Table of contents. Software Installation 2. User Software )AMV Convert Tool ) AMV Player 12

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1 Table of contents Instructions of Software Software Installation 2 User Software..2 1 )AMV Convert Tool. 2 2 ) AMV Player 12 3 ) MP3 Player Disk Tool( Inner Scenes function ) 13 4 ) MP3 Player Upgrade Tool (Upgrade player) ) Sound Convert Tool (Convert the ACT recorded file into WAV). 16 Telephone Tool. 17 1

2 Instructions of Software Software Installation 1) Power the PC on, after entering Windows system, insert the Tool Installation CD into the CD-Rom and the system will run the installation program automatically. Click Next button according to prompts, and when it prompts that installation has been finished, click Close button to finish installation; (In case that the PC has no auto run function, it shall be installed manually; Double click Setup.exe in the root directory of CD to start installation wizard) 2) Click Next button according to prompts and when it prompts the installation has been finished, click Close button to finish installation; 3) After the tool is installed, a MP3 Player Utilities 3.57 program group will be created in Start Program menu. User Software 1 )AMV Convert Tool 1.How to convert AMV This tool is applied to convert video and audio files into files with AMV format which can be played in the MP3 Player of this company. The supported formats of video files include: 1) AVI format files with extended-name of avi; 2) Windows Media format files with extended-name of asf and wmv; 3) MPEG1 format files with extended-name of mpg and mpeg; 4) Realplay format files with extended-name of rm; 5) QuickTime format files with extended-name of mov; 6) MPEG2 format files with extended-name of vob; Applicable OS: Windows98, Windows Me, Windows2000 and Windows XP. Windows Media Player shall be upgraded to a version of 9.0 or above; DirectX shall be a version of 9.0 or above. 2

3 Instructions of Software 2. Software Installation The installation of AMV Convert Tool is convenient, easy and quick, and the operations are as follows: 2.1 Power the PC on, after entering Windows system, insert the Tool Installation CD into the CD-Rom and the system will run the installation program automatically. Click Next button according to prompts, and when it prompts that installation has been finished, click Close button to finish installation; 2.2 In case that the PC has no auto run function, it shall be installed manually; Double click Setup.exe in the root directory of CD to start installation wizard; Click Next button according to prompts and when it prompts the installation has been finished, click Close button to finish installation; After the tool is installed, a MP3 Player Utilities 3.57 program group will be created in Start Program menu, in which, AMV Convert Tool is the convert tool and AMV Player is the player to play the AMV files converted by the convert tool. 3. Run the Software 3.1 Introduction to buttons To run the software, you can click Start button, select Program menu, and select MP3 Player Utilities AMV Convert Tool to open the tool interface, as shown in following figure: When using this tool, if the button is effective, please stop the mouse on the button for 1-2 seconds and the name of button will be displayed. 3.2 Add video files When the software is in operation, click File Adding button in the right column of Input file to add video files (files to be converted, unless otherwise specified, all video files hereinafter shall refer to files to be converted), click the button as shown in following figure: 3

4 Instructions of Software In the pop-up video file path interface, click the small button on the right in File type to select a suitable file type. After one or more video files are correctly selected, click Open button and the interface will show as the following figure (all selected types of file in following figure are only for your reference): After the file is added, the path of the video file will be displayed in Input file column of the convert tool and the related information of the added file, such as check box, file name and path, status, file time length, etc., will be displayed in the status column as shown in following figure: 3.3 Play video files This convert tool has the function to play video files, provided that corresponding 4

5 Instructions of Software decoder has been installed. Please refer to Precautions below. Click a single video file in the status column, Start playing button will become effective, then click Play button to start playing, as shown in following figure: When video file playing is started, the playing progress will be displayed in the playing progress column and the status of the video file in status column will change from unprocessed into successful ; time length of the file will change from 0:00 into the actual time length of the file, 4:30 ; the Stop and Pause buttons in tool interface will also become effective, click these two buttons to stop or pause playing. Note: when the status of the video file changes from unprocessed into successful, it means the decoder for such a type of file has been installed in the PC and the tool can play video files properly. The conversion can be conducted after playing is stopped. To be sure, the conversion can also be conducted before the video file is played. However, to ensure successful conversion, it is recommended that the users start conversion after they confirm the files can be played. 4. File Conversion 4.1 Select files to be converted In the status column, there are a check box and a S/N on the left side of the name of each video file. As defaulted, the check box of a newly added video file will be ticked. The check box is used to select several video files for continuous conversion. If the check box is not ticked, the conversion is cancelled and the file won t be converted Selection and cancellation of video files Click the check box direct to select or cancel the video file for conversion Besides clicking the check box directly, you can also click Select or Cancel in right click menu of the video file to select or cancel, as show in following figure: 5

