The USB port is for direct reading of memory sticks only. It is NOT for connection to a PC or external Hard Drive, as this requires an Operating system, such as Microsoft Windows.

The Memory stick needs to be connected directly to the USB port upon the product, not connected via an extension cable. The best format to use upon the device is DivX, as this has many benefits.

Reliability. It just works
Standardised and established format, so that it works across many different devices
Cheap. From the DivX website, the encoding software costs around £20.00 including the DVD encoder, so you can take all your DVD’s and compress them to DivX format very simply
High compression. A DVD movie will compress down by a factor of 13 times. So you can fit 5 movies on to a single 2Gb memory stick
The DivX encoder works with many different types of input file types, as there are all sorts out there available to download. The output will be standardized to DivX format

When you open the DivX encoder, drop your movies in to the encoder and use the “Home Theatre” option and try to keep to the 720 x 408 dimensions, as this is a 16:9 ratio (or 1.77 ratio) so will fill the screen rather than leave black edges all around. (For example If you choose 640 x 480 – the old format 4:3 ratio or 1.33 you will get black edges as the movie is adjusted to fit the widescreen of your product).

With the default settings applied, the Video bitrate should be left alone, but if you want to adjust around 1500Kbps, this will be just fine. Normally a frame rate of 25frames per second will result. You can not adjust this yourself within the DivX encoder, but there is no need. You can also record multiple DivX movies on to disc, as the player will play these also. Approx 2 movies on to a CD-R (720Mb) and 13 movies on to a DVD (4.7Gb) disc. Some players may require the file extension to be changed to “.avi” in order to play correctly, change “MonstersInc.divx” to MonstersInc.avi”
NOTE: Some original DVD’s may not be allowed to copy, if they are protected by the originating studios.

SD INFO:
NTSC = 720 x 480 x 30fps (1.50 ratio) (525 lines but only 480 active)
PAL = 720 x 576 x 25fps (1.25 ratio) (625 lines but only 576 active)

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