Curtis MPK1021 MPK2021 User's Manual

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MPK1021 / MPK2021

USER’S MANUAL

THIS INSTRUCTION BOOK MAY CONTAIN ERRORS AND OMISSIONS.

DESIGN AND SPECIFICATION ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.

No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronics or mechanical, including photocopying and recording or translated to another language for any purpose without the prior written consent of the manufacturer.

All brand names, logos and registered trademarks mentioned are property of their respective owners.

© 2006. All right reserved.

Version 1.0 10092006

Please read this booklet and note the warning statements before using the product.

Warning! Improper use of charger might cause the battery to turn hot or explode.

Note:

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Table of Contents

Introduction---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3

Features--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3

Package Contents--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3

Overview-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4

Buttons Operation--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5

Display----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6

On-screen-menu Operation--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7

Power On and Off-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8

Changing Mode----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8

Entering Main Menu Page-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------8

Music Play --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9

Skip a Song------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9

Fast Forward and Backward---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9

Record----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10

Voice Play----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10

Skip a voice--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------11

Fast Forward and Backward-----------------------------------------------------------------------11

Video Play------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11

Skip a voice-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12

Fast Forward and Backward----------------------------------------------------------------------- 12

Photo----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12

E-Book------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------13

System Set----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13

Language--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13

Power Off Set--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14

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Introduction

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Thank you for choosing our digital MP3 player. You can use this versatile MP3 player not only for playing MP3 and WMA songs, but also recording voice and serving as a USB flash disk, etc.

Features

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Colour 1.5-inch CSTN display

Support MP3 (MPEG1/2 Layer2) and WMA music playback

Support Game function

Support E-Book function z Support JPG and BMP picture z Digital recorder

USB mass storage function for data storage

5 EQ settings

Lithium battery supports long playing time

No driver installation is required (except Windows® 98/98SE)

Package Contents

z Earphone z CD including the driver and software utilities

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Overview

Front

Top and Bottom

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Display

Display Icon

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Function

Repeat Mode

Show the current repeat mode used.

Battery Level

Show the battery level.

Volume increase or decrease

Show the current volume

Mode of Equalizer

Indicate the current mode of equalizer used. 5 different EQ settings are available for selection.

Bit Rate

Show the bit rate of the song

The Name of Playing Song

Show the playing song currently

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On-screen-menu Operation

Main

Menu

Files List

EQ Set

PlayMode Set

Return

Files List

PlayMode Set

Delete File

Return

Play Music

Record

Play Voice

Play Video

My Photo

Ebook

System Set

About

Game

Files List

Delete File

Return

Manual View

Auto View

Return

English

French

Italian

German

Return

Language

Power Off Set

Power Save Mode

Record Mode Set

LCD contrast

Return

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Normal

Rock

Classic

Pop

Jazz

Normal

Repeat One

Repeat All

Shuffle

Shuffle All

Intro

Disable

2 mins

5 mins

10 mins

Disable

5 mins

20 mins

30 mins

60 mins

Source

Encode

Sample

Channel

Return

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Power On and Off

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Power On

Push the ON/OFF button to power on the player. The "LOGO" appears on the display.

Power Off

Push the ON/OFF button to power off the player. The player is off.

Note: When the ON/OFF button is locating at ON, press and hold the PLAY/STOP button to turn on and turn off the player.

Battery Level

The battery icon on the display shows the battery level.

Low Battery

When the battery icon shows in , it indicates the battery power is running out. You should connect the player to power charger for charging.

*Remark: the player can be charged while the ON/OFF button is in ON status. When you connect the player to power charger, the player turn on automatically and enter the Main Menu mode, the jumping battery icon will show on the display of STOP mode. You can use the player when the player is charging.

Changing Mode

Entering Main Menu Page

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1. Press and hold the MENU button and enter the main menu page. You’ve entered the Main Menu page.

* Remark: “FM” is only applicable for the player with built-in FM function.

Press PREVIOUS/NEXT button to jump to other menu items in sequence of

Music Play, Record, Play Voice, Photo, E-book System Set, About and

Game

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3. Select your desired menu item and press MENU/CONFIRM button again to enter sub-menu page.

