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Thanks for sharing this with us BigTymer.
Would you mind uploading the software that came with your player to this site as well?
Does videos need to be converted? Have you tried to convert some yourself using the software?
Once again, thanks for sharing this with us all.
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Hi, the only software that came with the player was ConsumerUpdate and just a few different versions of AVI Converter. It was on a mini driver CD-R. I think all of this stuff is readily available on the site, I don't think the player had anything new or proprietary with it.
As for videos, I just used viDrop which I found on this forum, I've found it it is the simplest and most straightforward way to convert to xViD. I actually converted a bunch of stuff the past week while waiting for the player to arrive. I used the default settings except I changed FPS to 24 and normalize volume to 0.65. Everything worked on the first try except a file that wasn't the right resolution (had to run it through Windows Movie Maker to fix) The only problem is that viDrop seems to not get along with *.wmv files so I needed to preconvert them to MPEG2 or something along those lines before using viDrop.
Unfortunately I discovered that it seems that only this type of AVI (320x240 xViD) can be handled by the player... I put a .*FLV file on the player and the video file explorer didn't even see it in the list of files.
One more thing, someone mentioned about using folders to avoid the file limit and I was already doing that. I have at least 4-5 folders in root and then some more broken down by Artist and then by Album. Despite this, the player still shows each file as being a certain number out of the current number of files (ie 57/975) I believe that breaking the 1,000 barrier messed with the player's ability to catalog the music files. It constantly froze, the screen got pixelated and grainy, had trouble powering on, needed to be RESET multiple times with the reset button, and at times it wasn't recognized by my PC. However, I was able to play a video during all of this so I figured the problem must rest with the MP3s. I deleted about a hundred and the problem has been gone since.
I don't know how the player allocates it's memory but maybe some of it is needed for normal operation (kind of like reserved memory on a hard disk as a page file)... Just speculation, who knows?