Video - Playing Video Files From The Internet; Protected Internet Video Content; Non Protected Internet Video Content - Archos AV500 - Mobile Digital Video Recorder User Manual

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VIDEO – Playing Video Files from the Internet VIDEO – Playing Video Files from the Internet
When using Windows Media
protected video content from the Internet. When you see the PlaysForSure
Windows ® Portable Media Center (PMC)**, then these protected downloads will be playable on your
AV 500.

4.1 Protected Internet Video content

4.1 Protected Internet Video content
If you check the PlaysForSure™ website (www.playsforsure.com) you will fi nd web retailers who offer rental,
subscription, or purchasable video content. Remember, web sites must carry the PlaysForSure™ symbol in
order for their videos to play on the AV 500.
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Non Protected Internet Video Content

Non Protected Internet Video Content
The AV 500 plays .AVI fi les that are encoded with in MPEG-4 format. It can play such video fi les at a maximum
size of 720 x 576 pixels (25 frames/second). It can also play .WMV fi les (WMV9 SP) up to a maximum size of
352 x 288**. The AV 500 will not directly play fi les of type .mov, .mpg, or .mpeg.
The number of encoding and compression schemes currently used to create video fi les is very extensive and
seems to change on a weekly basis. There are so many standards and formats that it is very possible that the
video fi le you download from the Internet will not play right away on your device. Due to certain "variations", even
when video fi les are formatted in "MPEG-4" they may not play right away.
If you have some video fi les that do not play directly on your AV 500, they will have to be converted fi rst. Windows
®
Media Player 10 (Available only for Windows XP) will convert your video fi le automatically when you sync the
fi le that is on your PC to the AV 500. It will display a little message 'converting'.
* MPEG-4: ISO standard by Moving Picture Experts Group ; AVI: audio/video fi le container by Microsoft. MPEG-4 SP with B-frames AVI up to
704x480@30f/s NTSC or 720x576@25f/s PAL.
** Microsoft WMV9 SP up to 352x288@30f/s and 800 kb/s ; supports WM DRM.
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You can also use the software MPEG-4 Translator included on the AV 500 hard drive to re-encode
your video fi les into the proper MPEG-4 SP format that the AV 500 can play. See the chapter
Video – creating MPEG-4 video fi les with your computer for more details.
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® Player 10, you will have the advantage of being able to download
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symbol on a web site for
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