A General Media Player

[supersonic]

the only movie files that play are specially encoded movie files. cant they just make a media player that plays movies or episodes that you can just send to your smc? i guess youd still have to compress it, but that would be it. or does it cross some sort of "legal" boundaries?

 

[ravuya]

Legal boundaries are pretty unlikely, most video formats nowadays are either completely open or made by companies that don't exist anymore.

The reason is pretty much for size constraints; it's much better to reformat and recompress an existing movie than trying to shoehorn it onto a memory card.