How to Convert Video Files for Archos 105

Archos 105

Archos is well-known for its high-performance portable video players. One of its products is Archos 105 MP3 player. It is one of the least expensive video-worthy MP3 players on the market. Archos 105 has three colors, black, white and red as shown on the picture above. Archos 105 only comes with 2GB capacity. Archos 105 support JPEG photo and mp3, WMA, protected WMA and PCM wave audio files. For more details of specifications of Archos 105, you can visit its official website.

As mentioned above, Archos 105 is video-worthy, that is to say, it supports video playback. Now let’s look into what it can play. In fact, Archos 105 only supports WMV format with some strict parameters. Look at below please.

Video Format: WMV     Video Size: 160 x 128 (max)    Video Framerate: 30fps (max)
Video Bitrate: 250kbps    Audio Bitrate: 128kbps

So if you want to play movies on Archos 105, you need to convert the movies first.

 

Any Video Converter

Any Video Converter Pro can be used as Archos video converter, it is the best tool for converting movies in various formats for Archos 105 movie. What is more, Any Video Converter Pro includes pre-defined Archos 105 output format, which makes you easily convert AVI, WMV, MPG, MP4, 3GP, FLV, RM, RMVB, VOB, DAT and many other formats to WMV format that can play on Archos 105.

Use Any Video Convrter Pro. and follow the steps below, you can watch almost all video formats on your Archos 105 easily.

First step, download Any Video Converter Pro. from Any Video Converter website and install it. Then launch Any Video Converter Pro. Click Add Video button to add the video files you want to convert for Archos 105. Any Video Converter also supports converting YouTube and Google online video directly. Click YouTube button and paste the URL link of the online video. This convenient feature makes you can easily watch YouTube videos on your Archos 105.

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Second step, find and unfold Archos group in output list, select Archos 105 Movie (*.WMV) as output profile. Unfold Video Options, you can find Video codec is set to WMV V9. WMV V8 is not supported by Archos 105. Video Size is set to 160 x 128 and video bitrate is set to 256 or you can set to a lower value by manually entering the numbers.

Third step, click Encode button to start converting. You will find that Any Video Converter Pro converts files in a fast speed. Click Output Folder buttons in the left bottom of Any Video Converter Pro and you can find the output files.

Now, connect your Archos 105 with 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 105 as you like. If you want to rip DVD for Archos 105, you can try Any DVD Converter Pro which rips DVD to Archos 105 WMV movie or other formats.