Is there a portable player for torrent downloaded films, no converting?

[bungo]

I want to buy a player that will play a fair proportion, like most, of the films and tv i might download from the internet. I guess thats a mix of xvid and divx, in various forms, sizes, bitrates etc.

Do they all require that I do a lot of fiddly conversion, in which case I can get forget it, or is there a player that will play films straight off the download as well as a laptop with a fresh codec pack?

Ideally I'd like someone who has actually downloaded a shedload of films and watched them to tell me it works, rather than the, you know "in theory" stuff.

I should add that I buy one hell of a lot of films, this is just for convenience - there's no way I'm going to bother converting DVDs and porting them over - and mostly TV.

[nTekka]

I recommend Creative Zen Vision W 30 GB, I download mostly WMV and AVI(DivX and XviD) and both plays fine on this PMP. I was surprised it was able to do 640x480 resolution and at a fairly high bitrate for most video, the output to TV is superb as well.

I dont know about DVD ripping to MPEG-2 might work if u convert to 640x480 at a low bitrate. Could always buy it and test it out for 30 days before you return.

[bungo]

ah thats great thanks.

i was hoping one of the ones that also works as a recorder would do it too?

but life's never easy...

[NG]

I made a post about this awhile ago:

http://nakedgord.blogspot.com/2006/10/macvision-mc1007-20gb-portable-media.html

[mk2006]

most mp4 players will do just that. I have an Aigo (chinese brand) and it plays all Divx/Xvid as well as mpg, dat and vob. you can through it on tv as well if you want, plug in headphones. they come in different sizes. bigger screens cost more money, naturally. i think i've seen up to 7" WS.

ARCHOS is also quite good. or if you like sony the ubiquitous PSP should play Divx

[jagabo]

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF25a/321957-321957-64295-304455-306995-1847962.html

[Heywould3]

if it wil play on your computer then it will play on a pocket pc (mostly) they are all over these days. torrents are nothing special just compressed in xvid divx mpg or one of the new codecs.

[[_chef_]]

Anything is on torrents, anything from crap to crap+.

[twidd]

I recommend Creative Zen Vision W 30 GB, I download mostly WMV and AVI(DivX and XviD) and both plays fine on this PMP. I was surprised it was able to do 640x480 resolution and at a fairly high bitrate for most video, the output to TV is superb as well.

I dont know about DVD ripping to MPEG-2 might work if u convert to 640x480 at a low bitrate. Could always buy it and test it out for 30 days before you return.

i use vlc media player, its freeware just google it and you will get some download lonks.