Archos TV+ User manual

Dear Customer,

Thank you for choosing this ARCHOS product. We hope that you will enjoy

using it and that it will give you satisfaction for many years to come.

Please do register your product on our website (www.archos.com/register) to

ensure that you get access to our help line, to the ARCHOS Content Portal,

and the TV Program Guide.

Wishing you the best multimedia experience,

The ARCHOS Team.

All the information contained in this manual was correct at the time of

publication. However, as we are often updating and improving our prod-

ucts, your device’s software may have a slightly different appearance or

modied functionality than presented in this manual.

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Table Of COnTenTs

sTarTing up ...........................................................................................4

DESCRIPTION OF THE ARCHOS DEVICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

CONNECTING THE ARCHOS TO YOUR TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

THE INSTALLATION WIZARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

TURNING THE ARCHOS ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

USING THE ARCHOS INTERFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

PRODUCT CARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

1. playing VideO .................................................................................12

1.1 BROWSING THROUGH YOUR VIDEOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

1.2 VIDEO PLAYBACK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

1.3 VIDEO PLAYER SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

1.4 RECORDING VIDEO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

1.5 PLAYING YOUR PC’S SHARED VIDEOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2. playing MusiC ...............................................................................17

2.1 BROWSING THROUGH YOUR MUSIC FILES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2.2 MUSIC PLAYBACK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.3 MUSIC PLAYER SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.4 PLAYLISTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

2.5 RECORDING ANALOGUE AUDIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

2.6 PLAYING YOUR PC’S SHARED MUSIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

3. Viewing phOTOs ..........................................................................26

3.1 BROWSING THROUGH YOUR PHOTOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

3.2 PHOTO VIEWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

3.3 PHOTO VIEWER SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

3.4 PLAYING A SLIDESHOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

3.5 VIEWING PHOTOS WHILE LISTENING TO MUSIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

3.6 PLAYING YOUR PC’S SHARED PHOTOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

4. using The file brOwser .......................................................31

4.1 NAVIGATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

4.2 USING THE FILE BROWSER WHILE LISTENING TO MUSIC . . . . . . . . 33

4.3 USING THE PDF READER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

5. using The wifi feaTures ....................................................35

5.1 BROWSING THE WEB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

5.2 PLAYING YOUR PC’S SHARED MEDIA FILES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

5.3 THE ARCHOS CONTENT PORTAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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6. Transferring files ..................................................................41

6.1 USB HOST CONNECTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

6.2 BROWSING OTHER COMPUTERS ON THE NETWORK . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

6.3 CONNECTING THE ARCHOS TO A COMPUTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

7. Main seTTings ............................................................................. 46

7.1 “SOUND” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

7.2 “TV SETTINGS” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

7.3 “APPEARANCE” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

7.4 “NETWORK” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

7.5 “LANGUAGE AND REGION” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

7.6 “TV CONTROL” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

7.7 “CLOCK” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

7.8 “FIRMWARE AND PLUG-INS” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

7.9 UPDATING THE FIRMWARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

7.10 “SYSTEM” SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

8. TV reCOrding: hardware seTup ..................................58

8.1 CONNECTION PRINCIPLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

8.2 CONNECTING A TUNER TO YOUR ARCHOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

8.3 CONNECTING WITH A TV ONLY (NO EXTERNAL TUNER) . . . . . . . . . 61

9. The TV prOgraM guide ..........................................................62

9.1 WHAT’S REQUIRED TO USE THIS FUNCTION? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

9.2 ACTIVATING THE TV PROGRAM GUIDE ONLINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

9.3 TRANSFERRING THE PROGRAM DATA TO THE ARCHOS . . . . . . . . . 63

9.4 CONFIGURING THE TV CONTROL SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

9.5 SCHEDULING YOUR RECORDING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

10. OTher reCOrding funCTiOns ..........................................68

10.1 THE “TV SCHEDULER” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

10.2 RECORDING VIDEO MANUALLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

10.3 RECORDING AUDIO MANUALLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

10.4 EDITING YOUR RECORDINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

TrOubleshOOTing ..........................................................................74

