Archos Video Converter, Convert Video to Archos 405

Archos is well-known for its high-performance portable video players. One of its products is Archos 405 MP3 player. Archos 405 is considered as one of the best portable video players for under $200. Archos 405 offers a big, beautiful, glare-free screen while it comes in only one model with a 2GB storage capacity. However, it also comes with an SD expansion slot. You can use SD, Mini SD and Micro SD cards to increase the capacity up to 16GB. Archos 405 support viewing JPEG, BMP, PNG photos and playing audio files like Stereo MP3 decoding @ 30-320 Kbits/s CBR & VBR, WMA, Protected WMA, WAV (PCM/ADPCM), with additional plug-ins, Archos 405 can also play AAC stereo audio files. Archos 405 also support video playback in MPEG-4 (ASP@L5 AVI) and WMV (MP@ML) formats at up to 30 frames per second, with additional plug-ins purchased from Archos' website, Archos 405 can also play H.264 with AAC sound, or MPEG-2 with stereo AC3 sound (5.1)

Recently, Archos produced a new type of Archos 405 with 30GB capacity which is a little different from the original Archos 405. For more details of specifications of Archos 405, please visit Archos official website.

Now let's have a look at how to convert video files for Archos 405. First of all, you need a good converter. Any Video Converter Professional can be used as an Archos video converter, it is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It's exactly what you need. It can convert videos to AVI or WMV playable on Archos 405.

First step, download Any Video Converter Professional from Any Video Converter website and install it.

  

Launch Any Video Converter Professional. Click Add Video button to add the video files you want to convert for Archos 405. Any Video Converter Pro also supports converting online videos like YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe and Japanese Nico Video. Click YouTube button and paste the URL link of the online video. The converter will download the online videos, in the meanwhile, convert them. The feature makes you can easily watch your favorite online videos on Archos 405.

Second step, set Customized AVI Movie (*.AVI) as output profile. Unfold Video Options, set Video codec to Xvid or mpeg4. Set Video size or manually enter the value numbers as you like, however we recommend you use 320 x 240 as it's the screen pixels. Archos 405 won't play files which is larger than 720x586 in dimension. If you would like to output WMV files, set Customized WMV Movie (*.WMV) as output profile and set WMV V9 as video codec.

Third step, click Encode button to start converting. After encoding is finished, click Output Folder buttons in the left bottom and you can find the output files.

You may also need to rip DVD for Archos 405. With Any DVD Converter Pro, you can easily rip DVD WMV or AVI video formats compatible with your Archos 405. Any DVD Converter Pro works perfectly as it's Any Video Converter Pro plus a DVD ripper. Download Any DVD Converter Pro to have a try!

  

Before ripping DVD, unfold DVD Options in the right settings panel, set Audio Language to the one you would like the movie's sound to play in. You can also set subtitile language and angle. If you don't like the DVD to be seperated as titles, click Edit >> Options >> DVD and check. For some copy-protected DVDs, you can try DVDSmith Moive Backup which is a free program that can help you copy entire DVD to hard disk, or Any DVD Cloner, which helps you to make perfect copies of your DVD collection.

Now, connect your Archos 405 to your computer, open Windows Media Player and click Sync tab. Select the desired movies and add them to your sync list, and then click Start Sync. After the sync process is finished, you can enjoy movies on your Archos 405 as you like.