WDTV live not supporting audio of some movie files

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live & Live Plus
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For some reason my wdtv live is not supporting the audio files of the following:

Video
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile                           : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP                    : 5
Format settings, QPel                    : No
Format settings, GMC                     : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix                  : Default (H.263)
Codec ID                                 : XVID
Codec ID/Hint                            : XviD
Duration                                 : 2h 21mn
Bit rate                                 : 3 170 Kbps
Width                                    : 1 280 pixels
Height                                   : 532 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 2.40:1
Original 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)                       : 0.194
Stream size                              : 3.14 GiB (83%)
Title                                    : 2004.H P … Prisoner of Azkaban - HighCode
Writing library                          : XviD 64

Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AC-3
Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
Codec ID                                 : 00001000-0000-0020-8000-00AA00389B71
Duration                                 : 2h 21mn
Bit rate                                 : 640 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 6 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L C R, Back: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 649 MiB (17%)
Interleave, duration                     : 32 ms (0.77 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration             : 32 ms

Anyone got any idea why? The video plays ok but the audio just comes up as UNKNOWN.

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That file was encoded with FFMpeg, probably.  That Codec ID is invalid, and if you google it, you’ll see lots of ffMPEG bug reports about it.

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Its also probably to do with it being an internet download. A number of users have problems with these type of files. I don’t know why they cannot be encoded normally.

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is there anything i can do to fix this?

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You’ll have to reencode the videos.

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I guessed I would have to :confused:
any suggestions how to do this to make it work?