RESTARTING / RESETTING YOUR ARCHOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

SYSTEM RECOVERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

REPAIR AND FORMATTING TOOLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

TeChniCal speCifiCaTiOns ........................................................77

TeChniCal suppOrT infOrMaTiOn ..........................................................................79

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LED INDICATORS

The LED indicators are located on the front of the device, on the left side:

Red light:

light on: the ARCHOS is in standby mode.

ashing: the ARCHOS is starting.

Green light:

light on: the ARCHOS is on.

CONNECTORS

On the right side of the device:

1.

USB A Connector (for USB Host) to connect a compatible USB device such as

a USB Flash key, a digital camera or a portable media player.

2.

USB B Connector (with optional cable): to connect the ARCHOS to a computer.

See Transferring Files to learn how to transfer les to/from another USB device.

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On the back of the device:

3.

Reset button:

ONLY use this button if you need to restart the Installation Wizard.

When you press this button, the ARCHOS will restart and a message will pop up

to conrm the relaunch of the wizard. If you do not respond within 10 seconds,

the wizard will be automatically relaunched. See:

The Installation Wizard

.

ATTENTION: if you use the reset button and relaunch the wizard, no

data will be erased but your TV connection settings will be lost, and you

will have to set them up again through the wizard.

4.

SPDIF Out*:

to connect to an amplier that has an SPDIF audio input (such as

a ‘home cinema’).

5.

Audio/Video inputs and outputs:

to connect to the Audio and Video con-

nectors of your TV (and tuner), using the supplied cables. Audio/Video inputs

and outputs available: RGB**, Component (YPbPr)*, Composite Video**, S-

Video***, Stereo Analog Audio.

Check the manual of your TV (and tuner) to see what types of connectors your

device has.

6.

Ethernet connector*:

you can plug an Ethernet cable to connect to the

Internet and to your local network.

7.

DC in:

to connect the included power adapter.

In the event that your ARCHOS freezes or does not respond anymore,

disconnect the power adapter, wait for 15 seconds and reconnect it.

When the red LED indicator stops blinking, press the Power button on

the supplied remote control to turn on your device.

8.

HDMI Out*:

to connect to a television that has an HDMI input (such as an ‘HD

Ready’ TV).

* requires optional cable(s)

** US: requires optional cable(s)

*** Europe: requires optional cable(s)

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THE REMOTE CONTROL

You will need the remote control in order

to control your ARCHOS TV

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Your ARCHOS device has an infrared re-

ceiver located on the front of the device,

on the left side (next to the LED indica-

tors). Point the supplied remote control

towards the infrared receiver.

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1.

This part of the remote control is used for the Web Browser.

Use the direction pad to move the cursor that appears on the screen.

Pressing this button will activate 2 modes at the same time:

the “left button lock” mode: the direction pad will act as if you

moved a mouse while holding its left button at the same time. It will

allow you, for example, to use sliders or other dragging controls.

the navigation buttons, at the top right, will allow you to move from

one link/eld to another (normally they scroll the page up/down).

Press again to disable these 2 modes.

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This button is like a mouse’s left button. Depending on where you are in

the interface, it will allow you to open a link, execute a function, etc.

This button is like a mouse’s right button. Depending on where you are

in the interface, pressing this button will display a contextual menu.

2.

These are the main buttons:

Navigation buttons: move from one item to another

Enter/Accept or Play/Pause/Resume

Exit button: Escape/Back/Stop

Up Accelerator button: High-speed fast forward, list scrolling or zoom in

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Down Accelerator button: High-speed fast rewind, list scrolling or zoom out

Menu button: Display a text description of the available menu icons

Switch the display of the image between the ARCHOS and a tuner (not

in HDMI output mode), if you have connected one to the ARCHOS’ in-

put connectors. See TV Recording: Hardware Setup.

