Got the player today. It's nice bit of gear. Tossed a few files onto a microSD card (it recognized a 16gb one) and tried playing a few files.
Ruh-roh, as Scooby might say...
It's all over the map which video/audio codecs and resolution it'll play. I'm on the fence when it's worth figuring out what'll work or not.
Right away it won't play 1920x1080 clips from a GoPro Hero4. I suspect they're 60fps clips, but the UI on the box showed "0 fps". It plays them, but it's choppy, at best.
Um-kay... onward...
An mkv file containing The Princess Bride... no more rhymes now, I mean it... go ask that of your Alexa...
Anyway, the audio in that clip was playing much quicker than the video, WAY out of sync.
An mp4 of Aladdin seem to play, granted it was ripped for an iPhone4 at 720x470... I'm having flashbacks to the days of struggling to find the right combination of goats to sacrifice to get kids movies played back properly for the 2 year old on the boat's TV via the iPad2....
Hmmmm, while I'm all for finding bargains, I'm not quite willing to "save" on anything that's going to make too much work for me... Oh, I know how to do all the fiddling... I just don't want to.
I suspect it's going to be a bit of a fool's errand trying to find the kind of thing I'm after here. If only because the market, in general, probably doesn't really need such a thing, thus there's nobody bothering to make it. This little box has all the right elements, except for the horsepower to actually deliver what I want. Dang it...