6 Instructions of Software Deletion of video files If you want to delete some video files among the added ones, right click the single or several video files and select Delete, the file(s) will be deleted from the list. 4.2 Storage path of AMV files The default storage path for AMV files is C:\. Before conversion, click AMV storage path button on the right side of Output file column to define the storage location of AMV files, as shown in following figure: In the pop-up folder browsing dialogue box, select the storage path you want to save the files, and click Yes button. After finishing above steps, a complete AMV file storage path will be displayed in Output file column in convert tool interface. 4.3 Property setting The convert tool also has a function to set parameters of AMV files, such as to set those main parameters of AMV files including video segment interception, length and width of video and number of playing frames, etc. There are two ways to enter 6

7 Instructions of Software property setting interface: a. Select one or several video files and click Setting button in Output information column to enter; b. Select one or several video files and right click, select Setting to enter; Here, selection doesn t mean selection of check box of the video files, but click file name with mouse and make the file background a blue color. The detailed settings will be specified in following paragraphs. The default settings of convert tool on AMV files are shown in following figure: Interception of video segment Interception of video segment refers to intercept the needed segment from video files and convert. To do this, we need to set the starting and ending positions of the video segment. There are two ways to set interception of video segment and the operations are as following: Set in property setting interface First, tick the check box at the left side of Interception of video segment, making starting point and ending point of the video segment editable. Then input starting time and ending time. The interface is as shown in following figure: 7

8 Instructions of Software As shown in above figure: the segment from 1:10 to 3:20 is intercepted. Note: If the check box at the left side of Interception of video segment is not ticked, the tool will convert the whole video file Set in video file playing interface When a video & audio file is played, the related information of the AMV file will be displayed in the output information column of tool interface, such as: starting time, ending time, running time and total time. At this time, both the two buttons, Starting position and Ending position, are effective. Click Starting position button, current starting time will be displayed in starting time column. Also, click Ending position button, the current ending time will be displaying in ending time column. After both time points are selected, click Select button in tool interface to confirm the time length of the segment to be intercepted, which will also be displayed in running time column. Only the intercepted segment will be converted. If you want cancel the intercepted segment, click Cancel selection button. At this time, the time shown in running time column will return to total time length of the file. The interface will return to the one before click Selection button and the whole file will be converted in conversion. Note: the way to intercept video segment in is more suitable for segment interception in a single file or several files together; the way to intercept video segment in is only applicable for interception in course of playing, and effective only for the file being played Select video length of AMV files There are two kinds of video length for AMV files, 96*64 and128*96 pixels. Please select the length of an AMV file according to the length and width of the screen of MP3 8

9 Instructions of Software Player, as shown in following figure: Number of frames played each second in an AMV file There are three kinds of number of frames played in one second for an AMV file: high, middle and low. The default value for convert tool is middle. When the converted AMV file doesn thave a satisfactory video effect, you can try to change the setting and the interface is as following: Insert image when there is a lack of image As default, this option is ticked. To convert with a better video effect, please use the default setting. 9

10 Instructions of Software Replace the old audio data with new audio files Replacing the old audio data with new audio files refers to replace the audio part of current video & audio file with new audio files (WAV files) and the video part will remain unchanged. To select new audio files, you can click the icon at the right side of Replace the old audio data with new audio files path column in property setting interface to open the window for adding files. The interface will show as following figure: In above figure, click icon to select the path of new audio files, after selecting the right audio file, click Open button, as shown in following figure: After the new audio file is correctly selected, the path of the file will be displayed in the interface of Replace the old audio data with new audio files. At this time, click Yes button to finish adding of the new audio file Insert sound when there is a lack of sound As default, this option is not ticked. To convert with a better audio effect, please use the default setting Other settings Cover files refers to save currently created AMV file to replace the AMV file with the same name and already in the defined storage location automatically. As default, this option is ticked. If this option is not ticked, an error will be reported when the created AMV file has already been there Play after conversion refers that after the video & audio file is converted, the AMV Player will run to play the AMV file automatically. The default setting of this option is ticked. If the option is not ticked, the AMV file won tbe played automatically 10

