Datasheet

MANUAL

V2.0

GEN 5

PLAYING VIDEO > P. 16

“LCD Backlight”, “Brightness”, “Contrast” and “Gamma”

adjusts the level of backlight/contrast/brightness/gamma of the built-in screen.

you can also reset the LCD parameters to the default values (“Reset” button).

1.4 PUTTING VIDEOS ONTO YOUR ARCHOS

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On the ARCHOS Content Portal, you have the possibility to purchase

videos directly from your ARCHOS, without using a computer. See:

The ARCHOS Content Portal.

There are two main methods to transfer the videos stored on your computer onto the

ARCHOS:

Windows Media® Player: copy your videos using Windows Media

Player 10 or

higher*:

Use Windows Media

Player 10 or higher* (Sync tab) to synchronize

your computer’s video les with the ARCHOS.

See

Putting Files onto the ARCHOS

to learn more about how to transfer

your computer’s video les with Windows Media

Player.

* For best performance, we recommend that users update to Windows Media

Player 11 or higher.

Windows® Explorer: Copy and paste your video les from your computer into the

Video folder of your ARCHOS.

To learn how to connect/disconnect the ARCHOS from your computer, see the

Transferring Files

section.

CREATING COMPATIBLE VIDEO FILES WITH YOUR COMPUTER

If some of your videos don’t play on your ARCHOS, you may need to transcode them

to a compatible format:

The easiest way to do this is by using Windows Media® Player 10 or higher to

transfer videos to your ARCHOS. Windows Media® Player will automatically con-

vert most formats to the WMV format that your device can play.

See your Windows Media

Player help instructions for more information.

If you don’t want to use Windows Media® Player, a search on the Internet should

allow you to nd suitable utility programs to do this job.

If you would like to simply copy and paste unprotected DVD video les from

your PC onto your ARCHOS without converting them to WMV format, you can

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