ZEN 4GB Video Format H

Hey, before i?buy the zen 4gb i'm wondering what video format the player plays without having to transcode. For example, if I put an avi divx movie on the memory card will it play on the device, just like that, without transode?You can tell me technical stuff i'll understand, for example: format:avi?video codec:divx audio codec:mp3?thank you jimi :-D

cos u used the included bundled software... the bundled software has already helped u to transcode the video files from other format to WMV... at the same time, with the resoultion set to ur player designated resolution.... thats reason allowing u to play all video u want to put it into ur ZEN V...For the ZEN, u can just put video files?(DivX, XviD, WMV, MJEGP,?simple MPEG4)?into ur player without the need of u to use the bundled software to convert them to WMV... but as other has said ur solution has to be 320x240 which in most of the case u might need to use teh bundled software since most video files are set to resolution higher than this....

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