Creative zen portable media center User Manual

Managing Content

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.

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.