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Archos AV320 User Manual

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ARCHOS VIDEO AV300 SERIES
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USB 2.0 Hard Disk / MP3 Player / MP3 Recorder / JPEG Viewer / MPEG4 Personal Video
User Guide for ARCHOS VIDEO AV320, AV340, & AV380 version 3.0 (p/n 102 253V3)
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  • Page 1 USB 2.0 Hard Disk / MP3 Player / MP3 Recorder / JPEG Viewer / MPEG4 Personal Video User Guide for ARCHOS VIDEO AV320, AV340, & AV380 version 3.0 (p/n 102 253V3) Please visit our web site to download the most recent manual and software for this product...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    1 Ports, Buttons, and Connections 2 First Time Usage 2.1 Plugging in the AC Adapter 2.2 Turning on the AV300 2.3 Shutting off the AV300 and Battery saving features 2.4 Changing the Language 2.5 Foreign Character Sets 2.6 Charging the Batteries 2.7 Caring for the AV300 2.8 Hardware Reset 3 Playing MP3 music...
  • Page 3 7 Settings 7.1 Sound Settings 7.2 Play Mode and Play Order Settings 7.3 Clock Settings 7.4 Display Settings 7.5 Power Settings 7.6 System Settings 7.7 Updating the AV300 Firmware Operating System (OS) Download the CJBM.AJZ file Read the History.txt File Copy to AV300 root and Update 8 Playing MPEG4 Video Files 9 Creating MPEG4 Video Files...

  • Page 4: Warranty And Limited Liability

    ARCHOS’ licensor has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Because some jurisdiction do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitations may not apply to you.

  • Page 5: Fcc Warning Statement

    This means that during the period of guarantee for your country or jurisdiction, if the screen on your product has two or more defective pixels, Archos will repair or replace your AV300 product at its cost.
  • Page 6 Dear Customer, ARCHOS thanks you for your choice of this exciting AV300 product. Never before has one been able to carry with him or her so much information, be it MP3 music, MP4 videos or JPEG pictures, and be able to enjoy these without a computer. We are sure that your AV300 will give you years of listening and viewing enjoyment.

  • Page 7: Technical Specifications

    ARCHOS VIDEO AV320, AV340, AV380 Storage Capacity Model AV320: 20GB; AV340: 40GB; AV380:80GB Computer Interface High Speed USB 2.0 (compatible USB 1.1) Optional FireWire cable Image Playback JPG and BMP(4, 8, 24 bit) images, any size Audio Playback Stereo MP3 decoding 30-320 kb/s. CBR & VBR Audio Recording Stereo MP3 encoding 30-160kb/s.

  • Page 8: Ports, Buttons, And Connections

    TFT Screen 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA) A. Headphone AV out: television output (use ARCHOS AV cable), audio stereo, and headphone jack. B. Audio In: audio Stereo Analog Line-in & microphone in & Audio Stereo SPDIF Digital In/out C.

  • Page 9: First Time Usage

    Before using for the fi rst time, charge the batteries for a full four hours. • You may use the Archos Video AV300 after the fi rst half hour of charging, but this will increase the necessary charging time. Turning on the AV300 •...

  • Page 10: Changing The Language

    Simplifi ed Chinese, etc.). You can fi nd the language fi les CodePage_name.AFZ on the included Installation CD in the folder PC or on the Archos website under the heading Software. If, for example, you would like to have the Korean language display, then you would copy the fi le CP949.AFZ into the folder /system on the AV300.

  • Page 11: Caring For The Av300

    Caring for the AV300 The Archos Video AV300 is an electronic product that needs to be treated with more care than typical consumer electronic products. • Do not subject it to shock. • Do not subject it to heat. Be careful that the surface it is on, is a flat clear surface.

  • Page 12: Playing Mp3 Music

    Playing MP3 music When you click on this icon in the main screen, you will be sent directly to the Music folder. This is a fi ltered access to browse the Music directory. That is, you will only see audio fi les types that are playable on the AV300. All other fi le types that may exist in this directory will be fi ltered from view.

