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English Language User Manual English Language User Manual
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Gmini
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Pocket Music / Photo / Video
• • MPEG-4 Video Pla MPEG-4 Video Play ye er r
• • MP3 & WMA Music Pla MP3 & WMA Music Play ye er r
• • Photo Viewer Photo Viewer
• • USB 2.0 Hard Disk USB 2.0 Hard Disk
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Non Protected Internet Video Content 29 T Table of Cont able of Contents ents 9 VIDEO - Creating MPEG4 video files with your computer 31 How to create an MPEG-4 video file 31 1 INTRO - Buttons and Connections 6 PC Tools 31 9.1 Installing the PC Software 31 2 INTRO - First Time Usage 8 MPEG-4 codec (Compression/Decompression) 32 2.1 Plugging in the AC Adapter 8 ™ ™ Virtual Dub 32 2.2 Turning on the Gmini 402 8 ™ MPG4 Translator 32 2.3 Shutting off the Gmini 402 and Battery saving features 8
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15.4 Display Settings 54 Dear Customer, 15.5 Power Settings 56 15.6 System Settings 57 ™ ™ ARCHOS thanks you for your choice of this exciting Gmini 402 product. With ™ 16 Updating the Gmini 402 Firmware Operating System (OS) 58 this beautiful device in your pocket, you can enjoy digital music, digital photos, Download the Update_Gmini402.AOS file 58 ™ or digital video anytime and anywhere. We are sure that your Gmini 402 will Read the History.txt File 58 ™ Copy to Gmini 402 root and Update 58
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1 INTRO - Buttons and Connections a Hard disk activity indicator (red) b On indicator (green) c Battery charger indicator (green) – blinks when the battery is fully charged a Multiconnect adapter – allows for an analog audio input (Line In) ™ b Multi-connect jack – for headphones, AV cable, or FM Remote control d On/Enter/Play/Go ► – Hold for 3 seconds to turn on the Gmini 402 (optional accessory) e Move UP (also increases volume during media playback) c Microphone – for making digital voice
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2.4 Changing the Language 2 INTR O - First Time Usage ™ The Gmini 402 interface can be set to English (default), French, German, Spanish or Russian. Please take the time to read though this manual. There are many • To change the language, move things that this device can do that you may not be aware of. the cursor to Setup and then click PLAY/ENTER ►. • Then move with the joystick to Display 2.1 Plugging in the AC Adapter and click PLAY/ENTER ►. ™ • Highlight the Language • Use only th
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green CHARGE indicator lights up to indicate that the external adapter is connected. The batteries will charge automatically when the AC adapter/ 3 MUSIC - Playing Music Files charger is plugged in. Once the batteries are fully charged, this light will blink, indicating that you can disconnect the charger/adapter. Once When you click on this icon in the main screen, you will be charged, you can get up to 10 hours* of MP3 music playback time and sent directly to the Music folder. Use the di
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™ To lock the Gmini 402 buttons, press and hold 3.3 Artist, Album, Title … ID3 Tags the left function button for three seconds. The ™ Gmini 402 will display the message “Buttons ID3 Tags are information about the recording which found inside of an MP3 music fi le. When locked!” on the bottom of the screen. Press this someone creates an MP3 music fi le, he or she again for three seconds to unlock the buttons. has the option of adding information to it. This information can include, among ot
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You can reach the PlayMode settings screen from Setup > PlayMode. The 4 MUSIC - Playlists play mode determines how your music is played (just the current folder of music, all music, one fi le, etc.). See Playmode ™ A Playlist is a list of songs that the Gmini 402 will in the section Settings above for a ™ automatically play one after the other. The Gmini description of how each one works. 402 can load one playlist at a time into its internal memory. You can create new playlists, add or
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4.2 Creating a Playlist Save – Saves the current playlist to the folder open in the left window. The To create a Playlist, press the RIGHT * next to the playlist name indicates that this playlist has not been saved. button while you are in the Music Close – Closes the windows and returns to the main menu screen. browser. A second window will open on the right side to display the Playlist Rename – Renames the current playlist. contents. You can now start adding Shuffl e – Randomly shuffl es the
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5.2 Recording Procedure 5 MUSIC - Recording Music Before the actual audio recording begins, there is a pre-recording screen which will allow you to adjust your recording settings. ™ With the Gmini 402 series, you do not need a computer to create digital music fi les. It is capable of recording from the built-in microphone or an analog line source (ex: HiFi system, Boombox, CD Player, etc) into a ® standard Windows WAV format, either PCM (uncompressed) or ADPCM (compressed). 5.1 Cable Connec
