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chronovore) wrote2006-11-14 12:18 am
chronovore) wrote2006-11-14 12:18 am
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PIRACY ENABLING DEVICE, GO NOW!
I just bought a ¥5600 dealy from the local electronics district. It plays MP3, JPEG, MPEG4, WMV, and a mess of other formats off of USB keychain drives or SD flash media (which it navigates by directory, through a browser), and appears to ignore region coding on DVDs. I am as pleased as punch.
So far it doesn't like the .MP4 files that can be downloaded from Google Video, so I am not sure what's up with that. It's hard to dislike a machine that lets me play all the DVDs I own, and not just the ones from a given region. Golly, gosh, darn it, I fucking hate region coding.
Correction: It, and most units like it, appear to support WMA, not WMV. Audio, not video. Crapx0r!
So far it doesn't like the .MP4 files that can be downloaded from Google Video, so I am not sure what's up with that. It's hard to dislike a machine that lets me play all the DVDs I own, and not just the ones from a given region. Golly, gosh, darn it, I fucking hate region coding.
Correction: It, and most units like it, appear to support WMA, not WMV. Audio, not video. Crapx0r!
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The DivX encoded .AVI of "Old School" I watched last night played fine. The .MP4s of Dave Chappelle show returned an "UNSUPPORTED FORMAT" error, though they are the MPEG4 format that Google uses for their PSP/iPod downloads.
I'll try changing the file suffix to see if it gets a clue, and to confirm that it is using file suffix rather than data headers as a clue of what to do with each file. It is possible that the manufacturer has labeled a DivX player as MPEG4 compatible, due to its common origin. That would be sad.