Walkman is a popular Sony brand used to market its portable audio and video players. Sony Walkman NWZ-A815 is one kind of Walkman mp3 video players. Sony Walkman NWZ-A815 has built-in 2GB memory and comes with four colors: black, pink, silver and white. Sony Walkman NWZ-A815 offers a 2.0-inch QVGALCD screen and display photos and videos in 320 x 240 pixels. Sony Walkman NWZ-A815 is offered with a USB cable, MDR-X082 headphones, an expansion card and an adaptor plate. The headphones is best-sounding for playing music files. Initial search uses the first letter of the song, album or artist to easily find the music you are looking for. Sony Walkman NWZ-A815 supports viewing JPEG photos and supports playback of MP3, WMA, DRM protected WMA and unprotected AAC audio files. Sony Walkman NWZ-A815 also supports high quality video playback at 30 frames per second, the supportable video codecs MPEG4 and AVC baseline H264 in .MP4 extension.
For more details of specifications of Sony Walkman NWZ-A815, please visit Sony's official website.
Now let's have a look at how to convert video files for Sony Walkman NWZ-A815. Sony Walkman NWZ-A815 is bundled with a converter named Image Converter. According to Sony Walkman's online support, it can only convert AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MOV and DVR-MS movies. And it's absolutely not enough. There are some common used formats like RM, RMVB, WMV, FLV, 3GP, VOB and so on. You may need an all-in-one converter. And Any Video Converter Professional will be the best choice for you. Any Video Converter Professional 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. Any Video Converter works like a Sony Walkman video converter, converting any videos to Sony Walkman NWZ-A815.
First step, download Any Video Converter Professional from Any Video Converter website and install it. Trial version can convert 3 minutes of each file and there is no other limitation.
Launch Any Video Converter Professional. Click Add Video button to add the video files you want to convert for Sony Walkman NWZ-A815. Any Video Converter Pro also supports converting online videos like YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe and Japanese Nico Video to other video formats directly. What you need to do is just to paste the URL of your favourite online video to the program. Meanwhile, Any Video Converter Professional also downloads the video to local hard disk for your further usage.
Second step, find and unfold Sony Walkman group in the output profile list. You can select Sony Walkman MPEG-4 Movie (.mp4) or Sony Walkman MPEG-4 AVC Movie (.mp4) as output format. Please notice that Sony Walkman WMV9 Movie (.wmv) is not compatible with Sony Walkamn NWZ-A815. The best video size for Sony Walkman NWZ-A726 is 320 x 240 and any video size larger than this can't be played on Sony Walkman NWZ-A815.
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.
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You may also need to rip DVD for Sony Walkman NWZ-A815. With Any DVD Converter Pro, you can easily rip DVD to MP4 video formats compatible with your Sony Walkman NWZ-A815. 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 separated as titles, click Edit >> Options >> DVD and check. For some copy-protected DVDs, you can try DVDSmith Movie 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.
After the video files or DVD are converted to Sony Walkman NWZ-A815 compatible video files, you need to transfer them to the player. You need to install Windows Media Player 11 at first, you can download it from Microsoft's website or install it from the installation disc. Then connect your Sony Walkman NWZ-A815 directly to the computer. Sony Walkman NWZ-A815 will be recognized as a storage media. Then you can use Windows explorer to drag and drop the video files to Video folder. You can also use Windows Media Player to transfer the files. Click Sync tab in Windows Media Player, drag the video files to right panel, then click Start Synchronize button.
After the files are successfully transferred, you can enjoy your video files on Sony Walkman NWZ-A815 as you like.
As black/pink/sliver/white NWZ-A815 is also known as NWZ-A815BLK/NWZ-A815PNK/NWZ-A815SLV/NWZ-A815WHI, so this instruction can be also applied to NWZ-A815BLK, NWZ-A815PNK, NWZ-A815SLV, NWZ-A815WHI. In the same way, this instruction can be also applied to NWZ-A816BLK, NWZ-A816PNK, NWZ-A816SLV, NWZ-A816WHI, NWZ-A818, NWZ-A818BLK and NWZ-A818SLV.
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