I’ve had the WD TV Live Network-ready HD Media Player since March with absolutely no problems playing anything I throw at it. Yesterday for the first time it complained about playing some AVI files. I went to my other unit which I just about about 1 month ago (WD TV LIVE PLUS model) and same thing.
I thought this was really weird. Has some new firmware come down that is causing a problem?
I doubt it’s the codec because all my other files ae in that format and it plays most of them. So far I have come across 2 files it has a problem with.
The files are encoded with:
VIDEO CODEC: DivX MPEG-4 Version 5
AUDIO CODEC: MPEG 1 AUDIO, Layer 3 (MP3)
Thx
Please post the FULL TEXT output of mediainfo for one of the problem files.
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 658 MiB
Duration : 11mn 26s
Overall bit rate : 8 037 Kbps
Writing application : ogmrip-0.13.6
Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (MPEG)
Codec ID : DX50
Codec ID/Hint : DivX 5
Duration : 11mn 26s
Bit rate : 7 916 Kbps
Width : 2 080 pixels
Height : 1 200 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) : 0.132
Stream size : 648 MiB (98%)
Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)
Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Mode extension : MS Stereo
Codec ID : 55
Hmmm. For comparison, can you post the output for one of the similar files that IS working?
I’m thinking it’s because it’s listed as DivX 5. Strictly speaking, the WD’s don’t support DVIX at all, but XVId is supported. It’s a bit of a quibble, though, because some DivX files DO work.
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 694 MiB
Duration : 47mn 5s
Overall bit rate : 2 062 Kbps
Writing application : ogmrip-0.13.6
Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (MPEG)
Codec ID : DX50
Codec ID/Hint : DivX 5
Duration : 47mn 5s
Bit rate : 1 945 Kbps
Width : 832 pixels
Height : 480 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) : 0.203
Stream size : 655 MiB (94%)
Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)
Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 47mn 5s
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 35.0 MiB (5%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.58 video frame)
The one I just posted works
Aren’t the dimensions of the video that does not work way outside what the WD can handle?
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Width : 2 080 pixels
Height : 1 200 pixels
Manual says-
- MPEG4.2 ASP@L5 Rectangular shape video decoding up to 1280x720p30 resolution, support for B Pictures, data partitioning and error resiliency. No support for global motion compensation (GMC).
Yep; I didn’t even notice that, but you’re exactly right, parnott…
