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Introduction—Continued
DVD-R/RW compatibility
• Compatible formats: DVD-Video, Video Recording
(VR)*
* Edit points may not play exactly as edited; screen may go
momentarily blank at edited points.
• Unfinalized playback: No
• WMA/MP3/JPEG file playback on DVD-R/RW: No
DVD+R/DVD+RW compatibility
Only DVD+R/DVD+RW discs recorded in “Video
Mode (DVD Video Mode)” which have been finalized,
can be played back. However, some editing made during
the recording may not be played back accurately.
Compressed audio compatibility
• Compatible formats: MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3),
Windows Media Audio (WMA)
• Sampling rates: 32, 44.1 or 48kHz
• Bit-rates: Any (128Kbps or higher recommended)
• VBR (variable bit rate) MP3 playback: No
• VBR WMA playback: No
• WMA lossless encoding compatible: No
• DRM (Digital Rights Management) compatible: No
(DRM-protected audio files will not play in this
player—see also DRM in the “Glossary” on page 50)
• File extensions: .mp3, .wma (these must be used for
the player to recognize MP3 and WMA files – do not
use for other file types)
About WMA
WMA is an acronym for Windows Media Audio and
refers to an audio compression technology developed by
Microsoft Corporation. WMA content can be encoded
by using Windows Media
®
Player for Windows
®
XP,
Windows Media
®
Player 9 Series, or Windows Media
®
Player 10 Series.
Microsoft, Windows Media, and the Windows logo are
trademarks, or registered trademarks of Microsoft Cor-
poration in the United States and/or other countries.
About DivX
DivX is a compressed digital video format created by the
DivX
®
video codec from DivX, Inc. This player can play
DivX video files burned on CD-R/RW/ROM discs.
Keeping the same terminology as DVD-Video, individ-
ual DivX video files are called “Titles”. When naming
files/titles on a CD-R/RW disc prior to burning, keep in
mind that by default they will be played in alphabetical
order.
Displaying DivX subtitle files
The font sets listed below are available for DivX external
subtitle files. You can see the proper font set on-screen
by setting the Subtitle Language (in “Language settings”
on page 43) to match the subtitle file.
This player supports the following language groups:
Group 1: Albanian (sq), Basque (eu), Catalan (ca), Dan-
ish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), Faroese (fo), Finnish
(fi), French (fr), German (de), Icelandic (is), Irish (ga),
Italian (it), Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt), Rhaeto-
Romanic (rm), Scottish (gd), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv)
Group 2: Albanian (sq), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Hun-
garian (hu), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Slo-
venian (sl)
Group 3: Bulgarian (bg), Byelorussian (be), Mace-
donian (mk), Russian (ru), Serbian (sr), Ukrainian (uk)
Group 4: Hebrew (iw), Yiddish (ji)
Group 5: Turkish (tr)
DivX, DivX Certified, and associated logos are trade-
marks of DivX, Inc. and are used under license.
• Some external subtitle files may be displayed incor-
rectly or not at all.
• For external subtitle files the following subtitle format
filename extensions are supported (please note that
these files are not shown within the disc navigation
menu): .srt, .sub, .ssa, .smi
• The filename of the movie file has to be repeated at the
beginning of the filename for the external subtitle file.
• The number of external subtitle files which can be
switched for the same movie file is limited to a maxi-
mum of 10.
DivX video compatibility
• Official DivX
®
Certified product.
• Plays all versions of DivX
®
video with standard play-
back of DivX
®
media files.
• File extensions: .avi and .divx (these must be used for
the player to recognize DivX video files). Note that all
files with the .avi extension are recognized as MPEG4,
but not all of these are necessarily DivX video files
and therefore may not be playable on this player.
DivX, DivX Certified, and associated logos are trade-
marks of DivX, Inc. and are used under license.