A Handy Little Gadget

[Scorpion]

I'm going to order one of these, for £20.00 it's got to be worth a punt. 1080p upscaling too ,with an HDMI cable. Read some favourable reports about it.

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[Vultch]

Good gadget, a lot for £20.00 ...also the site is pretty good, you have to dig but there's lots there.. good find..

[dieselboy]

YES THANK YOU. Have been trying to find that on Ebay for ages! Friend at work bought one for £30 off ebay and another friend of mine just bought a 52" Plasma and cannot play HD films just yet because of lack of equipment!

Do you have any .mkv files? I would like to know if it can play those - I use VLC player to stream them. I don't know a lot about encoding of videos but I have been told that .avi is just a wrapper for an encoding like DIVX. .mkv doesnt usually play with a DIVX player.

[Scorpion]

No mate, just avi and divx. TBH most of them are really good quality. I tried a mkv but couldn't get the sound to work. I just stick with what I know!

[dieselboy]

What about .mp4 ?
If that little box played .mkv but you didn't get any sound then that is kind of a good thing meaning that it couldnt play the audio codec. My .mkv files have 5.1 surround information whereas .avi's dont have full surround only stereo - as far as i know

[Vultch]

I think it says it can't play .mp4s

[Scorpion]

What about .mp4 ?
If that little box played .mkv but you didn't get any sound then that is kind of a good thing meaning that it couldnt play the audio codec. My .mkv files have 5.1 surround information whereas .avi's dont have full surround only stereo - as far as i know

I think it says it can't play .mp4s

There appears to be some conflicting info on this. In the write up it states:- Video:
MPEG1/2/4 (MPG, VOB, AVI), DIVX (AVI), XVID (AVI), resolution up to 720 x 480 30fps / 720 x 576 25fps.
Audio:
MP3, WMA and OGG

But I'm sure I read that it doesn't play MP4!

[yoshie]

Excellent find, I just ordered one.

[KERRSURF]

Only thing about the card readers (well the one in the front of my dvd player) is they can be a wee bit glitchy when the movie moves fast with lots of action and music, can be a bugger to fast forward sometimes too.