Can Anyone Help ID this player?

[admin]

Hi dejunai,

I've been reading your posts and member replies and it's interesting. Let us know what you get when it arrives.

Some things I would like to add though:
1. Don't try to rush into things and find a firmware for your player to flash it with. Play around with it and test it firstly.

2. Don't post feedback straight away.

3. Backup everything on the player to your computer for safe keeping just in case.

4. I am suspecious of 8GB players, so if you are keen, FORMAT it to and see how much disk space you have after it. There is a common problem with 'hacked' players being 'hacked' to show more memory than it currently has.

5. Did you pay by Paypal? Keep the details handy as you 'may' need to file a dispute, worst case scanerio.


Let us know when your get it and your feedback.

Welcome to the MPx community as well .

[dejunai]

@admin

Much thanks for having an interest in my situation. All of your advice is appreciated. I am away from home at the moment, but the wife called me, and let me know the NoName player arrived. LOL, that's the first hurdle cleared, as far as I am concerned. She told me it looks just like the pictures on eBay, LOL, I suppose that's the second hurdle.

It came with an AC2USB charger/adapter ( I asked her nicely not to plug it into any computers ). It charged up just fine from the AC.

Once charged she went thru the basics, it has a DEMO.AVI ( so no AMV issue ) with 3 young ladies singing over anime cutscenes, and there is an individual in a panda costume. I asked her to see if the MicroSD from her phone fit the slot near the USB link port, and indeed, it is MicroSD ( not MiniSD ). We went thru all I could recall from the mercahnt's write up; it has a camera, it has a DV, it has a text reader, it has a file system. It plays music and video. She was able to record WAV audio, but said it sounded very bad, LOL.

On the surface, it would seem to do all it said it would do. I'll consider that the 3rd hurdle, until I get home and put it thru some real paces. LOL

She did buy it via my PayPal account, so I am confident if it goes badly quickly, I have some fall back.

When I get home in a few days, I'll post pictures, and observations.

@makd511

Your input regarding the VX787 is appreciated. Only time will tell if it works well for the specific purposes of my wife.

Like I said she's a school teacher, she teaches English, and more specifically English literature. She teaches "Jack London" and then shows film adaptations of his stories. She has manged for some time now with a large USB drive, which she can carry video on from our home media center to the classroom. Time will eventually tell if the VX787 will work for her, but honestly I think she wants to fill it up with Oprah episodes to watch at lunch and other down-time. LOL

Even if the VX787 doesn't perform well as a TV-Out device, it should act OK as a substitute USB device.

As I have said before, I am eager to explore my new devices, and share my findings, LOL.

I'll know more in a few days.
-Dejunai

[dejunai]

Hello All,

So I have spent some time with the NoName player. It is indeed a fully functional TouchScreen. It has 5pin USB, MicroSD slot, Headphone Slot, Reset Slider, Power Button, Action Button, Single Speaker, and Camera Lense on the body itself, Along with a ( not quite ) 3.0" LCD.

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The Video Plays fine, but it wont play files until they are reduced to QVGA. I wrote two drag and drop batch files for this:

FULLSCREEN to FS PLAYER

"%~dp0\ffmpeg.exe" -i %1 -s qvga -b 350k -r 20 -ac 1 "%~dp0\xf_%~n1.avi"

WIDESCREEN to FS PLAYER

"%~dp0\ffmpeg.exe" -cropleft 50 -cropright 50 -i %1 -s qvga -b 350k -r 20 -ac 1 "%~dp0\pb_%~n1.avi"

FFMPEG converts 40+minute episodes to proper size and format in under 10 Minutes on a 1.7G Laptop. Not nearly as long as the included software that isn't in English.

Essentially, I have FFMPEG convert the AVI to size: QVGA, bitrate: 350K, framerate:20, AudioChannels: 1 (Mono). It has no need to re-encode from the codec up, and thus is fairly quick about it.

The OS appears to be Anyka's iPod ripoff:
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However, the device did not come with a PC CAM driver, and none of the drivers I can find for the Anyka PC CAM seem to work for it.

Furthermore, LOL, the NES Games section is a waste of time, because the games dont respond to the touch screen. It came with two other games, a Tetris clone, which is iffy at best with the touch screen and a "Silent Hunter" Clone which locks the player up completely.

The Music player is ~functional~ but playlist support is lousy. You can save and load playlists, but they are saved to an ALT format, which is binary, and not text. I am writing a perl script to allow me to convert standard M3U files, which some success and some issues. LOL, I'll figure it out eventually.
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The Digital Camera is fine, The DV is fine. The Camera does not have a flash, which makes it essentially useless indoors, and in low light. The Photo Player is sharp and clean, The MicroSD slot reads and writes fine. The onboard 8GB seems to be an actual 8GB, and not a hack. I was able to copy 7.5 GB of data to the drive, and copy it all back off and none of it was corrupted. It has acceptable transfer rates. Right Now is has 24 Video Files on it totally 3+ GB.
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Overall, It's a weak example of a clone MP4 player. I would not recommend it to anybody who can't write their own firmware for it, LOL... Speaking of I can't seem to initiate BIOS as described on other Anyka players, again lack of actual buttons. So I can't upgrade the firmware if I wanted to. I'll post a more detailed review of the player (pro/cons) once I have had a chance to use it for a while. As long as it lasts 6 months or more, I'll be happy with it. LOL

And one more thing: the manual that came with it was in English... The problem tho, is that it was for a different player, :?

-Dejunai

[makd511]

thanks for the mini review on this player, nothing more than expected, but the life span of such a machine, in my experience, wll be lucky if you hit 6 months

ddod you get the 787 yet, i am now a little interested myself but am not site, there is a tempting offer to get the 16GB version for 135$ ... damn tempting, what do you think of the player??

anyway thanks for the mini review, look forward to reading more from you