The WD TV box currently support AVI-Xvid. Lots of programs that write to AVI format use AVI-DivX. Playing an AVI-DivX on the WD TV player results in jumpy video playback. DivX is a commercial codec, while Xvid is a non-commercial codec that is almost the same. Is there a plan to add support for AVI-DivX?
Already Supported (Page 219 in the User Manual)
Al of my DixX / Xvid Avi’s play perfectly fine
But Note: there is no support for GMC (warppoints) or QPEL in these files
which may be the reason for “jumpy playback” or maybe your files are badly encoded to start with.
We’ll never know unless you provide a sample or at least a mediainfo output log
eample here: Problem with AVI file
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This is the log file for one of my videos:
General
Complete name : \WDMYCLOUDEX2\Public\Shared Videos\HP1_PHILOSOPHERS_STONE.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 2.63 GiB
Duration : 2h 32mn
Overall bit rate : 2 469 Kbps
Movie name : HARRY_POTTER_PHILOSOPHERS_STONE
Writing application : Lavf52.34.0
Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Simple@L1
Format settings, BVOP : No
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : DIVX
Codec ID/Info : Project Mayo
Codec ID/Hint : DivX 4
Duration : 2h 32mn
Bit rate : 2 328 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.225
Stream size : 2.48 GiB (94%)
Writing library : Lavc52.31.2
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 : 2h 32mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 139 MiB (5%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.72 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 48 ms
no idea … looks ok i suppose 
i remember reading some other ppl had problems with DivX 4
Anyways DivX is pretty old and ancient … WD rarely update the WDTV Media Players anymore, so don’t expect a fix anytime soon or at all.
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All WD TV HD/Live/Mini Media Player only supports to play AVI files encoded with Xvid codec, perhaps I will need to download a third-party program to encode Divx AVI files into Xvid codec.
