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I have seen these at Fry's too, where did you mount it, did you have to cut your own hole? And what kind of vehicle, car, suv, or pickup?

Well, good luck then. DIVX movies are easy to me. Finding the right format, like I said before, also involves the original file. You can't take small, bad video and make it better by increasing resolution, that would probably make it worse too.

The manual will tell you if is DIVX, and no that is not the same as mp4. Mp4 is ipod video, which is good on the ipod video as far as format and resolution. I believe the ipod resolution is around 640 X 380. It has been quite a while since I did the converting for my deck. Getting ready to get back into it, soon as I get more storage space on my computer.

I don't know what to tell you then, cause all my videos I did looked as good as the originals that I downloaded. You can shine a piece of poop, but it is still a piece of poop. I don't know where you got your videos. I have seen some crappy videos that are downloaded at crappy quality. You can't increase it's quality, same with music. You can't take a 128bps file and turn it into a 320 bps file and expect it to sound good or look good.

Yeah, it is really easy. I didn't understand how easy it was before I installed the deck, but then when I went back and read it all it was almost too easy. I even did the bypass with the deck in the car. Well dangling in the car. Just make sure the wires are snug. I accidently loosened the power wire and had to pull the deck out a second time after I did the bypass. But now it works great.

To me the best video playback for quickest load up and best resolution is the DVIX files you can burn on to a DVD-R. If you use DVIX PRO 7 it does all the converting and burning for you. I fit over 40 movies on one disc and there was still room left out of 4.7 Gb. I have tried using the USB and SD card but getting the right resolution is tricky, with the DVD it seems to play widescreen all the time, but it also depends on your original file's resolution.

It really isn't that hard if you use DIVX pro 7, it does everything for u, convert, and burn if you want to burn to disc. Any converting takes time. If I were you, make sure you get the videos file in a really good format or even straight from the original disc. Like I said before, time is your enemy, video editing is a pain. But if you have some patience, it actually is pretty easy to get the video you want. In the instructions for the deck, it says DIVX format, so I think that is the easiest to use instead of playing roulette with all the other codecs that are out there.

If I remember right I used DVD+R, but I think it is more important to use a good DIVX program. Reading the manual on the deck it is good with DIVX movies, so that is why I used DIVX Pro 7 to create my video discs. It does play full screen as long as the original video is the right resolution.

The best video I have found is to use DIVX converter 7.0 and I put them on like a DVD-R disc, quickest load up and you can fit quite a lot of music videos on one disc. I don't remember the amount but with 4 gb of space it does mean over 30 plus videos on there I believe. If you use the DIVX Pro 7 it will convert them and burn them to the disc all in one program very simple to use, and best for batch converts for me. Good Luck.

Sounds great, but how is the sound quality. I haven't tried my new idea yet. But what I have in mind in finding the best original videos I could and I will be converting using Divx Pro 7 which has it's own burn utility to burn to disc, which if you imagine you could probably fit around 30 plus music videos on a DVD in the DIVX format and the audio is great and the video is clean and smooth as long as the original video is good too. Especially since SD cards take so long to load up. The only thing I haven't tried is getting a usb hard drive set up, since I do like using my Ipod more for music.

Give me a day or two to go through the steps, cause I can't remember if DIVX will convert AVi to DIVX format. But I tried several programs to convert AVI to MP4 and several different settings and found some worked and some didn't both on USB and SD card. That is why I looked at the manual for the AVIC, and found that DIVX is the main supported format for the DVD and VCD disks. Like I said it loads it up faster. A few things you have to think about is your play back order. Do you want them alphabetically by song title or by artist? Cause that will play a big part in your converting steps and renaming files to get them to play in order. Since that one draw back to DiSK play back is that it would do random files. And I really didn't like the way the songs played in random order from the USB or SD card. Once I go through and remember how I did it, DIVX makes it so simple to convert and burn cause it can be all done with their software and it does batch converts, unlike Handbrake, or the new Videora version. It is one thing I like since I don't have time to sit and convert, rename and name files one by one with Handbrake. Though I found some formats through the old Videora converter don't convert right or at all and it did batch converts. And if you think about it, I fit about 30 plus music videos on one DVD with DVX as a super VCD.

Use DIVX and burn with DIVX burner to VCD or Super VCD, plays perfect and widescreen too. Using a cd or dvd, loads fasster and has more playback options with video size. SD, is very tricky and you can't always get full widescreen playback.

Here is a pic of the install.

