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[chaz47]

I got an iRiver D5 awhile back and never really explored the PMP features of it. Now that I'm on vacation I've been noodling with it (no English documentation).

To get an eBook on the thing it uses it's own (?) document format ".csd". It installs various drivers to encode PDFs and MS type documents. Unfortunately it seems to require Acrobat to be open at the same time to function as a sort of intermediary. It took me a few hours to figure this one out... quite a pain.

Now I'm struggling with the VIDEO... It works slick on my gf's PC no problems whatsoever but on my machine it fails to initialize time and time again. I thought that it might be a codec issue but since the documentation is all in Korean I was wondering if anyone on here is also using "iRiver Plus 3" and has had similar problems.

[chaz47]

*UPDATE*

I figured it out. Lame.

After one very unproductive trip to the iRiver AS center I reinstalled iRiver Plus 3, this time I chose the Korean language version and it works fine.

Odd isn't that they market their players globally but the only language their bundled software works with is Korean. Could this be Korea's attempt at technological imperialism?

I guess even if I didn't know a little Korean I may have been able to figure out the interface from the icons, but still... if you market a product globally and offer several languages to install in... why why why does it only work in Korean?