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Recording Video Files
Recording Video Files
It is possible to record external video with your AV 700 TV. To do so, you will need the optional
Docking Pod
,
which will give you a permanent and instant connection to your home entertainment system and allow you to
record from your satellite receiver, cable box, VCR or Camcorder
directly onto your AV 700 TV device.
If you want to make recordings from a place other than where your pod is connected, then you can purchase the
AV Travel Kit
to bring along with your ARCHOS™ device and record from any other audio or video source.
See the chapter
Recording External Video with the Optional Docking Pod/Travel Kit
for instructions on how
to record video.
AV Travel Kit
Docking Pod
These optional devices can be purchased from the ARCHOS™ website: www.archos.com.
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VIDEO – Creating MPEG-4 Video Files with your Computer
VIDEO – Creating MPEG-4 Video Files with your Computer
How to create an MPEG-4 video fi le
Video fi les that come from your digital camcorder, sent to you via e-mail, or which are freely available on the
Internet are encoded in many different ways. If not already in the proper MPEG-4 Simple Profi le or WMV9 Simple
Profi le format, a transformation operation must be done in order that these video fi les can be played by the
AV 700 TV. This transformation process is called re-encoding.
There are basically two ways to do this; 1) Use the Synchronize button in Windows Media
®
Player 10 or 2) Use
the PC tools which are available on the AV 700 TV’s hard drive. The fi rst method is very simple and merely
requires that you synchronize a video fi le in your Media Player library to your AV 700 TV. You do not have much
control in this converting process though and Windows Media
®
Player determines which video types it will and will
not re-encode. The second method, although it requires some learning, will allow you to have much more control
over the fi nal quality of the re-encoded (converted) video fi le. It is described below. There are other tools available
on the Internet, some free and some for sale, that can also convert your video fi les into the appropriate MPEG-4
video fi le format for the AV 700 TV. See the web site
www.mpegmobile.com
for a list of a few of them.
PC Tools
The AV 700 TV is delivered with two Windows
®
based programs that allow you to create MPEG-4 Simple Profi le
.AVI video fi les. They are the MPEG-4 Translator and Virtual Dub
™
. The MPEG-4 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 an MPEG-4 SP .AVI fi le. The fi le will be scaled in order to be played back
properly.