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1. Preface......................................................................................3 2. Packing List.............................................................................4 3. Cautions...................................................................................5 4.Overview...................................................................................6 4.0 Overview of Buttons and Jacks.....................................................6 4.1 Remote control..............................................................................9 4.2. Connection..................................................................................11 4.2.1 Connect to computer.................................................................11 4.2.2 Memory Card connection ........................................................11 4.2.3 USB-OTG ................................................................................11 4.2.4 TV connection...........................................................................11 4.2.5 Power Connection.....................................................................12 5. First Time Usage...................................................................13 5.0. Preparation Before Usage...........................................................13 5.1. Turn on, Shut down, Power Save, Changing the language.........14 6. Function Description............................................................15 6.0 Main menu...................................................................................15 6.1 DVR.............................................................................................15 6.1.1 Start TV record.........................................................................17 6.1.2 Parameters Setup......................................................................19 6.1.3 Scheduler..................................................................................21 6.1.4 Playback recorded file..............................................................25 6.2 Movie...........................................................................................26 6.2.1 Video Playback.........................................................................28 6.2.2 Tools Menu...............................................................................29 6.2.3 Subtitle......................................................................................31 6.3 Music...........................................................................................33 6.3.1 Playback music file...................................................................33 6.3.2 Tools menu................................................................................34 6.3.3 ID3 Tags....................................................................................35 6.3.4 Synchronous Lyric Display.......................................................35 6.4 Playlist.........................................................................................36 6.5 Sound Recording.........................................................................38 6.5.1 Record......................................................................................38 6.5.2 Play...........................................................................................39 6.6 Photo............................................................................................39 -- 6.6.1 Full-screen mode...................................................................41 6.6.2 Zoom mode...........................................................................43 6.6.3 Slide show mode...................................................................44 6.7 Browser....................................................................................44 6.7.1 Browsing the folder structure...............................................45 6.7.2 Ebook....................................................................................49 6.8 Memory Card Copy..................................................................50 6.9 USB..........................................................................................52 6.9.1 Connecting the Player to Computer......................................52 6.9.2 Disconnecting the Player from Computer.............................52 6.10 USB-OTG..............................................................................53 6.11 Firmware Update...................................................................54 6.12 Setup......................................................................................55 6.12.1 Language Setup...................................................................55 6.12.2 Display Setup......................................................................56 6.12.3 Sound Setup........................................................................57 6.12.4 Application Setup................................................................58 6.12.5 System Setup.......................................................................60 6.12.6 Output Setup........................................................................61 7. Troubleshooting...................................................................63 8. Additional Information.......................................................67 8.1 Specification.............................................................................67 8.2 Supported File Type.................................................................68 8.3 Copyrights and Trademarks.....................................................69 8.4 Warranty 1 Year........................................................................69 -- 1. Preface Dear Customer, Thank you very much for purchasing this brand-new Home Multimedia Center with stronger function support. In the digital era, this product is quite suitable to be a home entertainment partner. With its outstanding designed features, you can enjoy movies and music, view photos of precious moments, and record your favorite movie or TV programs to make up for your regret of not being able to enjoy them in time. The editing function provides you with an easy way to save the essential part. It can also backup the data in digital cameras without a PC. Game entertainment is also contained in the player. It’s a good choice to use this product as a portable storage device for its built-in HDD and high-speed USB 2.0. This player’s main functions are as follows: Movie Playback – supports MPEG-4/2/1, XVID, AVI, MP4 (Video format: MPEG4) Video Recording and editing – supports AVI format, can easily record programs from TV, DVD player and DV and saved as MPEG4“.avi” format, and can edit the recorded file Music Playback – supports MP3, WMA and OGG files Photo Playback – supports digital camera JPEG files and BMP files Card copy – supports SD/MMC/MS Data Storage – work as a portable hard disk using USB 2.0 port We hope that this product will bring you a lot of enjoyment. We are committed to applying multimedia technology to work, entertainment, family, daily life, traveling and everywhere in the world. Thank you again for choosing our MediaMate Multimedia Player. -- 2. Packing List Part Quantity Player 1 Bracket 2 A/V cable 1 A/V adaptor 1 USB cable 1 AC adaptor 1 Remote Control 1 Earphones 1 USB Driver CD 1 User Manual 1 Quick Start Guide 1 Car headrest mounting case 1 QC Pass 1 ▲Note: The actual contents in the package might be different from the packing list in this manual. -- 3. Cautions (1). Avoid direct sunlight and intense heat. (2). Keep away from metal objects and flammable substances. (3). Avoid dropping the player, might cause damage to the hard disk or the LCD panel. (4). Avoid exposure to smoke. (5). Avoid contact with magnets and hard objects. (6). Do not disassemble. (7). Please plug the AC adaptor to the player before plugging the AC adaptor to the wall outlet. (8).Always properly connect the USB cable, earphone and A/V cable. -- 4. Overview 4.0 Overview of Buttons and Jacks Front View 1. LEFT Arrow: Moves highlight left./previous page/previous song 2. RIGHT Arrow: Moves highlight right/next page/next song 3. HOME Button: Main menu (when it is not in use.) 4. TOOLS Button: Pop up the tools menu. 5. Remote control receiver. 6. TFT-LCD:7-inch 16.7M color TFT-LCD screen. 7. EXIT Button (X): Cancel/exit. 8. DOWN Button: Moves highlight down/decrease volume. 9. UP Button: Moves highlight up/increase volume 10. ENTER Button: Enter/Play/Pause -- Top View 11. CARD Slot: Support MS, MMC and SD card. 12. USB 2.0 port 13. Microphone for digital recording 14. Indicator (green): In working mode, the indicator is bright all the time; in charging mode, the indicator will flash; in copying mode, the indicator will also flash. 15. HOLD Switch: in HOLD mode, none of the button on the player is effective. However, the remote control still works. 16. A/V IN button: preview the A/V signal on LCD 17. REC Button: When the button is pressed in non-playing mode (Music, Video and Photo), non-TV recording mode and non-USB mode, the player will start AV recording. 18. TFT/TV button: Video output button. Press this button to switch among A/V OUT and the LCD screen Left Side View 19. Earphone jack 20. A/V OUT jack: attach the A/V OUT cable here when you’re connecting the player to TV or other display devices. 21. Left bracket jack 22. A/V IN jack: attach the A/V IN cable here when you’re connecting the player to TV or other components. 23. DC IN jack: Can only use the attached AC adapter. 24. Left Built-in Speaker: Functions when earphone is not used. -- Bottom View 25. Battery 26. Battery Lock Switch 27. Expansion I/O port Right Side View -- 28. Right Built-in Speaker: Functions when earphone is not used 29. Right bracket jack 30. Power Button: Turn on/off the player 4.1 Remote control 1. POWER OFF button: Hold for 2 seconds to shut down the player. 2. Mute button: Mute on/off 3. TFT/TV button: Video output button. Press this button to switch among A/V OUT and the LCD screen. 