MP3/video player recommendations

[TheFaQQer]

Looks really good. Only downside for me is that this is a hard drive player whereas I was after flash-based (I only skimmed the review so may have missed something).

I ended up with the Archos for £118 from Amazon. Just waiting for the mini dock and an 8Gb SD (£17.99 from play) to complete the setup.

FWIW I'm very pleased with it. It plays all of my avi's without conversion and I have streamed video, pictures and music from my server locally over wifi and can access it remotely using the web browser. I have stopped using my laptop on the train to watch video.

If you want a flash-based player I'm happy to recommended it but for a hard drive player the Cowon looks unbeatable.

What encoding are the avi's? Does it take xvid? Divx?

[gadgetman]

Both work fine for me.

[G8_Summit]

Don't know if you're aware, but you can drag and drop VIDEO_TS folders onto the Archos from DVDs (as long as you've got the cinema plugin).

I find it better to use CloneDVD to copy DVDs to it as you can choose whether to copy the extras and other stuff that you normally don't want to see.

[gadgetman]

Thanks yes, I bought all the plugins :-)

TBH I'd rip to an xvid or divx before transferring a DVD.