[Q] Amazon Movie help - Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I recently bought an eee pad transformer hoping to use it to watch movies on trips with the dock. However after buying a movie on amazon, and transferring it to a microsd, i found that it won't play on the eee pad. Is there anything I can do to make it compatible, or any other options for playing movies on the eee pad?
I would really appreciate any help.

look in the android market for movie players, and try to find one compatible with the format your movie is in.

what's format about the amazon movie?

I'm not completely sure about this but I don't think you can play media from your microsd card since that is a feature of android 3.2. Just transfer the movie to the transformer's internal memory and it should work. If it's not in the right format, check out moboplayer, it supports a large variety of formats

It's likely a DRM issue - amazon adds drm to their movie files to ensure you do in fact own that file before you can play it - thats why you need to use their client to download them...

abremel said:
It's likely a DRM issue - amazon adds drm to their movie files to ensure you do in fact own that file before you can play it - thats why you need to use their client to download them...
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This is correct.
Also, note about above that you can play content from the SD card prior to 3.2.

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[Q] which digital copy to download

Have a rooted gtab with vegan. We recently bought the latest Harry Potter and Narnia movies. Each one came with an authorization code to download either an Itunes format or a format for MS Media Player.
You can only download either or, so I want to get this right.
Which one is compatible with the gtab?
Thank you
the Itunes version should be an MP4, and the MP version is most likely an AVI. either way, the Gtab plays both types of files.
You are probably going to discover that due to DRM neither of these are going to play on the gtablet.

What to do with my music library

I recently bought a tf700 32gb. I have a roughly 25 gb music collection and a couple movies I want to put on my infinity from my old laptop. I have all of the media saved on a 32gb sd card, the problem is that the stock music and video players don't like some of the file types ( it won't play. WMA music or .mkv or .mp4 movies). What would all of you recommend as far as players that handle more file types or ways to convert the files?
tttimmcg said:
the stock music and video players don't like some of the file types ( it won't play. WMA music or .mkv or .mp4 movies). What would all of you recommend as far as players that handle more file types or ways to convert the files?
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I can recommend BSPlayer.
BSPlayer is what I use too, seems to play everything under the sun...
BS player won't do it. Sometimes it'll play about a second of the movies before crashing, mostly it just t fails to open the files. Could it be that the files are too large? All of them are larger than two and a half gb's. I'm pretty sure my card is formatted correctly because i can play a 700 mb .avi video from it.
*player (still getting used to this keyboard)
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BS plagued won't do it. Sometimes it'll play about a second of the movies before crashing, mostly it just t fails to open the files. Could it be that the files are too large? All of them are larger than two and a half gb's. I'm pretty sure my card is formatted correctly because i can play a 700 mb .avi video from it.
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I have not had any issues in playing movies in excess of 4 GB with BSPlayer
tttimmcg said:
I recently bought a tf700 32gb. I have a roughly 25 gb music collection and a couple movies I want to put on my infinity from my old laptop. I have all of the media saved on a 32gb sd card, the problem is that the stock music and video players don't like some of the file types ( it won't play. WMA music or .mkv or .mp4 movies). What would all of you recommend as far as players that handle more file types or ways to convert the files?
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PowerAmp for audio. DICE player for video.
I have the free version of the app, could that cause the problem?
BS player has played everything i threw at it. Im watching n 11gb 1080p blu ray mkv of Avengers right now, with no issues.
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I have the free version of the app, could that cause the problem?
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I would copy some media files to the internal storage and try it again, this would rule out sd card issues...
While I'm at it, can I ask how your sdcards are formatted, or where the media your playing is saved?
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While I'm at it, can I ask how your sdcards are formatted, or where the media your playing is saved?
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Sandisk 64 microsd, straight out of box, mkv, vob, avi, mpeg m4v files have been played via bsplayer.
Have played files from micro sd, internal storage, and smb share.
tttimmcg said:
BS player won't do it. Sometimes it'll play about a second of the movies before crashing, mostly it just t fails to open the files. Could it be that the files are too large? All of them are larger than two and a half gb's. I'm pretty sure my card is formatted correctly because i can play a 700 mb .avi video from it.
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I haven't had any issues with it. Granted I have only played mkv (with DTS audio) on it, either from local storage or streaming from a Twonky server. It can't be the file size, the movies I played were 10+ GB.
Ok, so i wasn't specific enough before, I had my music and movies on a 32 microSD drive, mounted to the tablet. I tried putting it into an adapter and using it with the keyboard dock. Now everything is working exactly like i should be. I took the files from my laptop with the card and adapter combo too, but i dont know if that has anything to do with this solution working. This is different from the original subject, but does anyone know why this might be, or how I could get it to work with just the microSD?
And for the record, Im liking BSPlayer for movies, and Player Pro for music.

