MPG3 video errors

[raspberry_pd]

(9th Feb, 2013 10:03 AM)Phaeton Wrote:  Does this mean Xbian does not support AVI files? When I play them I get a black screen & audio.

Alan...

Hi

Graypod's file contains a DivX 3 video stream Alan.

DivX 3 is not supported by the Raspberry Pi.

avi, mkv, mp4 etc are all file containers.

Each of these containers will generally include a video stream and at least one audio stream. These streams are will have been encoded with codecs, which are generally separate to containers. Therefore you may have an avi file that contains a DivX 3 video stream and an mp3 audio stream. The Raspberry Pi will therefore play the avi file but only the audio stream and a blank screen because the Raspberry Pi supports the mp3 audio codec but not the DivX 3 video codec.

However just as frequently avi files contain a video stream encoded in XviD and an audio stream encoded in mp3. These files would therefore be avi files but they would play both video and audio because the Raspberry Pi supports both XviD and mp3 codecs.

Hope that answer is not too long winded but to say that the Raspi doesn't support a certain file container (such as avi) is incorrect however it is still possible that some avi files (such as those that include a DivX3 video stream) will not playback completely.