Button controls while playing a video le Vol + Vol Rew. FF HSR HSA O X
Vol. + ol. l H HSA Rew. HSR Vol. FF F >I X
Increase volume Decrease volume Fast Forward Fast forward High speed reverse High speed advance Play/Pause Stop
Video Browser Action Icons
Hide the Thumbnails Reset thumbnails. The thumbnail images on the right side of the screen will be reset to their original default setting.
Video Playback Action Icons
While a video le is playing, click on the Select action button. The action icons on the right of the screen allow you to make video adjustments to your personal taste. Play & Sound Settings Use this setting if you would like to have the video les play one after the other, or just play one and stop. You can also adjust the sound settings and the amount of time the On Screen Display (OSD) information remains on the screen when you start a video le. Built-in Speakers Turn on or off the built-in loud speakers. Slow Motion Put the video into slow-motion view. You can cycle through the values Normal , , , and 1/8 speed. The sound is muted when in slow motion. While in slow mode and paused, you can step image per image with the RIGHT button. Set Screen Format Video les come in various aspect ratios. That is, they can be TV sized (almost a square image), or in cinema size (much longer than high). To change the screen to your personal tastes, the following screen format options are available.
Auto Format Maximized Image Full Picture Format Set a Book mark If you are watching a video and would like to place a bookmark in it in order to continue from this point at another time, you can use the Bookmark function. Highlight the icon and click on the Select action button. This will set a bookmark in the video le at the current position. You can only set one bookmark per le. When you look at the le in your browser, it will have a yellow check mark on its icon indicating that this le has a bookmark set within it. You can have a maximum of 16 les book-marked. Setting more bookmarks will then start to erase the oldest bookmarks. The next time you play this video le, you will be presented with three options: Resume Ignore Clear Save as Thumbnail Save the current image on the screen as the video les thumbnail in the Video browser view. Start playing from the book-marked position. Keep the bookmark but start playing from the very beginning. Clear the bookmark from this le and start playing from the very beginning. Default mode. Adjusts the video size to best adapt to the built-in screen or television. Enlarge the image to ll the screen (LCD or TV). Sides may get slightly cut in this mode. The entire picture will always be seen on the television and the built-in screen. No cutting.

VIDEO Automated Yahoo! TV Recording Scheduler
For those who have a My Yahoo! account and use the calendar feature, the AV 700 can read the TV programs scheduled into your personal calendar and transmit these to your AV 700 to be included in the AV 700 scheduler. This way, you do not have to input all your scheduled recordings manually. You can sign up for an account and learn how to use the My Yahoo! TV and calendar functions at the Yahoo! Website (www.yahoo.com). Please note: Using the scheduler is particularly useful when you have the TV docking pod and you have set up the Infrared connector. Otherwise, the AV 700 will be unable to change channels on your tuner. It will record the currently selected channel. Furthermore, the AV 700 needs to be powered by a charger in order to go into standby mode rather than switch off completely. You must do the following: 1. Connect your AV 700 to your computer. 2. Go to your personal Yahoo! calendar which has your TV programs scheduled. 3. Choose the Week view starting with the current day as the beginning of the week. 4. Click on Printable View to show a cleaner printable version. 5. From your browser menu click on File > Save As to save the le. 6. Do not change the File Name, but do change the Save as Type to Web page, html only. Now save the le to the folder System on your AV 700. 7. Once you disconnect the AV 700 from your computer, the AV 700 will automatically update its scheduler with the newly saved TV programs from your My Yahoo! calendar. If the AV 700 encounters a television station name that it does not know the channel number for (was never set), it will indicate so, and direct you to go to the scheduler to manually assign a channel to the station name.
Notes: If the TV programs from your personal calendar do not seem to be correctly copied to the AV 700 scheduler, go to the ARCHOS web site to make sure that have the very latest version of the AV 700 rmware. Update your rmware (Operating System) as explained in the chapter Updating the AV 700 rmware Operating System. If you change your Yahoo! personal calendar by deleting some TV programs and adding new ones, only the new programs will be added to the AV 700 scheduler when you save the html le to the AV 700. If you want to delete scheduled items, you must do this in the AV 700 scheduler itself. Missed recordings (because you did not have the AV 700 connected to the docking pod at the record time) will be deleted from the scheduler. If a personal calendar recording event does not nd the station name in your list of channels, it will put the event into the scheduler and mark it with a ?, indicating that you must assign a channel number to the name. Move the cursor to the line containing the ?, and click on the action icon Set Channel. You can now scroll through the channel numbers and assign a number to the station name for that event. You only have to do this once. The AV 700 will keep the station name and its channel number.

