AVI file freezes 60 secs in - but plays on my PC

I’ve just bought a WD Live Media player; firmware 1.02.21.  First few files have played fine directly from my NAS drive (over wired ethernet connection).  But now I’ve got an older series that freezes.  I’ve moved the files to a USB stick and plugged in directly - same issue, so its not the network.  I assumed it was the coding.  However they play fine on my laptop with RealPlayer, so not that either. (perhaps too low a bit rate in the original rip?)

Can anyone advise what may be the problem?  I don’t think there is a more recent firmware, so I’m guessing I’ll need to re-code the files - but could there be anything else? (and how do I recode if that’s what’s required?)

Details from media info below.

General
Complete name                    : \nasdrive\media\Videos\TV Shows\Cold Feet\Cold Feet S1\Pilot.avi
Format                           : AVI
Format/Info                      : Audio Video Interleave
File size                        : 478 MiB
Duration                         : 51mn 2s
Overall bit rate                 : 1 308 Kbps
Writing application              : Lavf50.6.0
Writing library                  : VirtualDub build 30091/release

Video
ID                               : 0
Format                           : MPEG-4 Visual
Codec ID                         : DIV3
Codec ID/Hint                    : DivX 3 Low
Duration                         : 51mn 2s
Bit rate                         : 1 200 Kbps
Width                            : 720 pixels
Height                           : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 5:4
Frame rate                       : 25.000 fps
Standard                         : PAL
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.116
Stream size                      : 438 MiB (92%)

Audio
ID                               : 1
Format                           : MPEG Audio
Format version                   : Version 1
Format profile                   : Layer 3
Mode                             : Joint stereo
Mode extension                   : MS Stereo
Codec ID                         : 55
Codec ID/Hint                    : MP3
Duration                         : 51mn 1s
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 96.0 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Sampling rate                    : 44.1 KHz
Stream size                      : 35.0 MiB (7%)
Alignment                        : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration             : 26 ms (0.65 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration     : 522 ms