I bought an Archos 605 WIFI 40GB a week ago after having carefully researched whether it will play movies with a WMV codec. I was assured by Curry's that it would, the Archos website appeared to indicate that it would and I tried several forums, too. When I got it home and downloaded a movie from the internet, after having installed the Web Browser Plug-in, I discovered it wouldn't play because the Archos would not support WMV7, which was how the movie was encoded. I have since posted on both the Archos website and the Archosfans.com website, asking for advice. I have been given some workarounds, but they are not anywhere near as convenient as having a built-in codec. If anyone has any ideas for an efficient workaround, please post on this thread. I am extremely annoyed
about this and hope that Archos will produce another plugin (no doubt for purchase) to allow older encoded movies to be played. If you are thinking of buying one of these devices, be warned.
about this and hope that Archos will produce another plugin (no doubt for purchase) to allow older encoded movies to be played. If you are thinking of buying one of these devices, be warned.