User's Manual

MANUAL

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Windows® Explorer: Copy and paste your video ﬁles 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 convert 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 ﬁnd suitable utility programs to do this job.

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

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

purchase the Cinema plug-in from the ARCHOS website (www.archos.com). The

same is also true for video podcasts in the H.264 format. In this case, purchase

the Video Podcast plug-in.

1.5 SEE PLAYING YOUR PC’S SHARED VIDEOS (UPNP)

When connected to your home WiFi network, your ARCHOS gives

you the possibility to watch, directly on your device, shared videos

stored in your PC’s Windows Media® Library.

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For this to work, you will need a WiFi connection and Windows Media® Player 11

or higher* installed on your PC.

The ARCHOS uses the UPnP (Universal Plug-and-play) standard to stream shared

videos from your PC’s Windows Media® Library.

See:

Playing your PC’s Shared Media Files (UPnP)

* There are other products on the market that also can share media ﬁles using

the UPnP standard.

1.6 WATCHING WEB TV

With the optional ‘Web TV & Radio’ plug-in, you will be able to watch numerous

Internet TV channels, directy on your ARCHOS.

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