HELP! I can hear sound but video wont play

[sprinklekidd]

Today i purchased MPEG-2 and VC-1 licences for my pi, and have verified that they enabled. I can play wmv files now however i still cant play some avi files.(I can hear the sound but the video wont play)
Could someone please point out whats wrong with these files? should i convert them (i really don't want to do that) or should the pi be able to play these files. Any help is greatly appreciated.


the first file is:

• General
  Complete name : G:\TV Seasons\The Smurfs\Season 1\Smurfs - 1x01 - the astro smurf.avi
  Format : AVI
  Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
  File size : 168 MiB
  Duration : 22mn 19s
  Overall bit rate : 1 050 Kbps
  Writing library : VirtualDub build 13719/release
  
  Video
  ID : 0
  Format : MPEG-4 Visual
  Codec ID : DIV3
  Codec ID/Hint : DivX 3 Low
  Duration : 22mn 19s
  Bit rate : 945 Kbps
  Width : 480 pixels
  Height : 360 pixels
  Display aspect ratio : 4:3
  Frame rate : 23.976 fps
  Color space : YUV
  Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
  Bit depth : 8 bits
  Compression mode : Lossy
  Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.228
  Stream size : 151 MiB (90%)
  
  Audio
  ID : 1
  Format : MPEG Audio
  Format version : Version 1
  Format profile : Layer 3
  Mode : Joint stereo
  Mode extension : Intensity Stereo + MS Stereo
  Codec ID : 55
  Codec ID/Hint : MP3
  Duration : 22mn 19s
  Bit rate mode : Constant
  Bit rate : 96.0 Kbps
  Channel(s) : 2 channels
  Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
  Compression mode : Lossy
  Stream size : 15.3 MiB (9%)
  Alignment : Split accross interleaves
  Interleave, duration : 42 ms (1.00 video frame)
  Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms

and the second file

• General
  Complete name : G:\TV Seasons\Jackie Chan Adventures\Season 1\1x01- The Dark Hand.avi
  Format : AVI
  Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
  Format settings : rec
  File size : 364 MiB
  Duration : 19mn 27s
  Overall bit rate : 2 614 Kbps
  
  Video
  ID : 0
  Format : MPEG-4 Visual
  Codec ID : MP42
  Codec ID/Info : Microsoft MPEG-4 v2 (pre-standard)
  Codec ID/Hint : Microsoft
  Duration : 19mn 27s
  Bit rate : 1 198 Kbps
  Width : 544 pixels
  Height : 408 pixels
  Display aspect ratio : 4:3
  Frame rate : 25.000 fps
  Compression mode : Lossy
  Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.216
  Stream size : 167 MiB (46%)
  
  Audio
  ID : 1
  Format : PCM
  Format settings, Endianness : Little
  Format settings, Sign : Signed
  Codec ID : 1
  Duration : 19mn 27s
  Bit rate mode : Constant
  Bit rate : 1 411.2 Kbps
  Channel(s) : 2 channels
  Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
  Bit depth : 16 bits
  Stream size : 196 MiB (54%)
  Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
  Interleave, duration : 2994 ms (74.84 video frames)

[jamesh]

I don't think those particular formats are supported- they are non-standard Microsoft specific ones, but Dom will have a better idea.

[topguy]

Which player are you using ?

[dom]

Yes, DivX 3 is not MPEG-4 compliant. You will need to transcode it.
I believe DivX 4 and later (and all XviD version) are MPEG-4 complaint and will play.

[sprinklekidd]

Thanks for the reply. Im using Raspbmc, Ill have to convert them. *sigh*

[jamesh]

Green normally indicates that the UV channels are zero. Remember that they are normally measured -0.5 to +0.5, so 0 is in effect 128 (in 0p8 terms). So put 128 in to the YUV channels and see what happens.

[sprinklekidd]

jamesh could you recommend a freeware program to change the YUV channel? I cant seem to find anything