  • Page 13: Playing Through Your Hifi System

    Playing through your HiFi system On your HiFi there are two RCA type connectors that are labeled Aux in, CD in, or Line-in. Typically they are color coded white and red for left and right stereo channels respectively. Connect the white and red leads of the supplied AV cable to these connectors.

  • Page 14: Changing The Sound Settings

    Changing the sound settings If you would like to customize the sound quality, you can adjust the Bass, Treble, and other audio settings to suit your particular taste. • Click on STOP/ESC Ó to return to the main AV300 menu. Move the joystick to highlight Setup and click on PLAY/ENTER œ.

  • Page 15: Button Lock

    Button Lock To lock all the AV300 buttons from being accidentally pressed, press and hold the top function button for three seconds. The AV300 will put the message “Buttons locked!” on the bottom of the screen. Pressing the buttons at this point will have no effect.

  • Page 16: Playlist Creation And Running

    AV300 is currently playing from a Playlist Folder: Play all tracks in the current directory All: Play all tracks on AV300 Single: Play a single track then stop Queue: User can queue the next track to be played † Scan: AV300 plays first 15 seconds of each track†† †Queue Mode: While the current song is playing, click on Navigate, find the next song you want to play, then click Play.

  • Page 17: Creating A Playlist

    Example of the contents of the .m3u Playlist fi le ‘Jazz Music’. Creating a Playlist adding songs in this manner until you are satisfi ed. You can jump back and forth between these two windows by pushing the joystick to the left or right.

  • Page 18: Adding Songs To A Playlist While Listening To Music

    Move - Allows you to change the place in the list of a given song. Just click on Move and then use the joystick to move the song up or down the list. Delete - Will delete the song from the Playlist. It will not delete the actual song itself from your hard disk, just from the current Playlist.

  • Page 19: Using Itunes ® 4 With Your Av300

    AV300 convention of placing the music into the ® Music folder first. ® (you can only create Playlists from songs ® ® computer and ® , ARCHOS has ® will save these Playlists to the library to your AV300, the ®...

  • Page 20: Using The Browser

    Using the Browser The browser is used to navigate the fi le system on the AV300. The fi le system is FAT32, the same type of fi le system that is found on Windows computers. That is, it is a hierarchical system which includes folders and subfolders.

  • Page 21: File And Folder Operations

    (see the next section 4.3) to enter the new folder name. Copying and Moving Files and Folders By using the unique Archos double browser system, you can copy or move files from one location in the file structure to another (caution: there is a limit of 1000 files per folder maximum).

  • Page 22: Using The Virtual Keyboard

    In the Browser mode, you can jump between the two windows using the left and right of the joystick. Where the cursor is highlighting a fi le or folder, that window is the source for the copy. The destination folder will be the other window. For example, we want to copy the fi le Project X.doc from the HD/Data/Files from Work folder to the HD/Data/Backed up Files folder.
  • Page 23 Cursor. The new text that you are typing in. Confi rmation to use the entered text. Backspace Change keyboard between upper case and lower button case Each key has an upper case and lower case character. Currently in lower case mode.

  • Page 24: Connecting/Disconnecting The Av300

    Connecting/Disconnecting the AV300 Note that when the AV300 is connected to a computer, it will use more energy than usual. Your battery power will be consumed at a higher rate than normal. If the AV300 looses power while connected to your computer you could destroy your directory structure and/or loose data.

  • Page 25: Macintosh™ Os X (10.2 Jaguar And Newer)

    Macintosh™ OS X (10.2 Jaguar and newer) If you have OS 10.2, you must update to version 10.2.4 or newer. This is a free update from Apple any special installation of software drivers or extensions. You simply plug the AV300 into your Macintosh as enumerated above, and within a few seconds, the AV300 will be recognized as a mass storage device (Hard Disk) and mount on the desktop.
  • Page 26 2. Click on the button Search for the best driver. Open up the CD tray on your computer and insert the included Archos CD-ROM and then close the tray. Now click on Next. 4. Windows will now copy from the CD to your computer’s hard disk, all the fi les it needs to make...