11 Instructions of Software after converting and a manual operation is needed Try other decoder refers that when corresponding decoder of current video & audio file is not installed, the convert tool will try to use other decoders. The default setting of this option is not ticked. At the same time, the extended-name of the file can be changed, as an extended-name has a corresponding decoder. In other settings, it is recommended to use the default settings of the tool. After finishing above steps, click Yes button to save settings and finish property setting operation. Note: When converting, above system parameter settings are only effective for selected video & audio files, and the unselected ones will remain the default settings in conversion. The selection here doesn tmean the selection of check box, but to click the file name with mouse and make the background color of the file blue, then click Setting button directly or right click the selected files and select Setting. 4.4 Start file conversion After system setting is finished, please confirm whether the check boxes of the video & audio files to be converted have been ticked. Click in tool interface directly to start conversion. The program will convert the video & audio files whose check boxes have been ticked. The file status will change from Successful into Converting and the converting speed will be shown in converting progress column After all files are converted, the program will run AMV Player automatically to play the created AMV files in turn. The AMV files which can be played properly mean that the corresponding video & audio files have been successfully converted Besides above ways to convert files, you can also right click the video & audio files save in the hard disk and select Start video conversion. The program will auto run and begins to convert files directly. 5. Precautions When converting Real play, QuickTime and MPEG2 format files, please install decoder accordingly. When concerting Real play, QuickTime and MPEG2 (DVD) format files, if your Windows Media Player cannot play the files directly, you need to install a corresponding compatible Windows Media Player decoder, till the Windows Media Player can play the files correctly, otherwise the tool cannot work properly. All figures listed in this manual are only for your reference! 11

12 Instructions of Software 2 ) AMV Player open the tool interface, as shown in following figure: When using this tool, if the button is effective, please stop the mouse on the button for 1-2 seconds and the name of button will be displayed. Click File Adding button to add video files, as shown in following figure: After one or more video files are correctly selected, click Open button and the interface will show as the following figure. 12

13 Instructions of Software 3 ) MP3 Player Disk Tool( Inner Scenes function ) All the common users of MP3 are fazed with Information Tell and not willing show own personal information to the stranger. So you have to delete these privacies before lending your MP3 to your friends, which makes so many troubles for you. Well, this player supplies the function of Inner Scenes for you to resolve that problem completely from now on. The user may part the USB disk in half with any proportion by the tool with the accessory of the player (The user may see two disk symbols on you computer. You have to install SP4 for the operation system Windows 2000, or you may only see one disk symbol. You have to select Single normal disk or Single encrypted disk in the system setting/online mode if you want see another disk symbol.), and encrypt for one of both (You may not encrypt for it to use for two disks) and hide its contents, thus the information cannot be accessed without the password. So this is the best useful function of Inner Scenes. Connect the player with your computer.enes.its contents, thus the information cannot be accessed without the password. So this is the best Run the program installation kit of the accessory with MP3 Player. At first, you will see the tool of format, and then select the option of part and encrypt and select an appropriate capacity for the capacity of encrypted disk and hook option to set the name and the password of user. Meanwhile, input user name into the location of name of new use and input the password in the location of new password and input the same password in the location of new password confirm, and then click the button of Begin to begin part. 13

14 Instructions of Software Finish division and hint as follows: The computer hints to restart after pressing Confirm, confirm it and restart your computer. You will see two disks after restarting your computer (You may only see one disk symbol in the operation system before the version of Windows 2K SP4,), click and see the encrypted disk (the second disk). There are three files in it, one of them is executable file the other two are hidden files and the space of disk only is 300k. Run the executable file of RdiskDecrypt.exe, and then input your user name and password in the dialog box. You will open the disk if the name and the password are correct. So you may copy files to it. You have to input our user name and password to open the encrypted disk every time you connect the computer. Notes: Please backup the data in your disk in advance when you divide the disk into two disks, which will eliminate the data in disk. Also, the data will be lost when you unite the two disks. 14

