Changing Audio During Play; Playing Discs Which Contain Both Mp3 And Still Pictures; Using Menus To Play Mp3 Discs - Panasonic DMR-ES30VS Operating Instructions Manual

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Changing audio during play

Press [AUDIO] to select the audio type.
≥You can select audio types depend on the recording medium.
[RAM] [-RW‹VR›] [VCD]
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Stereo# Mono L# Mono R
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[RAM] [-RW‹VR›] [When playing an SAP broadcast recorded on DVD-
RAM, DVD-RW (DVD Video Recording format)]
MAIN () SAP
[DVD-A] [DVD-V] (l 40)
This allows you to change items like the audio channel number and
the sound track language.
Soundtrack 1 ENG
e.g.: English is the selected language. [DVD-V]
Note
≥If you cannot change the audio type when you have used only an
optical digital cable for connection, set "Dolby Digital" to "PCM"
(l 44). Alternatively, you may connect to an amplifier with an
Audio/Video cable and change the input on the amplifier to suit the
connection.
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Playing discs which contain both MP3
and still pictures
[CD]
The screen shown below is displayed when you insert a disc
containing MP3 files and still pictures (JPEG/TIFF).
Press [ENTER].
∫ To play MP3
Refer to "Using menus to play MP3 discs".
(l right)
∫ To play still pictures
Refer to "To show JPEG Menu". (l 24)
≥You can play MP3 and still pictures (JPEG/TIFF) on this unit by
making folders as shown below. However depending on how
you create the disc (writing software), play may not be in the
order you numbered the folders.
≥English alphabetical characters and Arabic numerals are
displayed correctly. Other characters may not be displayed
correctly.
≥When the highest level folders are "DCIM" folders, they are
displayed first on the tree.
Structure of MP3 folders
Prefix with 3-digit numbers
in the order you want to play
them.
Tree
A
001
001
B
001track.mp3 ( )
002track.mp3
003track.mp3
A
002
A
001track.mp3
003
002track.mp3
003track.mp3
004track.mp3
001track.mp3
002track.mp3
003track.mp3
Order of play
AFolder = Group
BFile = Track
CFolder
DVD-RAM
e.g.: [RAM]
Play
"Stereo" is
selected.
Stereo
Î Digital 3/2.1ch
Playback mode is set to MP3.
If you want to play picture (JPEG),
select JPEG Menu from Menu in FUNCTIONS.
ENTER
Structure of still pictures
(JPEG/TIFF)
Files inside a folder are
displayed in the order they
were updated or taken.
Root
P0000001.jpg
P0000002.jpg
C
002
001
P0000003.jpg
P0000004.jpg
P0000005.jpg
C
003
C
P0000006.jpg
004
P0000007.jpg
P0000008.jpg
P0000009.jpg
P0000010.jpg
Order of play
P0000011.jpg
P0000012.jpg
Regarding MP3 and still pictures (JPEG/TIFF)
≥Compatible formats: ISO9660 level 1 or 2 (except for extended
formats) and Joliet
≥Maximum number of files (tracks) and folders (groups)
recognizable: 999 files (tracks) and 99 folders (groups)
≥This unit is compatible with multi-session but reading or play of
the disc may take time if there are a lot of sessions.
≥Operation may take time to complete when there are many files
(tracks) and/or folders (groups) and some files (tracks) may not
display or be playable.
≥The display order on this unit may differ from how the order is
displayed on a computer.
≥Depending on how you create the disc (writing software), files
(tracks) and folders (groups) may not play in the order you
numbered them.
≥This unit is not compatible with packet-write format.
≥Depending on the recording, some items may not be playable.
Regarding MP3
≥File format: MP3
Files must have the extension ".mp3" or ".MP3".
≥Bit rates: 32 kbps to 320 kbps
≥Sampling frequency: 16 kHz/22.05 kHz/24 kHz/32 kHz/44.1 kHz/
48 kHz
≥This unit is not compatible with ID3 tags.
Regarding still pictures (JPEG/TIFF)
≥File format: JPEG, TIFF (non-compressed RGB chunky format)
Files must have the extension ".jpg", ".JPG", ".tif" and ".TIF".
≥Number of pixels: 34 k 34 to 6144 k 4096
(Sub sampling is 4:2:2 or 4:2:0)
≥Operation may take time to complete when playing TIFF format
still pictures.
≥MOTION JPEG is not supported.

Using menus to play MP3 discs

[CD]
The unit plays MP3 files recorded on CD-R/RW designed for audio
recording that are finalized (l 64) on a computer. Files are treated
as tracks and folders are treated as groups.
[1]
During stop or play
Press [TOP MENU].
≥The file list appears.
Selected Group No. and Name
G:
The Group Number
T:
Track Number in the Group
Total:
Selected Track Number/
Total Track Number
[2] Press [3, 4] to select the track and press
[ENTER].
≥Play starts on the selected track.
≥"
" indicates the track currently playing.
≥You can also directly select the track with the numeric buttons.
e.g.:
[0] )[0] )[6]
"6":
[0] )[1] )[0]
"10":
∫ Using the tree screen to find a group
∫ To show other groups
Press [:] (Prev.) or [9] (Next) to show other pages.
≥After listing all the tracks in one group, the list for the next group
appears.
∫ To exit the file list
Press [TOP MENU] or [RETURN].
DVD
No. Group
Menu
1 : MP3_MUSIC
G 1
Total Track Tree
T 1
1 001 Both Ends Freezing
Total
1/ 24
No.
0 – 9
Prev.
Next
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