ZENEC EGO - COMPATIBILITY VIDEO FILES Overview
Study this info sheet to acquaint yourself with the use and limitations of video files played from magneto optical disks as
well as flash memory devices on your ZENEC naviceiver.
Note: Flash memory based storage devices (i.e. USB or SD/SDHC) must be formatted to either FAT16 or FAT32 before they
are ready for use with any of the compatible video file formats on ZENEC E>GO naviceivers.
ZENEC Models
All E>GO
AVI
O
DiVX 3.11, 4, 5, 6
O
XviD
O
H.264 (DivX 7 / Quicktime)
X
HDX4
X
WMV
X
MPEG-4 (Quicktime)
X
Remarks:
1) ZENEC E>GO devices are compatible with .avi files that have been created with either DivX 3, 4, 5, or 6 encoders.
2) ZENEC E>GO devices are compatible with .avi files encoded with any of the XVID encoder compiles that are or have been
available on Sourceforge.net.
3) ZENEC E>GO devices are officially certified to be fully compliant with the DivX Hometheatre 2.0 Profile.
4) ZENEC E>GO devices can not play back MPEG-4 files natively – yet playback of MPEG-4 files is possible via iPod/iPhone.
5) ZENEC E>GO devices cannot play back files encoded to H.264 format with DivX 7 (Matroska container format).
MPEG-4 part 10 Quicktime encoded files will play from iPod/iPhones connected to a ZENEC E>GO unit.
6) Files that are either not compatible with ZENEC E>GO devices, or which have been encoded/converted with wrong
settings, will be quoted with: “No supported file” on the TFT screen.
BACKGROUND INFO ON DIVX ENCODING & PLAYBACK
DivX for video is, what the MP3 compression algorithm invented by the Fraunhofer Institute was for audio approx. 15 years
ago. A revolution for video data storage due to new and advanced compression algorithms helping to reduce file sizes to
1/5th even down to 1/10th. Jerome Rota who founded DivXNetworks in the late 90ies became famous being the programmer
that had the technical lead on innovative video file compression software, allowing to fit a video of a Hollywood DVD movie
onto a single CD-R without giving up too much of the picture quality. What started out as “Project Mayo” going commercial
being known as DivX 4 end of the 90ies, is the successor of the initial software “hack” called DivX 3.11 ;-).
J. Rota extracted a Microsoft MPEG-4 codec from the MS Mediaplayer – to alter and modify it for best picture quality and
lowest compression artifacts, which was no simple feat back in the day.
The audience mostly is not fully aware that over 80% of the AVI files that are stored on file servers or floating around – think
of any peer-to-peer network today - have been once encoded using DivX software.
W W W . Z E N E C . C O M
Overview of compatibility of your ZENEC E>GO device
with the most popular digital video file formats.
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