Dvd+rewritable – RCA DRC246N User Manual

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Compatible Discs

This DVD Player is capable of playing the following types of

discs: DVDs, Audio CDs, Video CDs, and CDs with mp3 ﬁles,

WMA ﬁles (Windows Media Audio), and JPEG ﬁles on them.

Before you put a disc in the player, make sure it is compatible.
You can’t play the following types of discs: Laserdiscs, CD-I,

CD-ROM (computer-only discs), DVD-ROM, or discs recorded

using other broadcast standards (i.e., PAL or SECAM); CD-G

discs.

Notes: Some discs may not be compatible due to laser pickup, recording

formats, and software used.
Some technologies and methods used for mp3 ﬁle recording on CD-Rs can

prevent optimal playback of these ﬁles on your DVD player by degrading the

sound quality and/or the ability of the player to read the ﬁle.

Playing Discs

DVD+Rewritable

Regional Coding

Both the DVD Player and the discs are coded by region. These regional codes must

match in order for the disc to play. This player’s code is Region 1.

Turn on the DVD Player

Plug the power cord into the outlet once the DVD player is connected to your TV.

Turn on the TV and tune to its Video Input Channel, if necessary.

Press the STANDBY/STOP on the DVD player or the ON/OFF button on the

remote control to turn it on.

Press the OPEN/CLOSE button on the front of the player or remote control to

open the disc tray.

Place a disc gently into the tray with the disc’s label facing up (double-sided discs

have content on both sides, so you can place the disc with either side up.)

Press OPEN/CLOSE again to close the disc tray. Play starts automatically. If a menu

appears, one of its options can be selected to start playing the disc. Highlight it and

press OK.

Press STOP to stop playback. The player remembers the point where disc was

stopped. If you press PLAY again, playback resumes from this point. To stop playback

completely or to start again from the beginning, press STOP twice. If the player

is left in STOP mode for more than one minute without any user interaction, the

screen saver is activated.

Basic Playback Options

Search - To search a disc, you can use the FORWARD button or REVERSE button.

You can also use the following search features:

Picture Scan - When you’re playing a disc, each time you press FORWARD or

REVERSE, your DVD player scans the disc faster until you reach the fastest scan speed.

To resume normal playback, press PLAY or continue to press FORWARD or REVERSE.

Freeze Frame and Frame Advance – While a disc is playing, press PAUSE to

freeze the picture. To advance one frame at a time, press PAUSE repeatedly. To resume

normal playback, press PLAY.

Note: After approximately one minute in PAUSE with no user interaction, the player goes into screeen saver
mode.

Slow Motion – While a disc is playing, press PAUSE. Press REVERSE or FORWARD

(each time you press reverse or forward, the slow motion will get even slower until

you reach the slowest speed). To resume normal playback, press PLAY.

Chapter/Track Advance – While a disc is playing, you can skip forward or backward

a chapter or track at a time by pressing the SKIP



and SKIP .

Note: Use the numeric buttons to directly access a speciﬁc track or chapter number. For single digit tracks

or chapters, enter a 0 before single digit numbers; for example, enter 0, then 3 for chapter/track 3.

Zoom – While a disc is playing, press ZOOM (the player zooms in on the image).

Each time you press ZOOM, the picture is magniﬁed even more (until you get to the

maximum zoom level). To see other parts of the picture when you’ve zoomed in on

the image, try pressing the ,, and  buttons to go in corresponding directions.

This feature is called pan and scan.

Playback Modes

Repeat Playback

While the disc is playing, press REPEAT button repeatedly to select a play mode:
DVD play modes: Title repeat, Chapter repeat, A-B repeat;
CD play modes: All tracks repeat, Track repeat, A-B repeat;

A-B Repeat

To repeat a segment between two points (A and B), press the A-B button at the

beginning of the segment you want to repeat. Allow the disc to play to the end of the

segment or use FORWARD to advance to the end point (B). Press the A-B button

again at the end of the segment. The segment plays repeatedly until you press A-B to

resume normal playback.

Program Playback (all discs except WMA and mp3)

With this option you choose and program the playback order.

Insert a disc.

In Stop mode, press the PROGRAM button. The Program menu appears.

Use the number buttons to enter the title and/or chapter number (for DVD) or

track number (for VCD and Audio CD). Repeat Step 3 as often as necessary.

Use the ,, and  buttons to select Start.

Press the PLAY button to start playback. Tracks are played in the order of the

playback list. Playback stops once all tracks have been played.

Press the STOP button to stop program playback. Press the STOP button twice or

the OPEN/CLOSE button to cancel program playback.