4. HOME button: Enter main menu when the player is in non-playing mode (Music, Video and Photo), non-TV recording mode and non-USB mode. 5. TOOLS button: pop-up tools menu. 6. REC button: When non-playing, non-recording, no USB connection, start AV recording 7. LEFT button: Moves highlight left/previous page/previous song. 8. Music button: When non-playing, non-recording, no USB connection, press this button to start playback songs in the default playlist. Press the button again to switch to the next playlist that contains songs. 9. FR button: In video/music playback interface, fast reverse or cancel fast reverse. -- 10. COPY button: When non-playing, non-recording, no USB connection, copy all the contents in the memory card to the current HDD partition. 11. SETUP button: Goes to setup interface to setup parameter 12. SHUFFLE button: In music interface, switch between random/normal 13. A-B button: In video/music playback interface, setup A-B repeat 14. REPEAT button: In video/music playback interface, select repeat type: repeat one or repeat all. 15. L/R button: Switch sound channel: left channel/right channel/stereo. 16. OSD button: Display information of the file being play 17. BOOKMARK button: In video playback interface, save the last playback point 18. ZOOM button: Freely magnify or shrink the photo. 19. SLIDE SHOW button: Under photo interface, press this button to start slideshow all the photos 20. AV IN button: Preview the A/V signal on LCD 21. DISP MODE button: During video playback, switch playback mode between FULLSCREEN, PANSCAN, Keep ratio 22. DOWN button: Moves highlight down/decrease volume. 23. FF button: Fast forward or cancel fast forward in video/music playback interface, 24. ENTER button: Enter/play/pause 25. RIGHT button: Moves highlight right/next page/next song 26. UP button: Moves highlight up/increase volume. 27. ESC button: Cancel/escape 28. VOL - button: Decrease volume in playback interface or other interface that has the volume marker; if mute is on, decrease volume will also cancel mute. VOL + button: Increase volume in playback interface or other interface that has the volume marker; if mute is on, increase volume will also cancel mute. -10- 4.2 Connection 4.2.1 Connect to computer (1) Make sure the player is turned on. (2) Plug the end of USB2.0 cable into USB port of the player. (3) Plug the other end of the USB2.0 cable into your computer. 4.2.2 Memory Card connection Memory card can be used by inserting it to the card slot (1) Follow the picture to insert the memory card to the card slot properly (2) Insert the card by following the arrow pointer in the picture After inserting properly, you can press the copy button to copy all the contents in the memory card. 4.2.3 USB-OTG With the USB-OTG, you can easily connect other devices like a digital camera or a USB Disk to the player. (1) Connect the USB cable to your USB device, like a digital camera or USB disk. (2) Connect the USB cable and the USB-OTG adapter, and then connect the USB-OTG adaptor to the USB port of the player. (3) Message will appear—“Start to copy?” Press the ENTER button to start copying. 4.2.4 TV connection (1) A/V input a. Plug the single connector of the A/V IN cable to the A/V IN jack of the player. b. Plug the 3 colour connectors of the A/V IN cable to the A/V OUT jacks of the TV or other display devices. Now you can record TV shows to the player’s HDD. ▲NOTE: The video connector is yellow and the audio connector’s are red and white. -11- (2)A/V output a. Plug the single connector of the A/V OUT cable to the A/V OUT jack of your player. b. Plug the 3 colour connectors of the A/V OUT cable to the A/V IN jacks of the TV or other display devices. Now you can view the content of the player using the TV or other display devices. NOTE: The video connector is yellow and the audio connector’s are red and white. 4.2.5 Power Connection (1) Insert the plug of AC adaptor into the DC IN jack of the player. (2) Insert the adaptor into the AC power plug. -12- 5. First Time Usage 5.0. Preparation Before Usage 1. Remote control preparation and how to replace the battery of the remote control. (1) Please take out the plastic film before usage. (2) If needed to change the battery, pull out the battery holder of remote control, and take out the Lithium cell battery. (3) Put the new Lithium cell battery (Lithium Cell CR2025) on the battery holder. (4) Insert the battery holder back into the remote control. 2. Install and charge the battery of the player (1) Battery Li-ion battery, Capacity: 7.2V/2800mAh (confine to the actual product), rechargeable. (2) Exchange the battery (a) Turn off the player. (b) Push the battery lock switch upward, the battery will come out automatically. (c) Take out the battery. (d) Insert the battery as shown in the picture; the battery lock will lock the battery in place. 3. Charging the player It takes 4 hours to fully charge the battery. Before the first usage, please charge the battery over 5 hours to fully activate the battery. You may operate the player while its battery is being charged. Please use the specified charger which is packed with the player. Any other adapter may damage the player. The green indicator will start flashing when the battery is charging. It will stop flashing when the battery is fully charged. ▲NOTE: The wrong installation of the battery or short circuit of the battery may damage the player. Please only use the original battery from the manufacturer. Do not use any other model battery in this player. -13- 5.1. Turn on, Shut down, Power Save, Changing the language 1. Turning on the player To turn on the player press and hold the POWER button for 2 seconds, the indicator will turn green. Please wait about 10 seconds for the player to boot up completely and enter into the main menu. If the player shuts down automatically after several seconds, please check whether the player is out of battery. 2. Shutting down the player for 2 seconds to shut down the player. Note: If the player freezes you can press and hold the POWER button for 8 seconds to shut down the player. 3. Power Save (1) Power off: In the Power menu [SETUP – Power: Power Save] there is a Power off parameter. You can set the time to 3 minutes. Thus, if the player is idle for 3 minutes in standby mode, it will shut off automatically. This setting can be changed among “3 minutes”, “5 minutes”, “10 minutes” and “never”. (2) Backlight off: In Power menu [SETUP – Power: Power Save] there is a backlight off parameter. You can set up the time so that the player’ s backlight automatically shuts off to save power when no buttons are pressed during the time. The time can be set to 30, 60, 90 seconds or to never. When the backlight is off, press any button to activate the screen again. If the player is in HOLD mode, please unlock first. 4. Changing the language This player supports multi-language. In the Display menu [SETUP – Display] there is the Language parameter. You can change the language to Chinese or English. The system language of the player will change into the new language at once. -14- 6. Function Description 6.0 Main menu In the main menu, by default the highlight is on movie function, when the highlight points to another function, the name of that function will be displayed, the main menu is as the picture shows: Control button UP button: Move highlight up DOWN button: Move highlight down LEFT button: Move highlight left RIGHT button: Move highlight right ENTER button: Enter selected function COPY button: After memory card is inserted, press this button to copy all the contents of the memory card to the current partition. RECORD button: Start A/V recording MUSIC button: Start playing music in the playlist SETUP button: Enter setup interface 6.1 DVR This player supports MPEG4 video recording. It can easily record TV, DVD’ s, Video recorder’s A/V simulate video to MPEG4 “.avi” format. This player supports up to D1 resolution (PAL: 720x576, 25fps, NTSC: 720x480, 30fps, or SECAM: 720x576, 25fps),and also has high, medium, low and compress video recording quality to choose from; also can setup the Scheduler to record TV at the selected time. -15- Using the direction button, select DVR function and enter the DVR interface. The interface is as shown in the picture: ▲NOTE: Prior to using any of the DVR recording features make sure that the calendar time and date are programmed and correct, if not, the DVR will not work properly. Start TV record: Start recording video Parameter Setup: setup the recording parameter Scheduler: Setup the recording schedule Play: Playback the recorded file The following Control Buttons are effective in the DVR interface: UP button: Move highlight up DOWN button: Move highlight down ENTER button: Enter the selected function EXIT button: Exit to the main menu COPY button: After the memory card is inserted, press this button to copy all the contents of the memory card to the current partition. RECORD button: Start AV recording MUSIC button: Start playback playlist’s music in order MUTE button: Enable/disable sound VOL +/- button: Increase/decrease volume; if mute is on, increase/decrease Volume will cancel mute. SETUP button: Enter the setup interface HOME button: Enter the main menu -16- 6.1.1 Start TV record After selecting the “Start TV record” function, the player will enter video preview mode, and automatically detect the incoming video signal either PAL, NTSC or SECAM; In video preview mode you can see the A/V IN preview screen, after the record function “initializes”, the status will display “ready”. The interface is as shown in the picture: Control button UP button: Increase volume DOWN button: Decrease volume ENTER button: Start A/V recording EXIT button: Exit recording and return to DVR interface TOOLS button: Pop up the tools menu RECORD button: Start A/V recording VOL +/- button: Increase/decrease volume TOOLS menu in this interface has 5 options: (1) Brightness: change the brightness of the screen -17- (2) Color saturation: change the color saturation of the screen (3) Hue: change the hue of the screen (4) Contrast: change the contrast of the screen (5) Default: return the setting to factory default value When changing the settings, press the LEFT/RIGHT button to change the parameter value, the changes will be displayed automatically until you are satisfied. Press the ENTER button to accept the changes, press