Tips: Converting Video for your Portable Video Player

Cnet have a useful article to help you convert your video to formats compatible with the Archos Portable Media Player. They recommend that you should try using Windows Media Player 10 to try your video before you try converting. The Archos AV500 and Gmini 402 or pretty versatile units and play most formats. The way they say you should do it is to select the movies you want converting and add them to your Sync list, then click Start Sync. If they need converting WMP should do it automatically. If there are some files that don't convert you could try getting MPEG4 Translator and Virtual Dub which come with the Archos players. Click here to find out how to use it.