Thoughts on Ipod Touch Clone

[BigTymer]

Originally Posted by Th3_uN1Qu3";p=&quot

It should be using regular mini SD, i haven't heard of MPx players using SDHC cards yet.

Was a bit confused after reading this thread, the cap for "regular" miniSD stands at 2GB, correct? Are all miniSD 4GB and over SDHC?

The post above made it sound like there were two types of miniSD 4GB cards floating around -- some miniSDHC and some just miniSD, but that doesn't seem to be the case after googling about this.

Cheapest price I found for a 2GB card was 13.99 w/ free shipping at newegg.com, thinking about going for this for my player (8GB Touch clone) which should be here next week.

EDIT: Wouldn't a 4GB possibly work with updated firmware? It seems like some manufacturers are able to give their older players this ability but some aren't.

[jp]

PenPal1999:

Regarding your comment re: 320x180 conversion problem. I've had issues with viDrop not converting to exactly 320x240, too. The solution is to use the following extra mencoder parameters in the box near the bottom of the advanced settings tabbed page. Copy and paste the following:

-vf-add scale=320:240 -vf-add expand=320:240:-1:-1:1

Then drag and drop the files to be converted into the input box on the first tabbed page as normal.

You can save my addition as part of a preset profile of your choice using the preset area at the top of the viDrop window. All the other settings in v0.53 can be activated. These additional commands will override any dimension selections and ensure a 320x240 result.

[PenPal1999]

Thanks JP, that works great.

I have finally manage to get viDrop to convert correctly every time using the following settings:

Video.
Codec: xvid
Width: 320
Height: 240
Bitrate: 300
Motion Search Prec.: 4

Audio.
Codec: mp2
SRate: 44100
Bitrate: 128
Extra stereo: YES
Normalize: YES

Resize Method: PanScan


As long as you use these settings, the video will play with the sound at the correct speed.

I'm still waiting for my SDHC to see if it works. I got it from ebay for £11 inc pp. If it does not, I'm sure Ill put it to work in another device.

Does anyone know if photos can be zoomed with a firmware upgrade? And does anyone know what format ebooks this thing takes.

Cheers peeps.

[PenPal1999]

Duplicate post ignore...

[BigTymer]

Any word on how a 4GB miniSD card works in the Onda clone player? I am thinking about buying one online (newegg) but would hate to have to return it.

PS: These players just dropped in price on TinyDeal, the 8GB is now like $86 w/ free shipping, really a good deal (I paid 99.99) The 4GB dropped in price too, I believe.

[PenPal1999]

Hi Everyone

Just to let you know that the 4GB miniSD as sold by ebay seller:dailywin, does not work in the PG5-xxGD. The card worked fine in my mates PDA at work, so I swapped it for his 2GB card that worked fine. As far as I can tell this device only accepts cards of 2GB or less. If anyone knows any different then plz let me know.

[BigTymer]

Originally Posted by PenPal1999";p=&quot

Hi Everyone

Just to let you know that the 4GB miniSD as sold by ebay seller:dailywin, does not work in the PG5-xxGD. The card worked fine in my mates PDA at work, so I swapped it for his 2GB card that worked fine. As far as I can tell this device only accepts cards of 2GB or less. If anyone knows any different then plz let me know.

Ack, I just ordered the 4GB card from TinyDeal yesterday (figured it would be the safest bet) but it hasn't shipped yet, I have contacted him to try to change it to a 2GB card, will update here.

Thanks for letting me know.

[ukrefugee]

I also bought a 4GB SDHC that wouldnt work in my Onda vx878 player. I emailed the seller who confirmed that HC WILL NOT play. I ordered a regular 2GB and hope that works.

Is there any confirmation that 4gb's are only made in HC capacity. it seems that all these players advertise that they are upgradeable to a 4gb card - how can that be?



UKRefugee
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I keep doing the hokey pokey just in case it really IS what its all about

[knob]

I think I can explain the situation with SD memory cards.

The original Sd card specification allows for memory cards up to 4Gbyte only.
Regular 4Gbyte Sd cards were just beginning to appear as the new SDHC format was introduced.

In theory it should be possible to have a regular non-HC MiniSd card with 4Gbyte capacity, problem is I don't think any came out because production was switched to the new SDHC format. :cry:

I did see some 4Gbyte regular SD cards available to buy a while ago, but I don't think any
4Gbyte miniSd cards made it into the marketplace.
The upshot is these players do support miniSD up to 4Gbyte but the problem is I don't think any non-HC ones got produced, which is a pity for us, I could use one myself.

[knob]

Just noticed another member (thanks GefilTefish) has found a source of non HC 4GB minSD cards! so it appears they are made after all.. :roll:

look here:-
http://www.memorysuppliers.com/inst4gbmised.html