I love this player save for one issue - standard defintion Xvid rips! I’m not sure what the techinical term is, but video playback seems pixelated during scenes with any sort of motion. They seems very aliased and it makes dark scenes with movement look almost unwatchable. What’s supposed to be 480p quality feels like 240p from youtube! I’m not sure if there’s a setting or a firmware bug maybe? My old 4 year old Mediagate MG350 did a much better job with the same files, connected to the same Vizio screen with playback looking indistinguishable from the original DVD. Why does this otherwise awesome WDtv do so poorly with SD content? Has anyone else experienced this with their Xvid/Divx videos? Is this normal?
The files in question is mostly:
MPEG-4 (Xvid) 624x352, 23.976023 fps with Stereo MPEG audio
or
MPEG-4 (Xvid) 720x304 23.97600 fps with AC3 6channel audio
Please post the full TEXT output of MEDIAINFO for such a file.
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net
Thanks for the reply, here’s the info for those 2 sample files.
General
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 350 MiB
Duration : 38mn 28s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 1 272 Kbps
Writing application : Some super fast AVI muxer
Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : 2
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 38mn 28s
Bit rate : 1 121 Kbps
Width : 624 pixels
Height : 352 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.213
Stream size : 309 MiB (88%)
Writing library : XviD 70
Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 38mn 28s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 138 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 37.9 MiB (11%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.58 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 11 ms
====And the other file=====
General
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 1 005 MiB
Duration : 1h 45mn
Overall bit rate : 1 331 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 profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : 2
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 1h 45mn
Bit rate : 873 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 304 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.166
Stream size : 659 MiB (66%)
Writing library : XviD 1.1.0 (UTC 2005-11-22)
Audio
ID : 1
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : 2000
Duration : 1h 45mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 338 MiB (34%)
Alignment : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration : 42 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms
I should add, there are no issues with .mkv 720p playback. The image looks sharp and non grainy unlike the formats which I posted above.
