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Introduction
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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 version 7, 7.1, Win-
dows Media
®
Player for Windows
®
XP, or Windows
Media
®
Player 9 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 45) 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 (including DivX
®
6) with standard playback 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.
JPEG file compatibility
• Compatible formats: Baseline JPEG and EXIF 2.2*
still image files up to a resolution of 3072 x 2048.
* File format used by digital still cameras
• Progressive JPEG compatible: No
• File extensions: .jpg (must be used for the player to
recognize JPEG files – do not use for other file types)
• File structure: Up to 299 folders; up to 648 folders and
files combined
PC-created disc compatibility
Discs recorded using a personal computer may not be
playable in this unit due to the setting of the application
software used to create the disc. In these particular
instances, check with the software publisher for more
detailed information.
Discs recorded in packet write mode (UDF format) are
not compatible with this player.
Check the DVD-R/RW or CD-R/RW software disc
boxes for additional compatibility information.
Copyright
It is forbidden by law to copy, broadcast, show, broadcast
on cable, play in public, or rent copyrighted material
without permission.
DVD-Video discs are copy-protected, and any record-
ings made from these discs will be distorted.
This product incorporates copyright protection technol-
ogy that is protected by method claims of certain U.S.
patents and other intellectual property rights owned by
Macrovision Corporation and other rights owners. Use
of this copyright-protection technology must be autho-
rized by Macrovision Corporation, and is intended for
home and other limited viewing uses only, unless other-
wise authorized by Macrovision Corporation. Reverse
engineering or disassembly is prohibited.
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