Monthly Archives: May 2009

Sony X-Series NWZ-X1060 Walkman, AVI/WMV Transcoding and Linux (Debian/Ubuntu)

May 28, 2009 – 16:02

Having purchased my awesome Sony X-Series and begun getting it to work with Linux, I was eager to begin using the OLED display to its full potential. Namely, video and lots of it. Most portable devices support the WMV and MPEG codecs and the X-series is no exception (WMV with/without DRM and MPEG-4, plus H.264 [...]

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Sony X-Series NWZ-X1060 and Linux (Debian/Ubuntu)

May 28, 2009 – 07:49

Update: if you need to copy videos to your device with Linux, follow my transcoding howto post.
So I ended up having to purchase a new portable media player. I’d been used to my aged Samsung YP-Z MP3 player for a while with a broken screen; memorising the various menu selections to get where I needed [...]

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