[PenPal1999]

Hi everyone

Can anyone please help me with this player?

Does anyone know the format of the video it plays? Or if not, does anyone have any video which plays on this player so I can check it with GSpot.

Every video file I try to play gives me 'File Format Error', and only AVI files will display in the menu system of the device. The disk that came with the device and the device itself had a virus (found by Zone-alarm: not.a.virus.xxxx) so I wiped it clean but didn't save the files on it before formatting.

From what I have found on the web, this device should play AVI (mp4 xvid?) but any conversion to this format using virtual dub never works. Tried a few different codecs but none of the are recognised.

If anyone knows the format of the video or the codec, or what software I can use to convert video then please let me know.

I have only just found this website, so I'll do a few checks myself but any help would be appreciated.

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On the subject of the player itself (4gb version), I would say it is well worth the money for the mp3 and FM playback alone (eBay £37 inc pp from Hong Kong). I got mine from my Mrs for Christmas and stuffed it full of files.

mp3: Playback is good. Many different sound settings like 3D, Jazz, Rock and so on. And you can even set your own custom setting (5 ranges).
The only problem is that it is not very loud using good earphones and the ones that came with the device are very tinggy.

FM: Good. Scan works and found loads of stations here in the UK. You can also record from the FM but not sure on what format this records too.

Video: Could not get it to work, but sure it's my fault for deleting the default avi on the drive. (please help - see above).

Pictures: A bit of a let-down this. Pictures work fine and every one displayed correctly and look great on the large screen of this device. The major problem is that you cannot zoom in using the device. I always like to put the London underground map as a large photo onto the device but this only works if you can zoom in on it.

I got about 5-6 hours playing mp3 files over Christmas and that includes a bit of time trying to get the mp4 video working. I will buy a 4gb Mini SD card to get it up to 8gb once I get the video working.

Good value device.