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Posted: **Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:04 am**

Hello everyone - recently updated to serviio 1.2. Great software!
On my US BDP-S390, I can play most AVI files I have. Here is one that works:

Code:: # ffmpeg -i movie_working.avi ffmpeg version N-42368-gbf53863 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers built on Sep 26 2012 21:37:34 with gcc 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52) configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-version3 --enable-x11grab --enable-libvpx --enable-libxvid libavutil 51. 64.100 / 51. 64.100 libavcodec 54. 33.100 / 54. 33.100 libavformat 54. 15.102 / 54. 15.102 libavdevice 54. 1.100 / 54. 1.100 libavfilter 3. 1.100 / 3. 1.100 libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100 libswresample 0. 15.100 / 0. 15.100 libpostproc 52. 0.100 / 52. 0.100 [avi @ 0x123b1120] non-interleaved AVI Input #0, avi, from 'movie_working.avi': Duration: 01:30:10.92, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1744 kb/s Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (Advanced Simple Profile) (XVID / 0x44495658), yuv420p, 640x352 [SAR 1:1 DAR 20:11], 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc Stream #0:1: Audio: ac3 ([0] [0][0] / 0x2000), 32000 Hz, mono, s16, 192 kb/s

Some AVI videos do not play however, such as this one:

Code:: # ffmpeg -i no_work.avi ffmpeg version N-42368-gbf53863 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers built on Sep 26 2012 21:37:34 with gcc 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52) configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-version3 --enable-x11grab --enable-libvpx --enable-libxvid libavutil 51. 64.100 / 51. 64.100 libavcodec 54. 33.100 / 54. 33.100 libavformat 54. 15.102 / 54. 15.102 libavdevice 54. 1.100 / 54. 1.100 libavfilter 3. 1.100 / 3. 1.100 libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100 libswresample 0. 15.100 / 0. 15.100 libpostproc 52. 0.100 / 52. 0.100 [mpeg4 @ 0x1301f520] Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames detected Input #0, avi, from 'no_work.avi': Metadata: encoder : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release) Duration: 01:37:51.49, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1000 kb/s Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (Advanced Simple Profile) (DX50 / 0x30355844), yuv420p, 640x272 [SAR 1:1 DAR 40:17], 23.98 tbr, 23.98 tbn, 23.98 tbc Stream #0:1: Audio: mp3 (U[0][0][0] / 0x0055), 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 112 kb/s

Is there a way to transcode this so it does play in serviio? If not, I'm not opposed to recoding the movie using ffmpeg or mencoder if someone can point me in the right direction for what switches to use.
Thanks in advance!

Posted: **Sun Mar 03, 2013 7:43 am**

Looks like the working avi has an xvid fourcc. The non working one is divx. Do you have encoding enabled in the serviio console? The s390 won't play DIVX natively. Looking at the config file, it looks like in 1.2 that Serviio has added a BDP-x90 profile that automatically should encode divx files. You could also change the fourcc to XVID on that non working avi. If you only have a couple of avi's that are DIVX that might be the best option. There is a pretty decent gui batch fourcc changer that I found http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/341713-GUI-Tool-created-for-batch-video-tasks

Posted: **Sun Mar 03, 2013 8:28 am**

Do you try to change the FourCC to XVID : http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=avi4cc

Posted: **Sun Mar 03, 2013 2:13 pm**

Thanks everyone - I do have encoding enabled and have tried all of the Sony BDP profiles and it still shows the same thing.
As far as the FourCC thing - I'm not running Windows, so will need to look for some alternatives so that I can do this under Linux.

Posted: **Sun Mar 03, 2013 2:18 pm**

Could you enable detailed logging, and found the ffmpeg command line used when you play this file ?

Posted: **Sun Mar 03, 2013 2:31 pm**

I will follow up on that, yes.
I did add the FourCC using mencoder under Linux - took maybe 30 seconds for a 700M file. Here is the command I used so that others may find it:

Code:: mencoder no_work.avi -oac copy -ovc copy -ffourcc XVID -o will_work_now.avi

Posted: **Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:23 pm**

This is odd. Looking at profiles.xml the FourCC code of DX50 should be transcoded, and should therefore play ok. As illico mentions, it would be useful to see the detailed log entries around an attempt to play this file.

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