Short notes on "MP4" players...

[Meng Cheah]

Colin McGregor wrote:
> Just a quick note, for Xmas I bought two (one for
> myself and one as a gift) of those no name "MP4"
> players (made up to look like an Apple iPod Nano) from
> one of the shops near College & Spadina. In case
> someone is going down that same road here is what I
> know...
>
> First off the players do NOT support MP4. They do play
> .amv files, a format that I had not heard of before I
> started looking into these players. There is a website
> that has some notes about these players:
>
>   http://wiki.s1mp3.org/Video_encoding
>
> Bottom line, there is a alpha quality converter
> program available for Linux that will create .amv
> files... So far I have had success translating .avi
> files to .amv. I have not yet been able to
> successfully translate MP4 files from my MythTV box to
> .amv (or MP4 to .avi then to .amv).
>   
Thanks, Colin. I intend to get one, mainly for audio books and music but 
video will be a bonus.
Out of curiosity, what make were the ones you purchased? I understand 
that there are tons of "no name" ones out there.

Merry Christmas.

Meng
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