New zen player avi vi

Does anyone know why the new zen player doesnt support avi video format? My friend has a Zen Vision M 30 GB and?his entire library is in AVI format because his player supports them. Why the switch and loss of support on the new Zen? I thought it wasnt supposed to matter what resolution the file was in as well? One of the main selling points to me was the ability to drag and drop files to the player without conversion. I just got mine yesterday and all in all its a bad a$$ little player, its just these two hang ups that make ease of use slightly more difficult and time consuming. Thanks

Cat mentioned in another thread by me (posted a link to the Creative UK site, actually) that the new Zen supports video formats at 320 x 240 resolution.
I can confirm that this is true. I have quite a number of videos in DivX format that play on my Zen Vision W, but wouldn't play on my new Zen.
I converted several of the videos to 320 x 240 DivX format using WinAvi and the resulting videos play beautifully on my new Zen. Sure it's an extra step but it DOES work.
Gi've it a try.

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Does new Zen player have audio/video output to telivis

Hi there,
Does anyone know if the new Zen Player had video out for television? I know the Zen vision W has, but what about the Zen player?
Many thanks

no it doesn't.

My brand new Zen player br

So I bought myself a shiny new Zen player December 23 as a nice Christmas gift. I carried it with me on a skiing trip a couple of days after that and used it while going down the mountains. I liked the cool features it had, like really good sound quality, a bright screen and a neat user interface. Also the battery life was impressi've and good software came bundled with the player. My Zen player made my skiing trip something special.
Fast forward to December 3 and new years eve. I had decided to hang out at a friends house and with a bunch of people to celebrate the new year. He li'ves across town so I rocked some tunes on my Zen on the subway to his place. The ride felt a lot shorter than it is, thanks to all the good music. When I well arri'ved I carefully put the player in my jacket pocket, hoping to use my little buddy while taking the subway home, after the new years party.
A half an hour into the party I realize that my friends playlist for the night consists of the downloaded ITunes music on his sisters MacBook. I quickly decide that we're gonna have the Zen DJ a little session and run upstairs to go fetch it. But upon turning it on the screen looks all white and flickering, I had heard of some players needing to be reset if this occurs, but nothing could help my little buddy! I tried resetting it and even reformatting it back home, nothing helped.
I finally returned it to the place where I got it to see why it had suddenly broken down like that. The guy stared at me and said that it looked like the had been pressure applied to it, causing the screen to break. I concurred that it in fact looked brand new and had no visible marks on it - so they decided to send it off to the repair service to get it checked out.
A couple of days later the store calls me and says the repair service confirmed their suspicions that some pressure had been applied to the screen. Very odd since I only left it in my jacket pocket for 30 minutes before returning to go get it on new years eve. Also he says that it isn't covered by Creatives product guarantee, but they've offered to replace the screen for 90$. I decide to let my little buddy go and tell the store to do whatever they want to do with it (I would hope they cremate it, but you never know).
I am sad that my little buddy is gone now... but I will always remember our ski trip together.
Thank you and I wish you have more luck with your Zen players!

oku wrote:
Hello all,
Am new and this is my first post. I have just receive my brand-new Zen x-fi 6gb. Only two days old and it has gone completely "dead". It will not switch on and ofcourse the computer cannot "see" it either. Before i return it, am wondering if someone can advise me on this matter, or if you have experienced this problem before.
Thank you in advance,
oku
There are things you can do however since it is only 2 days since you got it return it. If it's not working properly now it may just be the start of more issues.

Brand new ZEN player - always turning itself

Hi, I bought my new ZEN 4GB mp3 player just a week ago. Now it started to turn itself off while I'm listening to music:angry:. When I turn it on again it just continues playing where it stopped. the "turning off" intervall is appr. 5 min.
Does anyone know how I can stop it doing this?!?! It's really annoying!!!!
thanks

Thanks, I realised this too :smileyindifferent: and now it's working again....
But thanks for the quick response!!!!
Does someone know how I can search Radio stations without resetting all already found stations?

New Zen player, something wr

Hi just got a new Zen Micro on Friday. It was working fine for the 5 minutes I used it during the weekend. Come this morning Im walking to the train, I turn it on,and all I see is the screen light up and the word "Creative." that s it, nothing else. The backlight won't turn off and I had to take the battery out. I called customer support and performed a clean up, a scan and a reboot and I still have the same thing. What could be wrong? I just got this in the mail on Friday and didn't even leave the house with it until today. I kept it plugged in all weekend to make sure the battery was charged as well. Any suggestions? This is very distressing.

No, not yet. I'm at work now and will have to wait until I get home to do it. I guess that's my last option. It's just so upsetting to have this brand new thing that I paid $200 for and not have it work!
thanks.