[Q] watching dvd movies on my note tablet

Anybody know what i can do to watch dvd on my Samsung note 10.1.?
Now i get all the time an error becaus he cant find the right program to read the dvd files.
Switch the file type and i use mx player for my movies
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Anybody know what i can do to watch dvd on my Samsung note 10.1.?
Now i get all the time an error becaus he cant find the right program to read the dvd files.
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I use DVDFab to rip the DVD to my laptop as a .iso file type (about 7-8 GB). I then use DVDFab to convert the .iso to a MP4 file type and cut the file size down to about 2+ GB. Copy that to the external SD card for the tablet.
The stock movie player handles this just fine.
I use Handbrake, with the right support files installed (can't help you here, it Just Works on a Linux box with the Medibuntu repo added) it rips DVDs right off the drive with no problem.
I'll post my preset when I have some time.
I get my movies from thebay
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gronimo21 said:
Switch the file type and i use mx player for my movies
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In what filetype must i switch?
My old Pentium computer with a 166Mhz CPU (and also my 1st gen xbox) can play DVD iso files so I can't understand why our tablets can't do it. Especially now when the file system on our MicroSD cards allow +4Gb files.
Brgds... /Tubgirl
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why would anyone want to play .iso on our tabs? all an iso is is a replica of the entire dvd which is useless on a tab.
Pinraiser said:
Anybody know what i can do to watch dvd on my Samsung note 10.1.?
Now i get all the time an error becaus he cant find the right program to read the dvd files.
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if you're ripping the dvd's on PC I recommend using DVDfab - convert them to mp4, don't muck with the resolution but you might want to swith the audio from 5.1 to just stereo.
for the playback I recommend Super Video. After messing with various mobos, MX, real, and whatever else I got a hold of I was won over by Super with it's use of picture-in-picture, easy integration of subtitles, all the formats it can playback and built in screenshot tool (ya, I know, the tablet has one already). plus it has some nice sorting tools for the videos. The only annoying downside I found was that it'll list off what's in a .nomedia dir and doesn't have the option to ignore those directories.
here's to finding what works for you!
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Switch the file type and i use mx player for my movies
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MrWall said:
if you're ripping the dvd's on PC I recommend using DVDfab - convert them to mp4, don't muck with the resolution but you might want to swith the audio from 5.1 to just stereo.
for the playback I recommend Super Video. After messing with various mobos, MX, real, and whatever else I got a hold of I was won over by Super with it's use of picture-in-picture, easy integration of subtitles, all the formats it can playback and built in screenshot tool (ya, I know, the tablet has one already). plus it has some nice sorting tools for the videos. The only annoying downside I found was that it'll list off what's in a .nomedia dir and doesn't have the option to ignore those directories.
here's to finding what works for you!
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Thanks
For the one who asked why i want to watch dvd files on the tablet? Simple i got some movies on USB and watch them on vacation On the tab.
The next downloading movies are xvid or avi files, then the problem seems to be solved
Tubgirl said:
My old Pentium computer with a 166Mhz CPU (and also my 1st gen xbox) can play DVD iso files so I can't understand why our tablets can't do it. Especially now when the file system on our MicroSD cards allow +4Gb files.
Brgds... /Tubgirl
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A 166 MHz Pentium is nowhere near capable of MPEG-2 DVD playback - If a device like that was playing DVDs, it had hardware acceleration.
These days, hardware acceleration focus has changed - MPEG-4 is the dominant codec. While I think technically our devices support hwaccel MPEG-2, it's not a high priority/focus due to the fact that it delivers very poor compression ratios compared to MPEG-4 AVC. The VOB container format used for DVD, while derived from the MPEG-2 program stream container, is a complex mangled mess. Since no Android device has a physical DVD drive, no one bothers expending time to support this format since it's easy for a PC to transcode from VOB with MPEG-2 video and AC3 audio to a format more appropriate to mobile devices.
MPEG-4 AVC (aka H.264) when combined with AAC audio can easily compress a full length movie to <1GB and retain excellent quality. A DVD, on the other hand, will typically be 4GB or more. In fact, most Blu-Ray movies will compress to 720p H.264 at <2GB while retaining excellent quality.
A 4x or more improvement in compression ratio is worth the time spent to transcode to H.264+AAC. (especially since you can just stick the DVD in, kick off Handbrake, and go to bed.)
Pinraiser said:
Thanks
For the one who asked why i want to watch dvd files on the tablet? Simple i got some movies on USB and watch them on vacation On the tab.
The next downloading movies are xvid or avi files, then the problem seems to be solved
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i said why would anyone want to play .iso on our tabs? it is completely pointless just rip the dvd to mp4 format.
Would I say it'd be impossible to play DVDs? No,nothing is, but it begs the question of why it would be needed, if developed when you can rip it onto a 32/64/128 gb microsd card.
I do have one idea why, and it is because it allows people to use their DVD collection on their Droid without all that work.
Considering that Droid devices like Samsung's have the capability to use external drives so long as they are self powering, it all comes down to the software end. Like an emulator, the app or mod will need to supply the drivers or BIOS suitable for DVD drives and I know where such thing could be sourced from. Linux.
I know that Linux can play DVDs , so they must have the drivers out there to port to the Droid OS to insert via a modded Rom that supports DVD drives and thus, DVD playback. A DVD/Keyboard hybrid and a dock connector to hold the tablet would be a cool thing to undergo , especially since it would give the Note 10.1 and other tablets a laptop-like ability.
In fact , Samsung has done the DVD part, called the SE-218BB DVD / CD writer.