VIDEO Setting the Infrared Emitter Code
This is a one time step to set your AV 700 to send the correct infrared codes to control your video cassette recorder, cable box, or satellite receiver. This is done so that the AV 700, via the TV docking pod, can turn on and off your video device and also change its channels. If you do not plan on making scheduled recordings, then you do not need to install the IR emitter or set the infrared emitter code.
Before beginning this procedure of setting the emitter code, your AV 700 must be connected to the TV docking pod, the pod powered with the charger/adapter, and the IR emitter connected to the pod. Hold the IR Emitter in front of the IR receptor (remote control reception panel on your tuner) so that the IR Emitter can control your device. See the chapter Connecting the TV Docking Pod to your Television System section Connection 5 : the Infrared Emitter of this manual if you do not know where the IR receptor on your VCR, cable box, or satellite receiver is located. Once you have veried that the AV 700 is controlling your VCR, cable box, or satellite receiver, (explained below) you can peal off the white ring protecting the adhesive, and stick the IR emitter to your device.
Your tuner may be your VCR, cable box, or satellite receiver.
7.1 Part 1: Choose your Device and Brand
Select the Settings action icon and click on the TV Control icon. 1. Select the type of device that you will stick your IR Emitter to. You have the choice of either a VCR (video cassette recorder), Cable Box, or Satellite Receiver. 2. Select the brand of your device. 3. Click on Tune IR Emitter button. 4. The TV Channels button allows you to give names to each channel. For example, if channel 6 is CNN where you live, then you can give channel 6 that name in this screen. Or, if you use the My Yahoo! personal calendar to set your recording scheduler, the AV 700 will allow you to assign a channel number to a station name given from your scheduled TV programs. (see the chapter Automated Yahoo! TV Recording Scheduler for details).
Part 2: Finding the Right Emitter Codes
This screen allows you to correctly set the codes and parameters to allow the Infrared emitter to correctly control your tuner (VCR, cable box, or satellite receiver). 1. Tune device code (one code available): Some manufacturers use only one code for all of their products. The code does not change from one model to another or from one year to another. In this case, there will only be one single code available. You can now test the channel select. 2. Tune device code (multiple codes available): Some makers of video equipment dont use the same set of control codes for all of their products. They have various code sets for various models and various years. You will have to try each of the codes to nd

out which code works with your device. In the example screen, you see the code V009. If this code does not work when doing the Test: channel select, advance it to the next code and then test to see if that next code works. 3. Test channel select: When you press the Test channel select button (highlight test channel select and press ENTER), the AV 700 will send a signal through the docking pod to the infrared emitter and change the channel on your tuner (VCR, cable box, or satellite receiver). If the Number of digits parameter is set to three, it will try to select channel 123. If that parameter is set to 2, it will send the code for channel 12. If your tuner does not change channels when you click on this test button, try the next code for your device (step 2 above). 4. Test ON/OFF: When you click on the Test On/Off button, the AV 700 will send a signal to the infrared emitter and turn your device on or off. Click this test button again and your device should change from on to off or off to on. If pressing this button does not turn your device on or off, try the next code for your device (step 2 above). If none of the codes work, check that the infrared emitter is stuck directly over the infrared sensor on your tuner device. Note: In some rare cases the ON/OFF functionality may not work. 5. Tune channel select: These four parameters usually do not need to be set. Keep the default values to start with. See the table below for an explanation of each.