the EXIT button to cancel the changes. In “ready” mode press the ENTER button to start TV recording, the recording file will be saved in the “HD/DVR” folder on the hard disk. RECORD button will be ignored in “Recording” mode. In manual recording mode, the file name of the recorded file is made up of the starting time of the recording. Interface is as shown in the picture: The recorded file name is “DVR[YY][MM][DD]_[HH][MM]_[XXX]. avi”, [YY][MM][DD]_[HH][MM] represent the starting time of recording’ s year, month, day, hour and minute. File sequence number starts at 001, when the recording file’s size reaches the “parameter setup” assigned file size limit, the player will create a new recording file, the file name’s time will be the same, but the sequence number will add 1. If the file size limit is set to “1 GB”, the recording starts at June 1st, 2006 19:32, the first file name will be “DVR060601_1932_001.avi”. When the file size reaches 1GB, the player will create a new file and change the file name to “DVR060601_1932_002.avi” and continue recording. During recording, the RECORD indicator will be on. In “Recording” mode pressing the ENTER button will pause the video recording, the recording status message will become “Pause”, the display time will stop. Pressing the ENTER button or RECORD button will have recording -18- continue, the EXIT button will stop the recording. The RECORD indicator will flash when the recording is being paused. ▲NOTE: (1) When the video output signal is PAL, the output resolution will be 720x576 (high, medium, low quality), 352x288 (compress quality). When the video output signal is NTSC, the output resolution will be 720x480 (high, medium, low quality), 352x240 (compress quality). When the video output signal is SECAM, the output resolution will be 720x576 (high, medium, low quality), 352x288 (compress quality) (2) You cannot change the display mode while recording or paused (3) Free space on the hard disk will be detected when the recording starts. If the free space is less than 100MB, a “Low disk space” window will pop up, press ENTER to return to DVR main interface. When recording, if the free space on the hard disk is less than the assigned file size but more than 100MB, the recording will stop before the hard disk is full. If you want to record when Hard disk is full, you will be prompted “HDD FULL!” (4) During long time recording, more than one file will be created, switching between files will take around 3 sec, frame and sound will not be recorded during that time (5) The UP/DOWN button can change preview volume, but will not affect recording volume, since maximum volume will be used for recording. (6) Video recording function will ignore auto Power off setting. 6.1.2 Parameters Setup “Parameters Setup” can change the settings of “Quality” and “File Size Limit”. Interface is as shown in the picture: -19- Control Button: UP button: Highlight moves up DOWN button: Highlight moves down LEFT button: Change parameter (effective to “Quality” and “File Size Limit”) RIGHT button: Change parameter (effective to “Quality” and “File Size Limit”) ENTER button: “Change to Default settings” window (effective to “Default”) EXIT button: Return to recording interface RECORD button: Start AV recording MUTE button: Enable/disable sound VOL +/- button: Increase/decrease volume; if mute is on, increase/decrease volume will cancel mute. HOME button: Enter main menu 1.“Quality” parameter represents the quality of recording file, this player provides high, medium, low and compress recording quality. (1) High quality: D1 (720 x 576) resolution, approx. 4Mbps MPEG4 video; (2) Medium quality: D1 (720 x 576) resolution, approx. 2Mbps MPEG4 video; (3) Low quality: D1 (720 x 576) resolution, approx. 1Mbps MPEG4 video; (4) Compress quality: CIF (352 x 288) resolution, approx. 800kbps MPEG4 video. When changing “Quality” parameter, the “Estimated time left” at the bottom of the interface will also change, it shows how many recording hours left according to the hard disk space. When changes are being made, exiting the parameters setup will save the changes. ▲NOTE: Since the video source has affect on the size of the recorded file, when actual recording the estimated time might not be accurate. 2.“File Size Limit” parameter represents every output file’s file size. This player provides “650MB”, “1GB”, and “2GB” for you to choose from, they represent the recorded file will not be bigger than 650MByte, 1GByte and 2GByte, you can set the size according to your need. During recording, if the file is going to exceed the file size limit, the player will create a new file and continue recording, a serial number will be added to the end of the original file -20- and will become the new file’s file name. 3.“Default” function: select it and a window will pop up. When you confirm to apply default settings, it will change the parameter setting back to default values (Medium quality, File Size Limit 1GB), TOOLS button takes no effect. 6.1.3 Scheduler ▲NOTE: Make sure that the calendar time and date are previously set up for DVR to properly function. Select “Scheduler” function to make schedule entry. All entries will be in order of “YY/MM/DD HH:MM – HH:MM CH QUAL FILE NAME”. After correctly setting up the scheduler entry, it will automatically record the TV show at the specific time, every entry is made up of a entry number, starting time, ending time, channel, quality and file name. This represents that the player starts recording at the starting date and time, with this file name, in this video quality, and ends at the ending time. As shown in the picture, when entering schedule, the highlight will stop at the next scheduler entry. If there is no second entry, it will stop at the first scheduler entry. Control button: UP button: Highlight moves up DOWN button: Highlight moves down EXIT button: Return to recording interface TOOLS button: Pop up tools menu RECORD button: Start AV recording MUSIC button: Start playlist’s music in order MUTE button: Enable/disable sound -21- VOL +/- button: Increase/decrease volume; if mute is on, increase/decrease volume will cancel mute. HOME button: Enter main menu In this interface the TOOLS menu has 3 options: (1) Add schedule: Add a new schedule entry, and enter schedule entry edit mode, default starting time is current time, default file name is file name showing current time (2) Modify schedule: Modify the highlighted schedule entry (3) Delete schedule: Delete this – delete the highlighted schedule entry Delete old – delete all the outdated entry Delete all – delete all entry, except the default entry In scheduler interface, you can set up to 30 schedule entries, scroll to when access a page. If scheduler entry is full, you will be notified to stop adding. To separate manual recording and auto recording, scheduler file name is “SCH[YY][ MM][DD]_[HH][MM]_[XXX].avi”. In one scheduler entry, the recording length can be set up to 24 hours. If the ending time is same as or before the starting time, the player will record till the next day ending time. If the staring time is June 1st 19:32, ending time is 01:15, and then the player will start recording at June 1st 19:32 and end at June 2nd 01:15. The file name in the scheduler is the recorded file’s name, this player will automatically add a serial number behind the file name, “_[XXX].avi”. After selecting “Add scheduler” or “Modify scheduler”, use the highlighted entry as a base and enter scheduler entry edit mode. Under scheduler entry edit mode, the editing entry will become reverse color, press UP/DOWN to change the parameter, and LEFT/RIGHT to change edit section, press UP/DOWN to -22- enter the virtual keyboard interface for you to change the file name. Virtual keyboard interface is as shown in the picture: Control button UP button: Highlight moves up DOWN button: Highlight moves down LEFT button: Highlight moves left RIGHT button: Highlight moves right ENTER button: Enter word EXIT button: Delete word RECORD button: Start AV recording Some special word usage Delete existing word: move the curser to “←”, then press the ENTER button to delete the word in front of the curser. Change the keyboard character: move the curser to “Ctrl”, “123” or “Shift” to change. “123” ---switch between number and word, “Shift”--- Capitalize. “Ctrl”---After pressing “Ctrl” button, all other button will become non-effective. To press and hold “←” will delete the file name’s words continuously. When editing file name, you can select character like “<”, “>”, “:”, “ “” ”, “/”, “\”, “|”, “?”, “*”, backspace, Ctrl, etc. If you try to enter an invalid character, a warning message “invalid character!” will be displayed. Scheduler entry’s file name can only contain 25 characters. Pressing the EXIT button will cancel the current edit. When editing is finished, press the ENTER button to save the changes. Please note, the recording time cannot be before the current time or a month after, and cannot have any conflict with another schedule. You will be notified with the other entry no. when -23- there is a conflict. Unless the operation states otherwise, during starting time, if the player is turned on, the player will escape from the current operation and start the recording; if the player is turned off, the player will turn on itself and start recording with the settled file name. When deleting an entry, you will be prompted with a message for you to confirm. After confirming, the highlighted entry will be deleted. When deleting to the last entry, only the default entry will be saved. When successfully deleting all, all the no. of entry will be refreshed. Note (1) When the player acts as a USB device and is connected to the computer or a USB device is connected to this player, the player will ignore the schedule. When the player is disconnected from the computer, you will be notified with the “has non-start entry” message. (2) When the scheduled recording file size reaches the file size limit, a new file with the corresponding serial number will be created and continue recording, this will not affect the recording end time. (3) If the user selected pause during scheduled recording, the player will ignore the pause time and will end schedule