IHTOOM pmp
February 13, 2007Despite my problems with purchasing mp4 players in the past I decided to purchase a new one.
This time I found a good one from a reputable website that sold items from China across the world, instead of eBay.
This device is also known as the Black Hawk MP4 Digital Player or mini Play Station Portable or IHTOOM personal media player.
The mp4 player is boasted to have the following features:
- NES games console
- 3.0 Mega Pixel lens
- digital camera/webcam
- video camera recording
- mp3/audio player
- mp4/video player
- 3″ TFT screen
- AV in and AV out
- build-in speakers
- 1GB internal memory
- SD card socket
- calendar/time/e-books/alarm clock
- microphone for voice recording
- hold button
- built-in rechargable battery
This device is fantastic. The only thing it doesn’t do is make phone calls, but for the price I cannot complain.
From the outset I liked this device, and looked forward to its arrival. One thing I am aware of is that it’s never going to be an amazing build, but this didn’t bother me.
It arrives and I immediately begin to examine the contents of the package.
The box contain: 1x pmp device; 1x white ear phones with a 3.5mm jack; 1x Male USB A to Male USB mini 5 USB cable; RCA to 3.5MM AV cable; 100-240V AC Main Charger (50/60Hz USA plugs 2 pin); GB travel power adapter; Driver/Software CD; English User Manual.
I begin by trying out the camera facility and took some photos. The photos turn out okay, but are somewhat grainy, but tolerable for a 3.0 Mega Pixel. I noticed there was what looked liked a flash, but it didn’t actually have the option for a flash, so I believe there is no flash, but then again it was never said there would be a flash, it was just assumed.
This photo came with the device, I guess they tested it before sending it out.
Another thing worth noting is that the date was wrong, when I received the device it said “2005.05.15″.
I also tried out the video recording, which was tollerable, only 320×240, but not bad. Apparently you can use the device as a webcam too, but I have yet to try this.
I also tried out one or two of the NES games, which seem to be slow. I think this probably is a problem with the device decoding the NES games. I could probably cope with that as I didn’t buy this to play games, even though it looks like a playstation portable (PSP).
I decided to plug it into my computer and load some media onto it. I discovered that the connector into the device was the same as my Motorola mobile phone which was fantastic as it means I could swap between the two without having more cables. One thing I did discover is that when you have your device plugged into USB it does not appear to allow you to switch to normal mode unless you unplug the device from the USB.
Also, the battery seems to wear down after a long period of time being plugged into the USB suggesting that it does not charge via the USB, having said this you can use the DC input at the same time.
I tried transferring some mp3s onto the device, in the form of files and folders, however when I turned on the device and looked for the files, they didn’t exist. I discovered that I must put the mp3s directly into the mp3s folder before I can view them on the device for playback. This was frustrating.
That aside the audio playback has some good features, including repeat, random, equalise and A-B. The bad features are that there is no search feature, files are listed in the 8.3 filename format (which is ugly), and as I said before, there’s no option for folders.
One of the most annoying issues with the video and audio play back functions is that there’s no resume. You can’t resume to the last track or video you were playing, let alone resume to the point you were listening to before you turned the device off.
After some time I realised that the beep noise when you scrolled between items on the menu was getting very annoying. At first I could not figure out how to turn this off, but soon discovered that you can turn this off via the Setup, under a section called “Sleep Off”, its simply a case of setting BEEP to OFF.
Despite this, I decided to convert a video clip to ASF format. I was very impressed by the quality of the video. There was no ghosting, and the picture was very clear. I was very impressed. So impressed I had to say it twice.
A subtle feature I liked was the stand on the back of the device which you can pull out and use it to make it stand up but slightly leaned back, meaning you can stand the player on your desk and watch your favourite TV program or whatever you decide to put on your device.
I decided to then try the bundled ear phones, which are standard fit (3.5mm not 2.5mm). My initial problem was that if I was using the stand, I could not use the ear phones, as the socket is on the bottom of the device, this is simply down to bad design, but tolerable.
The next problem with the ear phones was that when I had them plugged in, the built-in speakers were still being used. At first I thought that I would be unable to use this device in public. However, I soon discovered that there was an option to turn the speakers off under Setup -> Sleep Off.