Parameter

Key: -/-Number of digits Key: Enter Key Delay

Description

Set this to On if normally, you have to press this same key on your devices remote control in order to select a channel. Set the number of digits that your device can recognize for a channel. Example: Set to 3 if you need to choose a channel greater than channel 99. Set this to On if normally, you have to press the Enter key on your devices remote control after you enter the channel number. Example: If you normally press 1, 3, Enter for channel 13, then you would need to set this parameter to On. Change the delay between the emission of each digit of a channel. You may need to adjust this if the AV 700 seems to send only half the digits of a channel or more digits of a channel. Example: Adjust the key delay and retest channel select if it sends channel 2 instead of 12 or sends 112 instead of 12.

For Windows XP, click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices Properties > Hardware, choose Audio Codecs, then click on Properties. You will nd a list here of all the audio codecs that are installed on your computer. Decoding of MPEG 2 video les is currently not supported by MPEG-4 Translator. These are usually.mpg or.mpeg format les, not the required AVI le. There are other tools found on the Internet (FlaskMPEG, Rippack, etc.) that may be downloaded in order to help you with these le types. A good starting place is the website www.digital-digest.com.
9.2 Using MPEG-4 Translator
Here you see the image of the main MPEG-4 Translator program. When you rst run the program, if the required codec has not been installed yet. You should download the codec and install it on your computer. If the Virtual dub program has not been installed, you will also be notied, and you should install it (either with the ARCHOS Installation Utility or the Virtual Dub website). If you have placed the Virtual Dub program in a folder other than the installer default folder, it will ask you to locate the le. Select Source & Destination Files In this example, a source le 24 hours of Lemans.avi has been selected as the source video. You can see on the bottom of the window its original characteristics (width 720, height 576, frame rate 30). Next, you must then tell the program where to place (Set Destination le) the newly recoded version of the le (dont worry, it will not erase the original). You should give it a new descriptive name, such as shown above Lemans_AV 700.avi. Make sure you add the.avi extension.
Change Settings Next, you can change the parameters (Change Settings) of the encoder to adjust the level of quality of the nal image. Like MP3 music, the higher the bit rate setting is made, the higher the quality of the music, or video in this case, that you will get. However, this will also take up more space on your hard drive. A setting of 900 kbps will give you a nice looking image for viewing on a television. For near DVD quality, you can set it up to 1200 kbps.
Target & Priority If the AV 700 device is not listed, select ARCHOS Default. You will see a Priority box appear. This control is to allow you to select which feature of the video to be guarded. If for example you are re-encoding a video le that is 800x600 in resolution and 30 frames per second, this is beyond the maximum resolution that the AV 700 can play. Thus, the MPEG-4 Translator program will have to decrease the resolution. Choosing LCD optimizes the nal video format for viewing on the built in LCD screen. Choosing the TV option will optimize the movie to keep the highest possible frame rate. You can see what the size and frame rate will be by looking at the Video Image Size : Destination parameters. When choosing TV, it is understood that the output will be optimized for a television, and not the built-in screen. Start Click on Start and the program will call Virtual Dub to start processing the video. Depending on the power and speed of your computer, this could take real time (a 60 minute long video re-encoded in about 60 minutes) or much longer. As shown to the left, you will see the progress as it processes the video le. If the Start button is grayed out, it would be for one of two reasons. 1) The source le is not a true AVI le. Even if the le name ends with.avi, the internal le data determines if it is truly an AVI le. 2) The Virtual Dub program was not located when MPEG-4 Translator was started up. Close the program, restart it, and make sure you locate the Virtual Dub program.

when highlighting a folder, artist, or album. All the contents of the folder, artist, or album will be added (that is, appended) or inserted before the selected song in the current Playlist. You can jump back and forth between the browser and the Playlist by selecting the Focus buttons. A Playlist can have a maximum of 5000 songs. We recommend that you save your Playlists.

