Philips DVP 59XX DVD

[teddymills]

There are a number of Philips DVP based DVDs. There are quite 
inexpensive. I paid $40.

TLUG members advised me to make sure it had DIVX ULTRA, and a USB 
connector.
I found out later my model only has USB 1.1. Nevertheless, USB .1.1 is 
just fine for playing xvid.
The picture is amazing. In fact almost indistinguishable from DVDs 99% 
of the time.

The USB seems to support only VFAT filesystems.
I sliced up a large drive into multiple partitions, but I can only get 
it to use the first partition.

VFATs max size is 32GB and a max file of 4GB (check wikipedia vfat for 
extra details)
However most xvid files are under 1GB.

So I found a 30GB IDE drive and put it into a cheap external USB case.
Every once in a while I hookup that USB drive to the computer and move 
more data at USB2 speeds.

This is a very cool solution.



































 








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