Thoughts on Ipod Touch Clone

[RussWWFC]

Web 2.8" LCD 4GB 4G Touch Screen MP3 MP4 Player PG5-04GD



Just bought one of these on impulse and wondered if anyone had any experience of them

No hacked memory feedback or bad sellers blacklist on here, so that's a good start

[RussWWFC]

Got it today, not bad over the Xmas period at Christmas time.

Just checked it and it's a genuine 4GB - happy to see that

First impressions.

Build quality, fairly solid, doesn't look as if it would take as kindly to being knocked about as my previous 2 players though

Nice Screen, touchscreen works well, good looking theme too. Not tried navigating it though as I've not put any files on it yet.

FM Radio reception is great, far better than anything else I've had including stuff from Sony. Shame it's got no AM though, my favourite station TalkSPORT is on there.

Video plays back well, not DVD quality, but perfectly watchable

Instructions seem to relate to another player, maybe someone out there has the real ones??

Supplied accessories:

Decent set of earphones
Carry Case - looks a bit cheap but feels nice and will protect the player well
USB Cable
Driver CD
And of coure the wrong(?) instructions - complete with the usual dodgy translation

Windows lists this player as RockChip MP3 Player

I'd recommend this so far for what I paid for it, a nice step up from the 1GB I paid £27 for, the 2GB I paid £30 for so £40 for 4GB and a much bigger screen I think is worth it

[BigTymer]

Just curious, how is the battery life on this? I see it says 1800mAH, just wondering if that equals a long playtime like I've seen mentioned in other places.

I ordered a 8GB version of this player from TinyDeal and I suspect that they and the eBayer you bought off could be the same (the ad is identical, and so is the model numbers used on their site)

Also, how did you verify the 4GB capacity? Is it the same way as doing it on a Action chip player?

[RussWWFC]

I used the same tool that is in the original hacked players thread.

Unsure of battery life - manual claims 4 hours video, 6 hours music

[BigTymer]

Awesome, thanks for the info and review.

[nzer_4_lyf]

Just to let you know, this is an Onda clone not an iPod touch clone

[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.

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

For video use the Handheld XviD profile in VirtualDub and encode at 25 fps, if you get slowdowns in the video try 20 fps, use Avisynth to convert the framerate otherwise you'll get "jumps" in the video due to framedrops. Try 320x240 resolution and increase it if you got black bars, on a 2.8 inch screen it might be 352x288.

Good luck!

[PenPal1999]

Thanks Th3_uN1Qu3 for your feedback.

After going through this website a bit last night, I was able to solve the problem of converting video. Its now working great. I was impressed that the device could play even large files of 600mb+ without any problems.

Just for the record in case anyone else is having problems converting video for this device, I got it to work as follows:

Downloaded: viDrop. This is a great bit of freeware.
The video MUST be converted to 320 x 240!! This is the most important part of the conversion as any other aspect ratio will give you a 'Invalid File Format' error.
Frame rate was set to 22fps
Sound was set to mp2.

After conversion, I checked the file using gSpot (an AVI codec info app) to make sure that the ration was correct. This is because viDrop seems to have a bug when converting WMV files and changed the res to 320 x 180 but this could just be me not totally understanding the app.

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Quick question: Does anyone know what type of sd mini this device uses?
I would like to get a 4gb one but don't know if I should be getting:
4gb Mini SD HC, or the
4gb Mini SD (4g not for mobile phones) version.

Regards

PenPal1999

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

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