recording when the ending time is reached. (4) When the user changes the time of the clock, the player will ask if the user wants to delete schedule or not. (5) When using scheduler, make sure the A/V cable is properly connected, the TV is on at the scheduled time and the AC adaptor is connected to the player, then you can use the scheduler to record TV without any problems. When the recording finishes, the player will shut down according to the time you set for power off, which can be setup at “Power” in “Setup” interface. Please properly set the Power off time to increase the player’s lifespan. (6) If scheduler is setup but did not power up, when you connected the power and if the scheduler time is already passed, the recording will not start and will show a “has non-start entry” message. -24- 6.1.4 Playback recorded file When the recording is finished, the recorded file will be saved in the “HD/ DVR” folder. Select “Play” and it will display all the files in the “HD/DVR” folder. You can select a file to start the playback. Interface is as shown in the picture: Control button UP button: Highlight moves up DOWN button: Highlight moves down LEFT button: Highlight moves left RIGHT button: Highlight moves right ENTER button: Enter folder/play a file EXIT button: Return to DVR interface TOOLS button: Pops up tools menu RECORD button: Start AV recording MUTE button: Enable/disable sound VOL +/- button: Increase/decrease volume; if mute is on, increase/decrease volume will also cancel mute. HOME button: Return to main menu There are 2 options in the TOOLS menu: (1) Name ascend: Sorted by the file name in ascending order (2) Delete: Delete the selected file or file folder CAUTION: All the deleted files or folders cannot be recovered. Be careful! -25- The default setting is to start the selected file and continues till the last file. Please refer to 6.2.1 Video Playback for details on control buttons, the difference is the video editing function. After selecting A-B playback, AVI editing can perform using the TOOLS menu. AVI editing has the following 2 functions: (1) Save AB: Save the A-B section as a new file, the new file’s name will be the original file name plus “ SAVxxx.avi” (xxx is the serial number, start from 001). (2) Cut AB: Clear the A-B section and save it as a new file, this will not affect the original video file. The new file’s name will be the original file name plus “_CUTxxx.avi” (xxx is the serial number, start from 001). When A-B edit is finished, exit A-B playback. ▲NOTE: Editing will take some time, editing progress will be shown, please be patient. 6.2 Movie The player supports AVI, VOB, DAT, and .MP4 files. In the main menu interface select “Video” to enter video function. After entering the function, the player will go over all the files and only display .AVI, .VOB, .MPG, .DAT, .MP4 files and sub-directory. Files displayed in the list will not be organized. The player will start playing the highlighted file till the last file on the list. -26- Control Button UP button: Highlight moves up DOWN button: Highlight moves down LEFT button: Highlight moves left RIGHT button: Highlight moves right ENTER button: Enter folder/play a file EXIT button: Return to main menu interface TOOLS button: Pops up tools menu RECORD button: Start AV recording MUTE button: Enable/disable Sound VOL +/- button: Increase/decrease volume; if in mute mode it will be canceled out SETUP button: Enter setup interface HOME button: Return to main menu There are 2 options in the TOOLS menu: (1) Name ascend: sorted by the file name in ascending order (2) Delete: delete the selected file or file folder CAUTION: All the deleted files or folders cannot be recovered. Be careful! -27- 6.2.1 Video Playback Pressing the ENTER button on a video file will enter video playback interface, as shown in the picture: Control Button UP button: Increases the volume. DOWN button: Decreases the volume. LEFT button: Play previous file RIGHT button: Play next file ENTER button: Pause/resume playback EXIT button: Exit playback screen TOOLS button: Pop up tools menu MUTE button: Enable/disable sound VOL +/- button: Increase/decrease volume; if mute is on, increase/decrease volume will cancel mute. FF button: Fast forward base on selected speed (refer to tools menu for speed setup) FR button: Fast reverse base on selected speed (refer to tools menu for speed setup) REPEAT button: Repeat one, repeat all, cancel repeat ZOOM button: Zoom mode on/off A-B button: Setup A-B repeat (first time – setup A point; second time – setup B point; third time – cancel A-B ) BOOKMARK button: Set a bookmark at current playback time L/R button: switch left/right sound channel DISPLAY MODE: Switch from – Keep ratio, PANSCAN, FULLSCREEN -28- OSD button: Display information of the file being play. As shown in the picture: During playback, the total playback time and current playback time will be displayed. MP4 files cannot use FF, FR. Cautions: For avi/vob/mpg/dat/mp4 files, if the video code is not supported, file header is not correct or file is corrupted, it will display “cannot playback this file” message. 6.2.2 Tools Menu Pressing the TOOLS button in Playback interface, as shown in the picture: Will offer the following 5 functions: 1 Search (1) Time search: You can play the video file from any time you like. Selecting “Time search” will pop-up a time selecting window, press the direction buttons to setup the value of the parameters, then press the ENTER -29- button to accept the changes. If not selected or the selected time is invalid, the player will ignore the command. (2) 2x speed: Setup 2x speed FF/FR (3) 4x speed: Setup 4x speed FF/FR (4) 8x speed: Setup 8x speed FF/FR Speed will not be memorized, when exit playback, speed will be set back to the default speed: 8x. The corresponding speed will be displayed during FF/FR. 2 Repeat Normal: After playing the current file, it will play the next file. Repeat one: Repeat the current file. Repeat all: Repeat all the files in current folder. 3 A-B Repeat playback of a section in a video. When you need to repeat playing a specific section of a video file, press the TOOLS button at the beginning of the specific section of the video and select “A/B-A” in the TOOLS menu. The video will continue playing. Press TOOLS button again at the end of the specific section of the video. Select “A/B-B” in the TOOLS menu, then the part you choose will be repeated. If you want to exit from A/B playing mode, press TOOLS button and select “Cancel A-B” in the TOOLS menu. If FF/FR play pass A-B section, will also cancel A-B playback. 4 Setup Bookmark While playing a video file, press TOOLS button and choose “Set bookmark”. It will put a bookmark there. When you play this video file again, you can start playback from where the bookmark is set. Opening a video file without bookmark, three options will be presented: Resume: Start playing from the book-marked position. -30- Ignore: Keep the bookmark but start from the very beginning. Clear: Clear the bookmark from this file and start playing from the very beginning. NOTE: Setting a new bookmark will erase the old one automatically. 5 Zoom There are 4 types of zoom for 16:9 video (1) Keep ratio: retain the video scale and maximize the width to let the user have maximum viewing screen, this is the default mode. (2) PANSCAN: retain the video scale and maximize the height to let the user have the maximum viewing screen, the border of the video will exceed the screen display area. (3) FULLSCREEN: change the video to full screen, the video scale may seem unreal. (4) FREEZOOM: can change the zoom freely, use the direction buttons to change the size of the video screen, playback can be continued during setup. Control Button UP button: Increase screen’s height DOWN button: Decrease screen’s height LEFT button: Decrease screen’s width RIGHT button: Increase screen’s width Note During playback, if a non applicable button is being press, a hand will be display. 6.2.3 Subtitle Supports 3 types of subtitle formats: .SRT, .SMI, .SSA (1) Download video files and the corresponding SRT (SMI, SSA) files. (2) Put the subtitle file in the same directory of the corresponding video file. (3) Make sure the subtitle file has the same file name as the video file. The default priority of subtitle is .SRT, .SMI, .SSA, when more than one type of subtitle is available, the system will use the one with higher priority. The subtitle will be displayed at the bottom of the screen. The subtitle format will also be displayed. 6.3 Music This player supports .MP3, .WMA, .OGG file format (*1) -31- In the main menu interface select “Music” to enter music function. After entering the function, the player will go over all the files and only display .MP3, .WMA, .OGG files and sub-directory. Files displayed in the list will not be organized. The player will start playing the highlighted file till the last file on the list. Interface is as shown in the picture: Control button: UP button: Highlight moves up DOWN button: Highlight moves down LEFT button: Highlight moves left RIGHT button: Highlight moves right ENTER button: Enter folder/play file EXIT button: Return to main menu TOOLS button: Pop up tools menu RECORD button: Start AV recording MUSIC button: Start playback music in the playlist MUTE button: Enable/disable sound VOL +/- button: increase/decrease volume; if mute is on; increase/decrease volume will cancel mute. SETUP button: enter setup interface HOME button: enter main menu There are 3 options in the TOOLS menu: (1) Name ascend: sorted by the file name in ascending order (2) Add to playlist: can add file to one of the 7 playlist; Use the highlight to select a file to add to the playlist; when the highlight is on a folder, it will add -32- the supported files in the folder to the playlist. Every playlist can store up to 200 songs; if the playlist cannot store all the songs the user tries to add, the player will add the songs in the playlist in order until it is full, and then will notify the user when playlist is full. The same file can be added multiple times (3) Delete: Delete the selected file or folder CAUTION: All the deleted files or folders cannot be recovered. Be careful! (*1) In order to playback the various music formats, you will need to obtain the corresponding licenses. 