WDTV Live not playing AVI

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live Streaming
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I know AVI is just a container, and that there are many codecs used to fill it.  But I am surprised that WDTV won’t play AVI files generated by Pinnacle Studio Plus 15.

I did a quick check on the contents of the AVI and it reports:

AVI(OpenDML)(DVCPRO)

VIDEO STREAM: DV(Sony)

The setting on the WDTV is for HDMI output, and I am in Ireland - a PAL location.

I could use a software pack to convert to another AVI format, but some of these files are very large, and I would like to avaoid this extra step.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!!

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You could post the text output of media info using one of your files, but I believe that its down to your files being DV which the player does not support. Can you save them in another format.

Media info (free)
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
Untick the boxes if you don’t want the extras.

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Rich is correct.   “DV” is considered an “acquisition” codec, not a “Delivery” codec.   The handful codecs that WD supports are all “Delivery” codecs.

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I am having the same problem.  The AVI movie plays with Win Media Player on my PC

AVI Info.jpg
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You should post the complete text output. Copy and paste.

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General
Complete name                            : M:\H - Z\In The Valley Of Elah #SAW\nedivx-valley-xvid.avi
Format                                   : AVI
Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
File size                                : 702 MiB
Duration                                 : 2h 1mn
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 809 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 (MPEG)
Muxing mode                              : Packed bitstream
Codec ID                                 : XVID
Codec ID/Hint                            : XviD
Duration                                 : 2h 1mn
Bit rate                                 : 660 Kbps
Width                                    : 608 pixels
Height                                   : 256 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 2.40:1
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)                       : 0.177
Stream size                              : 572 MiB (82%)
Writing library                          : XviD 1.1.2 (UTC 2006-11-01)

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 1mn
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 137 Kbps
Minimum bit rate                         : 32.0 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : 648ms
Stream size                              : 118 MiB (17%)
Alignment                                : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration                     : 24 ms (0.58 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration             : 1417 ms
Writing library                          : LAME3.98b
Encoding settings                        : -m j -V 2 -q 0 -lowpass 18.6 --vbr-new -b 32