com. MPEG-2 MP@ML up to 10 Mbps (up to DVD resolution).

  • Page 82: Technical Support Information

    Website: see the frequently asked questions section on www.archos.com/faq • by asking our technical support team: visit www.archos.com/support for e-mail support. • U.S. & Canada: Call 877-00-8879 (toll free). All brands and product names are registered trademarks and the property of their respective owners.

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