Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player
I love this thing!
I bought this player about a year ago. I have an extensive collection of DVD's, that I have backed up to various Mpeg4 formats over the years. This player played them all! SMR, Divx3.11;-), Divx5.01-5.03 w/ GMC, Xvid 1.01 - 1.03 with ESS compatible settings. There isn't a lot to not like about this beauty. Subtitles are a pain. My advice is to hard-encode them. It only knows how to parse AVI containers, and only MP3 for the soundtrack. It has a few quirks, depending on how the Mpeg4 was encoded, a letterbox movie may have a little wiggle to the bottom line. It does no post-processing, and this will be very apparent if you've grown used to viewing Mpeg4 with all of the post-process cranked on your PC. But this player is awesome. I especially love it that you can set it to just play the first .avi on the CD on insertion, so they act just like a DVD. <br />I've even bought a spare, just in case.