China creates is own iPod - Meizu!

[PapaWiskas]

It does? Not according to its dedicated website (unless you have some link that will tell me otherwise).

Did you not take the time to read the review?


Meizu M6
512 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB capacities (flash memory)
Plays MP3, WMA (DRM), OGG, WAV
2.4” color LCD
Supports photo viewing (BMP, JPG, GIF) and video playback (AVI)
FM radio/recorder, voice recorder
Includes games, calculator, stopwatch
20 hours of audio battery life

Review is here....
http://www.dapreview.net/e107_plugin...hp?content.289

[banjobacon]

I ended up buying one of these. It's pretty cool, though I'm not sure how I'll feel in the long run, having given up my 20 GB player for a 4 GB Miniplayer. I wanted to switch to a flash player, though, as I wanted something smaller in size.

I found information on meizume.com on how to encode videos with mencoder to play on the Miniplayer. Copy and paste this into a text file:

#!/bin/bash
mencoder "$1" -idx -noodml -ofps 20 -vf scale=320:-2,expand=:240:::1,crop=320:240,rotate=1 -ovc lavc -ffourcc XVID -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=384:vmax_b_frames=0:vhq -sws 9 -srate 44100 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128:mode=0 -o "$2"

Name it "meizu-enc" or whatever you'd like, and then run: ./meizu-enc source.file destination.avi

If anyone knows if improvements can be made to that script, in order to make it faster or provide a better quality file, feel free to share. I don't know anything about video encoders, but encoding with this script seems a little slow. Also, the resulting file plays sideways on my computer, though it plays correctly on the Miniplayer.

[Extreme Coder]

This Meizu sounds really good, I'm thinking of buying one instead of an overrated iPod, does anybody know where to buy and how much does a MiniPlayer cost?

[ffi]

It sure looks like the Nano iPod on the outside, but is more ambitious!



- size: credit card
- videos
- FM tuner
- MP3
- some games
- an agenda
Is it available where you live?
Anyone has one?
MEIZU

The white one on the site looks like it is falling apart already

[RAV TUX]

It sure looks like the Nano iPod on the outside, but is more ambitious!



- size: credit card
- videos
- FM tuner
- MP3
- some games
- an agenda
Is it available where you live?
Anyone has one?
MEIZU

iPod sucks so anything is better then iPod!