Acer MP500, User Manual

Page 1: ...Acer MP500 User s Manual Ver 1 0 ...

Page 2: ...e Any software described in this manual is sold or licensed as is Should the programs prove defective following this purchase the buyer and not this company its distributor or its dealer assumes the entire cost of all necessary servicing repair and any incidental or consequential damages resulting from any defect in the software Further Acer Computer GmbH reserves the right to revise this publicat...

Page 3: ...troller 5 7 USB Drive Installation 6 8 Disk Directory Management 8 9 Safe Movement and Removal 8 III Basic Functions 9 1 Main Menu 9 2 Video Play 10 3 MÚSICA Enjoyment 11 4 View Picture 13 5 E book 15 6 Viewing and Recording of External Programs 17 7 File Operation 18 8 Menu Setup 21 9 Video File Format Conversion 23 10 Firmware Upgrade 25 IV Frequently Asked Questions and Solutions 26 V Product S...

Page 4: ...ay cause explosion Please correctly use the battery as per instruction stated in Section Battery 12 Don t throw used battery into the waste bin it should be recycled II Product Description Thank you for purchasing this Acer MP 500 product This kind of product is a high performance portable multimedia recorder and player with removable Li ion battery With the use of Acer MP500 product you can play ...

Page 5: ... 0 Full Speed and Low speed operation SD MMC Card Slot Supports Extended SD MMC Card Battery Batería de Polímero de iones de litio Video Format Conversion You can convert unplayable video files into playable format through video format conversion software Multi Languages Supports many languages including eight language modes such as Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese English German French Ital...

Page 6: ... is fully charged Battery is partially drained Battery is drained Note If the power volume indication of battery shows only one block or is empty it indicates the power supply is obviously lacking please charge the battery 4 3 Charging of Battery You can use the external power adapter to charge the battery The charging can be performed when the power of MP500 Player is on or off The detailed charg...

Page 7: ...t and AV input socket of MP500 Player through AV cable 3 Connection of MÚSICA Device Insert the AV cable into the AV input socket of MP500 Player Connect the MÚSICA signal left right of AV cable through Y type cable Insert other end of Y type cable into the output socket of MÚSICA device 4 Connection of Computer Use USB cord to connect the MP500 Player with computer for data transfer 5 Connection ...

Page 8: ...rection selection down 8 VOLUME Decrease the volume 9 VOLUME Increase the volume 10 TV Toggle the screen 11 POWER OFF Power switch 12 IR Infrared sensing port 13 Battery Battery 7 Installation of USB Driver USB driver only needs to be installed for Windows98 se operation system The installation steps are as follow 1 Insert the CD provided with this unit into the CD ROM Double click the Setup exe f...

Page 9: ...e installation of driver is finished Confirm the USB driver has been installed 1 Turn on the power of MP500 and use USB cord to connect with computer 2 Select Control Panel System Device Manager The following interface is to be displayed ...

Page 10: ... under the root directory of disk because the deletion of such directories will result in the abnormal operation of this product If these directories above have been deleted unintentionally please re open these directories after this unit is shut off and the MP500 Player will automatically establish such directories for you 2 Please store these files into the corresponding directories as per their...

Page 11: ...is indicated in interface III Basic Functions 1 Selection of Main Menu After the unit is turned on the main interface will be displayed on the screen as shown in the below figure Several icons are displayed on the main interface video MÚSICA photo e book record files and setup Press Esc key to hide the icon of main interface and the background will appear clearly on the screen If the icon of Menu ...

Page 12: ...ess Enter key to confirm and enter into the interface of video file list 2 Press menu key to call up the file operation menu The detailed operation method is shown in the description in the file operation section a Desktop Select Desktop to go back to the main interface ...

Page 13: ...ast forward or rewind only works with video Suspendd f During the playback of video press menu key to display the icons of function menu Suspend ff rewind next previous repeat mode and ratio of width and height Repeat mode single repeat non stop repeat Ratio of width and height 4 3 16 9 original dimension display ratio of width and height Note Use right or left keys to select the menus above and u...

Page 14: ...Desktop and return to the main interface b View new copy move paste delete and rename Refer to file operation description c File information Open or close the file information column 3 In the interface of MÚSICA file list use up or down keys to select MÚSICA file and press Enter key to confirm Unit will enter into the MÚSICA play interface and start to play MÚSICA ...

Page 15: ...uspend fast forward rewind previous next repeat mode A B repeat reading ID3 information EQ function and background MÚSICA Repeat mode Single repeat non stop repeat and random play MÚSICA information and display of LRC lyric Note Use left or right keys to select the above menu and use Enter key to confirm Press Esc or Menu keys to resume normal playback 6 During MÚSICA playback period the LRC file ...

Page 16: ... Press menu key to call up the file operation menu and the detailed operation method is shown in description of file operation section a Desktop Select Desktop and return to the main interface b View new copy move paste delete and rename Refer to file operation description c File information Open or close the file information column ...