6.3.1 Playback music file Use the UP/DOWN button to select a song then press the ENTER button to enter the Music playback interface. The interface is as shown in the picture: Control button: UP button: Increase volume DOWN button: Decrease volume LEFT button: Play previous file RIGHT button: Play next file ENTER button: Pause/resume playback EXIT button: Exit playback TOOLS button: Pop up tools menu MUTE button: Enable/disable sound VOL +/- button: increase/decrease volume; if mute is on, increase/decrease volume will cancel mute. -33- FF button: Fast forward FR button: Fast reverse REPEAT button: Repeat one, repeat all, cancel repeat SHUFFLE button: Random mode on/off A-B button: setup A-B repeat (first time – setup A point; second time – setup B point; third time – cancel A-B) L/R button: switch left/right sound channel OSD button: display information of the file being played. As shown in the picture: The playback interface will display the playback file total time, and will update the playback time in real time. Note (1) For MP3/WMA/OGG files, if the data format is not correct or file is corrupted, the player will display “cannot playback this file” message. (2) Pause, resume, FF, FR are all playback mode and will cancel each other, only one mode can exists at one time (3) Can respond to system’s exit command; like EXIT button, USB connection, scheduler recording. 6.3.2 Tools menu In playback interface there are 4 options in the TOOLS menu: 1 Playback mode Normal: Start playing the current file, until the last file in current folder Random: Randomly pick and play a song in the current folder Repeat One: Repeat playback of the current file Repeat All: After playing the last file in the current folder, it will return to -34- playing the first file Note Repeat playback will only play songs in the current playlist, if the playback starts before the index loads all the files then repeat playback cannot be used. 2 Add to playlist Add the current file to one of the 7 playlists, if the playlist is full, it will display a “playlist is full” message 3 EQ & 3D Offers 5 sound effects— Default, Rock, Pop, Waltz and Disco. 4 A-B playback Repeat playback the section between point A and point B of current file 6.3.3 ID3 Tags ID3 tags contain information about the song. The information includes the name of the artist, the album, and the title of the song; if the data is present, the player will display them on the screen when it plays the file. If title is not present, the player will use the file name to substitute. 6.3.4 Synchronous Lyric Display This function supports LRC format lyric. Interface is as shown in the picture: (1) Download the music file and the corresponding LRC format lyric file (2) Put both files in the same folder (3) Make sure both the music file and the lyric file have the same file name Example: hello.MP3, hello.LRC Lyrics can be displayed in multiple lines, a different color will be used for the lyric being played. -35- 6.4 Playlist Selecting “Playlist” in the main menu will enter Playlist function, 7 playlists and the number of music files contained in each playlist will be displayed. Interface is as shown in the picture: Control button UP button: Highlight moves up DOWN button: Highlight moves down ENTER button: Enter “Playlist” EXIT button: Return to main menu TOOLS button: pops up tools menu RECORD button: Start AV recording MUSIC button: Start playback music in the playlist MUTE button: Enable/disable sound VOL +/- button: increase/decrease volume; if mute is on, increase/decrease volume will cancel mute. -36- SETUP button: enter setup interface HOME button: enter main menu Within the 7 playlist, there is a default playlist, the default playlist will use a special icon to separate it from other playlists. Each playlist can contain 200 music files. If the user presses the MUSIC button when non-playing, nonrecording and no USB connection, the player will start playback music from the default playlist. If the user enters the playlist from the main menu, the player will wait for the user’s command. User can change the default playlist in the playlist interface; user can also change the playlist name. There are 3 options in the TOOLS menu: 1 Delete Delete all music in the selected playlist 2 Rename Rename the selected playlist, can contain up to 30 characters 3 Set Default Set the selected playlist to be the default playlist Note: (1) In the playlist browser interface selecting “delete” will only delete the selected music file (2) “Delete” function will not delete the music from the hard disk, will only delete the music from the playlist You can also use the PC to rename playlist, the name can contain up to 30 characters. When playing music in this function, most of the functions, control buttons, interface display are the same as playing files in the MUSIC function. The only difference is the playlist interface will display the selected playlist. As shown in -37- the picture: When playing music, the playback mode will be the last used mode in music function, also if you change the mode in this function; it will also affect the mode used in music function. During music playback you cannot add the playing file to the playlist; if the user presses the MUSIC button, the player will switch to the next playlist and start playback music ( play the first music by default ), and will switch to the next playlist and continue the playback; if the user did not press the MUSIC button, when the player finished playing all the music in the playlist, it will return to the playlist; If the user presses the MUSIC button during non-playing, non-recording and no USB connection, when the player starts playback music from the default playlist and finds out there is no music in it, the player will automatically change to the next playlist; if the playlist still contains no music files, the player will change to the next playlist until it goes over all the playlists. After the player goes over all the playlists and they don’t have any music files, it will display the playlist interface. When playing music in this function, and the music file cannot be played, the player will display “Cannot play this file”, an ERROR indicator will turn on for one second then turn off, and the player will then start playing the next file. 6.5 Sound Recording Using the player’s sound recording function, you can easily record your voice (by microphone), record TV, DVD player’s A/V sound channel (by line-in) into WAV files (cannot save as MP3 format). The RECORD interface is as shown in the picture: By microphone: using the built-in mic to record sounds; By line-in: using the A/V cable or Line-in cable to connect peripheral equipment; Select “RECORD”, select one of the two recording methods to start the recording; select “PLAY” to open the recorded file playlist, you can then playback the recorded files. 6.5.1 Record After selecting the “RECORD” function, use the UP/DOWN button to select a recording method, press the ENTER button to start recording. The recording method selection interface is as shown in the picture: -38- (1) By mic: recording interface as shown in the picture: When using this method, all the sound in the environment will be recorded into the player. The recorded file will be saved as recorderYYMMDD_HHMMSS.wav. (YYMMDD_HHMMSS means the current system clock, YY: year, MM: month, DD: date, MM: minute, SS: second) When the recording time exceeds 2 hours, the player will automatically create another file, recorderYYMMDD_HHMMSS-1.wav. The recorded data of 0-2 hours will be saved in recorderYYMMDD_HHMMSS-.wav, 2-4 hours will be saved in recorderYYMMDD_HHMMSS-2.wav, 4-6 hours will be saved in recorderYYMMDD_HHMMSS-3, etc. (2) Line-in: The interface and save method is the same as MIC recording, the different is Line-in uses the A/V cable to connect the peripheral equipment and record the sound channel. During recording, sounds from the environment will not be recorded. Line-in connection is as shown in the picture: White cable (left channel) Red cable (right channel) During recording, press the ENTER button to pause or resume the recording; if you want to stop the recording, press the EXIT button to stop and save the recording. 6.5.2 Play The recorded files will be saved in the recorder folder, you can select and enter the RECORD function, then select the PLAY function to display all the contents in the recorder folder, you can select the recorded file and start playback. You can press the TOOLS button to select the order of the list: ascend name or file size; can select DELETE to delete the unwanted files. Before deleting a warning will be displayed. Caution: The player can only playback non-encode WAV files, other files will display as “This file cannot be played”. During playback, you can press the TOOLS button to select: search by time or search the starting point. (Interface is as shown in the picture) 6.6 Photo This player supports .JPEG, .JPG, .CRW, .BMP file format. -39- In the main menu interface select “Photo” will enter photo function. After entering the function, the player will go over all the files and only display .JPEG, .JPG, .CRW, .BMP files and sub-directory. Files displayed in the list will not be sorted by default. Interface is as shown in the picture: Control button: UP button: Highlight moves up DOWN button: Highlight moves down ENTER button: Enter folder/display picture EXIT button: Return to main menu TOOLS button: Pop up tools menu RECORD button: Start AV recording MUSIC button: Start playback music in the playlist MUTE button: Enable/disable mute VOL +/- button: Increase/decrease volume; if mute is on, increase/decrease volume will also cancel mute. SLIDE SHOW button: Start slide show SETUP button: Enter setup interface HOME button: Enter main menu There are 4 options in the TOOLS menu: (1) Sort: The files will be sorted by name. (2) Slide show: It will show the pictures one by one. (3) Interval: Set the duration time that each picture shows on the screen. The options are 3 seconds, 5 seconds and 7 seconds. -40- (4) Delete: delete the selected file or folder. CAUTION: All the deleted files or folders cannot be recovered. Be careful! In all photo display modes (Full-screen mode, Zoom mode, Slide show mode), background music can be played. You can choose to display photos with or without background music in SETUP menu. (Please refer to 6.11.4 for details). In all photo display modes, if there is no background music, you can press the MUSIC button to start the playback of songs in the default playlist; if there is background music, press the MUSIC button to start the playback of songs in the next playlist of the default one; if the player has shifted to the last playlist, press MUSIC button and then it will play the songs in the first playlist. Note: (1) When displaying the photos, no matter which mode you are in, the background music will not stop until you return to the file list interface. (2) The player will turn black or show error information for photos with wrong formats or for photos which are too large to decode. 