[nmglug] linux friendly player,

[BrianO'Keefe]

Runs windoze!

Sam Noble wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 15:15 -0600, Mark Galassi wrote:
>   
>> My son uses a Creative Zen V, 4gig of flash, which is a very nice
>> unit.  It works with various GNU/Linux nomad programs (including
>> gnomad, a full GUI just for these gadgets), and various plugins for
>> amarok and others.
>>     
>
> Yeah my wife and a coworker each have zen V's it's about the same size
> as my Cowon D2, it has a much smaller non-touch screen, which makes the
> menus a bit less fiddly but also makes video seem pretty silly due to 
> the super small size.
> Also no ogg/flac support and of course no expandable memory (anybody
> notice I'm pretty big on that one?) And I personally wasn't able to come
> up with ffmpeg options that would create video it would play.
> Plus while it does work with gnomad, (though I had to build from source
> against marillat-ish libraries that I would not have otherwise had
> installed.) it is not mountable as removable storage so your limited to
> the (pretty good) gnomad (or amarok and probably newer-than-mine
> versions of rhythmbox, xmms etc.) interface. Which I find quite a bit
> more painful than just having udev auto pmount the thing, so that I can
> use nautilus or bash (hurray for rsync!) to manage it.
>
> Has anyone tried the iriver clix(2)?
>
>
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