AMV files MP4 player

karmacookie

Hi

Forgive me if this has been unswered before, I did a search but to be honest didn't understand the answers!

I've just bought my son what I thought was an MP4 player from ebuyer.

He has been unable to download MP4 videos onto it. I checked the instructions and it says 'movie' is only available to AMV files!

What are these? Where do we get video in this format?

Is this really an MP4 player I've bought, or being a bit technically challenged have I been duped?

Please help my son is so upset that we cannot get it to work!

chuckles1066

For once, Wikipedia has got it about right.

karmacookie

Thanks for the reply chuckles.

The only thing I understood on that article was that I don't think I've bought an MP4 player. You live and learn!
My son is really upset though cause he paid for it with his own money.

chuckles1066

karmacookie wrote: »

Thanks for the reply chuckles.

The only thing I understood on that article was that I don't think I've bought an MP4 player. You live and learn!
My son is really upset though cause he paid for it with his own money.

what's the model number?

JustPassingBy

karmacookie wrote: »

Hi

Forgive me if this has been unswered before, I did a search but to be honest didn't understand the answers!

I've just bought my son what I thought was an MP4 player from ebuyer.

He has been unable to download MP4 videos onto it. I checked the instructions and it says 'movie' is only available to AMV files!

What are these? Where do we get video in this format?

Is this really an MP4 player I've bought, or being a bit technically challenged have I been duped?

Please help my son is so upset that we cannot get it to work!

You may find some comfort in reading Ebuyer's policy on returning the item. Look towards the bottom of their opening page.

Brian.

karmacookie

This is it here

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132930/show_product_overview

chuckles1066

"Music format: MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, WMV,ASF, WAV, MTV, AMV, JPEG, BMP"

Can't see anything in there about MP4..........fire it back at them.

karmacookie

Yeah I know now! But it's called Stage Zoom MP4 Player so I pressumed that it would play MP4 just like I bought a DVD player and presumed (correctly that time!) that it played DVDs!?!

Thanks for your help, I'll take more care to read things properly in future!

bat999

Hi
There's an amv converter available for Linux.
Perhaps there's one for Windows too.
Here is a YouTube video that I converted to amv format:-
http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/1bd149bcce_19.59MB
:cool:

Darksun

These players often come with software for converting files to AMV format. If not, I think SUPER can do it - http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

If it doesn't, you could try http://www.bytessence.com/bamvc.html

The thing is, there's not really a clear definition of what exactly MP4 is, so that leads to a lot of confusion. When cheap media players are advertised as 'MP4 players', it usually means they're capable of playing some video files, although usually in obscure formats (like AMV).