My Friend Has a Very Cool Toy

[neadods]

So, someone who shall remain nameless because I don't know if she wants her name on this post, came over yesterday for general Whovian squeeing and to show of her nifty, nifty new toy: the Mustek MP100 portable DVD player.

The portable DVD player with enough battery juice to get through even a Bollywood movie.

Which plays .avi files. Even if burned on CD instead of DVD.

And has RCA output jacks so we could watch .avi files on the TV instead of clustering around the computer screen. (See icon. See three people squeeing madly over woman in icon kicking all kinds of booty.)

Oh, and after a little googling, proves to have a very simple hack.

Waaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnt!

Comments

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

well, playing the .avi file format is good, but there's more to a/v media than just that. What codex are installed on it and is it possible to upgrade or install others? Most of the Who-related things use DIVX for the video format and some varient of mp4 for the audio.

Actually, a quick google says is does support DIVX built-in so at least for the stuff you get (as far as i know), it would work.

[tiggerallyn.livejournal.com]

There's a COBY DVD player I picked up at Hechts' a few months ago. Dirt cheap--ten dollars, I kid you not--and it handles damned near everything. No hack for other regions. PAL to NTSC conversion on the fly. Frankly, I was shocked, but I don't question these things. Ten dollars for a multi-region DVD player that handles anything thrown at it? I'm not complaining. :)