Cannot play xvid avi's properly

[tigerdan77]

Hi,
Just received my Patriot Box office (2nd hand) but it will not play my Xvid Avi's?

They have big green pixels all over the screen.

Any ideas why or what I need to do to ensure these play properly.

Regards

Dan

[slan]

Have you tested on your Windows PC with Windows Media Player Home Cinema?
I have same problem with some xvid video files on the PC: incomplete downloaded video files. I see pixeled green screen.

[tigerdan77]

Hi Slan,
Yes, they work fine on my PC but wanted this media box to be able to view them in another room.

[slan]

I have self problem with only one xvid video file, this one:

Video quality bug in PBO

On the PC with MPHC no problem, very good picture quality. On the PBO is worst quality, is not possible accept to watch

[tigerdan77]

I have tried your file on my pc and it worked fine but on my PBO it stutters a lot.

[snappy46]

I have tried your file on my pc and it worked fine but on my PBO it stutters a lot.

Are you playing those file through the network or USB medium (Stick / Hard drive) connected to your PBO??? It is possible that a slow transfer speed from the network cause the stutters/pixelation problem. If you are playing thru network try to play the same file with a USB medium and see if problem persist.

Cheers !!!

[tigerdan77]

I played it from a USB stick. The MP4's I had on there work fine just the avis that dont.

[snappy46]

I played it from a USB stick. The MP4's I had on there work fine just the avis that dont.

Ok then; are you using an official firmware ???? Some of the unofficial firmware sometimes have services running that require some resources (CPU Cycle) that can prevent prevent proper decoding of certain video codec. Any torrent client running on your PBO or other services???

Can you confirm which firmware you are currently running and the video codec of that video; avi is only a video container which can contain pretty much any type of video codec.

Snappy

EDIT: Never mind about the codec .... I just realized that is it xvid.

[tigerdan77]

I bought the unit second hand and as far as I know has official firmware installed. There is no torrent client running.
Not sure which codes you need so here are all of them.
System Revision : P0020BC18-61
Kernel Revision : 323634
Bootup : 27
Bootcode : 0000.0202.0027
Audio : 329564
Video : 329035
Rootapp :329742
Rootfs : 329742
Region code : 0
HW : RTD1073-DEMO
Loader :

Thanks

[snappy46]

I bought the unit second hand and as far as I know has official firmware installed. There is no torrent client running.
Not sure which codes you need so here are all of them.
System Revision : P0020BC18-61
Kernel Revision : 323634
Bootup : 27
Bootcode : 0000.0202.0027
Audio : 329564
Video : 329035
Rootapp :329742
Rootfs : 329742
Region code : 0
HW : RTD1073-DEMO
Loader :

Thanks

Personnaly since you do not have the latest firmware (You have P61) I would try to flash the latest firmware (P70R2); and see if this resolves your issue.