Here is how I mounted them, took out the factory tweeter grill and tweet, mounted the Infinitys on the outside. Not the cleanest but barely noticable. As you can tell the infinity is rather large compared to the factory set, but it works. I had the Infinity crossover that came with the set, the old mids were only 4.5 inch and the foam surrounds were deteriorated and left them in my old truck when I got rid of it. I just tapped into the factory connection. One thing about the factory plug, it is a 4 pin connector and I had to add like a two prong connector to each wire of the Infinity for them to work, but It works great and the crossover fit behind the door panel with no problem. I was kind of limited on time, so I didn't get to take pictures of the whole install, but it is pretty straight forward.

I actually replaced the factory tweeters with some old Infinity Kappa tweeters I saved, and also replaced the rear door speakers with some component 3 way 6 1/2s also Infinity Kappa. The system sounds so much cleaner now. I was just driving today, the volume not even up that loud. I can totally tell the difference. I have custom EQ settings and love the sound now. I did notice that the factory front mids are poly cone unlike the rear door speakers which were paper cone. But I also heard that the rear door speakers are made to be lower in volume than the front, but with the replacements I put in there it still sounds nice all the way around.

I have had the update for about two weeks now. So far it is nice. Still slow when loading the SD card. Other than that things are faster. I haven't tried the USB yet, but I read in the manual that it only supports 2GB SD card and USB. And even though I had an 8GB USB flash drive it worked, but it did take time to load up. I use the Ipod more cause I like the file system setup and the volume levels are much more even that with even my WAV/ lossless files.

here is my new SPLASH of a splash screen too.

The format of the movie is what messes with the unit. On the user's guide in the appendix under specifications, it says what formats of media play on the various connections. The USb and the SD card accept mpeg,wma, mp3 and mp4 but are still limited. I have been playing with different converters awhile trying to find the exact format that works from the usb or the SD card, and still having problems. The best bet is the Ipod, or use the DVD and burn DIVX movies.

Check your video format types. SD cards on the f900 and F90 I believe are limited to certain types. Some AVI, and MPEG will play, some MP4 videos will play but resolution is small. That is what I have found so far. Videos to me play better on VCD and DVD using DIVX.

Are you talking about the black bars on the top and the bottom of the video? Those are the widescreen or letterbox format. I think you can't get rid of that if the video was originally filmed that way. If it wasn't filmed that way, then you can have it play back full screen. That is what I have noticed about my DIVX videos I have played on the DVD and the VCD discs. I have videos on my 5G Video Ipod, I will have to play them again to see which ones play widescreen or full screen. The other thing that could fix it is check your Ipod video play settings. If it is set to widescreen on the TV out menu then you will always get those black bars, you can change it to full screen, then you might get rid of those bars that way.

Well, I have been playing with this problem too. I like the resolution on my Ipod, but I don't like how the Ipod resets to music when you turn the car off. So I burned a couple of VCDs, one on a standard CD and one on a DVD using DIVX. Then you can set your DVD screen setting on the deck to play widescreen and the video looks better. Also, doesn't take as long to load as an SD card or a USB drive. And if you did the hardwire mod, it plays video, after you click ok on the screen, yipee. I used default settings in DiVX to convert my movies on the CD. Then on the DVD I changed all the resolutions to 720 X 480, and it looks good, just tedious. I heard AVS4You is suppose to be good for larger resolution, but don't wanna pay for it, and handbrake to me sucks, cause you can't do batch converts, only on video at a time.

I don't have the FB900 or a special edition, just a standard 09 XB, but I installed the F90BT, which the wiring is basically the same. The hardwire mod is way easy. I was scared at first when I did it. And I actually did it after I installed the deck. Made it kind of a pain but it was easy anyway. Just follow the pictures seen somewhere here on the forum. I too added an amp and one 10 inch sub in a bandpass box in the back. Took up some space, but the box is actually quite small for it's design, so it doesn't hog too much trunk space, and it is loud. Amp fit great under the passenger seat. You can see pics here http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2113941. No amp pics but you can see the sub size.

So, it works, part of the time. I only put a small piece of paper in the bottom, but it still takes some wiggling to make it work. I suppose I test more paper later to get the proper fit, but I do get it to work much more often than before. The only other issue now is to find the right video converter that has a feature to convert and select more than one movie at a time, and converts to the proper size to play the movies full screen on the deck. I tried handbrake it is is way to tedious, personally I think handbrake sucks.

So, I think I figured out something, at least with my flash drive. I just purchased a sandisk cruzer 8gb and have been having issues with my f90bt not recognizing it. But my dell 128 mb one get recognized all the time, even when leaving it plugged in. So a couple of times I wiggled my sandisk one and it would work. Then today I tried not plugging it all the way in and it got recognized right away. I think when you plug it in all the way the connections miss. So I am going to try to insert some kind of small piece of paper in the bottom of the san disk so everytime I plug it in, it only goes a certain distance and hopefully it will get recognized more often.