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Any of you have a recommendation for a Mac-friendly non-iPod video capable portable media players that handle video? I'm disqualifying the iPod for now as its codec support is pretty minimal. Otherwise, it has almost everything I'm looking for.

Other than that, I'm looking at the Creative Zen Vision W, which looks great on "paper" but is ugly and doesn't love the Mac. In fact, the only way to get it to work with a Mac is to use xnjb, an open source MTP application. Suck. That's so far from iTunes integration that it makes my head spin.

The things that I'd like, in order of importance:

1. It must work with my Mac. In Mac OS X, not Parallels.
2. It must play video. Preferably mp4/aac, avi, xvid, divx, and hopefully h.264.
3. It should have enough battery power to play a movie on its internal screen while crossing the country by plane, with one layover, without having to recharge. 5.5-6 hours is a minimum.
4. The screen resolution should be higher than 320x240.
5. It should have enough storage to hold 5-10 movies that I rip from my own DVDs, so at least 10-20gb.
6. The sound quality should not suck. Bye-bye Archos, unless you know of a model that sounds great with commodity headphones (Shure in-ear buds, etymotic, etc.) without an amplifier.
7. I should be able to hook it up to a tv in a hotel room and in my living room without carrying a brick and not sacrifice video quality.
8. Please let it not be totally ugly.

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