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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
AV 700.
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 AV 700.
4.1
Non Protected Internet Video Content
4.1
Non Protected Internet Video Content
The AV 700 plays .AVI
fi
les that are encoded in 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 AV 700 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.
If you have some video
fi
les that do not play directly on your AV 700, they will have to be converted
fi
rst. Windows
Media
®
Player 10 (Available only for Windows XP) will convert your video
fi
le automatically when you sync the
fi
le that is on your PC to the AV 700. It will display a little message ‘converting’.
* MPEG-4: ISO standard 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.
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You can also use the software
MPEG-4 Translator
included on the AV 700 hard drive to re-encode
your video
fi
les into the proper MPEG-4 SP format that the AV 700 can play. See the chapter
Video – creating MPEG-4 video
fi
les with your computer
for more details.