15 Instructions of Software 4 ) MP3 Player Upgrade Tool (Upgrade player) You may upgrade or maintain the system firmware for this player by the tool software that installed in computer. 1. Switch to the main menu 2. Shortly press the key of Next to select the System Setting 3. Shortly press the key of Mode to switch to the System Setting 4. Shortly press the key of Next to select the Firmware Upgrade and the key of MODE to switch to it. 5. Connect player with PC. 6. Run the upgrade tool of MP3 Player Update of PC, and then click the button of Select the new version firmware file 7. Select the new firmware program (You may find it in the disk with the player and also download from the website of manufacturer) 8. Click the button of Begin to upgrade, the system begin to upgrade for it. 15

16 Instructions of Software Upgrade successfully, the player displays as follows. The firmware upgrade is used in improving and optimizing the performance of player. And it does not affect the normal run of the player without the firmware upgrade. The firmware upgrade will possibly lead to the abnormal working due to the mistake operation! So please read the instruction carefully before operating, which is suitable for the personnel to perform who has mastered some operation knowledge in computer. The firmware upgrade software of the player is not suitable for other series players, vice versa. 5 ) Sound Convert Tool (Convert the ACT recorded file into WAV) The files of ACT format that have been transcribed by this player may be converted into the format of WAV by the accessory installation program tools with the player. 1. Run the program of Sound Converter and clicking the button of Open: 2. Select the ACT files that need to be converted: 16

17 Instructions of Software 3. Click the button of Convert to begin to convert them into WAV files. This tool may also play the files of WAV and MP3 formats except the function of converting the ACT files into the WAV files. Before you install Telephone Tool, you need to copy the "Telbook.exe" file to your hard disk from the CD firstly. How to build and edit the telephone files? Build the telephone files 1. Running the program of Telbook.exe and clicking the button of Open. 2. Input the corresponding information according to the hint of dialog box and click the button of Add, at this time the system will record the personal information what you have inputted the list. Of course, you may redo it if you want to add some personal information. 17

18 Instructions of Software 3 Click the button of Save, then the player will appear a file named TelBook! Then the telephone has been built. Edit the telephone file You may amend it according to the following operation when you input mistake information: 1. Click the record bar where the personal information that you want to amend located, then the personal information will appear all the information of this bar: 2. Click the button of Add after amending in the personal information bar, then the system will hint Are you modify record. 3. The item has been amended when you click Yes. At this time, the record bar will appear two records with the same name and information. It will add a record with different name if what you want to amend is name. However, there is none in the operation above. Import and export of telephone 18

19 Instructions of Software Import telephone book The user may import his prepared telephone files with computer into the player by this function. The specific steps as follows: Prepare the telephone book information with the supplied telephone edit tool of Telbook.exe and save it to build the file of Telbook.bin Copy the file of telbook.bin to the root directory with connecting the line of USB. Switch to the function of telephone and the import telephone option after offing. Import the contents that have been copied just moment in the file of telbook.bin into the player after you confirm. Export telephone book You may export the telephone information saved in the player and build file with this function. The user may edit it by the supplied tool with computer, the specific steps as follows: Turn on and switch to telephone book function and export telephone book option. You may export the telephone information of the player after you confirm it. You may find the file of telesave.bin in the root directory after connecting the line of USB, that is the exported telephone file. The user may edit it after copying. 19

20 AMV Convert Manual 1.How to convert AMV This tool is applied to convert video and audio files into files with AMV format which can be played in the MP3 Player of this company. The supported formats of video files include: 1) AVI format files with extended-name of avi; 2) Windows Media format files with extended-name of asf and wmv; 3) MPEG1 format files with extended-name of mpg and mpeg; 4) Realplay format files with extended-name of rm; 5) Quicktime format files with extended-name of mov; 6) MPEG2 format files with extended-name of vob; Applicable OS: Windows98, Windows Me, Windows2000 and Windows XP. Windows Media Player shall be upgraded to a version of 9.0 or above; DirectX shall be a version of 9.0 or above. 2. Software Installation The installation of AMV Convert Tool is convenient, easy and quick, and the operations are as follows: 2.1 Power the PC on, after entering Windows system, insert the Tool Installation CD into