New ZEN 4gb - ALBUM A

Hey all, sorry about if I missed this post while searching. But I've been longing to see beautiful album art with my new ZEN player but my embedded ID3 information doesn't seem to show up while playing. Now I was fiddling around with ZMXplr without noticing features or results to solve my album art craving. Please S.O.S creative mods/kind people.

for shame found this on other board quicker.
http://epizenter.net/e07_plugins/for...wtopic.php?934

Brought a Brand new ZEN Vision M MP3 player but it wont cha

Mods please reply urgently I have brought a brand new mp3 player it wont charge using the dc charger supplied, it wont charge using the usb ports I cant get the computer to recongnise the player if i umplug the dc adaptor - the only symbol visable in the corner of the screen is a the mains power symbol - I have tried leabing it on to charge but if doesnot thing - I have looked on the creative support pages and on this forum and everyone suggests downloading the new firmware - But it has been suggested that if i do this i will void my warrenty - could you please confirm whether this is the case and if so what would you suggest i do to solve the problem Please reply asap Thanks Marmite

for new zen vision, u need to charge for at least 5hrs, without enough charge, the PC cannot recognise it. let it charge longer using your DC charger

Suggestion for new mp3 player (had a creative zen mic

Well time for me to get a new mp3 player. Because Creative wasn't very good at honouring my warranty (four players didn't work properly and they wouldn't replace the fourth) I am reluctant to get another creative. But if you guys tell me they have come along way AND I can use my previous charger with a new player, then I'll consider it.Suggestions?

i have the zen v plus and i am quite happy with it, i just updated to the latest firmware, it charges by plugging into your computer USB (cable provided) its a budget nano competitor that has great user interface and i personally thing the design is really cool and it plays videos, but im trying to get creative to include compression video support in future firmware cause the video it supports is like 4 MB to 8 seconds of video :| the sound quality is pretty good, but then again i dont know your standards it has an inbuilt FM receiver and line in/mic recording
im really happy with it.

Getting Creative Zen player to connect through amarok [SOLVED]

Edited 12-27 to include new info
I'm trying to get myCreative Zen player to connect through amarok but am having some problems. After some looking around I figured out the libmtp in the extra repository doesn't support this player, but the newest versions do. I made a new package for libmtp-0.2.4 and installed it since there's been some tweaks that affect this player since 0.2.2 which is in testing. I also had to recompile amarok since one of libs changed a name with the new libmtp. The instructions from libmtp mentioned udev rules needed to be defined, which was done by copying a file from the source code into /etc/udev/rules.d. That file (minus the parts relating to other players, which is pretty much the same as here):
# UDEV-style hotplug map for libmtp
# Put this file in /etc/udev/rules.d
ACTION!="add", GOTO="libmtp_rules_end"
ATTR{dev}!="?*", GOTO="libmtp_rules_end"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", GOTO="libmtp_usb_rules"
# The following thing will be deprecated when older kernels are phased out.
SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", GOTO="libmtp_usb_device_rules"
GOTO="libmtp_rules_end"
LABEL="libmtp_usb_rules"
# Creative ZEN 8GB
ATTR{idVendor}=="041e", ATTR{idProduct}=="4157", SYMLINK+="libmtp-%k", MODE="666"
GOTO="libmtp_rules_end"
LABEL="libmtp_usb_device_rules"
# Creative ZEN 8GB
ATTRS{idVendor}=="041e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="4157", SYMLINK+="libmtp-%k", MODE="666"
GOTO="libmtp_rules_end"
LABEL="libmtp_rules_end"
When I plug the player to my usb port dmesg gives
usb 5-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
As my normal user amarok doesn't seem to recognize anything, and mtp-detect gives:
libmtp version: 0.2.4
Attempting to connect device(s)
usb_claim_interface(): Operation not permitted
LIBMTP PANIC: Unable to initialize device 1
LIBMTP PANIC: configure_usb_devices() error code: 7 on line 1561
Detect: There has been an error connecting. Exiting
As root mtp-detect gives me a bunch of output that seems like it's doing what it should, also while it's spitting this out the screen on the player changes to say it's docked, which wasn't happening as the normal user. This makes me think it's some permissions issue. I did find things from google telling me that sometimes the user needs to be added to a certain group to use libmtp, though it seemed somewhat distro dependent. My main user is in the following groups: dbus hal network audio optical storage scanner camera users thinkpad
However I don't think my problems are solely permission related, since even as root amarok won't recognize the player. I can use gnomad2 as root, which mostly works, though it crashes when I try and close gnomad after adding music and the player thinks it's still docked even after unplugging it. I had to use a pin to reset it just to turn it off. When I ran it from a console I got the following output at the end after the crash
PTP: Closing session
ERROR: Could not close session!
inep: usb_get_endpoint_status(): Protocol error
outep: usb_get_endpoint_status(): No such device
usb_clear_halt() on IN endpoint: No such device
usb_clear_halt() on OUT endpoint: No such device
usb_clear_halt() on INTERRUPT endpoint: No such device
The application 'gnomad2' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.
Any suggestions for where to go from here?
Last edited by mcmillan (2008-01-11 05:38:14)

