ONE-STEP RECORDING APPARATUS FOR PORTABLE MEDIA PLAYERS

摘要

A recording apparatus (10) for recording audio-visual (A/V) contents directly from an A/V input source (22) to a portable media player (PMP) (24) is disclosed. The recorded A/V contents can be played back by the portable media player (24) immediately upon stopping the recording. The recording apparatus (10) does not involve the use of any intermediate computing or storage device other than the portable media player (24) and the recording apparatus (10) itself. The A/V contents for recording may come in the form of analog/digital signals or as digital data in compressed or uncompressed form from transmission and/or storage devices. Depending upon the nature of the input, the recording apparatus (10) digitizes, encodes and/or transcodes the A/V contents and stores the processed A/V contents directly into the portable media player (24) in playback ready format. The recording apparatus includes a one-button control interface (18) for starting and stopping the recording of A/V contents to the portable media player (24).