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Archos forum / Av700 Usb Host Port

« on: August 28, 2006, 09:24:40 am »

I've confirmed the AV700's host port is powered, as it works with my flashdrive - I just wonder if it has enough juice to host an actual bus-powerd USB HDD, which will consume a lot more power than a flash-based drive.
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OK, more testing...

The hub does not have enough power to power a bus-powered USB HDD. Here are the resutls of my testing:

1. 256MB Flash Drive: WORKS
2. 1GB Flash Drive: WORKS
3. 30GB USB Drive NTFS w/own power: DOES NOT WORK (error message)
4. Same as #3, reformatted to FAT32: WORKS
5. 100GB USB Drive NTFS, bus-powered: DOES NOT WORK (get's hung on "USB Device" screen)
6. Same as #5, w/own power: DOES NOT WORK (errors message)

So, that pretty much confirms that the AV700 cannot read an external device formated to NTFS, which also means the largest external device it can read is 32GB, becuase that is the size limit imposed by the FAT32 files system. I also confirmed that the AV700's USB host port cannot power a 2.5" bus-powered HDD. I wonder if it would work on one of those little 1.8" drives which are supposed to sip power.

The 32GB limitation is the biggest one of them all. I wouldn't mind carrying around an external HDD if I could get one between 100-200GB to work - which would easily accomindate nearly every DVD I own (in avi format) plus my entire music collection.

I already have the 30GB USB HDD, which I rarely use, so I may go ahead and load it up with stuff, especially since I've discovered that the AV700 can play directly from the USB device, negating the need to shuffle files between the AV700 and my USB drive.

I hope this info is helpful for someone else out there with the same questions.

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Archos forum / Archos Technical Support

« on: August 22, 2006, 04:58:58 pm »

I've voted "1" becuase I cannot get to their support site at all - I always get redirected to the Archos store.
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Click on the Help in the upper left corner, then click on Contact Technical Support.
They recently changed their site and it is AFU.  Sevral links are screwy.
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Thanks for the tip, however, it did help much. Here's the automated reply I received:

From: tech-support.us@archos.com
Subject: Automatic Response

[English] This e-mail address no longer receives electronic mail.  Please submit your technical support questions on our web form:
(http://www.archos.com/support/customer_support/hotline.html}
If you are replying to a response that you have already received from our technical support team, please use the web form and include any previous correspondences.

[Español]Este enderezo e-mail ya no recibe mas mensajes electrónicos. Por favor utilice el formulario electrónico disponible al enderezo siguiente :
[a href=\"http://www.archos.com/support/customer_support/hotline.html]http://www.archos.com/support/customer_support/hotline.html[/url]
Si está respondiendo a un mensaje de nuestro suporte técnico, utilice también el formulario citado y copie toda la correspondencia anteriormente trocada.

[Français] Cette adresse e-mail ne reçoit plus de messages électroniques.
Veuillez remplir le formulaire qui se trouve à l'adresse (http://www.archos.com/support/customer_support/hotline.html} pour toute question à notre support technique.
Si vous répondez à un message envoyé par notre support technique, veuillez utiliser le formulaire et inclure toute correspondance précédente.

And, of course, clicking on those links redirects you to the Archos store.

If there was a "0" option to vote, I'd have used it...

Thanks for the help, though tripdad. Maybe there website issues are temporary...

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Archos forum / Archos Technical Support

« on: August 22, 2006, 01:05:13 pm »

I've voted "1" becuase I cannot get to their support site at all - I always get redirected to the Archos store.

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Archos forum / Av700 Usb Host Port

« on: August 22, 2006, 01:04:18 pm »

I've confirmed the AV700's host port is powered, as it works with my flashdrive - I just wonder if it has enough juice to host an actual bus-powerd USB HDD, which will consume a lot more power than a flash-based drive.

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Archos forum / Firmware Archos 700 To Use With Dish Dvr

« on: August 22, 2006, 11:54:53 am »

I bought the 700 before the Dish agreement and the intro of the 700e, does anone know any solutions for getting the Archos 700E firmware on a 700?
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rightim,

Did uyou ever get anywhere with this? It looks like the AV700E firmware is available here: [a href=\"http://www.pocketdish.com/tech_support.jsp]http://www.pocketdish.com/tech_support.jsp[/url] but I'm afraid to try it - unless someone can confirm that it's workig with a straight 700...

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Archos forum / Divx Vs Wmv

« on: August 22, 2006, 08:58:32 am »

Have any of y'all tried re-encoding the same movie from DivX to WMV at a lower bitrate to achieve a smaller file size? How much did the quality go down?

Since the AV500/700 can play both, I was wondering how much quality is lost in the DivX-to-WMV conversion, or are there any utilities out there that can go directly from vob to wmv?

My understanding is that a WMV file with the same resolution, FPS and keyframe configuration is supposed to yeild a smaller file size than an equivelant DivX (so, same quality, smaller file) but I have not had a chance to try it yet (Windows Media Encoder crashed on the last machine I tried it on, so I'll have to try it on another).

Any thoughts?

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Archos forum / Av700 Usb Host Port

« on: August 21, 2006, 05:21:15 pm »

Have any of you used the AV700's USB host port? Is it powered, or does the device plugged into to need to have its own power source? If it is powered, how big of a device can it power? I'm looking into getting a USB Bus Powered external HDD (probably one of the little Lacie or Iomega models) and wonder - if the AV700's USB Host Port is powered, if it has enough juice to power these. I'm going to be away from a PC for weeks at a time, and would like to be able to shuffle files between the AV700 and a USB HDD - due to the finite storage capacity of the AV700 (mine's a 40GB) and my infinite appetite for stuff...

Have have 2 different externallly (AC to DC adapter) powered HDD's that I'm going to test with the AV700, along with a couple of differrent USB keys (bus powered) to see what happens.

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Archos forum / Archos 700 Video Playback Problems

« on: August 16, 2006, 01:20:32 pm »

I just ordered an AV700 and have been converting DVDs using the SlySoft application while waiting for it to arrive. I'm going to be away from a PC for months at a time - so I'm going for quantity over quality and have been converting DVDs with 14-16 quality settings, so I've been getting file sizes between 350 and 700 MB, depending on the movie. The videos are coming out rather well at this setting - and even look good at "full screen" on a 17" monitor... but I would not want to watch them on anything larger than that.

So myquestion is - is the 700's limitation filesize-based or time-based. I think, from my reading here, it seems to be based on file size, not time, which means a 750MB file that is 2 hours in length will play all the way through, right?