Media player problems

i have a portable hdd media player that i use while travelling. it's a great
toy but it seems that many of the torrents i have downloaded recently don't work
in the video mode. not sure if many of you are familiar with these things but
they can play on your computer but also have a cable to hook up to the video
inputs on a tv or vcr etc. while the files all play fine on the computer, some
of them don't get recognised by the player when hooked up to a video. anyone
else have this kind of problem? i have already tried converting the files to a
number of different formats and still no luck.

any ideas?

if you told us what player you had it would help allot like i have the cowon a2
which is awesome for my bus rides and it runs just about everything except hr
files cause it has a max resolution. check that your files resolutions are not
to high.

it's a 160gb 2 1/2" external hard drive that is also is a media player. you can
see it at hotway.com.tw/products/hm2.htm

thanks imzadi but i think that is the driver for the usb device itself not the
onboard media player. i'll give it a try though.

hey i dunno if anyone here can help me with this but i thought id post and
see.
i'm new to this, so i "downloaded" or whatever you call it, a couple episodes
of a show off here, but when i go to play them, they only play as audio files
not video files. my friend says it has something to do with not having the
right type of player to play the file. ive tried winamp and windows media,
does anyone know what i need to do in order to watch the show not just listen
to it?
thannnnks

you will need the xvid video codec to view the video portion. go here:

http://www.digital-digest.com/software/getdownload.php?sid=1052&did=1

learn about xvid here:
http://www.xvid.org/xvid-video.3.0.html

sorry, forgot to add that once you install that codec you should be able to
use windows media player (or winampif you prefer) to view the video.