Music Play

1. After entering Main Menu page, select Music and press MENU/CONFIRM button to enter Playing Song mode.

Note: Only .MP3 and .WMA format will be played under Playing Song mode.

2. The display will enter to the following screen in STOP mode.

3. Press PREVIOUS/NEXT button to select your desired song.

4. Press PLAY/PAUSE button to start playing selected .MP3 or .WMA music. If there is no .MP3 and .WMA files, “No Music Files” will show on the display.

Skip a Song

Press NEXT/PREVIOUS button to jump to next or previous song.

Fast Forward and Backward

Fast forward or backward by press and hold PREVIOUS/NEXT during playing music

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Record

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1. After entering Main Menu page, select Record and press MENU button to enter Recording Voice mode.

Note: The recorded voice will be saved in .WAV only.

2. Following display will show once you’ve entered Recording Voice mode, and the recording will start once you enter.

Press the PLAY/PAUSE button to stop the recording.

4. When you finished the recording, press MENU/CONFRIM button. The wording of “Save success” appears on the display and the recorded audio files will be automatically saved under Voice folder Directory as default. You can check the recorded audio files in Voice folder of Voice play mode by pressing PREV/NEXT button.

Voice Play

1. After entering Main Menu page, select Voice and press MENU/CONFIRM button to enter Playing Recorded Voice mode.

Note: Only. WAV format will be played under Playing Voice Mode

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2. The display will return to the following screen in STOP mode.

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Press PREVIOUS/NEXT button to select your desired voice.

Press PLAY/PAUSE button to start playing selected audio files. If there is no recorded audio file, “No Files!” will show on the display.

Skip a Voice

Press PREVIOUS/NEXT button and release immediately to jump to previous or next recorded voice.

Fast Forward and Backward

Press and hold PREVIOUS/NEXT button to fast backward or forward.

Video Play

1. After entering Main Menu page, select Video Play and press

MENU/CONFIRM button to enter Playing movie mode.

Note: Only .smv format will be played under Playing Movie mode.

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2. The display will return to the following screen in STOP mode.

3. Press PREVIOUS/NEXT button to select your desired movie.

4. Press PLAY/PAUSE button to start playing selected .smv movie. If there is no .smv files, “No Movie Files” will show on the display.

Skip a Movie

Press PREVIOUS/NEXT button to jump to next or previous movie.

Fast Forward and Backward

Fast forward or backward by press and hold the PREVIOUS/NEXT button during playing movie

Photo

1. After entering Main Menu page, select PHOTO and press MENU/CONFIRM button to enter View photos function.

Note: Only .JPG and .BMP format will be played under View PHOTO function.

2. Press the desired view way to start the photo viewing, there are 2 way to choose: Manual View and Auto View.

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Ebook

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After entering Main Menu page, select Ebook and press MENU/CONFIRM button to enter E-book function.

Note: Only .TXT format will be played under Ebook function.

2. Press PREVIOUS/NEXT button to select your desired article, then press

PLAY button to start reading the article.

System Set

1. After entering Main Menu page, press PREV/NEXT button to select System

Function.

2. Press MENU/CONFIRM button to enter

System Set Function menu page.

Language

Language

Power Off Set

Power Save Mode

Record Mode Set

LCD Contrast

Return

After entering System Set Function menu page, press MENU/CONFIRM button to select Language Function. Press PREV/NEXT button to select the desired language and press MENU/CONFIRM to confirm the Language.

English

French

Italian

German

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Power Off Set

1. After entering System Set Function menu page, press PREVIOUS/NEXT button to select Power off Set Function. Press MENU/CONFIRM button to confirm.

2. To set the off time in 2/5/10 minutes. In the STOP mode, the player will be off automatically based on the duration you set. You may set “Disable” to disable this function.

Power Save Mode

1. After entering System Set Function menu page, press PREVIOUS/NEXT button to select Power Save Mode Function. Press MENU/CONFIRM button to confirm.

