Video requirements for X-Fi 2

Does anybody know what the requirements are for a video to be playable on the X-Fi 2?
I ask because, although my new X-Fi 2 is apparently meant to play MP4s, Creative Centrale insists on converting them to WMVs. I've tried converting video files with WMVs using the excellent Super Converter program, using as similar a profile as possible, but again it insists on converting those too. And the conversion process is annoyingly long (5 minutes to do the same thing Super does in 20 seconds - this is 2.2ghz with 4gb memory, so it's not the PC).
I've tried simply dragging-and-dropping my files using windows, but then they don't show up in the player. So it seems the only way to put videos on is using Centrale, which given the slowness is very disappointing.

I tried Format Factory, Ulead Video Studio, Divx, Danuisoft, VirtualDubMod, DVDx, MediaCoder, AutoGordianKnot, and I forget what else, but the only thing that gave me usable results was Handbrake 0.9.3.
Make sure you install the Xvid codec first, then install Handbrake. The settings I use are:
Picture Settings
=========================
Crop: Automatic
Width/Height: for most movies 480x272, for normal TV, use 640x480
Anamorphic: for most movies and TV use None - for widescreen? Anamorphic:Strict
Video
=========================
Format: AVI File
Video Codec: MPEG-4 (Xvid)
Framerate : same as source (or you could experiment)
Avg Bitrate: 600
Audio
=========================
Track:usually first English audio track
Codec: MP3
Mixdown: Stereo
Samplerate: 44.
Bitrate: 28
Sometimes you might need to do a test of the first 2% to be sure. For example, I encoded a movie (.78 as strict, and the X-Fi2 didn't even recognize it, so I just changed it to 480x272, and it worked. But strict is really good for widescreen (2.35.
I'd say this works about 80% of the time. Everything else I tried gave bad results, or didn't work at all.

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