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Logain · Stretch Armstrong

Anyone else have one of these? I just bought one last week and I have to say it is one of the best purchases I ever made. It's a DVD Player that can play movies you burn to CD-R or DVD-R in the DivX or XviD format. Now I can play all the TV shows and movies I have staright on the TV. No more laptop hooked to the TV through S-Video.

Ghost Post · Icarian Member

What's the price tag on one of those?

I'd rather just buy an Xbox and mod the thing, it would be a lot more fun... then you have a gaming system, a dvd player, a dvix/xvid player, mp3 player, web browser, yatta yatta yatta

Logain · Stretch Armstrong

I payed $137 for mine, and that included shipping and handling charges. I ordred it on a Thursday afternoon online and it miraculously came Friday morning. I thought about the whole X-Box mod idea, but I'd have to buy the X-Box, figure out where to buy and how to use the mod chip, and then figure out how to keep up support for a mod chip that would need firmware updates. At least with an official DivX player I have a site to go to for firmware when new XviD and DivX codecs are released. And soon they say ogm support (OGG Vorbis sound) as well

Ghost Post · Icarian Member

But it's about the experience too!

This is my next goal

http://www.junkmachine.com/nintendo/

But maybe, with an SNES or something...

Mercuria · Merc's Husband's Wife!

... am i wiring that...?

Logain · Stretch Armstrong

So far I've only found one problem playing back DivX movies. I have a lot of them that are 2 CDs in size...each file 700MB. If I burn all the files to a DVD-R they play fine. But, if I use a program like nandub and combine the 2 CD movies to a nice huge single 1.4 gig file, once I burn them to a DVD-R and play it, the movie freezes after 10-20 seconds. I guess the current firmware has a file size issue.

Ghost Post · Icarian Member

I think that happens with most DivX, one way or another.

I have several Gig+ movies and if you try to skip, you're screwed. The audio continues at the point you go to, but the video freezes

Porro · Cool as a cucumber

Good spot Logain, I bought a Yamada with upgradable firmware last year from amazon