Notes: The playback list remains until the disc is removed from the player.
Press PROGRAM repeatedly to take you back to the beginning or toggle between the lists.

Random Playback (VCD and audio CD only)

All the tracks are played in a random order (chosen by the DVD player)

Insert a disc.

In Stop mode, press the RANDOM button (Random appears).

Press the PLAY button to start random playback. Once 20 tracks have been

randomly played, the player automatically stops playback.

Press the RANDOM button again to stop playback (Random disappears).

Advanced Playback Features

Audio (DVD, VCD and CD)

Some discs have several audio tracks used for different languages or different audio

formats. To change the language or audio format during play, press the AUDIO button

one or more times to select one of the available audio formats or languages.

Note: This option is only available if the disc offers a number of languages or formats.

Bookmarks

The Bookmark feature lets you mark a point on the disc so you can quickly start

playing the disc from that location. The player stores bookmarks as long as the disc

remains in the player and the unit remains on.

Press the BOOKMARK button during playback (a menu is displayed).

To create a bookmark, select a empty bookmark using the andbuttons and

press the PLAY button.

Repeat Step 2 as often as necessary.

To start playback from a bookmark, press the BOOKMARK button, select the

bookmark using the andbuttons and press the PLAY button.

To delete a bookmark, press the BOOKMARK button, select the bookmark using

the andbuttons and press the CLEAR button.

Exit the Bookmark feature, by pressing the BOOKMARK button.

Display

The Display appears across the top of the screen when you press the DISPLAY button

on the remote while playing a disc. Press the DISPLAY button repeatedly to scroll

through playback information.

Preview

The Preview feature enables you to view contents of the disc on the screen. To

preview the disc:

Press the PREVIEW button during playback.

Highlight the preview selection.

• Digest: shows all the available contents. Input the number of the item you want

to play using the numeric buttons and press OK to conﬁrm.

• Interval: shows all tracks in 10-minute intervals. Input the number corresponding

to the interval where you want to start playback from and press OK to conﬁrm.

Select NEXT to view the next page, MENU to return to the Select Disc Type menu,

or START to begin playback.

Introscan (Audio CDs only)

Use this feature to preview the ﬁrst few seconds of each track on a CD. Press

PREVIEW button on the remote control to start the Introscan.

Playback Control (PBC)

The Playback Control feature is available only on Video CDs. Press the TITLE MENU

button to turn the PBC feature on and off. The Playback Control feature supports the

menus of the VCD format similar to a DVD menu.

Playing mp3, WMA, or JPEG ﬁles

mp3 is an audio ﬁle format which compresses recorded music. It was developed by

Fraunhofer Gesellschaft in collaboration with Thomson Inc. The main advantage of the

mp3 format is the ability to store CD-quality music tracks on a personal computer in

a user-friendly, compressed ﬁles. WMA (Windows Media Audio) is another audio

ﬁle format, developed by Microsoft. JPEG ﬁles are image ﬁles (make sure they have a

resolution of less than 5 megapixels.)

Note: The time taken for the contents of the disc to be displayed varies according to the size and number

of JPEG files actually on the disc. If nothing is displayed after a few minutes, it is likely that certain files are

too large. In this case, reduce the files’ resolution to less than 5 megapixels and write another disc.

Before inserting a disc, check that it is compatible with the player:

Turn on the DVD and open the disc tray by pressing OPEN/CLOSE.

Place the disc in the tray with the printed side facing up and close the tray.

Select a folder using the  andbuttons on the remote control; press OK to see

the folder’s contents.

Select a track using the  andbuttons on the remote control; press OK to start

playback.

Press the STOP button to stop playback.

To go back to the folder list, press the button in stop mode.

Repeat Play Modes
1.

Press the REPEAT button repeatedly to select a play mode:

Repeat One: Repeats the current track until the STOP button is pressed.
Repeat Folder: Repeats the current folder until the STOP button is pressed.

To cancel the repeat playback mode, press the REPEAT button until FOLDER

appears on the TV screen.

JPEG / mp3

To play all mp3 or JPEG ﬁles in a folder, highlight the ﬁrst ﬁle in the folder and press

PLAY. Also, you can play JPEG and mp3 ﬁles simultaneously by starting the music ﬁrst

and then using the menu to select a photo.

Program Playback (WMA and mp3)

You can choose and create a playback list:

Highlight the song that you want added to the play list and press BOOKMARK.

(add to playlist appears at bottom of screen).

Repeat step one until you have the list of speciﬁc songs that you want to play.

