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I checked the folders on the recipe chip
with my recently acquired miBook
and found the video file types as thus :
Video: DivX 5 480x234 23.98fps 236Kbps [Video 0]
Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 24000Hz stereo 64Kbps [Audio 1]
simply labeled 00.divx 01.divx 02.divx so on and so forth
they are quite highly compressed files
and appear soft and a bit blocky when viewed on a PC as well
The JPG's were :
200 pixel width
150 pixel height
72 dpi
24 bit
but the interesting thing I found was there didn't seem to be any accompanying text, or some menu structure on the chip.
simply folders with files.
now the formats listed above are not the only file types that are viewable, of course. And that's where my curiosity has got me. As I can't seem to find a definitive answer as to what file types it will handle.
so far I know AVI of a DIVX format...
as I've downloaded some Death Note videos off the internet that my girl told me about. We stayed up last night cuddling while watching said videos then drifted off to sleep. Quite enjoyable and the resolution was acceptable, tho I found if we had the brightness turned down too far we couldn't read the subtitles, so keep this in mind - you can lose some detail if it's set too dim.
anyways, it's brand new for me and i'm trying to find out what else you can view on it. they say text. does this just mean just plain .TXT files?
or could you do a :
.DOC Binary Document
.RTF Rich Text Format
.WRI Windows Write format
.PDF Adobe Acrobat
.ODT OpenOffice Text
and they mention it not only does sound, but "all filetypes" of sound.
I read above .WAV is out...
so does this mean all MP3 formats, or does it really do :
Ogg Vorbis
FLAC
AAC
there's at least a couple dozen audio formats out in the world
so I won't bother. you get the idea.
I just want to know specifics, and I can't seem to find them listed.
I can find reviews, and press announcements, but i want solid documentation about the ins and outs of this thing. like i want to open the bad puppy up and put an RCA input on it so i can plug in the video out from my Fujifilm Finepix S6000 fd.
prolly be easier to just buy a 7 inch LCD or a portable DVD player with a video in port, but these are things I wanna know. cuz if it's a simple thing like finding the right solder point, this would be an accomplishment and I'd feel some sense of being the only one with a hacked miBook that does this, ya know?
plus upgrading the firmware. is there a way we can put our own OS on this toy and give it the ability to read file types it wasn't originally designed for?
i'd imagine so, but i'm on a hunt for better documentation and am coming up short. looking for help. holler back, and i'll check back.
Thanx
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