A Man and his Penguin

Once you get some proper ID3 tags into the MP3 player (I was right, you put the album covers into the files themselves), it works really well. I’m amazed by the bass response, and especially by the speed of the player. When you turn it off, it actually goes into a low-power standby mode for 24 hours. During that 24 hours, if you turn it on, it instantly starts playing the music, video or slide show. Instantly. At the exact place you stopped it. As if all you did was paused it.

The one thing I have yet to work out is ripping a DVD straight into the proper MPEG-4 format. I tried using K9Copy yesterday, but it didn’t work in the player. Gnome says the file K9Copy created was DivX, which the MP3 player doesn’t support; but I thought DivX was just MPEG-4 anyway.

I’m using Acidrip at the moment to try again.

I also put some photos onto the MP3 player. One of the ones I put on was of Sun Park from Hi-5, taken by my friend Niel. I realised last night that Sun actually is a cutie!

EDIT: Acidrip looks like it’s humming along nicely; the video is at the correct resolution and the sound is synced. Gnome says it’s FFMPEG MPEG-4, which looks correct.

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