HDD Media Player, more info...

[chelala]

Hi

I have acquired this hdd enclosure, with mpeg 1, 2, 4 divx playback capabilities,
http://www.weidiye.com/doce/product_show.asp?product_id=79

What I want to know is is any one has idea of whish chip should have or similar, ir order to know how to encode movies for it.

I mean details, like b frames, mpeg 4 asp ?? dont know.

About audio it supports mp3 (mpeg 1 layer 3 ???). And although it supports .mp4 as a container it does not support aac as audio.

Thanks in advance

Harold J. A. Chelala

this is what the product says:
Features:
Video media: VCD,DVD, MPEG1/2/4, DIVX3.X-5.X
Audio media:MP3
image media:JPEG,BMP,GIF
File Formats:AVI, ASF, VOB, DAT, MP4, MPG
Supports IDE 133 HDD storage capacity up to 500GB
File System:FAT32, NTFS
Supports Music/Photo Slide Show and .lrc MP3 lyric display
Subtitle Support:smi,sub,srt,txt,psb,ass,ssa
Supports files copy,rename,delete
Supports multi language
Audio out: Stereo 2 Ch (RCA)
Video out: Composite (RCA)/S-Video/VGA, NTSC/PAL
480Mbps high-speed USB 2.0
Supports Windows ME/XP/98, OS-9/X, Linux
Supports software firmware upgrade online
Remote control
Light, compact and fashionable aluminum case

[foxyshadis]

* OSD LANGUAGE:
· Selecting ENGLISH: will display OSD in English language (factory default setting)
· Selecting Chinese: will display OSD in Korean language
lol.

I'd email them and ask which chipset they use, since it isn't listed on anything I could find. Or take it apart and look at the chips yourself, it should be printed on top.

[chelala]

I opened the case and check the board, and the main big square chip, DOES NOT has any number or letters at all. Only saw some chip whish is 64Mb of memory as I checkd on the internet.
Something is clear, ANY existing AVI fil I've got is being played. with B-VOPs, paquet streams, ....
I think I have to accept it as it is :-) though I love it a lot as hdd enclosure at same time

thanks a lot

Harold J. A. Chelala

[Spaceman-Spiff]

Interesting HDD Players, if it really does everything it says. How much is the market price in North America?

I was interested in the Mvix MV-5000U (http://www.mvixusa.com/product.php?product=mv5000u&page=specs) before, but it was too pricey...

[dipdog]

I've been looking at that same player on Ebay. I've noticed that many of my avi files don't have very good playback (audio is good but video skips) when I play them on my D600 Dell laptop (8mb video card). I usually play avi files on the tv through the laptop, with the two connected by an s-video cord. But since these videos haven't been playing so well on the laptop, I was thinking about transferring them to an HDD media player and hooking that up to the tv instead. I understand that a laptop with little video memory won't play videos as well as a laptop with more video memory. However, I don't think I understand how an HDD media player would compare (would it play videos better, or not as well). Does it have video memory incorporated into it? Also did you have to load any special software onto the hard drive, or is the OS incorporated into the case?
Appreciate any help and advice you can offer about this player. I'm really interested in purchasing one.

- Scott

[jeffy]

Hi

I have acquired this hdd enclosure, with mpeg 1, 2, 4 divx playback capabilities,
http://www.weidiye.com/doce/product_show.asp?product_id=79


Have you tried contacting the company, via:
http://www.weidiye.com/doce/contactus.asp

[chelala]

So far. Every single existent AVI had been worked smoothly in the player. includin Bframes, packet bitstream ... audio mp3, mpeg2,....
mpeg 1, mpeg 2 video perfect
only in some rare cases repack an old AVI (NOT RENCODE) with mencoder using -ovc copy -oac copy
all subtitles OK, only fix them with some simple tool, fixsrt... if it has max 62 chars p/ line
bottom line: is very good and flexible, though requires to have a computer and in some cases a little knowledge