Audio/Video files playback
Outline
The player can play back MP3/WMA/JPEG/MPEG-4 (Simple
profile) files on a personally recorded media as follows:
CD-R/RW, memory card, commercially available CD
The player can also play back MPEG-4 (Advanced simple profile)
and DivX files recorded on CD-R/RW, DVD-R/-RW. Some DVD-R
and DVD-RW discs mastered as multi border (multi-session) may
not be compatible with the player.
You can select and play back files using the Control display on
the TV screen.
• The player may be unable to play back the media due to the
characteristics or recording conditions.
Precautions
About files and folders (groups) on the disc or the
memory card
• Files are sometimes grouped into folders by genre, album, etc.
In this manual, "group" is also referred to as "folder."
• A folder which has one or more files is regarded as a group.
• The player can detect and play back the groups which are
located up to the fifth layer.
• The files in the Control display are arranged by the alphabetical
order of extensions as follows: "asf", "avi", "divx", "jpeg", "mp3",
and "wma".
• Time required for reading the media contents may vary for
different media, depending on the numbers of folders (groups)
and files recorded, etc.
• Files which do not belong to any folder are grouped into "group
1."
• The player recognizes up to 150 files per group, and up to 250
groups per disc/memory card. Files other than MP3/WMA/
JPEG/MPEG-4/DivX files count in the 999 total.
Max. 250 groups per media
File 1.mp3
File 2.mp3
File 3.mp3
Group 2
File 1.jpg
File 2.jpg
File 3.jpg
File 4.jpg
Group 4
Notes for making your own disc
• Use "UDF format" as the disc format for DVD-R/-RW.
• Use "ISO 9660" as the disc format for CD-R/RW.
• The player does not support "packet writing" for CD-R/RW.
• The player supports discs recorded with up to five multiple
sessions.
• Some disc may not play due to media characteristics or
recording conditions.
Notes for making files/groups
• If a file name includes even one 2-byte character, the player
may not show the file name correctly.
• The player supports up to 12 characters as the group/file
names.
• The player can only recognize files with one of the following
extensions, which can be in any combination of upper and lower
case:
- For MP3 files, ".MP3", ".mp3".
- For WMA files, ".WMA", ".wma".
- For JPEG files, ".JPG", ".JPEG", ".jpg", ".jpeg".
- For MPEG-4 files, ".ASF", ".asf".
- For DivX files, ".DIVX", ".DIV", ".divx", ".div" and ".AVI", ".avi".
• For MP3 files:
- It is recommended that you record your material at a 44.1 kHz
sampling rate, using the 128 kbps data transfer rate.
- ID3 Tag is not available.
- MP3i and MP3 Pro are not available.
• For WMA files:
- WMA Tag is not available.
- Make sure that the copyright feature is set to off.
- We recommend you to record your material at a bit rate of 64
kbps or higher.
- The player supports WMA files recorded with a bit rate of 48
kbps or higher. The player cannot play back WMA files
recorded with a bit rate under 48 kbps.
• For JPEG files:
- We recommend you to record your material at a 640 x 480
pixel resolution.
- This player supports the baseline JPEG format.
- The player does not support a baseline-formatted picture of
more than 5120 x 3413 pixels. Make sure that the pictures
pixel size is 5120 x 3413 pixels or less.
- This player cannot play back a progressive JPEG file of more
than 2048 x 1536 pixels.
• For MPEG-4 files:
- The player supports the AVI files whose resolution is 640 x
480 pixels or less, and created using 4 Mbps ASP codec.
- The size of the playback screen will be the same size as it is
recorded.
Max.150 files
- Some recorded files may not be able to be played back
per group
depending on file characteristics, kind of digital still/video
Group 1
cameras, or recording conditions.
- The player can playback the following MPEG-4 files:
• For DivX files:
- The player supports DivX 5.x, 4.x and 3.11.
File 4.jpg
- The player supports the DivX files whose resolution is 720 x
File 5.jpg
480 pixels or less (30 fps), and 720 x 576 pixels or less (25
File 6.jpg
fps).
- Audio stream should conform to MPEG 1 Audio Layer-2 or
Group 3
MPEG Audio Layer-3 (MP3).
- The player does not support GMC (Global Motion
Compression) and Q-Pel (Quarter Pixel).
- The file encoded in the interlaced scanning mode may not be
played back correctly.
- The player has its own Registration Code for DivX playback.
If necessary, you can confirm the Registration Code of your
player using the OTHERS menu. (See page 31.)
MPEG-4 V2: Simple (single) stream
MPEG-4 V3: Fully supported
(MPEG-4 V1 file is not compatible.)
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