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

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 17, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Robin Hill wrote:

> On Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 03:51:55PM -0600, 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.
>>
> You could try looking at the Archos web site - plenty of details on  
> the
> device there.  Supports MPEG-4 ASP (or so they claim - they may mean
> DiVX only though) and WMV out of the box.  You need to download (and
> probably pay for) codecs for H.264, MPEG-2 and VOB.  Looks like a  
> lot of
> the functionality requires the "optional DVR Station" (i.e. cough up
> some more cash).
>
> I'd avoid it.
>

I also see reference to the "optional docking adapter", in addition to  
the DVR station. This thing might break me even if it was free :-)

But what has really caused me to decide against it is the "Microsoft  
Screws Up for Sure" feature.

Thanks.

beww