Topic: Gadgets

[Azzy_Stealth]

Lacie Big Disk 1TB £170

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000E3J4BO

[JimmyTheHoover]

1 Gig Sandisk USB Flash Drive - under £6 inc. VAT 

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=91986&_LOC=UK

[Julian]

Media Player Hard drive enclosure - Just insert a 3.5 inch drive add copy your AVI, DIVX, MPG, DVD Folders, Photos, MP3  etc onto it.

It plugs into your TV so you can take it on holiday and watch all your films !

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3-5-Multi-Media-Centre-Player-Hard-Drive-Enclosure_W0QQitemZ260127748142QQihZ016QQcategoryZ86758QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I've got one and so has Wani - plugs into your PC via USB

Julian

[Huw]

Thanks for the tip Julian. Just got one yesterday and it's totally superb! 150 + movies in a tiny little box. Cool as FCUK. 

Can you or Wani offer any advice on file formats. It seems to glitch with certain file encodings but not with others.

[JimmyTheHoover]

Thanks for the tip Julian. Just got one yesterday and it's totally superb! 150 + movies in a tiny little box. Cool as FCUK. 

Can you or Wani offer any advice on file formats. It seems to glitch with certain file encodings but not with others.

......use the ones it doesn't glitch on    (yes I'm back home now and need to take it out on someone  )

[Huw]

......use the ones it doesn't glitch on

Looks like it prefers DivX to avi. I'll keep an eye on it though. At some point I'll probably convert my DVDs so I'll need to know the best format for that.

H

[JimmyTheHoover]

Does the player support Xvid Huw ? -  I think that the the current xvid encoder codecsare reckoned to eb better than Divx for quality and compression and they're open source and hence free 

BTW - AVI isn't in itself a video format - simply a "container" format which can in fact contain any of the other video formats so your problem might be with the ability of the player to extract and play the internal formats.....