I tried uploading onto my school website, but it doesn't seem accessable from there. However I just modified the version number from the regular Pkgbuild file from abs. What I have is:
# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.8 2007/05/20 19:11:05 travis Exp $
# Maintainer: damir <[email protected]>
#Contributor: Kevin Edmonds <[email protected]>
pkgname=libmtp
pkgver=0.2.4
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="library implementation of the Media Transfer Protocol"
arch=("i686" "x86_64")
url="http://libmtp.sourceforge.net"
license=("LGPL")
depends=("libusb")
source=(http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libmtp/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
options=('!libtool')
#md5sums=('597b62d994d9491531b9e67190f6cfe7')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
./configure --prefix=/usr
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
If you still have trouble building it let me know some other way than that I can send you the package.
I've been meaning to post an update about my issues. I've figured out that when I connect the player it creates device nodes with the root group. Some have permissions set to 666, which seems to fit with the udev rules I posted. But some of them are only rw for owner and group, others only have read permissions. As a test I tried changing the permissions by hand to 666, and I can use gnomad as my regular user, though it's buggy and seems to crash randomly (not just when I transfer files like I originally thought). I haven't been able to test what amarok does, since for some reason it stopped working this weekend and I haven't had a chance to figure out what happened. It seems there some problem with the udev rules, but I don't know much about how that works to figure out what's going wrong.

New Zen Micro is detected by windows but not software - I have NOT done firmware upda

Hi, I just bought a brand new Zen Micro. The software installation went fine.
After plugging in the unit to my USB port, a message appears on the windows taskbar saying "Nomad Jukebox 2/3/Zen Detected".
I would assume this is the normal message. I then attempt to transfer files via Creative Mediasource. Howerver when I load up the creative mediasource software, I get an error message saying "Player is not connected". Naturally of course the Zen Micro is indeed connected. I can not transfer any files and the player locks up.
I have not updated the firmware or anything, it is a fresh out of the box brand new unit. I run Windows mediaplayer 0, windows XP (SP).
Is there a way to resolve this issue, or am I doing something wrong?
Please help a new zen micro user thanks in advance!

I also Just, few hours back fully charged my Micro and got it working. I downlaoded the latest firmware released in Feburary. But i decided il only use it if something was wrong with the player. Mine went smooth....
Fully charged it while installing the software on the CD, unplugged the AC, I didn't sue the White USB cable it came with (lots of people say tis crap) So i sued my Sony Digicam USB cable which is always connected to my pc anyway.
Plugged my player into the USB cable while the player was On.
Done.... Windows Xp Pro detected it, 2 icons in My Computer popped up, One was the shortcut to the media source software and one was the player itself kinda liek a removable dri've.
My firmware is .0.30 and opening Widnows Media player 0, and hit Synch Tab, my player responded, and said Docked. And within 5 minutes most of my music was on....
I dotn get how some othe rpeoples players are playign up so much.
Maybe only people who have problems ever post so it seems like everyones having a problem. lol
Oh and i would recommend not to do a firmware update unless soemthings wrong wiht ur player. I wont risk it if i were you.

Suggestion for renaming new Zen 4GB/8GB/1

Just bought myself a new "Zen 4GB". I think Creative should rename it to "Zen Paperclip". Seem i
need to reboot it several times (7 times in 2 days). Talk about product quality issues. What
a waste of $30.
No mention on the box either that it doesn't support UMS - how many media players out there don't
act as a mass storage devices these days. Even my old 3rd gen ipod can be mounted on my Linux box
as a disk and i can copy files onto it and play. Maybe even "Zen Microsoft" as a name ?
My wife's calling it the "Zen paperweight" - it's too light for even that job...
Off to the Apple store.. The new iTouch looks nice. Well it doesn't have a SD slot, but that doesn't
work too well according to this list, and no radio, but i can browse the web, and have a lot more apps
soon, maybe even internet radio.
Bad Creative, bad..