In terms of physical design, the only “bad ideas” are the rubber “flap” for the SD card, which I can imagine will fall off at some point. I am also under the impression that the stand I mentioned above would probably be very easy to break off.
One of my pet hates is power buttons that you have to hold down to turn the device on. I wish it was simply a switch, similar to the hold button, this would make it far easier to turn on and off.
I also wish this device had better volume control. I find with all of these devices that the volume control is digital, you have to turn on the device to control the volume, yet my walkman tape player from years ago was able to have a physical volume control, why can’t we have these on our new devices?
I’m surprised this device doesn’t have is an FM radio, most of the other MP4 players have a built in FM radio, but not this one, I’m not sure why as it’s a simple feature to include.
Conclusion
This device is worse than I expected. I was hoping that some of the issues experienced with other imported devices would have been resolved, but it seems that is not the case.
If I was to improve this device, I would do the following:
- Change the power button to a switch (on/off state)
- Better volume control, such as a scroller
- Better SD card cover
- Charge from USB
- Better display of mp3 filenames
- Ability to search MP3s
- MP3s should be able to playback from folders
- Playback resume
- Better game decoding
- More game decoding (GBA games?)
- AV in/out should be more accessible, not on the bottom
- Speakers should turn off automatically upon plugging the ear phones in
It sure is no Sony PSP, return to sender.
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Hi, Im Alejandro from Argentina, i have a IHTOOM PMP, and i try searching a tool for edit or dump the FW, to modify the factory FW, in internet are some FW but not all are sime. are with FM but without .NES, are with .NES but without FM, recent y found a FW with 3.06Mb, (most big at the moment), i think it es THE FIRMWARE!, but…. I am scared to update it…., if any like it, writeme or sendme a MSN, and a send it. Also i have the ISP tool 5.2, it is the tool to upgrade the FW to the PMP.
Cyas!
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Levi Keely the PMP cannot read e-books, it only read .TXT, you can put a .TXT file and read it withput problems!
alejandra lemus You can put with drag and drop the .NES files in the folder GAME !
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SAJID says:
How can i covert the songs to ASF converter OR At which site i may found its tools? Plz send me its firm ware version. also tell us about the image coverter.
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SAJID, the ASF format is only for VIDEO or MOVIES!. For songs your must be used common MP3 format o WMA (Windows Media Audio).
For movies or video clips you can used the Sunplus PMP transcoding tool, try search it in internet, bye!
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i’ve the other kind…the one with slide panel…how can i record video from VIDEO IN?
ho do you record video from video in?
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alejandro says:
ggb, you must be take the AV cable and put it in AV/in hole and the other side in the OUT TV, VCR or DVD, so, you go to record menu in your PMP and select TV in. now you must be see the image TV in the PMP, press play buton now you are recording the signal.
)Cya
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anis says:
help me plz…..i have mp4 player and i have cd of sunplus pmp transcoding but not full version………
so i hav problem to make asf video files……their quality is too bad…..there is no option to change its quality….
plz send me good version of asf converter at my mail address,to meet my requirment…thanx…. -
GGB says:
alejandro tnx for your explaination,but in line in i’ve onli mic or cable…and when it’s on cable record olny audio..
sigh….
so can’t i record from tv? right?
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vonnieglen says:
I have had this device for several months. I was very frustrated with the pmp transcoder that came with it. Version 4 or 5 that come up on Google searches appear to be the same one. The problem is that files transcoded with high quality audio end up being huge compared to your typical MP4 divx file. This is because the audio is uncompressed.
I tried other transcoding tools, but couldn’t get my ASF files to play. I assumed the player didn’t have enough processing power to both decompress audio and video at the same time. Then I downloaded PMPTranscoder 9.2.0.zip through a file sharing appication. I have no idea where it can be downloaded, or who wrote it. It transcodes a file with compressed audio, so they are not any larger than a typical MP4 file of similar quality. And guess what? They play just fine on my Ihtoom PMP. I have only used the 128k 44.1khz audio streams. A full movie takes up less than a Gig at the highest video quality settings.
When I install the software, what appear to be error messages come up, saying that I needed to install the storm video codec package, the quicktime alternative program and divx codec. This appears to be more informational, and not some sort of diagnostic. I already had Divx installed and a some other codecs. I am pretty sure you need Divx. I downloaded Storm and quicktime alternative, but haven’t installed them, since codecs packages tend to interfere with one another. So far I haven’t had any difficulties.