12.3 Saving a Playlist

It is recommended that each time you create a Playlist, you save it to a separate folder called Playlists. These lists take very little space on your hard drive and if well named, give you easy access to your favorite songs. Go to the Playlist by selecting Music from the main menu and then select the Open Playlist panel action icon. You will then see the list of songs in the current Playlist. Use the action button to focus on the right panel, then select the Manage Playlists action icon, and select Save. ATTENTION: Make sure that your left panel is the Playlists folder because the open panel on the left is the location the AV 700 will be saving your Playlist to. Save Close Rename Clear Shufe Saves the current playlist to the folder open in the left panel. The * after the Playlist name indicates that this playlist has not been saved. Clears the Playlist and closes the Playlist panel. Renames the current playlist. Clears the contents of the current playlist. Randomly shufes the order of the songs in the current playlist.
The following Playlist action icons are also available Icon: Remove Track Icon: Move track
Will delete the highlighted song from the Playlist. It will not delete the actual song itself from your hard drive, just from the current Playlist. Allows you to change the place in the list of the highlighted song. Click on Move and then click on UP or DOWN to move the song up or down the list. Click OK when nished.
Important: Once you save a Playlist it is important that you do not move or rename the actual music les since the Playlist searches in the original le location. If you need to move your music les to a different folder, youll have to recreate your Playlist.
12.4 Adding songs to a Playlist while listening to Music
This can only be done if you have entered your Music folder via the Music icon and not by the general browser. To add the song you are listening to or any other song to the current Playlist, do the following: While playing a song, choose the action icon Playlist Editor. A new window will open with two panels, the hard drive contents on the left, and the Playlist on the right. Select the Focus on the left panel action icon to go to the hard drive browser panel. Select the song or folder of songs to add, then click PLAY or the action icon Add to Playlist. Click ESC to return to the playing screen. Remember to save your changes before closing the Playlist.

Repeat & Shufe Normal Repeat Shufe Intro duration Plays your songs one after the other and then stops after the last song. Continuously plays through the current set of songs (Artist, Album, folder, or Playlist). Randomly play through the current set of songs (Artist, Album, folder, or Playlist). From 10 to 90 seconds. This is the time for which each song will be played when selecting Scan for Playmode settings.

20.3 Clock Settings

The AV 700 has an internal real time clock. The time of day is shown on the top right of the screen in either 24 hour or 12 hour display mode. To set it, select the Settings action icon then select Clock.

Choose parameter

Choose value for highlighted parameter
When nished setting the parameters, move down to the Set button, then click on the ENTER button. The clock time and date are now set. Click on the STOP/ESC button to go back to the main settings menu.

20.4 Display Settings

These settings regulate the interface language and the presentation of the screen.

Setting

Language Action icon help TV Standard
The AV 700 can be set to English (default), French, German, Spanish, or Russian. Displays the explanation or name of the action icons when moving up and down through the menu. If set to On, the rst click on the SELECT action button will show the names of the icons. The second click will select the icon. NTSC (USA), PAL (Europe). In order to view images or videos on an external television, select one option to send the video signal compatible with your countrys television system. Countries other than European or American will use one of these two systems. 4:3 or 16:9 the ratio at which images are displayed on your television set. Internal LCD or External TV. To display via the built-in LCD screen or to view the display via an external television. Holding the LCD/TV button for two seconds will also alternate between these two options. Be sure your television is selecting the correct external input. 0, 1, 2. The 3 brightness levels for the built-in LCD screen. Setting to a lower value will give you a longer battery autonomy. Use this to reduce any screen LCD screen icker you might have. Move the setting to the left and right to get the clearest image. Time for which the video On Screen Display information will be shown when the video starts playing.