Page 17: ...u can use the above menu to open or close the slide function You can setup the display interval of slide in the setup menu b Desktop Background Select setup as background function in the above menu and the current picture will be set as desktop background In the MP500 the stored pictures can be set as desktop background by using such function c Under the condition that the picture is zoomed out us...

Page 18: ... a Desktop Select Desktop and return to the main interface b View new copy move paste delete and rename Refer to file operation description c File information Open or close the file information column 3 In the E book file list interface Use up or down keys to select E book and press Enter key to open and display electronic book on the screen ...

Page 19: ...the function menu Previous file next file background MÚSICA Select Background MÚSICA in the above menu to change background MÚSICA if the viewing pages are greater than 10 pages the bookmark will be automatically saved Note If you want to play the picture and MÚSICA synchronously unit will first play MÚSICA and select background MÚSICA in the menu 6 The supported file formats in the e book are as ...

Page 20: ...rded 2 Video Output Function a Please use AV cable to connect the AV output connector of MP500 Player and AV input connector of A V device respectively to enjoy the large screen video and stereo MÚSICA For the connection please refer to the User s Manual of AV device b Turn on the MP500 Player and TV or stereo MÚSICA device and set up the MP500 for normal video or MÚSICA playback Eventually press ...

Page 21: ...ÚSICA or video files in the hard disk or extended storage device such as SD MMC card 2 If your data file or MÚSICA file or video file is stored in the hard drive select C drive and press Enter key to enter into the file directory list interface 3 Use up or down key to select the file or folder you want to access and then press menu key to call up the file operation menu ...

Page 22: ...ove Rest the cursor on the file or folder to be moved press Menu key to call up operation menu select move the hint Move will appear at that time Select Yes and press Menu key under the objective directory to call up operation menu Select paste the hint Paste will appear then select Yes or No f Paste Used during the operations of copy and move g Delete Rest the cursor on the file or folder to be d...

Page 23: ... 20 of full brightness 100 full brightness Text Color Color of unhighlighted text Color values from 001 to 255 Focus Text Color of highlighted text Color values from 001 to 255 Focus Color Color of highlight bar Color values from 001 to 255 b Power Setup This menu setup item includes backlight setup and power off Backlight Setup For automatic shut off of the LCD backlight 0 255 seconds are availab...

Page 24: ...ormats of television PAL NTSC System Information To check the company information production description revision time remaining volume and used volume Factory Defaults To reset to original factory settings d Playback Mode Setup This menu setup item includes picture interval time and MÚSICA playback mode Picture Interval Time To setup automatic view interval of picture 001 255 min are available MÚ...

Page 25: ...WMV ASF AVI MPG RM RMVB and DAT as the source file to be converted After the source file to be converted is determined you can select the conversion wizard provided by the software in accordance with different demands and customize output of the specifications of conversion file such as resolution factor frames and baud rate to meet your requirements 1 select the menu at the bottom left of Windows...

Page 26: ... custom code setup box change the 15fps in the frame rate column to 30fps Then click the OK button and the Application button to close the dialogue property box 9 Click Start Coding and wait for the completion of coding 10 Firmware Upgrade You can download the firmware with new revision and you can upgrade this product through the following steps 1 Visit homepage of Acer Company Http www acer euro...

Page 27: ...firstly setup correctly the tv standard In China and Europe please use pal and in Korea please use ntsc 4 Question Sudden power off Answer 1 Please check the power off setup in the system set of main menu interface 2 Please check if the battery power is low if so it should be charged 5 Question LCD screen suddenly powers off Answer Please check if Suspend key is pressed and screen conversion has b...

Page 28: ...Ah Playback Time Video 4 hours MÚSICA 8 hours average Power Supply Power Saving Auto Power off Screen saver and Hard Disk spin down Interface 3 5 TFT LCD Resolution 320 240 RGB Pixels Brightness Backlight Adjustable Display View Angle Up 10deg Down 30deg Left 45deg Right 45deg Video CVBS PAL NTSC MÚSICA Line in Stereo AV Input Recording Speech Built in Microphone Video TV Line out PAL NTSC MÚSICA ...

Page 29: ... WMV9 SP ML 352 288 30fps WMA9 L2 Video Bit rate Up to 4Mbps Minimum Support 10fps MP3 MP3 MPEG 1 2 Layer III sample rate up to 48KHz Bit rate 24 320Kbps CBR VBR 2 channels MÚSIC A WMA WMA WMA8 9 sample Rate up to 48KHz Bit rate 32 384Kbps CBR 2 channels JPEG JPG Baseline YUV and Grayscale No progressive Up to 3264 2448 Pixels for HDD GIF GIF Static Up to 1000 1000 Decoding Image BMP BMP Monchrome...

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