I was not comparing a 4GB model with a 8GB iTouch which is their base model iTouch. So there's only $00 in it if you compared 8gb with 8gb. Plus you are looking at much better features and stability on the apple (or so my friend tells me). Half the so called features on the Zen don't work very well, and i'm not the only one. Look at this very forum.
>Who told you that you can't use the ZEN as an USB Storage Device? Mine works fine this way.
I told you. I have one, and it doesn't support UMS. You cannot plug it into a Mac or Linux and see the device. You are limited to MTP support only ! If you give your player to someone else who doesn't have the MTP driver installed in windows it will NOT work as a plain storage device. Try it before you respond.
And no i don't disconnect it while it's docked when it decides to crash/hang. Even if i did i'd consider it a bug in the firmware nevertheless.Message Edited by terraforma on 0-4-20072:46 PM

New Zen need a new firmware upd

I was looking for some solution to some problems I encounter with the new Zen 8gb
. I notice that when you turn on the device it flicker and the Zen display Flicker after it is on.
But here is a list of suggestion I found on line that I agree needed to be added to a new firmware.
I also bought the new Zen 6gb.
The new Zen Firmware should include
* Add bookmarking ability to video
* add more book marks
* Integrate SD card into the main library like ever other player
* MSC/MTP Option
* More Codec Support: OGG, FLAC, ect...
* Nati've video support like the Zen Vision:M (dont know if this is possible, but it would be nice)
* ability to copy from SD to main memory and back
* FM Recording

So you are changing from 32 bit to 64 bit? Are you likely to move up to 4GB RAM or more at any time in the future? If so you have three choices:
1. bin the extra RAM
2. if you stay on a 32 bit system, recompile your kernel
3. install a 64 bit system and be done with it
I am writing from my brand new 64-bit install (put the new motherboard in this pm )
fwitiw, I've got a separate home partition as well as one for multimedia and a few more for other personal and business stuff. My / is pretty much on its own so using another system is no bother - it looks the same, smells the same, heck, it even tastes the same. One difference I noticed though was that when I click on openoffice I can't even say Gorden Bennett before the whole suite is up! Like shit off a shovel

New Zen Connectivity Quest

Im a Zen Vision M owner and very happy with the product. Its just a bit on the large size on some occasions so Im looking to buy the new Zen 6Gb model when it is released in the UK. I'd like to know if audio and or video can be output to external speakers/ TV as the is no docking port on Zen model or will this all be taken care of via the USB port? Ive looked at the accessories for the new Zen and these only seem to be cases, no leads docks etc for external connectivity. Please let me know Creative and when suitable accessories will be available. Cheers????

isimportant wrote:
Thats true that I am on a forum for problems and will only get bleak outlooks on the zen micro. But in general, do you guys think that i was ripped on the price of 49 CDN for the Zen micro 5 gig? It was the cheapest 5 gig mp3 player i could find. So far its a big improvment from my previous mpio fl00 28 meg mp3 player.
I've used firmware ver. ..0 since it came out with no problems. It is a definite improvement over the previous versions.
My battery used to drop from full charge to one bar overnight, even though it wasn't playing. Once I installed ..0, it doesn't drop off like that anymore.
$49 is a very good price for a 5Gb Zen Micro, I wish I got one at that price!

New Zen Firmware Prob

I got my New Zen today and I played it for two hours.Now I got a very problem. It appeared Firmware problem. I can not turn it off and everything does not work even I reset it. I try to use new firmare but I can not do anything because the firmware problem made New Zen dead.How can I do for this problem It's very sad that I just got a New Zen.

Then you might have a serious problem, because the install should just take a few seconds and a partially installed firmware can break the player.
Are you under warranty?

New zen vision m mod

Just wondering if a new zen vision m model will be coming out soon? I know it has been out for a while and I am looking at buying the zen vision m but not sure if i should wait.

I tried the Zen Vision and I really liked it. It is basically a horizonal MP3 Player vs the Parallel type MP3 players like the Zen Vision:M. The buttons are fantastic, much, much better than the touch pad on the ZV:M. The display is 3.7" and the text information is very, very crisp and easy to read. However, I did find it a bit darker than the ZV:M. It is translucent, which means that like the iPod you can actually see what is on the screen with the light in the room or outdoors without using the backlight. The ZV:M is just totally dark and you can't see anything on it without the backlight.
There are a few things missing from the ZV, which are found on the ZV:M. Ability to protect and hide folders. 2 colors for backgrounds, but no ability to set a picture as a background/wallpaper. ZV:M has 5 backgrounds and allows you to set any picture you want as a background. ZV: backlight is either on or off. There is no fade down to 0% like on the ZV:M
Advantages of the ZV, user replaceable battery, you can also buy an extended battery, which increases run time by almost double. The port on the side that allows you to download pictures directly within the unit itself. It's pretty sweet, I test it out and I found it worked good. It's a bit slow on larger pictures though. But if you use smaller resolution generally its okay.
Gi'ven what you are wanting, I'd say you really should consider the ZV. It is available in black or white. I got the black one and its kind of a corragated black, so it doesn't show finger prints. However, after getting the black one, I really wish I had gotten the white one. What can I say, I like white.
Good Luck!

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