Sony SMP -N200 will not play AVI's

[mark11]

Hello - Just discovered that My SMP-N200 will not play AVIs that my SMP-N100 will play. I also uncovered that Sony has disabled AVI's over DNLA in these forums but cannot substantiate that through the googleplex. My SMP-N200 is hard wired not wireless. I am a little confused and would like investigate before I start to re-encode files...

[mark11]

Hello - Just discovered that My SMP-N200 will not play AVIs that my SMP-N100 will play. I also uncovered that Sony has disabled AVI's over DNLA in these forums but cannot substantiate that through the googleplex. My SMP-N200 is hard wired not wireless. I am a little confused and would like investigate before I start to re-encode files...

Update... Some Avi's play some do not...

Update again...

The non-playing AVI's have a fourcc for DIV3 while the ones that do play are XVID. I tried changing the fourcc value to DIV4 DIV5 but still says corrupt. Treid changing to XVID and the video disappeared while the audio played.

Can anyone explain this? I have been searching for answers but always seem to end up here for any information.

[Paul]

Hi Mark,

Are you using the "Sony SMP-N200 (NTSC)" or "Sony SMP-N200 (PAL)" device profiles with your SMP-N200? Can you post the FFmpeg information on a few files that play and don't play? Right-click on the video in Mezzmo and click 'Get FFmpeg Information'. Also, we've just added FOURCC detection into our device profiles for Mezzmo v3.0 (just released today :D) so we will be able to tweak them so that Mezzmo will stream AVIs with certain FOURCCs natively and transcode the others.

[mark11]

Hi Mark,

Are you using the "Sony SMP-N200 (NTSC)" or "Sony SMP-N200 (PAL)" device profiles with your SMP-N200? Can you post the FFmpeg information on a few files that play and don't play? Right-click on the video in Mezzmo and click 'Get FFmpeg Information'. Also, we've just added FOURCC detection into our device profiles for Mezzmo v3.0 (just released today :D) so we will be able to tweak them so that Mezzmo will stream AVIs with certain FOURCCs natively and transcode the others.

I am using "Sony SMP-N200 (NTSC)." I never considered using the PAL version casue on my North American location. I assumed all my devices would need the NTCS profile. Should I try PAL?


Here is the FFmpeg infor from one of them

ffmpeg version N-40693-gc457a29 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
built on May 15 2012 12:57:14 with gcc 4.6.2
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --arch=x86 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-zlib --disable-postproc --prefix=/home/peter/ffmpeg/build/gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-cflags=-I/home/peter/cc/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/peter/cc/lib --pkg-config=pkg-config --disable-w32threads
libavutil 51. 51.100 / 51. 51.100
libavcodec 54. 21.101 / 54. 21.101
libavformat 54. 5.100 / 54. 5.100
libavdevice 53. 4.100 / 53. 4.100
libavfilter 2. 73.100 / 2. 73.100
libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100
libswresample 0. 11.100 / 0. 11.100
Input #0, avi, from XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.avi':
Duration: 00:22:36.49, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 393 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: msmpeg4 (DIV3 / 0x33564944), yuv420p, 320x240, 29.97 tbr, 29.97 tbn, 29.97 tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: mp3 (U[0][0][0] / 0x0055), 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 96 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified


---> DB Level Info: -99, -99
---> Frame rate: 29.97
---> Aspect ratio: