Seagate FreeAgent ater User Guide - Page 14

Watching Movies

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• Access Web-based media content (see page 25). • Sync your media files between your computer(s) and your FreeAgent drive or external USB drive (see page 28). • Manage your media player and FreeAgent drive (see page 38). • Customize your media player settings (see page 49). • Solve any media player problems you might encounter (see page 57). Finding More Help Seagate Support provides a broad range of resources (including FAQs, a knowledge base and a community forum) to help you solve any problem you might have while using your media player. Go to www.seagate.com/support, then click Support and Downloads. 3. Watching Movies You can use your media player to watch personal videos and digitized DVDs stored on: • A FreeAgent drive installed in the media player • An external USB drive connected to the media player's USB port • A digital camera or camcorder connected to the media player's USB port • A shared folder or media server on your network Your media player automatically searches the drives and devices connected to your media player and creates an index of all the video, picture, and music files it finds. The movies are listed on the Movie screen (see "Playing a Movie" on page 15). Before You Begin Before you begin, ensure that the movies you want to watch are in a supported format, and that if you want to view movie subtitles, they are in a supported format, too. Supported Movie Formats Your media player supports movies in these formats: Your media player supports personal videos in these formats: Supported Movie Subtitle Formats Your media player supports subtitles in these formats: If a movie has subtitles, make them viewable by ensuring that the movie file and subtitle file have identical names. Also, ensure that the movie file and subtitle file are stored in the same folder. .ASF .FLV .M4V .MP4 .RM .TS 14

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Access Web-based media content (see page 25).
Sync your media files between your computer(s) and your FreeAgent drive or
external USB drive (see page 28).
Manage your media player and FreeAgent drive (see page 38).
Customize your media player settings (see page 49).
Solve any media player problems you might encounter (see page 57).
Finding More Help
Seagate Support provides a broad range of resources (including FAQs, a knowledge
base and a community forum) to help you solve any problem you might have while using
your media player. Go to www.seagate.com/support, then click
Support and
Downloads
.
3. Watching Movies
You can use your media player to watch personal videos and digitized DVDs stored on:
A FreeAgent drive installed in the media player
An external USB drive connected to the media player’s USB port
A digital camera or camcorder connected to the media player’s USB port
A shared folder or media server on your network
Your media player automatically searches the drives and devices connected to your
media player and creates an index of all the video, picture, and music files it finds. The
movies are listed on the Movie screen (see “Playing a Movie” on page 15).
Before You Begin
Before you begin, ensure that the movies you want to watch are in a supported format,
and that if you want to view movie subtitles, they are in a supported format, too.
Supported Movie Formats
Your media player supports movies in these formats:
Your media player supports personal videos in these formats:
Supported Movie Subtitle Formats
Your media player supports subtitles in these formats:
If a movie has subtitles, make them viewable by ensuring that the movie file and subtitle
file have identical names. Also, ensure that the movie file and subtitle file are stored in
the same folder.
.ASF .FLV .M4V .MP4 .RM .TS