6.6.1 Full-screen mode Select the photo you want to view in the PHOTO menu and press the ENTER button. The photo then will be shown in the full-screen mode. In full-screen mode, you can select zoom; also use the OSD button to display the information of current picture (file name, file resolution rate, encode type) Control Button UP button: Clockwise rotate the picture 90°. DOWN button: Anticlockwise rotate the picture 90°. LEFT button: Display the previous picture. -41- RIGHT button: Display the next picture. ENTER button: Enter the zoom mode EXIT button: Return to the PHOTO interface MUTE button: Enable/disable sound VOL +/- buttons: Increase/reduce volume; if mute is on, increase/decrease volume will also cancel mute. ZOOM button: Zoom on/off SLIDE SHOW button: Start viewing photos in slide show mode OSD button: Display the information of photo, as shown in the picture: Beside the above control buttons, the TOOLS menu also offers 3 functions as follow: (1)Slide show: start to display photos in slide show mode (2)Interval: adjust the duration time of each photo (3)Delete: delete the displayed file. CAUTION: All the deleted files or folders cannot be recovered. Be careful! -42- When you exit to the photo file list, the current file will be highlighted. Note: (1) If the current shown photo is the first one, it will show the last photo when you change to previous one; if the current shown photo is the last one, it will show the first photo when you change to next one. (2) After selecting Delete, it will immediately show the next photo. If the current shown photo is the last one, then the first photo will be shown; if all the photos are deleted, the player will automatically return to file list interface. 6.6.2 Zoom mode You can only enter the Zoom mode by pressing the ENTER button when you are already in Full-screen mode. Interface is as shown in picture: When zooming, it’s multiple or rate will be shown on the screen. Control buttons: UP button: Move photo up DOWN button: Move photo down LEFT button: Move photo left RIGHT button: Move photo right ENTER button: Return to the full-screen mode EXIT button: Return to the PHOTO interface MUSIC button: Turn on background music/change the playlist MUTE button: Enable/disable sound VOL +/- buttons: Increase/reduce volume; if mute is on, increase/decrease volume will also cancel mute. -43- 6.6.3 Slide show mode In file list interface, press TOOLS button to select Slide show, and the slide show of photos will just start from the selected position. There are seven modes of slide show NORMAL, Fly Around, Fade In Fade Out, Melt, Shutter, Wave, Shuffle. You can choose in the SETUP application interface. During playback, only playback photos in the current folder will be viewed; if a folder is being selected, the player will start the playback from the first photo in the selected folder. You can also choose a certain interval time of playing photos in slide show mode. Note: You can choose the interval time of playing photos in slide show mode in the file list interface. 6.7 Browser In the main menu interface use the direction button to select “Browser”, press the ENTER button to enter browser interface, information of partition will be displayed. The interface is as shown in the picture: Select and enter a partition, the Music folder, Video folder, DVR folder, Photo folder, E-book folder, Recorder folder and System folder are system folders and should not be deleted. These seven folders contain corresponding files of Music, Video, DVR, Photo, E-book, Recorder, and System functions. If any of these folders is deleted or folder name is changed, the system will set up a new corresponding folder. The contents of a renamed folder will not be shown in the corresponding function. When displaying the file list, supported files will not be sort in any order. -44- The player will playback all the files in the file list, start from the file where the highlight begins at until the last file in the file list. Only the basic playback function will be available when playback files in the BROWSER interface, those special functions (functions in the TOOLS menu) of Video, Music, and Photo interface might not be available. Note: When using a high capacity hard disk, an organized folder structure can improve the player performance. 6.7.1 Browsing the folder structure Control button UP button: Moves highlight up DOWN button: Moves highlight down ENTER button: Enter folder/playback file EXIT button: Return to main menu RECORD button: Start AV recording MUSIC button: start playing playlist’s music in order MUTE button: Enable/disable sound VOL +/- button: Increase/decrease volume; if mute is on, increase/decrease volume will also cancel mute. SETUP button: Enter setup interface HOME button: Enter main menu This player has five functions under the TOOLS menu for regular operation. -45- 1 Control In the Browser interface, the player can copy or move files from one location to another. Copy: (1) Select the file or folder which needs to be copied. (2) Press TOOLS button and select “Copy” (3) Select the destination folder. (4) Press TOOLS button and select “Paste”. Cut: (1) Select the file or folder which needs to be cut. (2) Press TOOLS button and select “Cut” (3) Select the destination folder. (4) Press TOOLS button and select “Paste”. -46- During paste, the player will display file size, file name and copy progress, if the file cannot be copied the player will display “cannot copy”. The screen will divide into two sides, left side displays the source, right side displays the destination. Cancel, USB, power off are all functional during paste, cancel paste will need confirmation. NOTE: 1. It will take longer time when the file size is larger than 100M. Please be patient during the copy operation. We suggest you use the computer to do this kind of operation. 2. Before selecting “Paste”, you must select the file or folder that is copied or cut. The file or the folder can only be pasted once. To paste again, please reselect the file or folder. 3. When “Copy” and “Cut” functions are selected continuously, the player will select the last operation as the default one. (2) Create folder Create a new folder in the current directory. The default folder name is “new folder1”, “new folder2” and so on. (50 folders can be created following this naming system.) (3) Delete Delete the file permanently from the player. CAUTION: All the delete operations are not reversible. Be careful! (4) Sort Sort by name - Files will be sorted by the file name. Sort by size – Files will be sorted by the file size -47- Reverse – Reverse the current list order (5) Send to Send the files to the corresponding folders. Details as follow: 1 If the video files are not in the video folder, cut and paste the files to the video folder. 2 If the music files are not in the music folder, cut and paste the files to the music folder. 3 If the photo files are not in the photo folder, cut and paste the files to the photo folder. The steps for sending files are: (1) Select the file that needs to be sent (2) Press the TOOLS button, select “send to”, file will then move to the destination folder Note Contents in the memory card will not be allowed to be directly sent to the corresponding folder on the hard disk. File list icon: Folder, video file, music file, photo file, unknown file, upgrade file. When the highlight stops at a folder, press the ENTER button to display the content of the folder, when the highlight stops at a file, press ENTER to start playing that file, if the selected file is not supported, an “unknown file” message will display and exit playback. If the file is AVI/VOB/MPG/DAT/MP4, it will be recognized as a video file, if the file is MP3/WMA/OGG, will be recognized as a music file, if the file is JPG/JPEG/BMP, will be recognized as a photo file, if the file is not supported, the file header is not correct or the file is corrupted, the player will display “cannot play this file”. When the highlight stops at bin system file, press the ENTER button, the player will ask if you want to start system upgrade, selecting yes will start upgrade of the system. At the bottom of the screen is: Partition number and Volume. Note (1) Exit the browser interface after selecting the copy or cut command, the command will cancel (2) If there are a lot of files (>2000) the player will display the required time for copying (3) The file list will only read 4000 files in the current directory; the rest will not be read. -48- 6.7.2 Ebook To satisfy customer needs, this player has the ebook function, it can display file in .txt format. After selecting an ebook file, press the enter key to start viewing the ebook. The viewing interface is as shown in the picture: Control button Up button: display the previous page Down button: display the next page LEFT: Enter the auto-show mode; automatically show the previous page one after another. RIGHT: Enter the auto-show mode; automatically show the next page one after another. Enter button: appear the page number interface ESC button: cancel the reading interface Notice: In the Auto-show mode, pressing the Direction button, Enter button, Tools button, or Record button will cancel the Auto-show mode. During the reading, you may press “Tools” button to select the Tools function. (1) Auto -show Select the