Very strange…
Here’s the output from the one AVI I’ve got that has 44.1Khz mp3 audio:
General
Complete name : Gnarls Barkley - Crazy.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 31.2 MiB
Duration : 3mn 1s
Overall bit rate : 1 439 Kbps
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release
Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : DX50
Codec ID/Hint : DivX 5
Duration : 3mn 1s
Bit rate : 1 301 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.212
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.177
Stream size : 28.2 MiB (90%)
Writing library : DivX 6.5.1 (UTC 2007-03)
Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Format_Settings_ModeExtension : MS Stereo
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 3mn 1s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Stream size : 2.77 MiB (9%)
Alignment : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration : 42 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms
The audio streams seem near identical BUT I notice that my file has a DivX video stream, unlike your file, which is XviD.
I’ll see if I can re-encode mine to XviD and try it again to see if that makes a difference… (it shouldn’t but you never know!).
-update-
Ok, that didn’t change anything. My file still plays without issue. The only difference I can see is that your audio alignment states “aligned on interleaves”.
Something you could try doing is putting the audio and video streams from the non-working AVI into an MKV container (use MKVmerge GUI, part of MKVtoolnix). Just drag / drop the file onto the GUI and start muxing. :)
If the audio still doesn’t work in an MKV container, perhaps it could be a problem with the encoding rather than a problem with support in AVI containers?
And there’s always the ‘standard’ factory reset advice:
If you haven’t done so since updating your firmware, do a factory reset.
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Press the hard reset button on the side of the unit (paperclip will help). Let it reboot.
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Go to Settings > System Setting > Reset to Factory Defaults. Let it reboot.
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Put the unit in standby and unplug from the mains. Leave it powerless for 5 minutes.
Plug the power back in and it will restart. Log back into your shares (need to re-enter user/pass) or media server and try the file again. I recently had an issue with TS / M2TS files not playing that was solved by the 3rd step.
A final option would be to upload a smaller non-working sample AVI to Rapidshare / Megaupload and I’ll test it out on my Live to make sure it’s not specific to your unit. Are you still running the 0.17 firmware?