Here are a couple of screenshots:
http://home.earthlink.net/~alicephotos/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/pmptranscoder91.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~alicephotos/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/pmptranscoder92.jpgI am a little concerned about putting the actual installation file up on my free webspace since I have no idea who owns it, but will look for a solution to that problem.
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OK, I was just analizing some my video streams, and it appears that the settings in the audio settings box do nothing. The audio is coming out at 384k or 256k depending on the audio input. This is so much better than the 1536kbs stream the other transcoder puts out that I assumed it was actually compressing down to 128k. The audio sounds great. I will post a file for others to analyze.
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I have been converting mpeg2 transport streams captured on my computer through the firewire port on my digital cable box and playing them back on my PMP. I had been happy with the file sizes and the way they sounded and looked on the ihtoom. Now that I have started analyzing my results and experimenting with different file types; I have found why the more common program doesn’t compress the audio.
I have been lucky. The results are somewhat unpredictable depending on the type of file that is being converted. 16bit stereo audio at 48khz compressed to less than 384kbs starts getting distorted. I am assuming the processor cannot keep up. I am going to try and post some files for analysis and the program.
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Kofmzc says:
\hi there, i have also a pmp player you told about all. its same like yours. but i have an issue with transcoding into asf. Although i have the Cd software but when i convert videos into asf they beecome to large sized and they are not visible
green and red boxes only …. -
Why some of the sony mp4 didnot have any disk ?
How can i convert clips to the video in the mp4? -
Tripwire says:
Hey Alejandro
Can you send me the link for the firmware upgrade? I’m gonna try and see if it works! can you plz send it to Tripwire999@gmail.com
Thx !
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nirman says:
hi,
i m having ihtoom pmp mp4 n have lost the pmp transcoding tool.
plz tell me the link from where to download this, and also tell me about the games which i can run in it.
Plz email me the info at my e-mail address nirmannarang@yahoo.com -
Amjad Qureshi says:
i have a similar sort of divice it is good but when did som of its e-books files are being deleted it is now not being working properly like it is not up loading the photos & videos to (PC) computer and also not the contents visible on computr for down loading the data to it .please help me in this regards thanks/
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please e-mail me the right way to handle this device& please tell me the link or how do i have the link to solve this problem of not being visible to pc and not been able to up load or down load files from pc to it & from this to pc please gide me thanks
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Dan says:
i was recently in china, and i found this model out there, they are sold for about 300 yuen, quite cheap, they are being sold as fake sony mp4 players, the cam is actually only 1 megapixel, and the buttons are supposed to corrospond with the psp, so the buttons on this mp4 are the wrong way around,
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ousmane says:
i have the software for convert videos to the best ASF FORMAT and if you like that join me
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Chris says:
Hello, i have just received 10 of these items, and i can not get any of them to charge, my charger consists of 2 part the wall charger and a usb wire that has a standard cylyndrical power output at the end. when i pplug it to the pmp nothing happens, it doesnt charge, when i take out that wire and put the usb to mini usb and try to charge it that way, it shows me the usb screen and the charging indicator is going up, but to fully charge it this method it took me 16 hours, then i tried plugging it to the computer and it showed me the same usb screen with the charging indicator flashing, but it didnt charge at all this way, it actually ran out of battery. What am i supposed to do?
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Yashiro says:
I have a similar device (still using sunplus’ chip) with the nes games having a .gam extension instead of a .nes extension. When I tried to rename a nes game and tried to load it, the device is stuck and I have to remove the battery to restart. Is there a way to convert these nes roms?
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joan says:
i have one of this and the problem is in the dictionary portion. amm… the meaning of the words is not in english… i cant understand it… do i have i chance to change it in english or no???
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oscarin says:
este mp4 es lo mas malo que puede existir se me echo a perder altiro la wea era tan mala que ni abria los juegos no podia ver mis videos era simplemente una mierda si esque me pueden ayudar envienme un mail porfavor
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gopal rao says:
hi i bought mp4 and wish to help me plz…..i have mp4 player and i have cd of sunplus pmp transcoding but not full version………
so i hav problem to make asf video files……their quality is too bad…..there is no option to change its quality….
plz send me good version of asf converter at my mail address,to meet my requirment…thanx…. -
Ahad1 says:
hi i have problem
when i select dv & dc lcd get off
help fast
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kurt Russell says:
how can i record video from av/in. Please explain me like an a stupid man.