interval time for auto-show mode. The speed levels are: slow, medium and fast. Once you choose a speed, you will enter the auto-show mode immediately. (2) Set bookmark If you are reading an e-book and would like to place a bookmark there, which can let you continue reading it from this point in the future, you can simply select the “Set bookmark” function on the Tools menu, and it will set a bookmark in the current page. Next time, when you read this E-book file, it will present three options as the following: Resume: Start reading from the bookmarked position. Ignore: Keep the bookmark but start from the very beginning. Clear: Clear the bookmark from this file and start reading from the very beginning. Notice: You can only set one bookmark per file. Setting a new bookmark will replace the old one. -49- (3) Page search You can start to read the e-book from the selected page. Control Buttons: Up button: Increase parameter Down button: Decrease parameter Left button: Move highlight left Right button: Move highlight right Enter button: Switch to the page you have selected ESC button: Cancel the operation 6.8 Memory Card Copy In the main menu interface use the direction button to select “Card”, press the ENTER button to enter the card interface. The supported memory cards are MS/MS PRO/MS DUO (need adaptor)/MMC/MMC PLUS/SD. If there is no memory card inserted, the player will display “No memory Card!” Before copy, the player will calculate the free space in the hard disk, if the free space is not enough; the player will notify the user, exit card copy and turn on the ERROR indicator light. If the usable space is enough for copying all the contents in the memory card to the current partition in the hard disk, the player will create a new folder in the root directory in the current partition. Card copy function will create the folder name as: XXX_YYMMDD_HHMMSS (XXX represents the memory card type: ”MS”, “SD”, “MMC”, YY: year, MM: month, DD: date, HH: hour, MM: minute, SS: second). -50- During copying, the player will display the total file size, the copying file’s name, the copying file’s size and approximate copy time. The player will respond to Cancel, USB, power off and other system commands during copying. Pressing the EXIT button, will display “cancel copy?” after choosing cancel copy; the player will save the copied files and delete the current copying file. When copy is finished, the player will enter the new folder and display the contents. When copy error occurs, the ERROR indicator light will turn on; the player will save the copied files and delete the copying file. -51- 6.9 USB 6.9.1 Connecting the Player to Computer Please refer to 4.2.1 for the steps of connecting the player to a computer. After the connection, the player will automatically enter the USB interface, as shown in the picture: Notice: The system will have a different response time with a different hard disk, so after using USB to connect to computer, the computer may take 10 seconds to 1 minute before it can find the hard disk, please be patient. Different operating systems will have different responses: Windows ™ ME, 2000, XP After the connection, the player will be recognized as a Mass Storage Device and will appear as a new drive within a few seconds. Same as Windows Explorer, you can drag/drop files to/from the hard disk of the player through the method of cut, paste, copy and delete. If your computer cannot automatically recognize the player, please refer to the Troubleshooting section in this manual. Windows® 98SE You need to install the USB driver first. Please refer to the instructions in the supplied driver CD. After the computer restarts, you can use windows explorer to cut, copy, delete and paste to put the files in or out from the player. Please note there is also a user manual included in the USB driver CD. CAUTION: If the player shuts down when connected to the computer, catalog destruction or data loss might occur. 6.9.2 Disconnecting the Player from Computer To disconnect the player safely, click on the system tray remove icon (green arrow as shown below) and follow the instructions. Wait until your computer shows a message saying that you can safely unplug the device, and then disconnect the USB cable. (1) The remove icon is on the system tray. -52- (2) Click on the icon to pop-up the “Safely remove device” message, select “USB Mass Storage Device”, and click on the “Stop” icon. (3) “Stop a hardware device” dialogue, and click on the “OK” icon. (4) There will be a message indicating that it is now safe to remove USB Mass Storage Device. After that you can go ahead and unplug the USB cable from the player. In Windows® 98SE, you can unplug the USB cable immediately after the data transferring finishes (when the indicator stops flashing). None of the above steps is necessary. ▲CAUTION: Please follow the instructions when you disconnect your player to the computer. Do not pull out the USB cable during data transferring, or it may cause data loss or freezing of your player or computer. 6.10 USB-OTG Please refer to 4.2.3for the procedure of connecting the USB cable to the USB OTG cable. The player will enter the USB transfer interface automatically and prompt you with the “start to copy” window, as shown in the picture: Press the “Enter” button to start copying, a window will display “USB is copying…” and the indicator will start flashing, which indicates the player is copying all the contents in the USB device to the hard disk, the file name will be the current time USB_YYMMDD_HHMMSS. -53- When the copying process is finished, the player will prompt you: “Finished copying, please disconnect the USB device”. Please unplug the USB OTG cable first and then the USB cable. After that, it will return to main menu with the “Browser” function highlighted. Press the “Enter” button to display the copied files. If an error occurs during the copying process, the player will prompt you: “Copying error, please disconnect the USB device”. You may disconnect the USB device and try again later. There is something you may pay attention to when you use the OTG function of USB: (1) The system format of the player and the device must be FAT32, which is the format Windows adopt. (2) Do not unplug the USB cable during the copying process, copying error will occur. (3) Make sure the battery is full or connect the player to the AC/DC adapter before copying. 6.11 Firmware Update Updating the firmware will provide you with more functions and a more stable and reliable product. BROWSER Interface: Connect your player to your computer, and then copy the latest updated file (xxx.bin) to the root directory of the player. If there already is an older version of the updated file in your player, the system will ask if you want to overwrite it. After copying the update file, disconnect the player from computer. Then enter the browser interface. Select the update file and press the ENTER button to update. The whole process will take about 2 minutes. CAUTION: (1) Before the updating process, please make sure the updated file matches the player being used. (2) It is recommended to use AC adapter during updating process. Make sure that the player will not be shut down to avoid an unwanted error. (3) After updating please delete the updated file (xxx.bin). -54- 6.12 Setup In the main menu interface use the direction button to select “Setup”, press the ENTER button to enter the setup interface. The setup interface is as shown in the picture: Control button UP button: Move highlight up DOWN button: Move highlight down ENTER button: Enter selected option EXIT button: Return to main menu HOME button: Enter main menu 6.12.1 Language Setup In the setup interface, select “language” to change system language, as shown in the picture: Control button UP button: Highlight moves up -55- DOWN button: Highlight moves down ENTER button: accept the changes EXIT button: Return to language interface HOME button: enter main menu 6.12.2 Display Setup In the setup interface, select “Display” to setup parameters for screen settings, the interface is as shown in the picture: Control button UP button: Highlight moves up DOWN button: Highlight moves down ENTER button: accept the changes EXIT button: Return to display interface HOME button: enter main menu Parameter Interface Theme Backlight Off Description blue sky 30,60,90 seconds or Never. Auto Backlight Off time setting The player allows you to set time for backlight off. If you choose 30,60,90 seconds, and no operation is implemented during this period, the system will shut off the backlight automatically. If you choose Never, the backlight off function will not work. -56- 6.12.3 Sound Setup In the setup interface, select “Sound” to enter sound setup interface, you can change the volume, balance and audio track settings. Interface is as shown in the picture: Control button UP button: Highlight moves up DOWN button: Highlight moves down ENTER button: accept the changes EXIT button: Return to setup interface HOME button: enter main menu Parameter Volume Volume Balance Mute Audio Track Description 18 class 0-18 10 class 0-105 is the middle value balance value. Mute on/Mute off Left channel/Right channel/Stereo The changes will be saved when exiting the sound setup interface. -57- 6.12.4 Application Setup In the setup interface, selecting “Application” can setup Real Time, Background Music and Photo Display Mode, FM On-off setting and FM frequency setting. 1 Real Time This interface contains 4 parts, left side from top to bottom are Year, Month and Time, right side displays current Date, Time is 24 hour format and display Hour, Minute and Second. 1. These 4 parts in the interface are contained in 4 boxes, the selected box will become green, and the unselected box is white. 