Power button: Turn the ARCHOS on/off

Volume buttons: Increase/decrease volume

Mute sound

Tab button: Tab between available screens

3.

The keyboard can be used to enter a Web address, write an e-mail, name/re-

name a folder, etc:

Caps Lock key

Green Alt key: enable the keys’ green secondary functions

Blue Alt key: enable the keys’ blue secondary functions

Shift key

delete character before cursor

In order to type one of the green/blue secondary characters in capital letters

(é, è, ç, etc.), press Caps Lock, then Alt green/blue, and press the correspond-

ing key.

COnneCTing The arChOs TO yOur TV

Connection Diagram for Europe:

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Connection Diagram for North America: *

* North America: If your TV does not have an S-video input connector, use a

standard male/male RCA cable (on the yellow video jack) instead of the sup-

plied S-video cable.

Connect the ARCHOS’ outputs to your TV’s inputs as shown above. If you have an

HDMI cable, you can connect it now.

Connect the included power adapter to the jack labeled dC-in on the back of the

ARCHOS.

Then plug the other end of the power adapter into an available wall socket.

The rst time you connect the power adapter, the ARCHOS will start automati-

cally. The red LED indicator will start blinking while the device is starting. When

the ARCHOS is on, the green LED will light up.

Use only the supplied ARCHOS power adapter as other adapters may damage

this device (even if they give the same voltage rating).

Make sure that your TV is switched to the AV input which the ARCHOS is con-

nected to (on the back of the TV).

Once the ARCHOS turns on (green light), your device will cycle between three

different video output modes in order for you to select the correct one. Wait until

you see an image in color on your TV (this may take up to 30 seconds), and press

OK on the remote control.

Then follow the on-screen instructions (Installation Wizard) to nish installing the

ARCHOS.

See TV Recording: Hardware Setup to learn how to connect a tuner to the ARCHOS

in order to schedule a TV recording (manually or via the TV Program Guide).

1.

2.

3.

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4.

5.

6.

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The insTallaTiOn wizard

The Installation Wizard will help you congure the main functions of the ARCHOS.

If you ever need to relaunch the Installation Wizard, press the reset button. The

ARCHOS will restart and a message will pop up to conrm the relaunch of the

wizard. If you do not respond within 10 seconds, the wizard will be automatically

relaunched.

ATTENTION: if you use the reset button and relaunch the wizard, no data will

be erased but your TV connection settings will be lost, and you will have to set

them up again through the wizard.

NAVIGATING INSIDE THE WIZARD

In the different screens of the wizard, use the up/down navigation buttons on the

remote control to highlight a parameter.

Use the left/right buttons to select a different setting for a parameter.

When you have nished adjusting your settings, use the navigation buttons to high-

light “Next” and press OK on the remote control to move on to the next screen.

If you want to go back to a previous screen, select “Previous”.

CONFIGURING THE WIFI/ETHERNET CONNECTION

At the end of the Installation Wizard, in the “Network” screen, you are invited to

congure your WiFi/Ethernet connection.

Choose “WiFi”, “Ethernet Cable” (standard Ethernet cable not supplied) or

“None”, based on the way you want to connect to the Internet (or local network).

If you do not have access to the Internet, select “None”.

See

“Network” Settings

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Turning The arChOs On/Off

Press the Power button on the remote control to turn on your ARCHOS or put

it into standby mode.

The green LED indicator, on the front of the device, lights up when the device is

on. The red LED lights up when the device is in standby mode.

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In the event that your ARCHOS freezes or does not respond anymore, discon-

nect the power adapter, wait for 15 seconds and reconnect it. When the red

LED indicator stops blinking, press the Power button on the supplied remote

control to turn on your device.

using The arChOs inTerfaCe

INTERFACE DESCRIPTION

Status Bar

In the top right corner of the screen, the status

bar indicates the ‘network connection’ status

(WiFi or Ethernet), the volume level and the cur-

rent time of your device.

