AVI files and Panasonic Viera G20

Hi,

I am currently using the free trial of mezzmo but plan to purchase shortly as I have been very impressed. I am having a couple of minor issues with a number of AVI files. The vast majority of my files play fine on the tv (Panasonic Viera TX-P50G20BA) with the profile set to "Panasonic Viera" (I have tried the other profiles but this seems the best for the most files.) The few problem files play ok if I play them directly on the server computer using WMP (not through mezzmo). However, I have problems with an even greater number of files if I try to play them through mezzmo on another computer using WMP.

Is this likely to be more a problem with how the files have been ripped (even though they play fine if I open them directly) than with how I have mezzmo set up? Any suggestions would be welcome. Please let me know if you need any more information or log files.

Regards,


EDIT: Just checked the FFmpeg info for a couple of the problem files (Please see example below) and there seems to be an error with them:

ffmpeg version N-33781-g35674a2, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Oct 19 2011 10:31:16 with gcc 4.6.1
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --arch=x86 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-zlib --disable-postproc --prefix=/media/ffmpeg --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-cflags=-I/home/dennis/cc/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/dennis/cc/lib --pkg-config=pkg-config
libavutil 51. 22. 0 / 51. 22. 0
libavcodec 53. 21. 0 / 53. 21. 0
libavformat 53. 16. 1 / 53. 16. 1
libavdevice 53. 4. 0 / 53. 4. 0
libavfilter 2. 44. 0 / 2. 44. 0
libswscale 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
[mpeg4 @ 01598BA0] Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames detected
[mpeg4 @ 01598BA0] frame skip 8
[mp3 @ 0159F160] Header missing

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 30000.00 (30000/1) -> 29.97 (30000/1001)
Input #0, avi, from 'D:\Films\Comedy\*******\********.avi':
Duration: 01:30:40.84, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 998 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (DX50 / 0x30355844), yuv420p, 720x480 [SAR 1:1 DAR 3:2], 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 29.97 tbn, 30k tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: mp3 (U[0][0][0] / 0x0055), 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 192 kb/s
Metadata:
title : Audio Stream
At least one output file must be specified


---> DB Level Info: -99, -99
---> Frame rate: 29.97
---> Aspect ratio: 3:2

The Panasonic Viera device profile will stream your above example file natively to your TV without any transcoding. oO, if you TV does not play it, then you are probably right - either the file is badly encoded or your TV's firmware does not like for some reason.