2. This interface has 2 modes Mode 1, normal display mode Mode 2, Time setup mode (1) In Mode 1: Time will update in real time. Control Button -58- Direction buttons: can switch between boxes ENTER button: can enter the corresponding setup mode, which means Mode 2 mentioned above EXIT button: exit real time setup interface (2) In Mode 2: Time will stop update Control Button Direction buttons: can change current parameter ENTER button: accept changes and return back to Mode 1 EXIT button: cancel changes and return back to Mode 1 Note: (1) The range of Year is [2001, 2037] (2) The range of Month is [1, 12] (3) The range of Date depends on Year and Month (4) The range of Hours are [00, 23] (5) The range of Minutes are [00, 59] (6) Seconds cannot be changed (7) The changing of Year and Month might affect the date and week 2 Background Music: Selecting the background music switch will affect the background music playback in picture function 3 Photo Display Modes: NORMAL, Fly Around, Fade In Fade Out, Melt, Shutter, Wave, Shuffle. 4 FM On-off: turn on or turn off the FM 5 FM frequency setting: if the FM is off, the frequency cannot be set, if the -59- FM is on, the frequency can be set and changed. 6.12.5 System Setup In Setup interface, select “System” and you can check software version, hard disk information, and partition information, hardware information, setup power off time, and restore default setting. Interface is as shown in the picture: Control button UP button: Highlight moves up DOWN button: Highlight moves down ENTER button: accept the changes EXIT button: Return to setup interface HOME button: enter main menu Hard disk partition usage and explanation: (1) This player’s system default partition is one FAT32 format partition. (2) This player can support up to four FAT32 format partitions. -60- (3) This player supports NTFS format partition. Requirement: the first partition of HDD cannot be the NTFS format, it must be FAT32 format it only accepts read-only visit, which means you cannot record, set bookmark, use the music broadcast list, delete, copy, cut, set file or file folder. (4) “Partition Information” in “System” option displays hard disk partition information. The partition with a “*” mark represents the current partition. Partition Information will display the total size, used size and free size of current partition. Control Button UP/DOWN button: select partition ENTER button: switch partition EXIT button: exit Note: System information is according to the actual product Special Note: (1) Data will be lost when you format the hard disk or repartition the hard disk. (2) After repartition through USB, in case of unwanted error, please restart the player. Hardware information: Display hardware version, hard disk model, and hard disk serial number. 6.12.6 Output Setup In the setup interface, selecting “Output” can change the values of output parameters. Interface is as shown in the picture: -61- Parameter Video Output Type Video Output Value Description LCD A/V PAL, NTSC When Video Output Type is LCD, the changes made to the output value are for A/V output, so the player will not show any changes. It will change according to the changed value when the Video Output Type is set to A/V. After selecting a video output type, the video output value will change to the corresponding value. -62- 7. Troubleshooting Question 1.My computer does not recognize my player. Answer: (1) Make sure the player is on. If it is off, the computer will not be able to find the player. (2) Make sure the player is connected to computer. (Refer to 4.2.1 for connecting player to computer) (3) When using Windows 98SE, install the USB driver first. After installation, restart the computer. Then reconnect the player to the computer. (Refer to 4.2.1 for connecting player to computer) (4) If you installed the Windows 98SE driver over your Windows® XP, 2000, or ME edition, problems might occur. (5) It is not recommended to use the USB ports in the front of your computer, try to use the USB ports in the back, because the USB ports in the front are often from non-powered hubs. Question 2. When I try to disconnect the USB device, I keep on getting “The device ‘Generic volume’ cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later.” message, what should I do? Answer: Close any program that might be accessing data on the player, including Windows® Explorer. If it does not work, close all programs and wait for another 20 seconds, then try the green arrow icon again. If it still does not work, you should shut down the player and disconnect the USB cable. Question 3. I find new file names and folder names that I never created before or they have strange gibberish names. Answer: Most likely, the player’s file allocation table (FAT) has been corrupted. This might be due to the player shutting down (due to low battery power) while reading or writing to your computer by the USB connection. Windows and Macintosh often write extra files to the hard disk such as finder.def or System volume info. These are normal and will not do any harm to the player. -63- Question 4. I used my player to transfer files back and forth between different computers. Will defragmenting the player hard disk do any harm to it? Answer: Defragmenting the player hard disk may be useful after having transferred many files to and from the player. It is never harmful to use the defragment on the player. Make sure no other programs are running while using the Windows ® defragment utility. Make sure you have connected the player with the external power adapter during this procedure. Question 5. I want to format the player’s hard disk. Answer: You can do this, but it will erase ALL of the data on your player. Sometimes this may be necessary if your FAT (File Allocation Table) becomes too corrupted that nothing seems to fix your file problems. Question 6. I would like to partition the player hard disk. Answer: If you know how to partition a hard disk, this is OK. The player will, however, only recognize a FAT32 partition. Thus it will only use a FAT32 partition. Question 7. My files have disappeared from the player. Answer: Make sure that you browse your files via the Browser mode and not a filtered view such as Photo, Music, or Video. Question 8. Why some supported format photos cannot be shown in the photo function? Answer: In the JPEG format there are some different modes. The player doesn’t support all the modes. So you have to change your photo format first as follows: (1) Use Photoshop to open the photo. (2) Choose ”File” then “save as” from the menu, as the picture on the left -64- hand side shows, select the picture format as JPEG, input the file name and click the “save” icon. (3)After click on the “save” icon, a new window will appear as the picture on the right hand side shows, select “Baseline (standard)” or “Baseline optimized”. (4) Click the “OK” icon. Question 9. After dividing the hard disk into multiple partitions and not shutting down the player, why is the Hard Disk Information in the SETUP interface not correct? Answer: Please restart your player, and check the Hard Disk Information again. Question 10. How can I format a hard disk (above 40 GB) into a FAT32 partition? Answer: Windows 2000/XP can view a FAT32 partition within the capacity of 128GB, but the format tool in Windows 2000/XP can only format FAT32 partition within the capacity of 32GB. If you need to format any FAT32 partition beyond the capacity of 32GB, please use other third party format tools, like NortonPartitionMagic 8.0. -65- Question 11. Why can .mp4 files not be played? Answer: The player does not support .mp4 files, but you can use a third party program like Ulead Video ToolBox2 to convert .mp4 files into .avi files which is supported by the player. Question 12. During TV recording, if you pause the recording then resume, why is there a short blank screen during playback? Answer: When you resume a recording after a pause, there may be a huge difference in the screen between the break, a blank screen occurs after the pause (approx. 1 sec) is normal. -66- 8. Additional Information 8.1 Specification Product Name Hard Disk Display Audio Output Video Output Power Source Size Weight Operating Temperature System Requirement Portable Multimedia Player 2.5” (40G, 80G) 7” TFT-LCD 480RGB (H) x 234(V)pixel 16.7M color Stereo earphone: 16 Ω 10mW+10mW Built-in speaker: 8Ω 0.8W Line out: 1KΩ 0-3V Composite video output signal: PAL, NTSC Battery: Exchangeable Lithium ion battery Capacity: 7.2V/2800mAh Recharge time: 4 hours AC adaptor: Input: 100-240V 50/60HZ Output:12V/2A Approx. 202x116x26.5mm (7.95”x4.57”x1.04”) approx. g Working temperature: 5℃-35℃ Storage temperature: -20℃-45℃ Operating System: 98SE/ME/2000/XP USB: USB2.0, USB-OTG System Format: FAT32 -67- 8.2 Supported File Type Type Audio Playback Video Playback Description File Format Bit Rate Tag File Format Video Codec Audio Codec Photo DVR Audio Bit Rate Resolution FPS Subtitle File Format Resolution Codec Output File Format Video Compress Resolution Recording Quality MP3, WMA, OGG 32Kbps-320Kbps ID3 V1, ID3 V2 AVI, MPG ,VOB, DAT, MP4 MPEG-4 ASP@ L5 without QPEL and GMC MPEG-2 MP@ML,MPEG-1 MP3 stereo,PCM, ADPCM 32Kbps~192Kbps 720*576(PAL) 25fps(PAL),30fps(NTSC) SRT,SMI,SSA JPG,JPEG(interlaced only),BMP, CRW Up to 3100*2100 Audio:ADPCM Video: MPEG4-SP@L3 AVI Auto detect Video System PAL: Up to 720x576@25fps NTSC: Up to 720x480@30fps High (resolution: 720 x 480 or 720 x 576, 4Mbps) 40GB hard disk space can record up to approx. 18 hours; Medium (resolution: 720 x 480 or 720 x 576, 2Mbps) 40GB hard disk space can record up to approx. 36 hours; Low (resolution: 720 x 480 or 720 x 576, 1Mbps) 40GB hard disk space can record up to approx. 60 hours; Compact (resolution: 720 x 480 or 720 x 576, 800Kbps) 40GB hard disk space can record up to approx. 72 hours; -68- 8.3 Copyrights and Trademarks Copyrights All rights reserved. No part of this manual may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission from the copyright holder. According to copyright law, no recorded data may be used for purposes other than personal enjoyment without permission from the copyright holder. Trademarks Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their respective holders. 8.4 Warranty 1 Year What your warranty does not cover: -Acts of nature, such as fire, static discharge. -Damage from unauthorized repair, alteration or accident. -Damage from misuse or neglect. -A unit that has been modified or incorporated into other products or is used for institutional or other commercial purposes. -Loss of customer’s software, firmware, information, or memory data. -Improper handling or installation. -69- -70-