PIRACY ENABLING DEVICE, GO NOW!

[chronovore]

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!

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[chronovore.livejournal.com]

OK, so a couple more details:
The brand name is ピエディ, though it's spelled "Spiede," with the inital "S" with a line through it, looking like one of those Old English typography bits.

It doesn't play .mp4, and if it only has one thing that it recognizes on inserted media, it autoplays it. Unfortunately, the .WMV support may be audio only, which is not happymaking. I'm unfamiliar with the nuanced differences between MPEG4 formats, though I am guessing those are the other formats you listed. Wikipedia helps a little (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4a), though it's not clear why the apparently more predictably formatted .MP4 is not played.

It likes DivX .AVI just fine.