Some avi files wont play Options

[pakostevens]

I have a few avi files that I encoded myself a long time ago using premiere. A large amount of these files will not play on my WDTV live. Has anyone encountered an issue similar to this and have a solution for it?

This is what AVIcodec lists for some of these files

File : 1.71 GB (1020 MB), duration: 0:08:05, type: AVI, 1 audio stream(s), quality: 98 %, ,
Video : 931 MB, 16106 Kbps, 29.970 fps, 720*480 (4:3), dvsd = Sony Digital Video,
Audio : 88 MB, 1536 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x1 = PCM, CBR,
http://www.mainconcept.com/downloads.shtml

File : 1.99 GB (1020 MB), duration: 0:09:26, type: AVI, 1 audio stream(s), quality: 98 %, ,
Video : 916 MB, 13582 Kbps, 29.970 fps, 720*480 (4:3), dvsd = Sony Digital Video, Supported
Audio : 103 MB, 1536 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x1 = PCM, CBR, , Supported
http://www.mainconcept.com/downloads.shtml

[WDUser]

Sony Digital Video? Sounds like a proprietary Sony video codec to me, so it's most likely not supported by the Live. Run MediaInfo also on your files to confirm and if they are indeed encoded using that codec, you will have to re-encode (and suffer quality loss in) all your files.

[Freek Mooij]

I have similar issue with NOT playing AVI files.
I used Pinnacle studio V14 to get the video files from a JVC mini DV camera on to my computer.
Below an overview of what Pinnacle, defacto standard video editing software, records.
I have chosen for AVI format since it is non compressed, so i do not loose quality.

CODE

General
Complete name                    : V:\2008 RAW\2008 Aug - Zomervak Florida USA deel 1.avi
Format                           : AVI
Format/Info                      : Audio Video Interleave
Format_Commercial_IfAny          : DVCPRO
Format profile                   : OpenDML
File size                        : 12.9 GiB
Duration                         : 1h 0mn
Overall bit rate                 : 30.5 Mbps
Recorded date                    : 2008-07-29 14:18:24

Video
ID                               : 0
Format                           : DV
Format_Commercial_IfAny          : DVCPRO
Codec ID                         : dvsd
Codec ID/Hint                    : Sony
Duration                         : 1h 0mn
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 24.4 Mbps
Width                            : 720 pixels
Height                           : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 4:3
Frame rate mode                  : Constant
Frame rate                       : 25.000 fps
Standard                         : PAL
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Interlaced
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 2.357
Stream size                      : 12.2 GiB (94%)

Audio
ID                               : 1
Format                           : PCM
Format settings, Endianness      : Little
Format settings, Sign            : Signed
Codec ID                         : 1
Codec ID/Hint                    : Microsoft
Duration                         : 1h 0mn
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                        : 16 bits
Stream size                      : 667 MiB (5%)
Interleave, duration             : 40 ms (1.00 video frame)

General
Complete name : V:\2008 RAW\2008 Aug - Zomervak Florida USA deel 1.avi.A.index
File size : 1.39 MiB

General
Complete name : V:\2008 RAW\2008 Aug - Zomervak Florida USA deel 1.avi.index
File size : 1.39 MiB

General
Complete name : V:\2008 RAW\2008 Aug - Zomervak Florida USA deel 1.avi.scn.xml
File size : 2.56 KiB

General
Complete name : V:\2008 RAW\2008 Aug - Zomervak Florida USA deel 1.scn
File size : 4.47 KiB

Freek

[WDUser]

Well no wonder they don't play really, since your files use the same proprietary Sony dvsd video codec mentioned above.

I have chosen for AVI format since it is non compressed, so i do not loose quality.

AVI is a container format that generally contains audio/video streams compressed using supported codecs. FYI, that Sony dvsd codec does in fact compress the raw video data.