TV format Video Output

LCD Brightness LCD Stability
When accessing the Display settings while playing a video you have an additional display option: Video OSD

26.2 Charging and Power issues
You do not need to fully discharge the batteries before recharging them. Problem: A full battery charge does not last as long as the specications suggest. Answer: The specications are under the condition that the screen backlight goes off after 30 seconds (for music) and the user does not access the machine, it just sits and plays. If you get signicantly less time from a full charge, call our technical support hot-line.
26.3 AV 700 locks up (freezes operation) or Stops
Problem: The AV 700 locks-up. None of the buttons work. Solution: If the Lock buttons is set, none of the buttons respond. Hold down the unlock action button for three seconds to turn off the Lock buttons function. A freeze up could also be caused by electrostatic phenomena. That is, static electricity has temporarily knocked out the AV 700. Hold down on the STOP/OFF button for 15 seconds and the AV 700 will shut off. Restart it normally now.
26.4 File issues, corrupted data, formatting, and partitioning
Problem: I want to clean up my AV 700s hard drive, but Windows will not let me use the standard hard drive cleaning tools. Answer: This is because Windows sees your AV 700 as a Windows Device and not a hard drive (USB Port is set to Windows Device in Setup > System). Do not change back to hard drive and run a defragmenter program. This will give unexpected results.
Problem: On the AV 700, I nd new le names and folder names that I never created and/or they have strange gibberish names. Answer: (Hard drive mode) Most likely, the AV 700s le allocation table (FAT) has been corrupted. This could have been due to the AV 700 shutting down (due to low battery power) while reading or writing to your computer via the USB connection. To x a corrupted FAT problem, you should use the Error Checking utility or the Check Disk utility explained at the end of this section. Attention: Windows and Macintosh often write extra les to the hard drive such as nder.def or System volume info. These are normal and will not harm the AV 700.

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CAUTION

To prevent risks of electric shock, this unit must only be opened by qualied service personnel. Power off and disconnect the power supply cable before opening the unit.

Please note: This index refers to both the abridged user guide (this document) and the complete PDF user manual (found in the Data/ Manuals folder on the AV 700 hard drive). References to the PDF user manual are marked *.

Activating panel

MUSIC Creating a Playlist BROWSER Using the Browser MUSIC Playing Music Files MUSIC Browsing through your Music Library SETTINGS System Settings 12.2* 17* 10* 10.3* 20.6* 10.3* 20.2* 13*,13.4* 20.6* 20.4* 18* 20.5* 24* 3.1* 10.5* 10.1* 15.3* 5.1 7.11.2 11.5

ARCLibrary update

MUSIC Browsing through your Music Library SETTINGS System Settings

Audio recording/editing

MUSIC Recording Music Audio Editing

Available disc space

SETTINGS System Settings
Background image (Wallpaper)
SETTINGS Appearance Settings
Battery autonomy and consumption
Connecting/Disconnecting the AV 700 to/from your PC SETTINGS Power Settings Battery replacement

Bookmarks

VIDEO Playing Video Files Set a bookmark MUSIC Setting a Bookmark

Buttons not working

MUSIC Button Control

Card readers

PHOTO Transferring photos to your AV

Codecs

VIDEO Installing the PC Software MPEG-4 codec (Compression/Decompression) VIDEO Installing the PC Software MP3 Sound Codec 9.1* 9.1* 4* 9* 11* 19* 20.3* 5.2* 13.3* 12.1* 17* 8* 13.4* 12.3* 17.2* 6* 20.4* 20.1* 3.1* 20.1* 5.4* 10 11.1

Compression

VIDEO Playing Video Files from the Internet VIDEO Creating MPEG-4 Video Files with your Computer MUSIC Putting Music onto your AV 700

Connecting 2 USB devices

Connect Devices to the USB Host Port

Date and time

SETTINGS Clock Settings

Default location

VIDEO Where is the Recording Saved? MUSIC Where is the Recording Saved?

