Zen or Miniplayer or something else?

[linuxlover]

Hey, It's me, Linuxlover. I hope this is the right place to ask this question, as you all know, It's been awhile since I've been an active member. Anyways... I am looking for an MP4 player. My main purpose is video. My maximum price is $100 (with about $10 headroom). I was looking at the Zen, but saw that it didn't have divx or xvid. Then I saw the Meizu miniplayer that did. MJPEG and WMV are bad codecs. Then I saw that indeed, the Zen DOES have DivX and Xvid. The meizu has some better features, but the creative is a little more known company, and the zen has a better screen, better sound, and better photo, and possibly video. Please help.

This time I got the right alias.

[elxr06]

creative makes good products. I would go with the zen and in any case, just convert the xvid or divx video using a video converter to a file the zen player can read. (for say, xvid or divx to mp4... it can be done)

After all, you seem to really like the zen player more and it is within your budget range so why not go for it then? 

[homer]

which zen are you talking about? the zen comes in many different models. i have a zen V plus, it does video, but it requires you to run the video through a converter which almost doubles the original size of the movie.

[linuxlover]

I am referring to the Zen (no suffix) Also, I CANNOT run them through converters as I am using linux (self-evident). And I was hoping that I could keep the video sizes to about 2MB per minute. I have alot of video. And I can't exactly hold a DVD player and case in my pocket. Also, I had one and the disc drive crapped out. Therefore an xvid player is my best choice.

[patio]

Zen Linux Solutions...

[linuxlover]

Ok, so that solves the linux problem. And I recently found that it can indeed play Xvid natively. So, in other words: Bye bye Meizu, hello Zen. No offense, but I found that the Zen has a better feature set. The Cowon D2 is even better but way out of my price range. So, in short. I'll be installing gnomad shortly.

EDIT: A quick jaunt to Synaptic proved to bear fruit. Now all I need is the player. Thanks for the help.

[patio]

No Problem...glad you're fixed up.