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Microphone time you use the AudioCorder icon to start a recording, your recording will be saved in the folder /Music/Voice/Lectures. ™ The built-in microphone is located on the top of the Gmini 402 unit next to the headphone jack. Make sure that you have selected Microphone 5.4 Audio Editing as the input source in the pre-recording Settings screen. The microphone level is preset. Audio fi les (microphone recordings / analog recordings / FM Remote Analog Line-In Control (optional)) can be mo
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™ 6 MUSIC – Putting Music onto your Gmini 402 ™ ™ Your Archos product is a certifi ed PlaysForSure digital device which means that wherever you fi nd music for sale or for subscription on the Internet with this symbol, you can be ™ certain that it will ‘Play for sure’ on your Gmini 402*. ™ The Gmini 402 is designed to work seamlessly with Windows ® ® Media Player (WMP) versions 9 and 10. The Windows Media Player software is used to download digital media content from the Internet to your
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of your computer, to rip a 60 minute CD, it will take anywhere from 10 ™ minutes to 60 minutes. Once this is done, the album will become part Note for WMP10 users: Files added to your Gmini 402 from another ™ of your music library. Connect your Gmini 402 to your computer with computer or fi les which are recorded from an analog source cannot be ® the supplied USB cable. Now, you go to the Sync tab and tell Windows added to the Windows Media Player Library when you connect your ® ™ Media
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™ ™ 7 MUSIC - Using iTunes with your Gmini 402 8 VIDEO - Playing Video Files ® The easiest way to transfer music fi les between a Macintosh Like a music fi le, you simply highlight the video fi le and ™ ™ then click on PLAY/GO ►. The thumbnail images on the computer and your Gmini 402 is to use the Macintosh Finder to ® right side will show you a frame from the highlighted video drag and drop the fi les to and from your Macintosh . fi le (center) as well as a frame from the fi le above and the ®
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• Click on the left function button 8.3 Display Format Settings to put the video into slow-motion view. You can cycle through the You will notice in the Options button (center function button), that you values Normal, ½ , ¼ , and 1/8 have a number of display format options. In certain cases, depending speed. The sound is muted when on how the original video was recorded, you may want to use these in slow motion. While in slow mode adjustments. and paused, you can step image per image wi
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basis. There are so many standards and formats that it is very possible 9 VIDEO - Creating MPEG4 video files with your computer that the video fi le you download from the Internet will not play right away on your device. Due to certain “variations”, even when video fi les are formatted in “MPEG-4” they may not play right away. How to create an MPEG-4 video fi le ™ If y ou have some video fi les that do not play directly on your Gmini 402, Please understand that video re-encoding is not always a
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MPEG-4 codec (Compression/Decompression) favorite web search engine. Once this MP3 codec is installed into your system, MPG4 Translator will be able to create fi nal video fi les with MP3 In order for MPEG4-Translator to compress the video in a fi le of the format sound, even if the source video fi le does not have an MP3 sound track. MPEG-4 SP that the Gmini™ 402 can read, it requires an MPEG-4 codec to be installed on your computer.If you do not have the approporiate If you are unsure what co
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Change Settings the internal fi le data determines if it is truly an AVI fi le. 2) The Virtual Dub program was not located when MPG4 Translator was started up. Close the Next, you can change the program, restart it, and make sure you locate the Virtual Dub program. parameters (Change Settings) of the encoder to adjust the level of quality of the fi 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 ge
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Rotate picture 90° left View next photo 10 PHOTO - Viewing Photos ™ The Gmini 402 series support the viewing of JPEG (.jpg) and Bitmap (.bmp) image formats. Progressive JPEG images are ™ not supported. The Gmini 402 will resize the image to fi t on the built-in screen or on a television screen if you choose the Rotate picture 90° right View previous photo television output. The yellow bar above the list of fi les indicates that you are in the ‘Photo Only’ mode, meaning that only fi les of type
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™ 10.3 Transferring photos to your Gmini 402 ™ The Gmini 402 is equipped with a USB host port. This port, along with the USB Host adapter cable will allow you to connect USB Mass Storage ™ Class (MSC) devices to your Gmini 402 and transfer fi les from that device ™ to your Gmini 402. Many cameras produced today are MSC type devices. ™ Thus you can often plug your camera directly into the Gmini 402’s USB ™ Host port and copy your photos with the ARCHOS browser. If you do not have an MSC t
