[Bug] Playback crashes, have to restart

[jasch]

Has anybody experienced crashed watching AVI's/DIVx ?

It only happens when jumping to certain parts of the video (eg, 10%, 20%, etc), and it only happens sometimes. Instead of the video jumping, playback freezes, and in about 10-15 seconds, you get thrown back to your file list.

After that, you cannot play any file. Any attempts, will just return you back to the file list. (like the ability to play video files, has crashed).

Only solution is to restart.

I've been experiencing this for months, but never really bothered me until recently (to the point I have more and more AVI files in my collection).

I can play this file, jump around randomly using the remote control to several parts of the video file (30%, 60%, back to 20%, then to 80%, etc). At some point it freezes, and crashes.

Here's the mediainfo of the file:

Code:

General
Complete name                    : /Volumes/share/Movies/Costa Rican Summer (2010).avi
Format                           : AVI
Format/Info                      : Audio Video Interleave
File size                        : 701 MiB
Duration                         : 1h 25mn
Overall bit rate                 : 1 153 Kbps
Writing application              : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
Writing library                  : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release

Video
ID                               : 0
Format                           : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile                   : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP            : Yes
Format settings, QPel            : No
Format settings, GMC             : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix          : Default (H.263)
Codec ID                         : XVID
Codec ID/Hint                    : XviD
Duration                         : 1h 25mn
Bit rate                         : 981 Kbps
Width                            : 640 pixels
Height                           : 352 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Frame rate                       : 25.000 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.174
Stream size                      : 596 MiB (85%)
Writing library                  : XviD 1.0.1 (UTC 2004-06-05)

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 25mn
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 160 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Stream size                      : 96.6 MiB (14%)
Alignment                        : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration             : 24 ms (0.60 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration     : 116 ms
Writing library                  : LAME3.90.
Encoding settings                : -m j -V 4 -q 2 -lowpass 18 --abr 160

[kadven]

(01-28-2011 12:23 AM)jasch Wrote:  Has anybody experienced crashed watching AVI's/DIVx ?

It only happens when jumping to certain parts of the video (eg, 10%, 20%, etc), and it only happens sometimes. Instead of the video jumping, playback freezes, and in about 10-15 seconds, you get thrown back to your file list.

After that, you cannot play any file. Any attempts, will just return you back to the file list. (like the ability to play video files, has crashed).

Only solution is to restart.

I've been experiencing this for months, but never really bothered me until recently (to the point I have more and more AVI files in my collection).

I can play this file, jump around randomly using the remote control to several parts of the video file (30%, 60%, back to 20%, then to 80%, etc). At some point it freezes, and crashes.

Here's the mediainfo of the file:

Age old problem dating back to when the August firmware release was introduced. Seems to be that since that firmware release playback of avi files is much more choosey concerning the quality of the encoding. Have found that it is not just divx but also xvid as well and some encoding engines and codecs are a lot worse than others. Only fullproof solution seems to be to remux them to mkv format with AVIMux_GUI, then the problem seems to go away.

Other way of course is to roll back to a firmware prior to August, but then you lose all the latest nmt improvements, e.g. jukebox, youtube etc.

[cenko]

Any other solution on this issue?

Thanks,

[jasch]

Nope. Latest firmware (June 3) still crashes

[cenko]

Any solution on this issue?

Thanks,

[sfnash]

Same here - really quite annoying. This is definitely my No. 1 issue with this product, and actually makes the device quite unusable.