Press BOOKMARK to delete a song from the playlist.

Press PROGRAM to display the playlist and press PLAY.

Notes: The playback list remains until the disc is removed from the player.
Press PROGRAM repeatedly to take you back to the beginning or toggle between the lists.

Menu System

The DVD Player Menu System

The DVD player menu system is not the same as the disc menu. The DVD player menu

appears when there’s no disc playing.

-- General Setup Page --

TV Display

Menu Lang

English

Setup

Dolby

Preferences

To access the DVD player menus:
• Press the SETUP button to display the main

menu.

• Select a menu icon using the and

buttons.

• Use the  andbuttons to select one of

the options in the menu.

• Press the button to access the submenu.

• Use the  andbuttons select one of the options in the submenu.
• Press OK to conﬁrm your selection.
• Return to a previous menu using the button.
• To exit from the player menus, press the SETUP button repeatedly.

The General Setup Menu (shown above)

TV Display
You can choose a display that affects how a disc’s content appears on your TV screen.
Normal/PS (4:3 Standard): reproduces a 4:3 picture with some distortion,
Normal/LB (4:3 Letterbox): gives best reproduction of pictures recorded in this

format (i.e., with horizontal bands at the top and bottom of the screen),
Wide (16:9 Widescreen): reproduces 16:9 format ﬁlms in full, on a 16:9 screen.

Menu Lang (Language)
The Menu Lang feature enables you to set the preferred on-screen menu language:

English, Spanish, or French.

Front of the DVD Player (buttons appear left to right below)

4 5 6 7 8 9

1 Card Slot 1

Accepts cards: Only Multi-Media Card (MMC); Secure Digital

(SD); Memory Stick (MS) or Smart Media (SM)

2 Card Slot 2

Accepts cards: Compact Flash (CF) Type 1; or Compact Flash

(CF) Type 11

3 Display Area
4 Remote Sensor Receives the remote control signal.
5 Standby Light

Lights when DVD player is turned off.

6 OPEN/CLOSE

Opens and closes disc tray.

7 PLAY

Begins disc play.

8 SELECT

Switches between memory card Slot 1, Slot 2 and disc tray.

9 STANDBY/STOP Turns the DVD player on and off. During playback, places

disc in stop mode. In stop mode, press and hold to put DVD

player in standby mode.

Card Readers
The Card reading formats for slot playback are mp3, WMA, and JPEG. When using a

memory card, the ﬁle name must be seven characters in order to be displayed, unlike

the ﬁle name of a disc.
1. Insert a compatible memory card (type described above) into Slot 1 or Slot 2.
2. Press the SELECT button to choose Card 1; press again to choose Card 2.

Repeatedly pressing the SELECT button switches between the Card 1, Card 2, and

disc tray.

3. Use the navigation buttons (









) to move up, down, left, or right through

the folders; press OK to select the highlighted folder or item.

Note: To play all of the ﬁles in a folder, highlight the ﬁrst ﬁle and press PLAY.

4. Press PLAY to begin playback.
5. Press STOP to stop playback.
6. To remove the information from the screen, repeatedly press the SELECT button

or remove the card.

Remote Control









Navigates through the menus.

0 - 9

Number entry.

A-B

Accesses the A-B repeat

playback mode.

ANGLE

Accesses the camera angle.

AUDIO

Selects the audio language.

BOOKMARK

Accesses the bookmark

feature.

CLEAR

Clears some functions.

DISC MENU

Accesses the disc’s menu

(if available).

DISPLAY

Provides playback status.

FORWARD

Searches forward through

the disc.

MUTE

Lowers and restores the

volume.

Selects item highlighted in

menu.

ON/OFF

Turns the player on and off.

OPEN/CLOSE Opens and closes the tray.
PAUSE

Freezes frame, frame advance,

and slow motion.

PLAY

Starts playing a disc or card.

PREVIEW

Previews contents of disc.

PROGRAM

Accesses the Program

playback mode.

RANDOM

Starts the Random playback

mode.

REPEAT

Accesses the Repeat playback

mode.

REVERSE

Searches back through the

disc.

SETUP

Accesses and exits the General

Setup main) menu.

SKIP

Advances to the next/

preceding chapter or track.

STOP

Stops playback.

SUBTITLE

Turns the subtitle on and off.

TITLE MENU Accesses the title of the disc

and turns Playback Control

PBC) for VCDs only on and off.

ZOOM

Accesses the Zoom feature

(if available).

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Playback of mp3, WMA, or JPEG ﬁles