Been using my archos 605 for watching movies while commuting for over a year. Still love it. Like the size and weight much better than the larger 7 series.

I've been using the Bose Quiet Comfort 3's and really like them. They are certainly overpriced, but very comfortable and do a great job of blocking out background noise. Before my QC3, I had a pair of QC2 (the around the ear version). Both are great. When you divide the price differential over the ...

Lately, I've been ripping all my files at a size of 700 megs and audio at 128. Those parameters always seem to work.

I think the audio problems may have been caused by a bug:

Here

The problem happens with videos encoded with two audio tracks and one of them has a bitrate of almost 192 Kbps. In ...

I found the sticky in this forum called "Converting via the FairUse Wizard" to be very helpful.

Good luck!

I have found the sticky "Converting via FairUse Wizard" at the top of this forum to be very helpful in explaining how to "rip" a dvd to a small (700 meg) file playable on your Archos.

Thanks, Ghost. I think I may have been bumping into a bug. In the firmware bugs post:

Archos 605 Wifi 30 Gbytes.
1.7.06

The problem happens with videos encoded with two audio tracks and one of them has a bitrate of almost 192 Kbps. In these files, when selecting the the high bitrate audio track ...

One final note from a newbie...I've been using the directions to rip found in this forum's Stickie using the FairUse Wizard. It has been working great. The only problem I had was that although the newly ripped file would play perfectly on my PC, after transferring it to my 605 the audio/video would ...

I've been using the directions to rip found in this forum's Stickie using the FairUse Wizard. It has been working great.

The only problem I had was that although the newly ripped file would play perfectly on my PC, after transferring it to my 605 the audio/video would be out of sync. The solution ...