The Practical Guide to Converting 'Unsupported' Digital Video & Audio File Formats for a 'Dumb' TV / Now TV Box'

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This eBook provides all the practical instructions required to ‘stream’ unsupported digital file formats to your
'Smarter' TV. This eBook is, at its' core, a graphical instruction manual, it is a 'Practical Guide’, it contains
only the practical, ‘hands-on’, information required to add support for NOW TV / Roku Box unsupported digital
audio & video file formats. The NOW TV Box is essentially a rebranded Roku LT streamer.

This eBook is highly graphical in nature in order to minimise the amount of text the reader is presented with, this
is reflected in the larger than usual file size of the eBook, it moves very quickly after a little reading into
‘hands-on’ practical demonstrations.

Note: This eBook is a companion to a2d Sudio Products' 'The Practical Guide To Making Your 'Dumb' TV a 'Smarter' TV
for Under a Tenner Using A NOW TV Box’. Should a potential purchaser merely wish to make use of the limited
on-line media content provided by the NOW TV Box and 'stream' video & music in '.mp4' and '.mp3'formats only, using
the basic features of the NOW TV Box and associated software, then this eBook is not a requirement and such potential
purchasers are advised not to purchase it.

This eBook assumes throughout that the reader has at least already completed the process of setting up the
NOW TV / Roku LT Box and has already successfully ‘streamed’ supported digital file formats to the NOW TV / Roku LT Box
‘Roku streaming player’.

No advanced technical aspects of the underlying Audio or Video compression technology used are discussed. The reader
is not required to understand, and will not be presented with, any technical details of the Audio or Video compression
technology used. No prior knowledge or advanced technical skills are required to achieve the final result.

A ‘Smart TV’ generally has access to several digital audio & video media formats, the NOW TV & Roku LT Box
‘Roku Streaming Player’ only has access to the ‘.mp3’ & ‘.mp4/.m4v’ digital audio & video file formats. This is one
limitation which makes a ‘Dumb’ TV / NOW TV / Roku LT combination less than ‘Smart’. It is this limitation that
this eBook will address, and by so doing make the combination a truly ‘Smarter’ TV.

This eBook provides all the practical instructions required to convert and ‘stream’ 'unsupported' digital file formats
to your 'Smarter' TV. This eBook is, at its' core, a graphical instruction manual, it is a 'Practical Guide’, it
contains only the practical, ‘hands-on’, information required to add support for NOW TV / Roku LT 'unsupported' Digital
Audio & video file formats.

Unlike other widely documented methods, for performing digital Audio & Video file format conversions, which employ
expensive sofware applications, all the software used within this eBook are freeware and available on a number of
operating system platforms including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD / PC-BSD. This allows the user to make use of
this eBook regardless of which operating system platform they are familiar with.

This eBook demonstrates a method of converting one digital video file format to another which does not require the very
time consuming processing associated with performing a full 'Transcoding', the process is termed ‘Re-wrapping’.

In order to ensure the accuracy and quality of the content of its' publications, it is the policy of
a2d Studio Products to apply any updates and corrections to it's publications it sees fit at any time after the
publication date, this eBook underwent such updates and corrections on 3rd November 2014, purchasers are advised to
check periodically for the application of such future updates and corrections to this publication.