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Creative Zen Vision
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100% of reviewers None indicated 9.5



Description: Creative Zen Vision:

Hard Drive Capacity: 30GB

Dimensions: 124.2 x 74.4 x 20.1mm

Display: 3.7" TFT LCD (640x480 pixels, 262,144 colors for video playback)

Video Playback Formats: AVI, MPEG-1/2/4-SP, Windows Media™ Video (WMV) 9, Motion-JPEG, DivX™2 4 and 5 and XviD3
Audio Playback Formats: MP3 (Up to 320 kbps), WMA (Up to 320 kbps), WMA with Digital Rights Management (DRM) 9 or later and Linear PCM WAV

Photo formats supported: JPEG

Battery: Removable Rechargeable Li-ion battery

Audio Output: 3.5mm stereo mini-jack, built-in speaker

Video Output: Composite TV-Out; supports NTSC and PAL systems

Interface: USB 2.0 Hi-Speed

Card Slot: Compact Flash Card Type I & II

Manufacturer's website: http://www.creative.com/products/pro...;product=12985
Keywords: Creative Zen Vision Portable MP3 Video Player Hard Disk
Connection Type: USB


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Old 12-13-2006, 08:56 PM   #1
vxc69
 
Registered: Jul 2004
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 314
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9

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Basically you can transfer files using libmtp utils.

Since it works with libmtp, you can use amarok which is just perfect for music transfers. You can use gnomad2 to transfer other types of files including videos.

Make sure you compile amarok and gnomad2 with libmtp support (but as libmtp ages I'm sure binary versions of these programs will come with libmtp support).

When in UMS mode you can mount it like any other UMS device.

Transfer speeds are amazingly fast.

Everything works fine.

I gave it a rating of 9 because the buttons on the player are a bit annoying to use.
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Old 01-13-2007, 04:48 PM   #2
josenj
 
Registered: Oct 2006
Distribution: Arch Linux
Posts: 56
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.18-3-686
Distribution: Debian Etch


Vision:M works fine with Linux. You can also dedicate part of the 30G drive for use as a mass storage device (up to 16GB). As vxc69 said, if you want to use Gnomad2 or Amarok, you need to compile them with libmtp. I found that using libmtp v0.1.2 gave me problems when compiling Gnomad2 or Amarok. I use libmtp v0.1.0 and both Gnomad2 and Amarok compiles fine. I belive libmtp changed their API. I'm using XVid for video codec and MP3 for audio codec and I can watch/hear my stuff just fine!
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Old 03-27-2007, 04:23 PM   #3
wakarimasen
 
Registered: Mar 2007
Posts: 0
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 0

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Does this work if you simply install libmtp to a system, or must you really complie the source Amarok?
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