21 the CD-Rom and the system will run the installation program automatically. Click Next button according to prompts, and when it prompts that installation has been finished, click Close button to finish installation; 2.2 In case that the PC has no autorun function, it shall be installed manually; Double click Setup.exe in the root directory of CD to start installation wizard; Click Next button according to prompts and when it prompts the installation has been finished, click Close button to finish installation; After the tool is installed, a MP3 Player Utilities 3.57 program group will be created in Start Program menu, in which, AMV Convert Tool is the convert tool and AMV Player is the player to play the AMV files converted by the convert tool. 2

22 3. Run the Software 3.1 Introduction to buttons To run the software, you can click Start button, select Program menu, and select MP3 Player Utilities AMV Convert Tool to open the tool interface, as shown in following figure: When using this tool, if the button is effective, please stop the mouse on the button for 1-2 3

23 seconds and the name of button will be displayed. 3.2 Add video files When the software is in operation, click File Adding button in the right column of Input file to add video files (files to be converted, unless otherwise specified, all video files hereinafter shall refer to files to be converted), click the button as shown in following figure: In the pop-up video file path interface, click the small button on the right in File type to select a suitable file type. After one or more video files are correctly selected, click Open button and the interface will show as the following figure (all selected types of file 4

24 in following figure are only for your reference): After the file is added, the path of the video file will be displayed in Input file column of the convert tool and the related information of the added file, such as check box, file name and path, status, file time length, etc., will be displayed in the status column as shown in following figure: 5

25 3.3 Play video files This convert tool has the function to play video files, provided that corresponding decoder has been installed. Please refer to Precautions below. Click a single video file in the status column, Start playing button will become effective, then click Play button to start playing, as shown in following figure: 6

26 When video file playing is started, the playing progress will be displayed in the playing progress column and the status of the video file in status column will change from unprocessed into successful ; time length of the file will change from 0:00 into the actual time length of the file, 4:30 ; the Stop and Pause buttons in tool interface will also become effective, click these two buttons to stop or pause playing. Note: when the status of the video file changes from unprocessed into successful, it means the decoder for such a type of file has been installed in the PC and 7

27 the tool can play video files properly. The conversion can be conducted after playing is stopped. To be sure, the conversion can also be conducted before the video file is played. However, to ensure successful conversion, it is recommended that the users start conversion after they confirm the files can be played. 4. File Conversion 4.1 Select files to be converted In the status column, there are a check box and a S/N on the left side of the name of each video file. As defaulted, the check box of a newly added video file will be ticked. The check box is used to select several video files for continuous conversion. If the check box is not ticked, the conversion is cancelled and the file won t be converted Selection and cancellation of video files Click the check box direct to select or cancel the video file for conversion Besides clicking the check box directly, you can also click Select or Cancel in right click menu of the video file to select or cancel, as show in following figure: 8

28 4.1.2 Deletion of video files If you want to delete some video files among the added ones, right click the single or several video files and select Delete, the file(s) will be deleted from the list. 4.2 Storage path of AMV files The default storage path for AMV files is C:\. Before conversion, click AMV storage path button on the right side of Output file column to define the storage location of AMV files, as shown in following figure: 9

29 In the pop-up folder browsing dialogue box, select the storage path you want to save the files, and click Yes button. After finishing above steps, a complete AMV file storage path will be displayed in Output file column in convert tool interface. 4.3 Property setting The convert tool also has a function to set parameters of AMV files, such as to set those main parameters of AMV files including video segment interception, length and width of 10

30 video and number of playing frames, etc. There are two ways to enter property setting interface: a. Select one or several video files and click Setting button in Output information column to enter; b. Select one or several video files and right click, select Setting to enter; Here, selection doesn tmean selection of check box of the video files, but click file name with mouse and make the file background a blue color. The detailed settings will be specified in following paragraphs. The default settings of convert tool on AMV files are shown in following figure: 11

31 4.3.1 Interception of video segment Interception of video segment refers to intercept the needed segment from video files and convert. To do this, we need to set the starting and ending positions of the video segment. There are two ways to set interception of video segment and the operations are as following: 12

32 Set in property setting interface First, tick the check box at the left side of Interception of video segment, making starting point and ending point of the video segment editable. Then input starting time and ending time. The interface is as shown in following figure: As shown in above figure: the segment from 1:10 to 3:20 is intercepted. 13

