Hmmm, that’s weird. Neither the format nor the container sound odd to me.
Short of posting it for others to try I’m not sure what you can do (of course, you can always use ffmpeg (freeware) to change it to something the Live will like).
I should also note that the video made me feel VERY old – I have no problems with music I don’t like, but I didn’t get any point to any of this (do they like chocolate? Or phones colored that way? If it’s people, I saw no men or women who could be remotely described that way. It actually appeared they loved their fans more than anything else).
They were on my WIn 7 machine – don’t know why that would make a difference (I guess I could transfer the file over to my XP machine and see if it’s anything there but I can’t even think of a reason that would be a problem).
I’m running the latest firmware, if that makes a difference (so if you aren’t make sure you upgrade). Other than that I’m out of ideas (this afternoon I can try it on my other Live, which hasn’t been updated yet, but right now I’m going to eat lunch :>)
I tried this with TVersity and, although it “played”, the screen was blank and there was no audio.
Was going to test via Network Share (as I think Mike has been doing) but my Share PC has decided to drop off the network (I hasten to add that it’s not due to the Live, simply Vista being rubbish).
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Got my network shares back up. Same issue: blank screen, no sound but file is apparently “playing” (shows file length and time progresses).
Used tsMuxerGUI to demux the audio/video streams. Then used MKVmergeGUI to place them in an MKV container.
I’ll take using tsmuxer as a fix for now. still a bit of a pain, though.
I bought it so I wouldn’t need to do that anymore. I got so sick of virtually nothing streaming through my xbox without needing to be demuxed or transcoded first.
this is one of the files that won’t play. it plays fine im wmp though.
I downloaded your file and it plays perfectly on my WDTV Live. I did not change the file name or do anything other than select it and play. I am running Windows XP and I played it via network shares from my Laptop.
