Useful MPX player tip...

[brokencase]

Copy your transcoder software right onto your player. You will then have it handy if you travel to another computer and want to convert some videos.

In fact, I don't even understand why they ship the players with a seperate CD anyway...

[chiclete]

Because Windows 98, for example, won't recognize your player usb.

[_Odyssey]

Originally Posted by chiclete";p=&quot

Because Windows 98, for example, won't recognize your player usb.

chiclete is on the ball!

Windows 98 has a basic USB function but still needs the driver to recognise devices like USB thumb drives and Mp3/4 players.
Believe it or not, Windows 98/SE is still a popular operating system. Mostly among gamers and enthusiasts who desire a simpler system that can handle high quality graphics. I only upgraded to Win XP Pro 12 months ago. I miss the simplicity of 98... but not it's look lol.
Yep.. good idea to have maybe a folder for software like AMV Converter that you can use while travelling around.
But if you didn't have a cd with those drivers on it, you would be up the proverbial 'creek' if all you had was a computer running Win 98, and then without internet... i don't even want to think about it :wink:
Now back to finding my players driver cd.. I know it's on my desk here somewhere under the clutter

[brokencase]

Agreed , you are up the proverbial creek if you are running the 8 year old operating system, for many reasons, let alone usb drivers.

But for the rest of us it's a pretty handy thing to do.

[lattesurf]

Another thing, you can format the player's memory and clear everything inside by accident. But you can't "format" a CD that has been written.

But yeah, storing those apps on the player itself is pretty handy.