  • Page 27: Disconnecting The Av300 From Your Computer

    Disconnecting the AV300 from your Computer WARNING: You must properly remove (unmount) your AV300 from the computer before disconnecting the USB cable to avoid loss of data or freezing the computer and/or the AV300. DO NOT SIMPLY PULL OUT THE USB CABLE AT ANY TIME! Windows ®...

  • Page 28: Macintosh

    Macintosh ® Drag the AV300 hard disk icon towards the trashcan, the trashcan will become a big arrow as shown in the screen shot to the left (Mac OS 9.x will still retain the trashcan icon. This is OK, don’t worry.) Drop the hard disk icon onto the arrow (or trashcan).

  • Page 29: Recording Mp3 Music

    Recording MP3 Music With the AV 300 series, you do not need a computer to create MP3 music fi les. It is capable of recording from the built-in microphone, an external dynamic microphone, an analog line source ( from a HiFi system, Boombox, CD Player, etc.), or from a digital SPDIF audio source.

  • Page 30: Microphone

    Analog Line-In as the input source in the pre-recording Setup screen. You can also use a high quality pre-amplified microphone, such as the one Archos sells as an option. Digital Input (SPDIF) The digital input is for SPDIF enabled audio devices. The AV300 runs the wire based protocol (not optical).

  • Page 31: Bit Rate Table & Sample Rates

    Bit Rate Table & Sample Rates Average bit rates for Recording Quality Parameter* Line-in (44.1 Khz Stereo Music) Setting 0 78 kb/s Setting 1 81 kb/s Setting 2 87 kb/s Setting 3 95 kb/s Setting 4 117 kb/s Setting 5 144 kb/s** Setting 6 165 kb/s...

  • Page 32: Settings

    Settings Sound Settings Used to adjust the bass, treble, bass boost, loudness, balance, etc. See section Play Mode and Play Order Settings Used to determine which songs get played and in what order. See section 3.4 Clock Settings The AV300 has an internal real time clock. The time of day is shown on the top right of the screen in either 24 hour or 12 hour display mode.

  • Page 33: Display Settings

    Display Settings These settings regulate how and where the screen image is displayed. Parameter Language The Jukebox Multimedia can be set to English (default), French, or German. TV Standard NTSC (USA), PAL (Europe). In order to view images or videos on an external television, select one option to send the video signal compatible with your country’s television system.

  • Page 34: Power Settings

    Power Settings These settings will help you to save battery power. You can set the AV300 to conserve power for both modes of operation (when it is powered from the battery, or when it is connected to the AC charger/adapter (DC- Power operation).

  • Page 35: System Settings

    System Settings The System settings allow you control over the low level parameters. The list below explains each of the settings. Parameter Show all fi les Off (default), On. If Off, the Jukebox will only display the fi le names of fi le types, with their corresponding icons, that it knows how to play.

  • Page 36: Updating The Av300 Firmware Operating System (Os)

    Updating the AV300 Firmware Operating System (OS) Archos periodically updates the Operating System (OS) and makes it available for free download on the ARCHOS web site (www.archos.com). Updates to the Operating System include new features, feature improvements, and bug fi xes. You should check to make sure that you are running the most recent version of the OS.

  • Page 37: Playing Mpeg4 Video Files

    If you don’t see a clear image, you may have to set your AV320 to your local television standard (NTSC or PAL). Hold down on the PLAY œ button for three seconds to return to the built-in screen mode.

  • Page 38: Creating Mpeg4 Video Files

    Please see a law professional if you are unsure. PC Tools The AV320 is delivered with a CD-ROM that includes two PC based programs that allow you to create MP4 Simple Profi le .AVI video fi les. They are the MP4 Translator and Virtual Dub™.

  • Page 39: Macintosh Users

    Otherwise you will have to instruct the Mpeg4 translator program where to find it. 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 Dub how to process the video file.