While I love the top concept, it seems useless unless it went a step further and had a keyboard. The only obstacle is that the form factor of the Note 10.1 first generation would look f'ed up with such a setup but next gen? If they did or a third party went for this setup to accommodate the Note's form like a certain iPad keyboard, that would in turn be pretty neat because it would make the Note 10.1 into a netbook with a DVD wallop.
Buy a DVD player that has WiFi sharing capabilities, either Asus or Samsung make one.
Why is it so hard to understand that some people don't want to convert their ISO files to other formats? I have a massive DVD collection on my NAS and it would be nice to be able to play them on my Note. With the DVD format you keep the chapter information which is nice on DVDs with music videos and karaoke DVDs for instance.
The Note is definitely capable of playing the mpeg2 stream... no doubt about it.
I've got a 13TB NAS so space is no issue whatsoever.
Brgds... /Tubgirl
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Bystorm said:
Would I say it'd be impossible to play DVDs? No,nothing is, but it begs the question of why it would be needed, if developed when you can rip it onto a 32/64/128 gb microsd card.
I do have one idea why, and it is because it allows people to use their DVD collection on their Droid without all that work.
Considering that Droid devices like Samsung's have the capability to use external drives so long as they are self powering, it all comes down to the software end. Like an emulator, the app or mod will need to supply the drivers or BIOS suitable for DVD drives and I know where such thing could be sourced from. Linux.
I know that Linux can play DVDs , so they must have the drivers out there to port to the Droid OS to insert via a modded Rom that supports DVD drives and thus, DVD playback. A DVD/Keyboard hybrid and a dock connector to hold the tablet would be a cool thing to undergo , especially since it would give the Note 10.1 and other tablets a laptop-like ability.
In fact , Samsung has done the DVD part, called the SE-218BB DVD / CD writer.
While I love the top concept, it seems useless unless it went a step further and had a keyboard. The only obstacle is that the form factor of the Note 10.1 first generation would look f'ed up with such a setup but next gen? If they did or a third party went for this setup to accommodate the Note's form like a certain iPad keyboard, that would in turn be pretty neat because it would make the Note 10.1 into a netbook with a DVD wallop.
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Could someone please help me by instructing me On how to connect my galaxy note 10.1 to my Samsung se-218bb. Please someone help me
Oneqtnva4u said:
Could someone please help me by instructing me On how to connect my galaxy note 10.1 to my Samsung se-218bb. Please someone help me
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I saw this on Amazon in the review section I hope it works for you.
(1) Install mxvideo player on your tablet.
(2) Plug your dvd writer SE-218 into your tablet via usb.
(3) Press the eject button to eject the tray.
(4) While the tray is open, press and hold the eject button until the green light on the tray stays lit. Then release. This brings your dvd drive into av mode.
(5) Close the tray.
(6) Now, eject and open the tray and put in a dvd.
(7) Your tablet will now recognize your dvd as a usb device. Your tablet will appear to be frozen for about 10 seconds. Don't panic! It's just reading the dvd disc. Just leave it alone until it's read it.
(8) Using a file manager, navigate into the usb device and find a vob file that is big, like a couple gigs or so. Play it with your mxplayer.
VOILA! You can now play dvd's on-the-go. Please spread the word. Amazon is only selling this puppy for 34 bucks. Well worth it!
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I forgot to mention. Every time you plug in your drive to watch a dvd, you will have to eject the tray and press the button for 3 seconds.
Can't get Power to even come on to dvd??? to follow instructions given...
Thanks for the feedback.... I tried doing as you instructed. I brought the Samsung Usb connector and connected the Dvd and I could not even get power to the Dvd player to come on.... So I checked to make sure that the Samsung Dvd was actually working..... I connected it to an actual power supply and the green light came on and I was able to pop open the Dvd tray. I disconnected it and went back to the usb connection and my device recognized that I had a High Power USB connector in but that's it.... No juice or No fire for the Dvd Player......no green light ever comes on....What am I doing wrong???? Or what do I need to do????
Thanks So Much for your help.........
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I saw this on Amazon in the review section I hope it works for you.
(1) Install mxvideo player on your tablet.
(2) Plug your dvd writer SE-218 into your tablet via usb.
(3) Press the eject button to eject the tray.
(4) While the tray is open, press and hold the eject button until the green light on the tray stays lit. Then release. This brings your dvd drive into av mode.
(5) Close the tray.
(6) Now, eject and open the tray and put in a dvd.
(7) Your tablet will now recognize your dvd as a usb device. Your tablet will appear to be frozen for about 10 seconds. Don't panic! It's just reading the dvd disc. Just leave it alone until it's read it.
(8) Using a file manager, navigate into the usb device and find a vob file that is big, like a couple gigs or so. Play it with your mxplayer.
VOILA! You can now play dvd's on-the-go. Please spread the word. Amazon is only selling this puppy for 34 bucks. Well worth it!
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I forgot to mention. Every time you plug in your drive to watch a dvd, you will have to eject the tray and press the button for 3 seconds.
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try mxplayer.
it can play many formats (mp4, avi, rmvb, .... divx, xvid)
BOStaurus said:
try mxplayer.
it can play many formats (mp4, avi, rmvb, .... divx, xvid)
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wondershare, free on play market, can play DVDs: just rip the dvd and copy to sd card or barely copy it to sd card,
or you ca use MakeMKV to create an mkv out of the dvd: it takes space but it's faster than converting in divx or mpeg
do not forget you cannot copy files greater than 4gb to sd card, so after mkv is create just split it in two (I believe you can do it with makeMKV otherwise try MKVmerge)
wondershare is faster: just copy dvd to sd card, makeMKV you can leave out unwanted audios, subs and extra features

