I fooled around some more with the Gateway DVD player over the weekend. A big downside is it’s pretty finicky about formats. It can play MPEG-2 and “AVI” but I guess the latter means different things to different people because the player was able to play some AVI files but not others. And it can’t play QuickTime movies at all. As for content, the Internet Archive (IA) has a moving images section with quite a number of clips in a variety of formats including MPEG-2. Sitting on my couch I watched a few from the 30s and 50s. A motivated curator could probably set up an interesting “channel” by adding a new IA selection to a feed once a day.

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  1. I don’t know specifically about the gateway one, but generally these kind of players would play a .avi if the avi file format contains either DiVX or Xvid, never if it contain uncompressed DV or cinepack. Some players out there can handle QUickTime files if they contain standard mpeg4 video, not if they contain H263. The good thing is that .mp4 can be produced with quicktime6 on any Mac (but they renot best quality, DivX is better). Good news is also that Windows media is making inroads in the network media player and WM9 can be played on some players already for sale

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