[mythtv-users] myth-capable MP3 players

[Colin McGregor]

On 12/2/08, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
> So with Christmas coming up I'm looking for a small mp3 player that could
> be used to play recordings.  (OK, they'd have to be transcoded first, but
> that can be handled.)
>
> My Sansa e280 uses some sort of weird video format that can only be
> generated with the windows app.
>
> Anyone know of a cheap (< US$100) mp3 player that could be used to play
> mp3s and video, and one that myth can transcode to?

Yes, last December I bought a made in China, true no-name MP3/video
player, (no name, as in no identifiable manufacturer name on the case)
from a local PC clone dealer. The player was made up to look like a
2nd generation Apple Nano, set me back some $25 (for 1 GB of storage).

The player I got, like I gather is true for a number of low end video
players uses .amv format for video. A search via Google turned up a
Google solution:

  http://code.google.com/p/amv-codec-tools/

Google does offer a Linux version of a tool that will convert a number
of file formats to .amv ... The program is under the GPL and is
available for download... Okay, so 128 x 128 pixel video is nothing to
write home about, but as I bought this to be primarily an MP3 player,
I'm okay with the video quality...

Colin McGregor

> --Yan
>