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Auto Format Default mode. Adjusts the video size to best adapt to the built-in screen or television.
Maximized Image Enlarge the image to fi ll the screen (LCD or TV). Sides may get slightly cut in this mode.
Full Picture Format The entire picture will always be seen on the television and the built-in screen. No cutting.
Set a Book mark
If you are watching a video and would like to place a bookmark in it in order to continue from this point
at another time, you can use the Bookmark function. Highlight the icon and click on the Select action
button. This will set a bookmark in the video fi le at the current position. You can only set one bookmark
per fi le. When you look at the fi le in your browser, it will have a yellow check mark on its icon indicating
that this fi le has a bookmark set within it. You can have a maximum of 16 fi les book-marked. Setting
more bookmarks will then start to erase the oldest bookmarks. The next time you play this video fi le,
you will be presented with three options:
Resume Start playing from the book-marked position.
Ignore Keep the bookmark but start playing from the very beginning.
Clear Clear the bookmark from this fi le and start playing from the very beginning.
Save as Thumbnail
Save the current image on the screen as the video fi le’s thumbnail in the Video browser view.
On Screen Display (OSD) off
Select this icon to shut off the On Screen Display (the status bar, action icons, and other overlaid
informational graphics).
3.2 Resume Function
3.2 Resume Function
When you turn on your Gmini
™
500 you may notice that the icon which is highlighted on the main
screen is not the Video icon but rather the Resume icon. This icon is highlighted when the Gmini
™
500 can resume the last played audio or video fi le.
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VIDEO – Playing Video Files from the Internet
VIDEO – Playing Video Files from the Internet
When using Windows Media
®
Player 10, you will have the advantage of being able to download protected video
content from the Internet. When you see the PlaysForSure
™
symbol on a web site for Windows
®
Portable Media
Center (PMC)*, then these protected downloads will be playable on your Gmini
™
500.
4.1 Protected Internet Video content
4.1 Protected Internet Video content
If you check the PlaysForSure
™
website (www.playsforsure.com) you will fi nd web retailers who offer rental,
subscription, or purchasable video content. Remember, web sites must carry the PlaysForSure
™
symbol in order
for their videos to play on the Gmini
™
500.
4.2 Non Protected Internet Video Content
4.2 Non Protected Internet Video Content
The Gmini
™
500 plays .AVI fi les of MPEG-4 format. It can play such video fi les at a maximum size of 720 x 576
pixels (25 frames/second). It can also play .WMV fi les (WMV9 SP) up to a maximum size of 352 x 288**. The
Gmini
™
500 will not directly play fi les of type .mov, .mpg, or .mpeg.
The number of encoding and compression schemes currently used to create video fi les is very extensive and
seems to change on a weekly basis. There are so many standards and formats that it is very possible that the
video fi le you download from the Internet will not play right away on your device. Due to certain “variations”, even
when video fi les are formatted in “MPEG-4” they may not play right away.
* MPEG-4: ISOstandard by Moving Picture Experts Group ; AVI: audio/video fi le container by Microsoft . MPEG-4
SP with B-frames AVI up to 704x480@30f/s NTSC or 720x576@25f/s PAL.
** Microsoft WMV9 SP up to 352x288@30f/s and 800 kb/s ; supports WM DRM.