CREATIVE Zen Portable Media Center - Manual (Page 33)

Managing Content 5-1
Managing Content
About Content
Types
Zen Portable Media Center plays many different types of content, including video
files, audio tracks, recorded TV programs and still pictures.
When you transfer video and audio files to your player, Windows Media Player 10
changes them into WMV or WMA files respectively. Windows Media Player 10
changes recorded TV programs in DVR-MS format to the WMV format. Still picture
files are unchanged, but your player only displays pictures that are in the JPEG
(.JPG) format. Windows Media Player 10 may take longer to change video files that
are not already in the WMV format.
Getting
Content
You can acquire content from many legal sources. Here are some suggestions:
• Videos — purchased from online movie stores or digitized home video footage.
• TV programs — recorded programs from a digital video recorder, running on
Windows XP Media Center, or recorded TV programs from a Windows XP Media
Center Edition computer.
• Audio tracks — ripped from personal audio CDs, home studio recordings or
purchased from online music stores.
• Pictures — purchased from online stores, encoded from your personal digital
camera or scanned from printed pictures.
When you transfer a
video that has a
combined video and
audio bitrate greater
than 800kbps,
Windows Media Player
10 changes the bitrate
to less than 800kbps.
You can check a
video’s bitrate from
the Windows Media
Player 10’s Library
view.