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Tabs

In the top left corner of the screen, the tabs area

shows other available applications and screens. They

vary, depending on where you are in the interface.

When there is only one tab available, the Tab icon in

the top left corner is grayed out.

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Contextual Menu

In the lower right corner of the screen, the contextual menu area

shows the menu icons. The available options will vary, depending on

where you are in the interface.

In the Home screen, choose the “Settings” menu item to access the

main settings of your ARCHOS.

In the Home screen, the “Resume” menu item allows you to resume

the last-played music or video le, if it was interrupted before the end.

If the “Resume” menu icon does not appear, it means that no music

or video le playback can be resumed.

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Home Screen

This is the main screen of your ARCHOS, showing

its main functions.

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Main Button Actions:

To open an application/screen via its icon or item, use the Navigation buttons to

highlight the icon/item and press OK.

In the different applications, you can go back one level in the hierarchy by press-

ing the Exit button once. Wherever you are in the hierarchy, you can go back

directly to the Home screen by holding the Exit button.

When several tabs are available, you can switch between them by pressing the

Tab button .

To execute a menu icon’s function, press the Menu button M, select a menu item

with the navigation buttons, and press OK.

While playing a video, song or photo slideshow, you can pause/resume it by

pressing OK.

Other Button Actions

When watching a video or listening to music, you can hold the left/right

Navigation buttons to move the cursor in the progression bar to another

location in the video or song.

To increase/decrease volume, use the Volume buttons (+/-).

In the different browsers (File, Music, Video, Photo), you can hold the up/

down Navigation buttons to scroll the le list up and down. You can also

scroll faster by using the Accelerator buttons.

In the Web browser and the PDF viewer, you can scroll up and down by

holding the up/down Navigation buttons.

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prOduCT Care

Your ARCHOS is an electronic product that needs to be treated with care:

Do not subject it to unnecessary shock or vibration.

Do not subject it to heat, keep it ventilated (especially when connected to a computer).

Keep it away from water and excessively humid areas.

Keep it away from high electromagnetic elds.

Do not open it up. There are no user-serviceable parts inside. Opening will void

your warranty.

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1. playing VideO

In the Home screen, select the “Video” icon to enter the Video mode.

1.1 brOwsing ThrOugh yOur VideOs

The “Video” browser allows you to navigate through the Video folder of the

ARCHOS’ hard drive.

You can go back one level in the hierarchy by closing the current screen (Exit but-

ton ). Wherever you are in the hierarchy, you can go back directly to the Home

screen by pressing and holding down on the Exit button.

THE VIDEO BROWSER

The rst screen of the Video mode

shows you all the videos and sub-

folders located in the Video folder.

To play a video, highlight it, then

press OK.

If a video is in a subfolder of the

Video folder, open the subfolder, and

you will see your video.

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In the “Video” browser, each video le appears with a thumbnail, displayed

on the left of the le’s name.

To dene a new thumbnail for a video le, open the video, select the “Set”

menu item, and choose “Thumbnail” (see: Video Playback Menu Items).

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VIDEO BROWSER MENU ITEMS

“Info”

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“File Management”

“Rename”: allows you to change the name of the highlighted video le using

the remote control’s keyboard.

“Delete”: allows you to delete the highlighted video le. A conrmation

screen will pop up.

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“Bookmark”

“Resume”: will resume playing the highlighted video from the bookmark.

“Clear”: will remove the bookmark from the highlighted video le.

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“Bookmark” only appears in the menu when a bookmarked video le is high-

lighted.

“Settings”

you can choose to display the Video Player settings screen (see:

Video Player

Settings

) or the “Sound” settings screen (see:

“Sound” Settings

).

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1.2 VideO playbaCK

To play a video, highlight the le and press OK. The menu overlay will disappear auto-

matically after a few seconds.