Delete Playlist

MUSIC Playing a Playlist BROWSER Using the Browser
Delete section from video/audio le
VIDEO Editing Video Files MUSIC Audio Editing
Delete song from Playlist

MUSIC Saving a Playlist

Deleting les
BROWSER File and Folder Operations
Deleting schedules recordings
SETTINGS Display settings

Equalizer

SETTINGS Sound Settings Sound parameters

External speaker off/on

VIDEO Video Playback Action Icons Built-in speakers SETTINGS Sound Settings Sound parameters

File system

VIDEO Manually Setting the Scheduler Notes about setting the Scheduler

BROWSER Using the Browser 17* 5.2* 10.3* 13.3* 17.1* 11.3* 14* 15.3* 17* 19* 11.1* 10.2* 20.2* 2.5* 4.1* 20.6* 8* 7* 23.7* 10.1* 9* 10* 10.3* 5 5.1 11.2 6.1 7.2 8.1 8

Files: Locating a le

VIDEO Where is the Recording Saved? MUSIC Browsing through your Music Library MUSIC Where is the Recording Saved? BROWSER - Navigating the directorey structure
Files: Moving or copying les
MUSIC Transferring CD collection to the AV MUSIC Using iTunes with your AV 700 PHOTO Transferring photos to your AV 700 BROWSER Using the Browser Connect Devices to the USB Host Port
Files: Music deleted from your device
Synchronizing Music from Windows Media Player to the AV 700
Find a particular song (Scan)
MUSIC Play Screen Icons SETTINGS Play Mode Settings

Foreign character sets

INTRO First time usage Foreign character sets
Frame rates for video les
VIDEO Non Protected Internet Video Content

Free disc space

IFrame
VIDEO Editing Video Files
Infrared emitter/receiver
VIDEO Setting the Infrared Emitter Code Connecting the TV Docking Pod to your Television System Connection 6: the infrared emitter

MPEG-4 Translator

VIDEO Creating MPEG-4 Video Files with your Computer

Music Browser

MUSIC Playing Music Files MUSIC Browsing through your Music Library
Music deleted/missing from your device
MUSIC Synchronizing Music from Windows Media Player (WMP) to the AV 700 11.1* 10* 10.3* 10* 12* 10.3* 20.6* 20.6* 20.4* 20.6* 21* 20.6* 20.4* 10.2* 12.3* 20.2* 10* 12* 10* 12* 10* 12* 11.11.2 6.1 5
Music les sorted by categories

Music lists (Playlists)

MUSIC Playing Music Files MUSIC Playlists
New music not showing in the ARCLibrary
New Playlist does not display
SETTINGS Display Settings

Operating system

SETTINGS System Settings Updating the AV 700 Firmware/OS

Operating system Version

Play songs randomly (Shufe)
MUSIC Play Screen Icons MUSIC Saving a Playlist SETTINGS Play Mode Settings
Playing only certain songs (Playlists)
Playing songs in a specic order

Playlists

PlaysForSure
MUSIC Putting Music onto your AV 700 11* 5.4* 6* 7* 4* 5.3* 11.2* 14* 13.2* 5.4* 22.1* 17* 17* 20.2* 2.7* 11.3* 3.1* 20.2* 10.2* 12.3* 20.2* 6.2 6

Programmed recordings

VIDEO Manually Setting the Scheduler VIDEO Automated Yahoo! TV Recording Scheduler VIDEO Setting the Infrared Emitter Code

Video recording

VIDEO Recording Video Files VIDEO Editing Video Files
Videos recorded as more than1 le

Virtual Dub

VIDEO Creating MPEG-4 Video Files with your Computer PC Tools VIDEO Installing PC Software Virtual Dub VIDEO Using MPEG-4 Translator

Virtual keyboard

BROWSER Using the Browser Using the Virtual Keyboard

Windows Media Player

MUSIC Synchronizing Music from Windows Media Player to the AV 700

Yahoo! Scheduler

PHOTO Viewing Photos Magnifying Photos