<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Yan Seiner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yan@seiner.com">yan@seiner.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
So with Christmas coming up I'm looking for a small mp3 player that could<br>
be used to play recordings. (OK, they'd have to be transcoded first, but<br>
that can be handled.)<br>
<br>
My Sansa e280 uses some sort of weird video format that can only be<br>
generated with the windows app.<br>
<br>
Anyone know of a cheap (< US$100) mp3 player that could be used to play<br>
mp3s and video, and one that myth can transcode to?</blockquote><div><br>Creative Zen <br><a href="http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=213&subcategory=214&product=16999">http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=213&subcategory=214&product=16999</a><br>
<br>Cheap (Sub $80) for 2GB internal memory with an SD card slot for expanding<br>I have the 2GB version and even then I can fit 4 or 5 full length movies on there<br><br>I transcode using MediaCoder on Windows to Xvid in an AVI container. Advanced Simple Profile 5 works without QELP or GMC. I've found about 384kbps video with 64kbps stereo MP3 audio works fine for about 300-400MB files/2 hrs. Since MediaCoder uses mencoder/ffmpeg behind the scenes, this should work just as well on Linux. You can probably even use the windows software to generate the command-line to use on Linux.<br>
<br>These are great little players with awesome video quality. Plus, for me, it still plays protected WMA files of audiobooks from the library too.<br><br>Kevin</div></div><br>