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17 17 4 VIDEO – Playing Video Files from the Internet When  using  Windows  Media®  Player  10,  you  will  have  the  advantage  of  being  able  to  download protected video content from the Internet. When you see the PlaysForSure symbol on a web site for Windows® Portable Media Center (PMC)*, then these protected downloads will be playable on your AV 700. 4.1 Protected Internet Video content If you check the PlaysForSure™ website (www.playsforsure.com) you will fi nd web retailers who offer rental, subscription, or purchasable video content.  Remember, web sites must carry the PlaysForSure™ symbol in order for their videos to play on the AV 700. 4.1 Non Protected Internet Video Content The AV 700 plays .AVI fi les that are encoded in MPEG-4 format. It can play such video fi les at a maximum size of 720 x 576 pixels (25 frames/second). It can also play .WMV fi les (WMV9 SP) up to a maximum size of 352 x 288**. The AV 700 will not directly play fi les of type .mov, .mpg, or .mpeg. The number of encoding and compression schemes currently used to create video fi les is very extensive and seems to change on a weekly basis. There are so many standards and formats that it is very possible 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.    If you have some video fi les that do not play directly on your AV 700, they will have to be converted fi rst. Windows Media® Player 10 (Available only for Windows XP) will convert your video fi le automatically when you sync the fi le that is on your PC to the AV 700. It will display a little message ‘converting’. * MPEG-4: ISO standard by Moving Picture Experts Group ; AVI: audio/video fi le container by Microsoft . MPEG- 4 SP with B-frames AVI up to 704x480@30f/s NTSC or 720x576@25f/s PAL. ** Microsoft WMV9 SP up to 352x288@30f/s and 800 kb/s ; supports WM DRM. 18 18 You   can   also   use   the   software   MPEG-4   Translator   included   on   the  AV   700   hard   drive   to   re-encode your   video   fi les   into   the   proper   MPEG-4   SP   format   that   the   AV   700   can   play.   See   the   chapter Video – creating MPEG-4 video fi les with your computer for more details.