Video - Creating Mpeg4 Video Files With Your Computer; How To Create An Mpeg-4 Video File; Pc Tools; Macintosh Users - Archos 400 User Manual

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VIDEO - Creating MPEG4 video files with your computer

How to create an MPEG-4 video file
Please understand that video re-encoding is not always a simple one button
process. Video segments that come from your digital camcorder or which
are freely available on the Internet are encoded in many different ways. If
not already in the proper MPEG4 Simple Profile format, transforming these
videos into this format readable by the Gmini 400 requires use of the below
mentioned software tools. This is due to the relatively new nature of the
ISO (International Standards Organization) MPEG4 video format. Unlike
its predecessors MPEG1 and MPEG2, there are a number of levels in this
format and thus not all MPEG4 video files will work on all MPEG4 players,
and older MPEG1 and MPEG2 files must be re-encoded into this format.
Although you may have a bit of a learning curve in the initial re-encoding
of video files, once you have the process down, it is just a matter of letting
your PC or Mac go to work and create video files for playing on your Gmini
400.

PC Tools

The Gmini 400 is delivered with two Windows based programs that allow
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you to create MPEG4 Simple Profile .AVI video files. They are the MPG4
Translator and Virtual Dub™ . The MPG4 Translator will call the Virtual Dub
program and give it the correct parameters to encode your video from its
original format, .avi or .mpg (mpeg 1), and then encode it into a DivX™
based MPEG4 .AVI file. The file will be scaled in order to be played back
properly. Only MPEG4 files encoded with DivX™ or XviD can be played on
the Gmini 400. Please visit the website of DivXNetworks, Inc (www.divx.
com) to download this codec. This is a free codec. This will allow your PC
to create DivX™ type videos which play on your Gmini 400. If you would
like to have your sound track in MP3 format, you may have to download
this audio codec (available freely on the Internet) if it is not already on your
computer.

Macintosh Users

Until recently, the Macintosh user community did not have any tools to create
DivX™ simple profile MPEG4 video files. There are now tools available for
purchase at the DivX™Networks web site which will allow you to create DivX™
simple profile files with your Macintosh that are playable on the Gmini 400.
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