problem viewing avi via microSD?

Hello all,
I'm very new to Asus and Google OS but not new to the tech scene. I wanted to watch avi movies on my transformer so I loaded a few tv episodes onto a microSD (generic, 32gb class 4) but not all the files will play. I'm using MxPlayer and DicePlayer and neither are doing the trick. I've also tried MoboPlayer, BSPlayer and Rockplayer. None of these will handle all the avi files. Only selective files will play.
The plot thickens. I understand avi's can have a wide assortment of codecs but for one tv show (Friends) I personally ripped all the episodes myself from a DVD collection using Handbrake, with the same settings for all episodes (which now I forget because it's been so long). SOME of these episodes play perfectly without a hitch while others won't load at all.
Can anyone advise on troubleshooting? Could it be there generic microSD card? Do I need to download additional codecs from the internet or search other media players?
Thanks in advance!!
Asus Transformer TF101 + keyboard dock
4.0.3 ICS
MicroSD FAT32 using Disk Utility on iMac
It could be that some of them didn't copy over correctly. Check the file size of each episode to see if it matches on your computer ad the SD card. If it doesn't, that's your problem. If they do match, try playing them from the SD on your computer. If they don't play right, delete and copy them back over (or re-rip). If they all play fine, find someone who knows this better than I do. Oh, and MX will tell you the codec under Tools->Properties->More when you're watching them.