VIDEO PLAYBACK SCREEN

1.

Exit icon

2.

video le name

3.

Tab icon

4.

volume level

5.

video progression bar

6.

menu items

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VIDEO PLAYBACK BUTTON CONTROLS

press once: stop the video and go back to the “Video” browser

hold: exit the Video mode and go back directly to the Home screen.

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pause/resume the video

accelerated fast forward

left/right: fast rewind/forward

accelerated fast rewind

display/hide the menu overlay

display available menu items

increase/decrease volume

Mute sound

VIDEO PLAYBACK MENU ITEMS

“Info”

displays a message box with information about the current video le.-

“Soundtrack” and/or “Subtitles”

allows you to select a different audio track*.

allows you to choose subtitles**.

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* Only if the video le contains several audio tracks.

** Only if the subtitles are in a separate le. The supported le types are: .srt,

.ssa, .sub (text based) and .smi.

“Format”

allows you to change the way the image is displayed.

“Auto”: adjusts the video size to best adapt to the TV.

“Full Screen”: enlarges the picture to ll the screen. In order to t the screen,

your device might need to cut small parts of the image, most likely at the top

and bottom.

“Maximized”: enlarges the picture to ll the screen, considering the image is

encoded in 2.35 format with black bands at the top and bottom.

“Original”: displays the entire picture in its original format.

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“Speed”

will play the current video in slow motion or high speed.

while paused in slow motion, you can advance frame by frame, using the right

arrow.

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“Set”

“Bookmark”: sets a bookmark at the current spot in the video. Only one

bookmark per le is allowed. You can bookmark up to 32 les. Bookmarked

videos will appear, in the “Video” browser, with a bookmark symbol and a

progression bar.

to resume playing a video from a bookmark, go to the “Video” browser and

highlight the bookmarked video le. Select the “Bookmark” menu item, then

choose “Resume” (“Clear” will remove the bookmark from the video).

“Thumbnail”: saves the current image as a new thumbnail for this le. In the

“Video” browser, the video’s thumbnail will be replaced by the new one.

“Wallpaper”: the current image will be dened as your device’s background

image.

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“Settings”

you can choose to display the Video Player settings screen (see next section)

or the “Sound” settings screen (see:

“Sound” Settings

).

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1.3 VideO player seTTings

In the Video mode, you can access the Video Player settings screen by using the

“Settings” menu item .

Use the left/right arrows to select a different setting for a parameter.

“PlayMode”, “Repeat & Shufe”

the following table explains how the video player will work according to the set-

tings you chose in “PlayMode” AND “Repeat & Shufe”.

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“PlayMode”

“Repeat &

Shufe”

What the video player does...

“Single” “Normal”

plays the current video le and stops.-

“Repeat”

plays the current video le repeatedly.-

“Folder”

“Normal”

plays all the video les of the current folder

one after the other, and then stops.

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“Repeat”

plays all the video les of the current folder one

after the other. This will be repeated indenitely.

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“Shufe”

plays all the videos of the current folder randomly.

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“UPnP Thumbnails”

here you can enable/disable the video thumbnails while browsing through your

PC’s shared videos (see:

Playing your PC’s Shared Media Files

). If you choose

“Disabled”, you will be able to browse through your PC’s shared videos faster.

1.4 reCOrding VideO

Your ARCHOS gives you the possibility to record video from most

any standard video source.

See:

Recording Video Manually

.

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You will also have the possibility to schedule TV recordings easily,

via the TV Program Guide (EPG).

See:

The TV program Guide.

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1.5 playing yOur pC’s shared VideOs

Using a WiFi or Ethernet connection, your ARCHOS gives you the

possibility to watch, directly on your TV, shared videos stored in

your PC’s Windows Media® Library.

For this to work, you will need a WiFi or Ethernet connection and

Windows Media® Player 11 or higher* installed on your PC.

