Hi, new to forum,I am going to buy a 1010s but one of the main reason for doing so after ditching sky is I have a lot of Avi movies I would like to play back via usb or streaming, is this box any good or do I have to always use specific files only.
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| Mon 14 Oct 2013 15:28:27 #1 |
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Hi welcome to the forum.
It's a common misconception that avi is a file format. AVI (Audio Video Interleave) In fact it's a container format. The actual video and audio can be virtually anything ranging from low resolution low bitrate compressed content to massive uncompressed video.
There's a free programme called Medioninfo
http://mediaarea.net/EN/MediaInfo/Download
If you open your files with this and select treeview you can then export the details to a text file and post these.
You may well have to change the container type to the standard one used by the box (transport stream .ts).
It's not possible to give a straight answer to your question re streaming as much depends on the DLNA server software you use. This is supposed to transcode content on the fly to a format that the DLNA client can use. It's not in my experience very reliable.
If you can post a short example file to a file share site I can try playback from usb if you wish.
| Tue 15 Oct 2013 9:53:52 #2 | -
To expand on Graham's accurate description of AVI...
The range of codecs that the Humax can actually play may be very narrow since I have lots of AVI movies which are handled with ease by my 3 stand-alone media players (one costing only 80 Pounds). None of them will play on the Humax when I stream them over enet from my NAS. The alternative explanation could be that the Humax cannot interface to the NAS properly. I have not tried USB since I'm not interested in using the Humax that way. I have similar problems with music and photos. The in-built media player is not the best.| Tue 15 Oct 2013 12:50:58 #3 | -
Mine's played everything I've chucked at it on a usb or copied to the internal HD including xvids and mkv files
I've not streamed anything though
| Tue 15 Oct 2013 17:34:32 #4 | -
Thanks, lads, have downloaded program Graham suggested and checked container, shows mp4 for video and mp3 for audio so I am guessing should work. Thanks for info if I have further problems I will use ts converter.
| Wed 16 Oct 2013 17:25:02 #5 | -
Q3 If you are running Windows Media player then you need to add the folder paths to the library. How to do this please Graham, sorry for being thick.
| Wed 16 Oct 2013 17:35:20 #6 |
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