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benya says:
plz send transcoder softwrare,,
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Rainy says:
hey listen i order one and i cant find a way to down my pictures from the cam to my computer.. and i cant put up my usa radio station on it.. plz help of give me info…
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shemz says:
…..Hello guyz>>>>im’ shem lamoste from philippines. which website i can download games in my mp4 player.i got this kind of stuff.>>>>.pls…thanks for advance….
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junaid says:
hi i am junaid.. i have this gadget and want to convert files in asf format>:;;
i tried the link
http://www.mympxplayer.org/sunplus-pmp-transcoding-df359.html
but it dosnt help me.
plz plz plz plz do something and help me,…………….. -
Get yourself copy of this -> http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
It converts anything to anything, and is free.
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jenni love says:
i just want know what u mean about this.
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Yonathan Melaku says:
Hello
I have a SONY IHTOOM PMP Transcoding 512MB,2.0Megapixel. But the problem is
1-i dont have user manual or cd software
2-i dont have SD card,USB connector,ear phone,AV connector.so i need your support verymuch, Please try your best.
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ilyes says:
Hello
I have a SONY mp4 playerTranscoding 512MB,3.0Megapixel. But the problem is
1-i dont have user manual or cd software
2-i dont have SD card,USB connector,ear phone,AV connector.so i need your support verymuch, Please try your best.
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clinton said,
February 22, 2007 @ 5:32 pmi have one of these how do i record my tv programs with thes please give me detailed instructions
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junaid said,
February 1, 2008 @ 3:47 pmhi i am junaid.. i have this gadget and want to convert files in asf format>:;;
i tried the link
http://www.mympxplayer.org/sunplus-pmp-transcoding-df359.html
but it dosnt help me.
plz plz plz plz do something and help me,……………..
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convert the files in avi with pocket divx encoder
the best rezolution with no lag is 320×240, 30fps maybe 240×180, 248kbps audio – 64 kbps
the movies are with awesome quality, thrust me -
hello , at first i can^t good speak english and read.please when you can give me an answer on german or serbish please.i have that an mp4 i can^t watch tv .can i do this?
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alejandro says:
Guys! I found the Sunplus PMP transcoding!, the other links i tried on the page were broken.
Try this one: http://www.mympxplayer.org/sunplus-pmp-video-transcode-tool-v0510-df654.html
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hiwa says:
HI
i have problem with pmp game mp4 ,512 mb the power light is on but there is no screen show and when connecting to pc it is not recognized it ,pls send me its firmware that solve these problem
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i have a problem with my pmp player !!! when i was watchin’ a film , the film stoped !!! and i click on reset !!! then now my does not go!!! because the screen is remainder closed
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chinese fake from taiwan
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ZAIB MALIK says:
hi i hav sony mp4 digital player wid ihtoom pmp software in it
once i was transfering songs 2 mp4 n electricity get off
after that when i started my mp4 it doesnot giving sound not in handfree not in builtin speaker but playing song playin movies camera is running
every thing is fine but sound is not coming
what should i do pls help me out any 1 i ll b very thnkfull 2 u people
n pls giv ur ansar by sending a mail plsssss its my request -
adnan says:
hi i want to buy the ihtoom how do i buy it
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Daniela says:
I have an IHTOMM mp4 player, i dont know the model, and i LOST the charger.. or maybe i swiched with other one in my house…
i need to know the input.. i dont want to burn it!.
The link for the picture of mine dv:
http://www.skateargentino.com.ar/others/mp4front.jpg
http://www.skateargentino.com.ar/others/mp4back.jpgAnyone can help me???
Thanks
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HI
i have problem with pmp game mp4 ,512 mb the power light is on but there is no screen show and when connecting to pc it is not recognized it ,pls send me its firmware that solve these problem
thanks
ilyes 
hi all
my supporting file for video has been deleted so plz help me
i have sony mp4 player software is ihtoom pmp
thank u