[A-110] CHALLENGE!!!!

[Saby]

Fix this problem:

- PCH A-110 WD Caviar Green 1TB USB connected to Toshiba Laptop with Win 7 and external Hitachi Simple Drive 1TB.
- Copy all the video files from PCH to the external drive (half a day, btw)
- latest firmware update plus format PCH's internal WD
- copy only the HD videos back to the PCH
- PCH says "could not play" (got 80 movies, non of them playing)
- Toshiba laptop can't play anything back from the Hitachi drive, not even the 100 Mb divx movies
- my other Acer lapotop with Win 7 x64 same, all the video players are stop working instantly
- DivFix, VDub, DivxRepair, MKVTool crashing instantly or "not a video file", "contains no video" etc.
- did try to copy some files to the Acer's hard drive and open them with Adobe CS4 PremierePro, AfterEffects etc., no luck
- video converters, no luck
- Hitachi USB connected to the PCH, no luck

First right answer wins something really cooool!

Thanks!

S

[kryzchek]

What format are the HD videos in? Post the MediaInfo results for one of the files.

Did the videos ever work from the PCH internal drive?

[Saby]

The HD videos ara in mkv and avi format.

MediaInfo (file on the external Hitachi drive):

General
Complete name : G:\HD\300.mkv
File size : 10.1 GiB


MediaInfo (file copied to the Acer's hard drive):


General
Complete name : D:\30 Rock 3x01.avi
File size : 175 MiB


Before all the videos worked fine.
I did copy an other HD video from an other external hard drive with the same method to the PCH, video playing fine.

[kryzchek]

You're missing all of the details from your MediaInfo scan.

[Saby]

MediaInfo working fine before you ask.

MediaInfo on a random video from the net:

General
Complete name : D:\=== Video ===\Trailers\Snatch.flv
Format : Flash Video
File size : 12.0 MiB
Duration : 2mn 9s
Overall bit rate : 778 Kbps

Video
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L3.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@3.0
Duration : 2mn 9s
Bit rate : 678 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.074
Stream size : 10.5 MiB (87%)

Audio
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format version : Version 4
Format profile : LC
Format settings, SBR : No
Duration : 2mn 9s
Bit rate : 94.2 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Stream size : 1.46 MiB (12%)