AVI file, what is making it incompatible with everything?

[BigBL87]

I didn't know where else to put this, here seemed like the best place. I have a bunch (in fact every episode ever made ) of Star Trek AVI files, and out of my collection of video they are the only thing that seems to be incompatible with my Xbox, Blu-Ray/DVD combo (which can play from USB), and most of my other devices. The only things that can play them are my laptop and my Archos 80 G9 tablet, both of which I upgraded the codecs on big time so I'm guessing it's a codec issue somewhere. Here's a sample of what I get from Mediainfo as far as information about the files:

Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 700 MiB
Duration : 1h 31mn
Overall bit rate : 1 073 Kbps
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2178/release

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : 1
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Custom
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 1h 31mn
Bit rate : 947 Kbps
Width : 704 pixels
Height : 528 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.106
Stream size : 618 MiB (88%)
Writing library : XviD 1.2.0.dev47 (UTC 2006-11-01)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Mode extension : MS Stereo
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 1h 31mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 113 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 74.0 MiB (11%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.58 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 162 ms
Writing library : LAME3.97
Encoding settings : -m j -V 4 -q 2 -lowpass 17 --abr 128
Language : English

 

[janrob]

Yep, this is a codec issue. I think you need the XVID codecs for your Xbox

 

[davidireland]

I'm not too sure why this wouldn't work. I was under the impression xbox could play xvid. (I'm pretty sure they can...)

Xboxes (and most bluray players) aren't too great with video file playback. They're rather picky.

I think a good way to work around this would be setting up a media server to stream the files (which will re-encode them on the fly) in a compatible format. Something like PS3 media server (which would work to stream to xbox). Click HERE on how to configure ps3 media server for xbox.

 

[janrob]

Here is some sort of guide to play xvid files on XBOX. I only read the first page but looks interesting:
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1..._content_on_xbox_360_an_easy_guide/index.html

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