Question about video formats compatible with Philips DVP5140

[cooper101]

I have the Philips DVP5140/37. Before last night I had yet to run into anything that it would not play. However, I had some folks over last night and went to pop in a movie and it would only play the sound. It gave an error that said "Video Format not supported" .

The Video Compression Format of the movie was "MS-MPEG4 V2".

Is this because that format is an older format?

The firmware version on the Player currently is 37.06.77.02 and from what I can tell this is the most up to date firmware version.

So I guess my questions are;

1. Is there anything I can do to fix this so my player can play the MS-MPEG4 V2 format?

2. Is there a newer player that does play that format?

3. Or, am I stuck with having to convert any movies I have in this format over to a Divx format?

[jagabo]

MS-MPEG4 V2 is an old MPEG 4 codec from Microsoft. It's not fully compatible with modern MPEG 4 part 2 (ASP) codecs like Divx and Xvid.

You might try using an AVI Fourcc Code Changer to change the fourcc code to Divx but I doubt that will work. It's likely you'll have to reencode with a program like AugoGK, VirtualDub, or AviDemux.