Installing The Pc Software - Archos Gmini 400 User Manual

10.1

Installing the PC Software

you will need to re-encode it using the following utilities. For the Gmini
maximum resolution of 640 x 400 and a sound track that is stereo MP3 or
WAV. Run the program SETUP.EXE (the Archos Installation Utility) found
on the Gmini 400 hard drive in /Data/PC Installation. Please install the
programs in the following order.
This software will install the DivX™ Compression/Decompression onto
your PC. You should shut off any anti-virus programs when installing this
or other codec software. This is not a program that is run by itself. Rather,
it installs background software which allows your computer to do high
quality video compression. This is the MPEG4 compressed video type that
well as an application that allows you to play DivX™ videos on your PC, at
the website www.divx.com. The standard version is the one best suited
for your Gmini 400. If you do not use the standard version, uncheck the
bidirectional encoding in your DivX codec property page.
purpose transfer and cleanup utility which has many options allowing for
Archos Installation Utility, it will automatically unzip. It will prompt you
to save it to C:\Program Files\VirtualDub. You should use this default
directory location. Otherwise you will have to instruct the MPG4 translator
This program, developed by Archos, is a "Front-end" for the Virtual Dub
program. It has a simple interface which you use and it then tells Virtual
Translator will need to locate the Virtual Dub program. If you did not
install Virtual Dub in the default location, you will have to show the
program where Virtual Dub is.
If
standard IMA ADPCM codec. There are MP3 encoders (usually packaged
together as an encoder and decoder) available on the Web for you to
download. If you choose to use the LAME codec, make sure that you have
the web by using the search terms ACM, MP3 and CODEC in your favorite
web search engine. Once this MP3 codec is installed into your system,
Internet (FlaskMPEG, Rippack, etc.) that may be downloaded in order to
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detects a suitable MP3 codec on your PC, it will use
If you are unsure what codecs (audio
and/or video) have been installed on your
computer, you can see the list by going to
the following location.
For Windows XP, click on Start > Settings
> Control Panel > Sounds and Audio
Devices Properties > Hardware >
choose Audio Codecs, then click on
Properties
all the audio codecs that are installed on
your computer. Decoding of MPEG 2 video
Translator. These are usually .mpg or .mpeg