2. To set the Save time in 5/20/30/60 seconds, In the IDLE mode (no button is pressed), the display will come to be black automatically based on the duration you set. You can press any key to light the display. Also you may set “Disable” to disable this function.

Record Mode Set

After entering Setting menu, select Record Mode Set by pressing

MENU/CONFIRM button to enter this menu.

Press the PREVIOUS/NEXT button to select items including Source, Encoder,

Sample, channel and Return.

Source

Only MIC mode is available in Source.

Encoder

Press MENU/CONFIRM button to select the different Encoder including IMADPCM,

MSADPCM and PCM.

Sample

Press MENU/CONFIRM button to select the different data including 8000Hz,

11025Hz and 16000Hz.

Channel

Only Mono mode is available in Channel.

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LCD Contrast

After entering Setting menu, select LCD contrast by pressing MENU/CONFIRM button to enter this menu. A suitable contrast can be set accordingly.

About

After entering Setting menu page, select About item by pressing MENU/CONFIRM button.

The version of the firmware and the Memory Info will be shown on the display for reference.

Game

After entering Main Menu page, select Game and press MENU/CONFIRM button to enter Game function. Two games in this player are available: Boxman and Tetris.

Files List

Folder Management

Under the ROOT directory, you may create the folder to manage the songs for easy navigation and management. Under the each folder, subfolder or ROOT directory.

Folder Navigation

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In the Stop mode, press the MENU button and select Files list.

The created folder names in the first layer are listed on the display. Choose your desired folder name by pushing PREV/NEXT button.

Press the PLAY button to confirm your selection

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Sub-folder

You may enter each folder in order to locate your desired sub-folder. Then press

MENU button for confirmation.

EQ Set

In PLAYING mode, press MENU/CONFIRM button and select EQ Select to enter the EQ mode. Five EQ modes are available: normal, Rock, Classic, Pop and Jazz

Press PREVIOUS/NEXT button to change the EQ mode and press

MENU/CONFIRM button to confirm the EQ mode.

PlayMode Set

In PlayMode Menu, press PREV/NEXT button to select the desired Repeat mode.

Seven Repeat Modes are available: Normal, Repeat One, Repeat All, Random,

Random All, Preview.

Normal

All music will be played one by one and stopped at the last music until you disable this function.

Repeat One

The playing music will be re-played until you disable this function.

Repeat All

All music will be played from the beginning to the last one and then repeated again and again until you disable this function.

Shuffle

All music in the player will be randomly played until all music are finished playing.

Shuffle All

All music in the player will be randomly playback until you disable this function.

Intro

All music from the current one to the last one will play for 10 seconds one by one until you disable this function.

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The setting of Repeat mode is able to apply in Playing Song and Playing

Recorded Voice mode.

Delete files

In STOP mode, press MENU/CONFIRM button and select Delete files to enter the deletion function. Select “YES” or “No” by pressing MENU/CONFIRM button, then press PLAY/PAUSE button to confirm your selection. The wording ”delete success” will show on the display.

Exit this function by pressing VOL button.

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Driver

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Windows® 98 and MAC OS

Windows® 98 (first edition) and MACOS are not supported.

Windows® 98SE

If the player is running on Windows® 98SE, please install the driver by going through the following instruction in details before using the player. The driver must be installed on your computer to make your player work properly with your computer.

Please skip the following instructions for driver installation.

Step 1. Before you install the driver, please don’t connect the player to the computer

Step 2. Insert the CD into your computer, click Setup.exe and the installation will start.

Step 3. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the driver installation and restart your computer.

Step 4. Connect the player to your computer and a Removable Disk will appear for drag-and-drop of the music files

*Note”For Windows®Me/XP platform, it is unnecessary for installing driver before using.

System Requirements z PC with Pentium class or faster processor

CD-ROM drive for software installation

30MB free hard disk space

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Format the MTP Player

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Step 1: Click the MTP Player in My Computer by pressing the right button of the mouse and select “Format…”

Step 2: A dialog box will appear to guide how to format. Click OK to proceed.

Then the MTP Player will be format accordingly.

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Synchronize MP3 and WMA Files to the Player

Please operate the following procedure in licensed Windows® XP operation

system with Windows® Media Player 10.

