tough one to solve

[anticapitalista]

Hi all

I have the Philips 737 dvd player and up to now it has played almost everything including xvid.
Recently, however, the following problem occurred.
Some xvid videos play fine on the pc, but when I play on the standalone, I get sound, but no picture. I have pressed the zoomX2 button, and the picture appears(distorted), but when I zoom again to normal the picture disappears. It is as if the picture has been covered by a black screen.
I have also tried re-encoding the movie, but the quality is horrendous.
Any ideas anyone?

[RabidDog]

gspot the fiiles and check for B-vops and Gmc also interleaving and Ac3 sound or vbr mp3 .also the firmware version of your player what software plays them back on your pc, and what version of xvid was used to create them. Does re-encodingf them allow them to play (regardless of quality??)

[anticapitalista]

gspot the fiiles and check for B-vops and Gmc also interleaving and Ac3 sound or vbr mp3 .also the firmware version of your player what software plays them back on your pc, and what version of xvid was used to create them. Does re-encodingf them allow them to play (regardless of quality??)

At work at the moment, will do later

[anticapitalista]

Here are the details of the avi file.

File: avi
Total Streams: 2
Running Time: 0:31:27
Index Chunk: Yes
Interleaved: Yes
Max Bytes Per Sec: 0
AUDIO: 0 - MP3 (0x55)
Average Bitrate Per Sec: 130 kb/s
Samples Rate: 48000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits Per Sample: 0
SuggestedBufferSize: 768
Sample Size: 0
Variable Bitrate: Yes (80, 128, 160)
VIDEO: XVID
B-VOP: Yes
S(GMC)-VOP: No
QuarterPixel: No
Frame Size: 496 x 384
Frames Rate: 25.000
Color Depth: 24
Total Frames: 47176
SuggestedBufferSize: 87280

On the pc the file plays with BS Player, windows media, also plays back in virtual dub.
Not sure which version of xvid.
Firnware: 4.1.19
I haven't had time to play re encoded files (will do soon)

[anticapitalista]

It seems that the problem is that the philips 737 dvd player doesn't play files with B VOP. How can I get rid of my existing files that have B VOP? Can I use virtual dub?
Any help would be appreciated

[anticapitalista]

Well it wasn't as tough as I thought. I simply needed to upgrade the firmware to 1.4.35. Previous firmware didn't like B VOP. So anyone else out there who has been having the same problems, there is now a solution.
Thanks to RabidDog for putting me on the right path.