Best Player Available to buy Right now?

[Custom_VCD]

I live in the US and want to buy mpeg-4 player for christmas. I want preogressive scan and svcd/vcd/dvd-r/dvd-rw/dvd+r/dvd+rw normal stuff, but I want the most powerful player I can get. B-Frames, Qpel ETC, I see all the players, but can't understand some of the posts. Is the Lite-On worth it? OR should I get soemthing more powerful? Thanks in advance for the help. Links to buy them or order them to the US would be awesome as well

[Doom9]

well.. right now is kinda a bad time to go shopping. Players based on the MediaTek chipset are just hitting the marketplace and it might take a few more months until the more reliable and established brands release their new models. In any case, if you want GMC and QPel (DivX5 GMC works on some older models), MediaTek is currently your only choice (there seems to be a new ESS chipset as well but so far there's no word on whether it does support GMC and QPel as well.
The LiteOn is based on the old Sigma chipset and hence not capable of GMC and QPel (and no firmware upgrade will correct this, especially if QPel is concerned).

[bilu]

And what's the status about subtitle support?

From what I've heard so far they all suck... :sly:


Bilu

[Doom9]

afaik subs are done in software, only srt is supported, and only few players it (and some have problems with umlaut characters). I'm inclined to say if you want subs, use DVD. And in the DivX area, VobSub is actually the subtitle standard, srt only matters where subs are translated or created manually. And no player handles vobsub. We'll see if they ever will.

[bilu]

AFAIK the Roadstar DVD-2501X supports SUB from start, and SRT only on the latest firmware. Vobsub would be really nice... :rolleyes:

Don't have one, but two friends of mine do.

[Custom_VCD]

Where in the US can I buy any of these players, all I can find is the Lite_On. I want one with the MediaTek MT1389 chipset real bad. Thanks to Doom9 for his fast response, i wanna get one of these ordered in time for Christmas.

[sapient]

Does anyone know (bilu?) what chip the roadstar 2501 is based on? Or if it supports multiple b-frames, gmc, qpel or xvid?

[Braders[PL]]

Originally posted by Doom9
afaik subs are done in software, only srt is supported, and only few players it (and some have problems with umlaut characters). I'm inclined to say if you want subs, use DVD. And in the DivX area, VobSub is actually the subtitle standard, srt only matters where subs are translated or created manually. And no player handles vobsub. We'll see if they ever will.

Technosonic MP-101 support any subtitle format. MicroDVD, TMTPlayer and others in files with any extension! Simply it discovers automaticly what standard was used in subtitle file and allows you to cycle through all .txt files in directory with movie inside.

[Wolfman]

svcd/vcd/dvd-r/dvd-rw/dvd+r/dvd+rw
Most players will not play all of these esp. beware of dvd plus and minus support. I recommend dvx6100 as it plays all those and mpeg4 divx xvid and at a reasonable price !!

[Braders[PL]]

U must be joking. All players support +/- read and all support vcd/svcd playback.

[Shtirlits]

Ah, so its a bit early to buy an .avi player... Well have to wait then...