Noted: MAC OS and Windows® 98/98SE/Me are not supported for WMDRM songs playback.

Note: The player with WMDRM10 is only allowed for user to download music legally and validly from the distribution licensees of WMA songs which are posted on the corporate website of Microsoft®. Please make sure that the WMA songs are downloaded from these distribution licensees and frequently check the most updated distribution licensees on

the corporate website of Microsoft®.

If the music is downloaded illegally, the songs could not be played normally.

Step 1. Connect the MP3 player to the computer with USB Cable, It will show an icon at the right-bottom corner of the desktop.

Step 2. A dialog box will appears as follows, choose the Media Player icon and click OK to proceed.

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Step 3. The Media Player will find device automatically as follows

Step 4. Soon a dialog box will appear, Choose Manual and click Finish to proceed.

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Step 5.The Media Player will enter the operation status as follows.

Step 6.Select your desired songs into the Media Player and press Start Sync.

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Step 7.The song you selected will be synchronized into the Software of Media

Player and the MP3 Player.

Step 8.Once the song has been synchronized, it will appear as follows.

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Step 9. click + on the right hand side to expand “Music”, the same song name of

“My Wish For You” should appear on the right hand side. It will appear as follows:

Step 10. Click Now Playing and start to play your desired song.

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Tips: Each WMDRM song is limited by an expiry date or number of times for

synchronization from the computer to the player. This limitation of the expiry dates the synchronization times depend on different distribution licensees and different songs when you purchase. The WMDRM songs should be synchronized from the computer to the player within number of synchronization times by the specified expiry date.

Note: The songs cannot be played if the synchronization times is exceeded or the

synchronization is performed beyond the expiry date.

If WMDRM song cannot be played on the player normally or the synchronization cannot done successfully from the computer to the player, please check whether the song is expired or not. Please operate the following procedure.

Step1: Click the song by pressing the right button of the mouse and select“ Properties”.

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Step 2. A dialog box will appears as follows, Click the license for checking the song is expired or not.

MTP Function being changed into USB Storage

Function

MTP function is the default one for the MP3 player with WMDRM10. It could be used as a Portable USB also. The following steps could be guided to finish this transferation

Step 1 : Click My Computer by pressing the right bottom of the mouse, choose the

Hardware menu.

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menu.

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Step 2 : Select Device Manager and pick up MTP Player on the sub-menu of

Windows Portable Devices.

Step 3 : Click MTP Player by pressing right Button of the mouse and choose Driver

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Step 4 : Click “Update Driver …” to proceed.

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Step 5 :Follow the tips of Dialog Box by clicking the “Next >” button to finish updating. The procedure should be : Install from a list or specific location

(Advanced) － Don’t search. I will choose the driver to install － USB Mass Storage

D e v i c e － Fi ni sh . T he R em o vab l e Dis k will a pp ear in My Co mp ute r .

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USB Storage Function being changed into MTP

Function

Step 1 : Click My Computer by pressing the right bottom of the mouse, choose the Hardware menu.

Step 2 : Select Device Manager and pick up MTP Player on the sub-menu of

Universal Serial Bus controllers.

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Step 3 : Click MTP Player by pressing right Button of the mouse and choose Driver menu.

Step 4 : Click “Update Driver …” to proceed.

Step 5 :Follow the tips of Dialog Box by clicking the “Next >” button to finish updating. The procedure should be : Install from a list or specific location

(Advanced) － Don’t search. I will choose the driver to install － MTP Player －

Finish. The MTP Player will appear in My Computer.

