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Playing movie causes the screen to go to pixels and jump all over the place

HI,

I have been using the media player  WD TV for over 12 months, no problems, but in the last 2 weeks 3 movies I have tried to play have caused this.

I upgraded firmware this evening and I still have the problem.

the movie format is avi. desen’t appear any different to any other movie I have ever played

I’m at a lost , why won’t it play, but will play quite nicely on my 5 year old computer?!?!

I think you’re in the wrong forum.   The Elements hasn’t been around for a year.

alsea wrote:

I’m at a lost , why won’t it play, but will play quite nicely on my 5 year old computer?!?!

Because it’s a bad encode, but VLC has been written to (and advertises that it will) play bad/damaged files.

Whatever settings you used when you made the files that _ WILL _ work, go back and re-make the bad files with the same program and those settings – you know those settings are correct.

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