It is not significant, but noticeable enough to take note of. When playing MPEG 1/2/4 files, I noticed very small lag spikes every 2-3 seconds.
#MPLAY OPTIONS MOVIE#
If you hit any one of those buttons while a movie is playing, a media progress bar will be shown and respond appropriately to which button you have pressed. The video controls are fairly simple with the usual skip/play/pause/stop functions on the remote control. Meanwhile, the Micca MPLAY-HD also has a resume play function that remembers where you last left off from the video. Just a quick note as all experienced users would tell you, if you are playing a movie and you don't hear any sound from it, the reason for this is that the MPLAY-HD does not have audio decoders for that particular file (Assuming your volume settings are correct, obviously!). The MPLAY-HD player supports the most common array of video formats, and played most common files I throw at it, with a few exceptions like WMV due to chipset limitations. It is capable of playing high definition videos with resolutions of up to 1080p, as well as every standard resolution under it.
#MPLAY OPTIONS MP4#
The Micca MPLAY-HD supports H.264/AVC, DivX/Xvid and MPEG1/2/4 codecs in MKV, AVI, MP4 and MOV containers, H.264/AVC and MPEG1/2 codecs in TS and M2TS containers, MPEG1/2 codecs in VOB, DAT, MPG and MPEG containers, MPEG1/2 with Menu in VIDEO_TS container, and RealVideo 8/9/10 in RM and RMVB containers. Don't like that? The sorting format can also be easily changed in the settings, and will be described further as we progress further in this review. Files and folders are conveniently sorted alphabetically by name by default, too. If you are organized enough, you will find your files almost instantly. If you think about it, navigating through the media player for files is almost exactly identical to navigating through your folders on your own computer. As aforementioned, media files will be played when an external USB drive or external hard drive is connected, so simply sorting your media into folders would be the best way to find what you are looking for. Once a desired icon is selected, subfolders are listed on the right two-thirds of the screen, while a little video thumbnail preview followed by the file information, is shown on the left one-third of the screen. The layout and format of this screen is actually quite simple. Let's take a look at the Movie category first. The Photo and Text categories are very similar to the Movie and Music categories, except that the Photo categories display folders and files as thumbnails, instead of the usual sorted listing by name - but can be changed to the "list" mode by the user, as I will elaborate more in a short moment. Many of the categories are self explanatory and works in the same manner, so I won't be going through every one of them, haha. If there are no files of that index, then there will be a simple popup screen to tell you there are no files of that type in that particular folder. However, if you have created multiple subfolders for movies, photos, and the such, those folders will also be shown, but the same principle applies as you move deeper into the structure. Selecting Movie, Photo, Music, Text, or Flash lists only their respective items in the given index. The second indicator icon is for the SD card reader, obviously to indicate the presence of an SD card.
This tells you that you have an external drive connected through USB to play media from. The second icon is an indicator icon, which is an adapted version of the USB logo. The first is a folder icon, to show what the indicators on the right of it are for. At the top right corner, you will see three icons. This is because the other three are "hiding" on the right side, so you'll have to scroll over to the right with the remote controller to reveal them. The main screen has seven categories upon bootup but as you can see in our image above, only four items are shown at a time. While the menu screens feature no animation effects, I noticed little lag between menus on the device (Other than right after initial bootup, as the device responds a little slower than usual, but once it gets going, it is good). The GUI is also very consistent in terms of layouts of menus to be user-friendly and straightforward for most people. I would say that the operating system (Latest firmware version 20100729 at press time) is quite simple, considering how Micca organizes the MPLAY-HD's main menu screen. Once it does start, it presents the user with a visually appealing blue gradient background and simple icon categories laid out in a horizontal manner. The boot up time for the Micca MPLAY-HD took only approximately thirty seconds.
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