Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

tl;dr - Truly the standard in professional video installations. Several shortcomings prevent it from getting 5 stars, but these players are still my go-to. First, the PROS: I am a preparator in a museum specializing in video installations. I am also a video artist myself. I have a lot of experience both installing video and troubleshooting various media players. I can say with confidence that these are the best on the market right now. The HUGE reason is seamless looping. Other media players will play a "loading" animation between loops that you can't turn off, or will display the file name on each loop. These don't. They're tiny in every dimension and super easy to hide on top of a projector or behind a monitor. The menu is straightforward and without any unnecessary animations. They're built well and will last if you don't drop them. If your video is formatted as H264 on a FAT32-formatted USB, you will not have a problem. Which leads me to the CONS: According to the products specs, you should be able to use USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 formatted in FAT32, ExFAT, and NTFS. This is unfortunately untrue, at least in my experience. Really, the only usable format is FAT32. I'm not sure why. Others here have said they've had luck with ExFAT, but I did not. I tried at first with a USB 3.0, and figured the newer USBs might be causing the problem, so I switched to ExFAT on a USB 2.0. No luck. Same story with NTFS. Which leads to the hugest drawback: If you're formatting a drive on a Mac, your options are really limited. This player does not support Mac OS Extended format. If you are using a Mac and want to use this player, you need to format in FAT32, which might not be a problem... unless your file is larger than 4GB. In that case you'd need to format in ExFAT. Other reviewers, please correct me if I'm wrong. Again, I've read reviews here that claimed to have had success playing video off an ExFAT or NTFS formatted drive, but again, I did not. In the case of the NTFS formatted drive, the USB was detected but the file on it wasn't. In the case of the ExFAT formatted drive, no drive was detected. It seems using a USB 3.0 drive also causes problems. Perhaps future firmware updates will address this. I've also had a mysterious issue with lagging video encoded in H264. This will be a video that plays back perfectly on a computer, but once it's on the player it lags. I'm not sure why this happens. It could be errors in the encoding process, but again, the file will playback perfectly on a computer. I've solved this problem by re-exporting the video with identical specs. Of course this is dependent on having a computer nearby that has Premiere or a similar app. If you don't... then oh well. Your video is going to lag. I will say that Micca customer support is good. I contacted customer support about the above issue, and while their fix did not work, they did get back to me pretty quickly. All in all, I would still recommend this player. Its ease of use, size, and seamless looping make it essential to museum installations. It's a staple for new media artists as well.