[mythtv-users] Archos Video Formats ?????

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/17/2008 05:51 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
> TigerDirect is advertising an Archos 504 multi-media player for $129.
>
> The Advert claims it supports "all popular video formats, including:
>
> MEPG-41, WMV2, H2643, MPEG-24 and VOB4."
>
> I have never heard of any of those formats. I suspect they are  
> "popular" only with someone trying to sell this device, or perhaps  
> it's just a bad job of proofreading the video format names?
>
> Anyone have any information? It might make a nice companion to a Myth  
> system if it could actually play some video format that originated on  
> planet earth.

Best info I can give is:  http://www.rockbox.org/ and 
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DeviceChart (which would 
prevent me from buying the player as it doesn't appear on the 
DeviceChart :).

Mike