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Preparing Your Multimedia Content
You can use preinstalled Sony
®
software programs to prepare your multimedia content for sharing across the network using
VAIO Media software.
To prepare your multimedia content
VAIO Media Console software can manage different media server features to deliver various file formats.
VAIO Media Music Server software delivers music files — Use SonicStage or SonicStage Mastering Studio
software to create playlists of music files. The VAIO Media Music Server software automatically makes these playlists
and other music files stored in registered folders, available to Microsoft
®
Windows
®
XP Media Center and the client
computers on your network.
VAIO Media Photo Server software delivers image files — Use the Photo Server to deliver pictures for Media
Center and the client computers on your network. VAIO Media Photo Server software recognizes .JPEG, .BMP, .GIF,
and .TIFF file formats.
VAIO Media Video Server software delivers video files — Media Center records TV programs and VAIO Media
Video Server software delivers the recorded contents to the client computers on your network. You can also use a
VAIO
®
computer with Giga Pocket
®
software
1
, version 5.0 or later, to create Video Capsules. Video files using DV-AVI,
MPEG1, MPEG2, DIVX
2
, and WMV file formats can be stored in registered folders and accessed by the client
computers on your network.
Giga Pocket Personal Video Recorder software creates video content called Video Capsules, which are stored in
locations known as cabinets.
VAIO Media TV Server software delivers an analog stream — You can connect analog devices, such as a VCR, to
a computer equipped with Media Center and stream video to other VAIO computers in your network.
VAIO Media software does not support live TV viewing across the network on your computer equipped with Media
Center,. Only VAIO computers equipped with Giga Pocket software support live TV viewing across the network through the
TV server.
1
Giga P ocket
®
P ers onal V ideo Rec order hardware and s oftware features are not ins talled on V A IO
®
c omputers running under the Micros oft
®
Windows
®
XP
Media C enter operating s ystem.
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A DIV X encoder program must be installed on your computer, to enable playback of files in DIV X format.
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