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I happen to possess a Vosonic VP8360 multimedia viewer (as Vosonic calls it ). It's a very handy little tool and it got recently a firmware update with numerous bug fixes and some new features.

Here's a complete list of changes:

• Add video recording schedule function.
• Add Matrix highest score record function.
• Add "zoom window" and "real size view" for PhotoViewer.
• Add PhotoViewer "histogram" support.
• Add WMA Pro Plus supporting.
• Add interlace NTSC/PAL output support in OPTIONS.
• Add AC3 support for XviD.
• Add 3 photo transition effects: "fade in", "resolve" and "wipe out".
• Add "total item count and total size information" of current directory.
• Add PSP MPEG-4 format supporting.
• Enhance "Backup" function to show a summary when completed.
• Add RAW file support: Kodak P880, Sony DSC-R1 (.SR2), DMC-LX1, Lecia R8/R9, Minolta DiMAGE 7, Canon 30D, Canon 1D MarkII N.
• Support Jukebox playlist delete, clear and save.
• Add playing FM radio in background.
• Add text veiwer for SRT file.
• Fix MJPEG for large file hang bug.
• Fix Nikon D200 compressed RAW color display.
• Fix MAX_LONGNAME_LENGTH to 255. System will crash when filename is longer than 113 characters.
• Fix crash bug while playing Canon 300D RAW file.
• Fix Minolta Dynax 5D/7D RAW color issue (more green).
• Fix MPEG-1 green screen bug after playing DivX or JPEG files.
• Fix PhotoViewer "Change Info" control. And, change "Change Info" to "Display Settings".
• Fix MPEG-4 (DivX) and wave sychronization bug.
• Fix DivX loading bug. Sometimes system will crash while loading about 99%.

My experience was that video playback got a lot better. First of all it can now play XviD videos with AC3 sound too, which (imho) adds a major boost to the usability of the device. I have some movies where the video and the audio got out of sync ... most probably because the player has not enough CPU power to decode both at real-time. Now the sync problem got solved and the movie simply lags. I could watch "The Incredibles" without lagging (it's a 608x256 movie with 1044 kbps bitrate and AC3 sound), but watching "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" (it's a 656x272 movie with 865 kbps bitrate and AC3 sound) produced some lagging. I think the resolution of the video is the major bottleneck regarding the continuous playback. Actually the device has a 320x240 physical resolution and recoding movies to these dimensions might solve any lagging problems.