33 Note: If the check box at the left side of Interception of video segment is not ticked, the tool will convert the whole video file Set in video file playing interface When a video & audio file is played, the related information of the AMV file will be displayed in the output information column of tool interface, such as: starting time, ending time, running time and total time. At this time, both the two buttons, Starting position and Ending position, are effective. Click Starting position button, current starting time will be displayed in starting time column. Also, click Ending position button, the current ending time will be displaying in ending time column. After both time points are selected, click Select button in tool interface to confirm the time length of the segment to be intercepted, which will also be displayed in running time column. Only the intercepted segment will be converted. If you want cancel the intercepted segment, click Cancel selection button. At this time, the time shown in running time column will return to total time length of the file. The interface will return to the one before click Selection button and the whole file will be converted in conversion. 14

34 Note: the way to intercept video segment in is more suitable for segment interception in a single file or several files together; the way to intercept video segment in is only applicable for interception in course of playing, and effective only for the file being played Select video length of AMV files There are two kinds of video length for AMV files, 96*64 and128*96 pixels. Please select the length of an AMV file according to the length and width of the screen of MP3 Player, as shown in following figure: 15

35 4.3.3 Number of frames played each second in an AMV file There are three kinds of number of frames played in one second for an AMV file: high, middle and low. The default value for convert tool is middle. When the converted AMV file doesn t have a satisfactory video effect, you can try to change the setting and the interface is as following: 16

36 4.3.4 Insert image when there is a lack of image As default, this option is ticked. To convert with a better video effect, please use the default setting Replace the old audio data with new audio files Replacing the old audio data with new audio files refers to replace the audio part of current video & audio file with new audio files (WAV files) and the video part will remain 17

37 unchanged. To select new audio files, you can click the icon at the right side of Replace the old audio data with new audio files path column in property setting interface to open the window for adding files. The interface will show as following figure: In above figure, click icon to select the path of new audio files, after selecting the right audio file, click Open button, as shown in following figure: 18

38 After the new audio file is correctly selected, the path of the file will be displayed in the interface of Replace the old audio data with new audio files. At this time, click Yes button to finish adding of the new audio file Insert sound when there is a lack of sound As default, this option is not ticked. To convert with a better audio effect, please use the default setting Other settings Cover files refers to save currently created AMV file to replace the AMV file with the same name and already in the defined storage location automatically. As default, 19

39 this option is ticked. If this option is not ticked, an error will be reported when the created AMV file has already been there Play after conversion refers that after the video & audio file is converted, the AMV Player will run to play the AMV file automatically. The default setting of this option is ticked. If the option is not ticked, the AMV file won t be played automatically after converting and a manual operation is needed Try other decoder refers that when corresponding decoder of current video & audio file is not installed, the convert tool will try to use other decoders. The default setting of this option is not ticked. At the same time, the extended-name of the file can be changed, as an extended-name has a corresponding decoder. In other settings, it is recommended to use the default settings of the tool. After finishing above steps, click Yes button to save settings and finish property setting operation. Note: When converting, above system parameter settings are only effective for selected video & audio files, and the unselected ones will remain the default settings in conversion. The selection here doesn tmean the selection of check box, but to click the file name with 20

40 mouse and make the background color of the file blue, then click Setting button directly or right click the selected files and select Setting. 4.4 Start file conversion After system setting is finished, please confirm whether the check boxes of the video & audio files to be converted have been ticked. Click in tool interface directly to start conversion. The program will convert the video & audio files whose check boxes have been ticked. The file status will change from Successful into Converting and the converting speed will be shown in converting progress column After all files are converted, the program will run AMV Player automatically to play the created AMV files in turn. The AMV files which can be played properly mean that the corresponding video & audio files have been successfully converted Besides above ways to convert files, you can also right click the video & audio files save in the hard disk and select Start video conversion. The program will autorun and begins to convert files directly. 5. Precautions When converting Realplay, Quicktime and MPEG2 format files, please install decoder 21

41 accordingly. When concerting Realplay, Quicktime and MPEG2 (DVD) format files, if your Windows Media Player cannot play the files directly, you need to install a corresponding compatible Windows Media Player decoder, till the Windows Media Player can play the files correctly, otherwise the tool cannot work properly. All figures listed in this manual are only for your reference! 22