Tevion 4gb MP4 player

Aldi are selling a 4GB MP4 player for £29.99.

They were not on display at our store but I asked and they had them in the back. They have Black, Pink and Sliver colours.

* Huge 4GB Samsung flash memory (stores up to 2000 songs)
* Big bright 2.4" colour TFT display for easy viewing
* Trans-flash expansion slot to extend memory capacity
* Built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery - charges via USB (cable supplied)
* High speed USB 2.0 for fast data transfer
* Supports multi music formats (MP3, WMA & WAV)
* ID3 and lyric tag support (displays lyrics and titile information)
* Supports MTV video playback (file conversion software included)
* Integrated FM radio (87.5MHz to 108.MHz)
* High quality digital voice recording with built-in microphone
* JPEG photo browsing (view your favourite snaps)
* E-book function (load a TXT file to read on the display)
* 7 preset equaliser settings - normal pop, rock, classic, jazz, bass, custom
* Adjustable brightness and backlight power settings for longer battery use
* Auto power-off sleep timer (15,30,60,90,120 minutes)
* Supports windows operating systems 2000/XP/VISA, MAC OSX9.0+

They looked ok to me for a Xmas pressie. Only thing I did notice was that to play video it has to be in .amv (.mtv) format, but you get a convertor software with it.

They were on the website last night but they have changed since, but this is them - 4GB MP4 Player (8198)

posted about it last week got one for my daughter yesterday looks quite good not had a chance to test drive it yet. a lot of stuff in box for the money.

Does it run off a car charger too (12v aux) ?

I have a 12v aux adapter to mini-USB for my sat-nav and wondered if I could use it ?

Hi

Big problem with the Video play back.

I record video files off a Freeview usb stick, the recorded files are in mpeg format. The converter software that comes with the player then converts the video to MTV format at 320x240. Unfortunately it introduces a 1.5 second delay in the sound.

Apparently the MTV file format is prone to sound being out of sync with the video. The smaller the video resolution, eg 160 x 120 the is no sync problem but by the time you get up to 320x240 it becomes a real problem.

Have spent the last week downloading other MTV converter software. Most only convert to 160 x 120 max and are no good for the Tevion player. The others suffer from the same sync problem. It could be a hardware issue of the player.

The Tevion 8198 4gb MP4 player works well as an mp3 player and the video screen offers very good playback.

Have contacted Tevion they say they have no plans to upgrade the software or fix the sound sync video fault.

I am now thinking should I keep it just as a 4gb mp3 player or take it back and buy a video player that does not use the MTV video file format.

just converted 6 episode of the simpsons from avi to mtv with software that came with player and working fine put them on a 2 gig micro sd card that I got from aldi for £4.99

these type of mp4 players are really cheap on ebay (from china / hong kong) if u don't mind 10 days delviery.

The music player has very good sound, however I am disappointed with the software. I could not get the video conversion software to convert a .vob file, tech support online chat told me it must be my computer not having the correct codecs but as Windows Media player would play the file and every other bit of software was functioning I wonder if they have a problem with their application.

Putting a picture/photo on the player will not guarantee a thumbnail of the picture being displayed, if the photo/scan does not have a thumbnail you will need software to create it.

So nice little player let down by the software.

adriank999 said:

The music player has very good sound, however I am disappointed with the software. I could not get the video conversion software to convert a .vob file, tech support online chat told me it must be my computer not having the correct codecs but as Windows Media player would play the file and every other bit of software was functioning I wonder if they have a problem with their application.

Putting a picture/photo on the player will not guarantee a thumbnail of the picture being displayed, if the photo/scan does not have a thumbnail you will need software to create it.

So nice little player let down by the software.

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I eventually got it to convert vob files but I had to download a codec pack from ZDnet.

Pity they don't put together a decent help file.

adriank999 said:

I eventually got it to convert vob files but I had to download a codec pack from ZDnet.

Pity they don't put together a decent help file.

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Ohhh you are into a whole new world when you get into video conversions !
Check out tutorials/forums on doom9.org for more info

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£44 sounds like a real bargain not to be missed !

adriank999 said:

Putting a picture/photo on the player will not guarantee a thumbnail of the picture being displayed, if the photo/scan does not have a thumbnail you will need software to create it.

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Hi,

A little unsure on this, some pictures do display thumnail and some don't. Could you expand on your comment please.

Thanks for any help.