DVD Player + USB + Mpeg 4

[faisalpandu]

hello guys wonderin if you can help me. I am interested in this dvd player from maplins. price is £40. I was wondering if this will support movie playback from usb which have been download from torrents. I understand the movie files are in Divx Format which it says it support the part which i dont understand is mpeg 4 palyback are these files also im mpeg 4 and how can you check if the files are in mpeg 4 format.

Also is it worth getting this dvd player as i cant be asked burning dvd's onto a dvd. I do not want to get a media player as they are going from over £100 which is too much.


http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?TabID=1&ModuleNo=223003&doy=10m4

These are the specs
Mini MPEG4 HDMI DVD Player with USB and Card Reader


• Multi-format DVD player with HDMI output for quality upscaling
• USB and memory card (SD, MMC and MS) slots to view photos, listen to music and playback MPEG4 (AVI) video
• Component, HDMI, CVBS, SCART and S-Video outputs
• Digital optical 5.1 sound output
• Upscales DVDs to a true 1080p HD video signal
• Compatible with DVD, VCD, SVCD, Audio-CD, CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW
• Multi-region compatible
• Supports .AVI files in DivX and Xvid video codecs
• Supports .SRT, .SUB, .TXT, .SMI, .SA and .ASS subtitle formats
• Includes full-function remote control

 

[little_pob]

DivX and XviD conform to the mpeg 4 standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_4

However, check in store what the maximum drive size that player recognises is, some are limited to 512Mb. You will only be able to use FAT formatted drives.

 

[faisalpandu]

NTFS to FAT 32 HardDrive

will it support an external hdd and my hardrive is ntfs could i change this to FAT 32.

 

[little_pob]

I don't own that player so I wouldn't like to say the maximum size it takes. You will have to ask in Maplin if no one else here has one.

You will have to format the drive with a Win98 boot disc or a program like partition magic as XP doesn't allow you to format from NTFS to FAT32.

I've got the philips dvp5980 which upscales to 1080p, it takes FAT32 formatted 'thumb' drives (I've use a 4Gb sandisk cruzer) and USB HDDs (I've had a 120Gb drive attached without a problem). My mate has the dvp5960 which is exactly the same except it only upscales to 720p/1080i. Both are region unlockable via the remote.

The 5980 is [ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-DVP5980-Multi-region-capable-Upscaling/dp/B000Q7ZCO6/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1207925642&sr=8-1]£52.99 from Pixmania via Amazon[/ame], the 5960 is [ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-DVP5960-Multi-region-capable-upscaling/dp/B000G2Y59E/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1207925642&sr=8-2]£39.99 direct from Amazon[/ame]

 

[faisalpandu]

hello thanks for the replies check the maplin dvd player the assistant siad it only support flash drives. says with hdd it is a hit and miss. I ahve passed on this. mght go for the phillips one from amazon or a media player probably the popcorn hour expensive though but should be worth it in the long run.