portable litebox media hard drive doesnt recognise some avis

[traolach]

I'm using a litebox media hard drive, to store my movies and audio which I download off my pc. I can than play these through my TV and sound system. Problem is the litebox which supports mpeg-1,-2,-4, divx and xvid will not always recognise my files even though the same files can be played in Win Media Player 11.0 on my pc. I've tried a number of converters including 4U AVI MPEG converter but problem persists. Any ideas?

[theewizard]

download gspot

and ckeck the info on those that play and those that don't

compare the info for the differences, could be the codec , the bit rate, or the frame rate

or the file might be mislabled

i have seen mkv files with avi ext, this can cause your problem

the same for a real media file ext rm or rmvb with the wrong ext the player on the PC might play them but your liteon will not

[traolach]

Tanx for getting back. I've alresdy tried Gspot. When I run it on these files the default setting " enable interaction with codecs "becomes unticked and rendering is then disabled.
So I can't get any info on missing codecs, etc. Failing this would capturing by steaming on PC be a solution and if so, can you recommend program.