[Q] TF700 Guide for optimal Handbrake settings

I've got all my movies ripped onto my hard drive in .mkv format using MakeMKV. I just got the Infinity TF700 and am using HandBrake to convert to .mp4 so they play on my TF700.
Curious has anyone figured out the optimal settings in HandBrake to convert a .mkv to .mp4 for play on the TF700? All the guides I've seen that detail settings are specific to the TF101 or TF201, and while they work and the files play fine, with the TF700 having a higher resolution I figured the settings would need to be tweaked slightly for more optimal display on the TF700 screen.
Part of the reason I'm converting using Handbrake is because of the smaller file size, as well as I'm having problems transferring .mkv over to my tablet via USB (and no I don't have DivX installed, so that isn't to blame), but it works fine once the file is .mp4.
I'm using MXPlayer..MKV play great. I can choose subs, and audio tracks, etc. I've been using mxplayer for so long I actually purchased mxplayer pro.
But u can go with the free version unless u decided to go pro too.
I'm an anime geek. So I get original Japanese content all the time.
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I'm using MXPlayer..MKV play great. I can choose subs, and audio tracks, etc. I've been using mxplayer for so long I actually purchased mxplayer pro.
But u can go with the free version unless u decided to go pro too.
I'm an anime geek. So I get original Japanese content all the time.
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The problem I'm experiencing is I don't have a micro SD card yet, so for the time being am transferring movies to the tablet over USB. When I try to copy/paste any .mkv file over to the tablet it fails every time. I've read some people this is because of having DivX installed, however I don't have this installed so that's not my problem. The other problem is my blu ray movies are uncompressed and some are over 30 GB. So to allow more movies on my tablet I run them through Handbrake to shrink them down somewhat in size. Also, I have no problems copying/pasting .mp4 files through windows explorer in Windows 7.
you don't need to convert mp4 into mkv?
been watching my m4v (basically same thing as mp4 with a bit a difference) and never had a problem. I believe the built-in camera app shoots videos and saves them as mp4
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you don't need to convert mp4 into mkv?
been watching my m4v (basically same thing as mp4 with a bit a difference) and never had a problem. I believe the built-in camera app shoots videos and saves them as mp4
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I have all my movies in .mkv for my HTPC and are unaltered quality, so non compressed. So all my movies are already ripped onto my hard drive in .mkv format for my HDTV, however because they are uncompressed file size is large.
So for movies I want to watch on my tablet, I'm taking those .mkv's and using Handbrake to compress them and convert to .mp4. That way I can have several of my HD movies (over 20GB each in .mkv format) on my tablet. If I just copied over the .mkv, which won't work as it errors out, I could only have 1 movie on my 32GB tablet.
If you guys into movies and blue ray quality as such, best bet is get a mini portable hard drive and plug it to your dock or buy a usb adaptor if you don't have a dock. It's a lot cheaper than sdcard and all the hasle of converting and compressing. 1Tb is about $60-70$ on amazon and you can move it around easily. Just a suggestion.
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If you guys into movies and blue ray quality as such, best bet is get a mini portable hard drive and plug it to your dock or buy a usb adaptor if you don't have a dock. It's a lot cheaper than sdcard and all the hasle of converting and compressing. 1Tb is about $60-70$ on amazon and you can move it around easily. Just a suggestion.
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+ 1 on this approach. I have been running uncompressed .mkv to my big screen via HDMI from an old terabyte brick of an external drive via the USB with no lag or stutter. Takes to long to transfer them onto the TF700 and I can never find that tiny USB adapter for my microSD card. Tiny is cool and all but do they have to design those frigging adapters to disappear every other time you use them?
bobby2478 said:
I've got all my movies ripped onto my hard drive in .mkv format using MakeMKV. I just got the Infinity TF700 and am using HandBrake to convert to .mp4 so they play on my TF700.
Curious has anyone figured out the optimal settings in HandBrake to convert a .mkv to .mp4 for play on the TF700? All the guides I've seen that detail settings are specific to the TF101 or TF201, and while they work and the files play fine, with the TF700 having a higher resolution I figured the settings would need to be tweaked slightly for more optimal display on the TF700 screen.
Part of the reason I'm converting using Handbrake is because of the smaller file size, as well as I'm having problems transferring .mkv over to my tablet via USB (and no I don't have DivX installed, so that isn't to blame), but it works fine once the file is .mp4.
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Get DVD Catalyst at http://www.tools4movies.com/
It's on sale right now for $9.95
The program has built-In profiles for just about ANY device you can think of including at least half a dozen profiles for the TF700. Which one you use simply depends on what sort of final quality you want to see. I've used it to make smaller files for the TF201. TF700, iPad2, iPhone 3, 4, 5, WD TV Live, etc.....
Paying for software isn't a good solution if u ask me. Why buy what u could do for free? Then again, if u are not a techy and not comfortable with linux, cli, or even learning about bit rates, compression, ect. Buying software may be ur better option. Software will become obsolete and $10 wasted, but knowledge to do it yourself it much more valuable and cheaper on it pocket book plus u won't have to worry if it will work on win8 (which is probably NOT as win8 has issues with optical drive software such as burning and ripping software and isn't fully backward compatible to xp and 7 applications).
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I use freemake to convert my files
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