It wont play my avi video files ! Please tell me there is a fix for this!

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live Hub Discussions
1

I have hours and hours of avi video that was shot on a Sony camcorder back in 1993-2000.  I was able to transfer the files to the hub with no problem, but it says it cannot play this format.  I thought it could play virtually every video format.

Any suggestions ???  I really would like to keep this product…

2

Same problem here. I have an AVI file of my band playimg from some years ago, 720x480p, 30fps, 48K audio & the HUB rejected it.

3

I am guessing the are DV AVIs, which are not supported. Use the mediainfo tool to find out.

4

Probably correct…I just checked the file properties & it does say “DV”.

I’ll try to re-encode mine as Windows AVI & see if that works, thanks!

5

To the OP…when I couldn’t get it to play my DV avi file, I simply used Windows 7 DVD Maker to make a quick DVD & then copied that to a thumbdrive & transfrerred it to the HUB, worked like a champ.

6

I dont understand how the simpliest. most basic laptop computer can play dv-avi files, but this device cannot.

7

There are dozens of codecs the device won’t play. And codecs that were never intended for playback are among them. DV is an acquisition codec, not a playback codec.

8

Does that mean it will never be avail on this device?

9

Only WD knows, but I doubt it… There are so many variants of DV…

10

Thank you for the info…seems a little disingenuous for them to put “Play virtually any media file”.  thats what caught my attention in the first place…

11

I think the key word is ‘virtually’.