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

play streamed videos from your PC’s Windows Media® Library.

See:

Playing your PC’s Shared Media Files

.

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

the UPnP standard.

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MANUAL

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2. playing MusiC

In the Home screen, select the “Music” icon to enter the Music mode.

2.1 brOwsing ThrOugh yOur MusiC files

There are two types of views for you to browse through your songs: the Music

Library and the Music Browser.

In both views, you can go back one level in the hierarchy by closing the current

screen (Exit button ). Wherever you are in the hierarchy, you can go back direct-

ly to the Home screen by pressing and holding down on the Exit button.

THE MUSIC LIBRARY

The Music Library (default view)

shows your music sorted by cat-

egories (Artist, Album, Genre, etc.) if

your music les contain these song

information tags.

When new music is copied to the

ARCHOS, the Music Library will be

updated automatically.

If some of your music les do not

contain information tags, they will

be classied as (Unknown) in the

Music Library.

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THE MUSIC BROWSER

The music browser allows you to

navigate through the Music folder

of your device’s hard drive.

To use it, select “Hard Drive” in the

initial Music Library view.

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MUSIC LIBRARY AND MUSIC BROWSER MENU ITEMS*

“Info”

displays a message box with information about the highlighted music le.-

“Show playlist”

opens a playlist edition window on the right (see:

Playlists

).-

“Bookmark”

“Resume”: will resume playing the highlighted song from the bookmark.

“Clear”: will remove the bookmark from the highlighted music le.

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“Bookmark” only appears in the menu when a bookmarked music le is high-

lighted.

“File Management”

“Rename”: allows you to change the name of the highlighted music le using

the remote control’s keyboard.

“Delete”: allows you to delete the highlighted music le. A conrmation

screen will pop up.

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“Settings”

you can choose to display the Music Player settings screen (see:

Music Player

Settings

) or the “Sound” settings screen (see:

“Sound” Settings

).

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* The available menu items will vary depending on the mode you chose (Music

Library or Music Browser).

2.2 MusiC playbaCK

Use the up/down navigation buttons to browse through the list of audio tracks.

To play a song, highlight the corresponding le and press OK.

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MANUAL

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MUSIC PLAYBACK SCREEN

1.

Exit icon

2.

artist name, album

title, song title, play-

back status icon(s)

and track number

3.

available tabs

4.

volume level

5.

previous track

6.

next track

7.

progression bar

8.

menu items

MUSIC PLAYBACK BUTTON CONTROLS

press once: stop the song

and go back to the

“Music”

Library or browser

hold: exit the Music mode and go back directly to the Home screen.

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pause/resume the song

accelerated fast forward

left:

press once: back to the beginning of the song, or previous song (in the

rst 10 seconds of a track)

hold: fast rewind

right:

press once: next song

hold: fast forward

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accelerated fast rewind

tabs back to the Music Library or Music browser (depending on which mode

you launched the song from)

display available menu items

increase/decrease volume

Mute sound

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MUSIC PLAYBACK MENU ITEMS

“Info”

displays a message box with information about the current music le.-

“ARCHOS home screen”

allows you to go back to the Home screen, and browse your hard drive or

view your photos while listening to music.

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“Set bookmark”

sets a bookmark at the current spot in the song. Only one bookmark per le is

allowed. You can bookmark up to 32 les.

to resume playing a song from a bookmark, go to the Music Library or the Music

Browser, highlight the bookmarked music le. Select the “Bookmark” menu

item, then choose “Resume” (“Clear” will remove the bookmark from the song).

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“Set rating”

allows you to give a rating to the current song (1-5) or to remove the rating

(none).

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“Settings”

you can choose to display the Music Player settings screen (see next section)

or the “Sound” settings screen (see:

“Sound” Settings

).

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2.3 MusiC player seTTings

In the Music mode, you can access the Music Player settings screen by using the

“Settings” menu item .

Use the left/right arrows to select a different setting for a parameter.

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