Zen Vision M DOESNT support MP4 (Mpe

I recently purchased a Vision M, and when I started to put MP4 files on it, it would come up with the message saying The MP4 filetype is not supported on your player. Now I've tried MP4 movies that I've downloaded, and converted myself, nothing will work. Anyone know what the problem is?

.MP4 is actually MPEG-4 Part 4, which is basically the illegitimate child of Apple Quicktime (hence its use in itunes)
The mpeg4 formats supported by the Vision (and M I'd say) are Xvid (best) Divx (Pretty much as good, but commercial).
What you want to do is convert your movies to Xvid (or get them in Xvid in the first place, as most movies are. MP4 smells bad)
You'd do that by getting Xvid (probably Koepi's binary) and then probably VirtualDub to convert to it. This isn't the place for a full instruction set, so just do a little research and find a tutorial for converting to Xvid.

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