Motion JPEG AVIs from my Canon PowerShot SD870 IS Played reasonably well, with just a bit of stuttering every 5 seconds or so, a couple of firmwares ago. I think the last firmware they worked in was 1.04.22_B. They stopped working when I updated to 1.04.31_B and still don’t work with todays 1.05.04_B update. If I try to play a very small Motion JPEG AVI I hear the sound but if I try to play a larger file it causes my Live Plus to display a fatal error message and reboot. I sure would like to be able to play Motion JPEG AVIs again as it is the file format of most of our home movies. Please fix? Please?
Hi there, what if you post the media info? It’s possible that those files were not even meant to play to begin with!
Have you tried converting the files to a codec and container tested to work? o.o
tfbit wrote:
Motion JPEG AVIs from my Canon PowerShot SD870 IS Played reasonably well, with just a bit of stuttering every 5 seconds or so, a couple of firmwares ago. I think the last firmware they worked in was 1.04.22_B. They stopped working when I updated to 1.04.31_B and still don’t work with todays 1.05.04_B update. If I try to play a very small Motion JPEG AVI I hear the sound but if I try to play a larger file it causes my Live Plus to display a fatal error message and reboot. I sure would like to be able to play Motion JPEG AVIs again as it is the file format of most of our home movies. Please fix? Please?
Motion (M) JPG is a very common format for digital cameras that have a “movie” function. Commonly stored in an AVI container and the codec is MJPG. According to the WD knowledgebase here, this is NOT a supported codec.
I have had the exact same experience as you described above and I convert to a supportable format so I can play on my WDTVLive +.
If you cannot change the video format on your camera, then you’ll have to change the format afterwards with a video converting program.
I’d rather they fix it. It was playing reasonable well with stutters every 5 seconds or so. Then they changed something that busted the format. I’m sure it can be fixed just as easily.
So what you are saying is that you want WD to fix something that was never supported. Unlikely to happen.
Just post the mediainfo and you might get some help.
If the chip was never designed to successfully decode the MJPEG codec, there’s absolutely nothing WD can do to “fix” it – it will never work properly.
For all we know, the only reason they no longer work at all, is that perhaps WD has blocked them altogether, since they _ are _ unsupported, so people will quit complaining that they will sorta half play and demanding full playback of them.