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Trouble Shooting

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Symptom Reasons button, the display does

Solution z Replace with a new one. not turn on

After plugging the player into the USB port of your computer, Removable

The software utilities

(included in CD) has not yet z z installed on Windows® found in My Computer

Insert the CD

Click the setup to install the software utilities z Follow the onscreen instructions

The software utilities of the to finish installation z Uninstall the player (included in CD) software utilities of conflicts with other software drivers which were installed the player z Restart your on your computer computer z Re-install the software utilities again support the USB connection your motherboard to upgrade the motherboard driver player cannot be deleted sets as Read Only

The playing time displays An mp3 music file is currently

Change the attribute of the music file

Compress the mp3 music in in disorder when playing compressed in VBR format, fix compression speed rather a mp3 music compression speed of an mp3 music. When the mp3 speed music is playing, the variable speed will cause the playing time displays in disorder

It is recommended the user connected or disconnect should not suddenly unplug there is an unusual error on the computer the player from the USB port of computer when the files are being transferred or the internal memory is being formatted.

My player can’t play the Most of mp3 music files in the mp3 music files market are compressed in

MPEG1, MPEG2, LAYER3 standard. In earlier days, some mp3 music are compressed in MPEG1

If the mp3 player can’t play the mp3 music file, skip to the next song until the mp3 music files are not compressed in MPEG1

LAYER1 /MPEG1 LAYER2.

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LAYER1 and MPEG1

LAYER2. Please note our player doesn’t support

MPEG1 LAYER1, MPEG1

LAYER2 or an mp3 compressed in more than one compression standards.

Delete those files which can’t be played in the player

Change the compression standard of a mp3 music file in MPEG1 LAYER3

If the music file can’t be The player doesn’t support The player just can support played normally or you hear a long beep sound of the playing music file and WMA music files

Out of the range of compression speed compression speed:

32Kbps~384Kbps z The compression speed:

64Kbps~128Kbps

Tips: If you don’t know the compression standard and speed of the music file, you should use those common music players (i.e. Winamp) to check the music information. software utilities, close and re-open the software, the mp3 player can’t be detected

The computer can’t detect the USB cable

No driver was installed on Install driver

Windows® 98/98SE cable

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Technical Specifications

Capacity

Display

Interface

Power

File type

S/N ratio

Earphones output power

9mWx, 32ohm

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128MB/256MB/512MB/1GB/2GB internal flash memory

Colour STN display

USB 2.0 full speed

250 MA Lithium battery

.MP3 (32kbps – 384kbps), .WMA (64kbps –

128kbps) for music at Constant Bit Rate

.WAV for recorded audio files

.TXT for E-Book files

.JPG and .BMP for photo files

90dB

Operating System

Dimensions

Weight

Windows® 98/98SE/Me/2000/XP

MAC OS 9.0, 10.0

39mm(W) x90mm(H) x 8mm(D)

45g

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How to convert video format

z Video format

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The player can only play movies after converting other video formats to SMV format. The player supports the following video formats to be converted to SMV format: AVI, WMV, MPG. z Converting video format

Accessory disk has been provided with video converting tool. It is unnecessary to install. You can use it by copying it to your PC directly. For example: copy the whole folder of “SMV Transcoding” to the folder “c:\program files\” of your PC.

Then enter this folder, click “video2smv.exe” to open video converting tool:

Converting video file to SMV format file

Notice: Before playing video file, please use SIGMATEL MOTION, the VIDEO software to convert other format to SMV format. Operating steps are as follows:

1. Please make sure that the target video source (the video that needs to be converted) is / has been saved in your PC and save it under C:\converting objects\.

The format of the video should be AVI, MPG. or WMA.

2. Running “video2smv” program under folder of SMV Transcoding in accessory

CD.

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3. Setting:

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Select the level of video quality you would like the output to be converted to:

Generally, they are 3 levels of video quality:

High: video playback length is one hour; it takes up about 200MByte space.

Medium: video playback length is one hour; it takes up about 128MByte space.

Low: video playback length is one hour; it takes up about 83MByte space.

Custom: User-defined video quality

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1.5” z Choose start point of the video you want to convert. z Choose ending point of the video you want to convert.

4. After setting, click “Convert” at last to start converting.

5. After converting, connect the MP3 player to your PC by USB cable.

6. Enter C:\Output\

7. Copy Ski_trip.smv to the folder of “MVIDEO” of your MP3 player.

Disconnect the MP3 player from PC, turn on the player and enter Video menu to watch the converted video.

Notice:

You’d better use the windows default of the software if you are not so familiar with video converting.

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