OSNews: The Linux Twist of the Neuros 442

"The Neurus 442 is a portable media player and recorder. Much like the Archos, iRiver, Creative (and other Windows Media-based PVRs) and RCA Lyra devices, it can playback both music and video/pictures. And it's among the few that can also record video from external sources.

"The device can playback mp3, WMA (not all kbps ranges are supported) and AAC-LC on its 40 GB hard drive. The video player is able to playback MPEG4/DivX 3.11/4.0/5.0/WMV v9. Older versions of WMV do not work. The internal photo viewer supports JPEG/GIF/BMP on either the 3.6" internal screen or on an NTSC/PAL TV..."

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