  • Page 40: Mp3 Sound Codec

    MP3 Sound Codec Remember, in order for the AV300 to be able to play the video, it must have an MP3 (MPEG layer 3) stereo sound track. If the source video file did not have an MP3 stereo sound track then your destination file will have no sound. MPG4 translator will signal this error condition.

  • Page 41: Select Source & Destination Files

    Select Source & Destination Files In the example above, a source file 24 hours of Lemans.avi has been selected as the source video. You can see on the bottom of the window its original characteristics (width 720, height 576, frame rate 30). Next, you must then tell the program where to place (Set Destination file) the newly recoded version of the file (don’t worry, it will not erase the original).

  • Page 42: Start

    Start Click on Start and the program will call Virtual Dub to start processing the video. Depending on the power and speed of your computer, this could take real time (a 60 minute long video re-encoded in about 60 minutes) or much longer. As shown to the left, you will see the progress as it processes the video file.

  • Page 43: Creating Mpeg4 Video Files

    Creating MPEG4 Video Files The AV300 series support the viewing of JPEG (.jpg) and Bitmap (.bmp) image formats. Progressive JPEG images are not supported. The AV300 will resize the image to fi t on the built-in screen or on a television screen if you choose the possibility to rotate it, magnify it to see the details, or view multiple images at a time.

  • Page 44: Viewing A Slideshow

    10.2 Viewing a slideshow By clicking on Slideshow, the AV300 will present each picture in the current folder for a set amount of time and then go on to the next picture. You can set the amount of time that each picture stays on the screen under Setup >...

  • Page 45: Using Musicmatch™ Software

    Apple your Macintosh For Macintosh users, Archos has created a plug-in for iTunes™. You will fi nd a folder on the installation CD containing the Archos iTunes™ plug-in which allows the iTunes program to recognize the AV300 as an iTunes™...

  • Page 46: Optional Add-Ons

    Optional Add-ons Please see our website WWW.ARCHOS.COM for a list and specifi cations of our optional AV300 add-on modules and accessories. • FireWire Interface Cable • FM Remote Control • Digital Video Recorder DVR 100 • SmartMedia™ memory card reader •...

  • Page 47: Technical Support

    (depending on problem type). Customers who purchased directly from the Archos web site should fi ll out the form on the web site under Support : Product Returns.

  • Page 48: Worldwide Offices

    3, Goodyear - Unit A Irvine, CA 92618 USA Phone: 1 949-609-1483 Fax: 1 949-609-1414 United Kingdom ARCHOS (UK) Limited Regus House Windmill Hill Business Park Whitehill Way Swindon Wiltshire SN5 6QR UK Phone: +44 (0) 1793 44 15 10...

  • Page 49: Troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting 14.1 USB Connection issues Problem: i cannot get my AV300 to be recognized by the computer. Solutions: • Only if using Windows 98SE, you must fi rst install the drivers from the included CD-ROM. • If you installed the Windows 98SE driver on your Windows edition, this could cause problems.

  • Page 50: Charging And Power Issues

    Problem: what do I do if I try to disconnect via the green arrow but keep getting “The device ‘Generic Volume’ cannot be stopped now. Try stopping the device again later.” Answer: shut off any program that might be accessing data on the AV300, including Windows Explorer.

  • Page 51: Windows ® 98Se & Me Running Scan-Disk (Error Checking)

    Problem: i have been using my AV300 to transfer files back and forth between different computers. Will defragmenting the AV300 hard disk do any harm to it? Answer: defragmenting the AV300 hard disk may be useful after having transferred many files to and from the AV300. It is never harmful to use the defragmenter on the AV300.

  • Page 52: Windows ® Xp & 2000 Running Check Disk Utility (Chkdsk)

    Windows XP & 2000 Running Check Disk Utility (ChkDsk) ® If you still have problems with the file system on your AV300 you can try to fix it using the DOS utility, check disk (chkdsk). Do the following; • Make sure external AC adapter is powering the AV300. •...

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