So why is it so hard to play AVI files in MediaPortal? (1 Viewer)

[Nigel Deans]

Most of the movies I want to play in MediaPortal are AVI files. I can play them with Windows Media Center, Miro, Vuze and VLC without any problem whatsoever, but MediaPortal doesn't play them. Instead it says Video Codex = XVID and Audio Codec = MPEG Audio. Ihave spent the entire weekend trying to change the options and looking through pages of out-of-date solutions that don't seem to share any kind of consistency with each other.

Is it really this hard or am I just missing something?

I am running Windows 7 Pro (64-bit) on a Dell Studio XPS-16.

 

[Owlsroost]

Try installing the LAV filter package - http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=156191 - and set the 'Video Codecs' - http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_...guration/9_Codecs_and_Renderer/0_Video_Codecs - to be LAV Video and LAV Audio.

Tony

 

[Jay_UK]

Hi there,

In addition to what Tony/Owlroost said, you can install the LAV filters via the Mediaportal Extension Installer (MPEI).

J.

 

[porky996t]

Hi Nigel,

I'm sorry I cannot offer any solution, but I too, have difficulty playing .avi's. So much so, that I eventually converted them all to .m4v files.

As both Tony and Jay suggest (above) I found that using the LAV filters helped, and also making sure that the LAV filters were set to use the GPU on the video card.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

That's strange porky, did you try putting them in a mkv container (mkvmerge), takes under a minute and using the Lav filters, should play fine.

 

[porky996t]

Hi Ray,

I didn't do that... didn't know about it TBH In fact the conversion to .m4v was part cure and part of an ongoing process to allow all video to be played on ipod/ mobile phones (the GF travels a lot in her job and thus has the time to sit and catch up with stuff.. it also keeps her off my back )

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Understood lol, don't want to get on the wrong side of she who must be obeyed

 

[Holzi]

It is not hard at all.. you just need the right codec(s). I would try LAVF as suggested here already and all files should play fine. If you use MP 1.3.0 Alpha you can choose your codec for XviD/DivX explicitly in MP Config.

Wiki-Link: http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_...es/Config_Related_Changes/Codecs_and_Renderer

 

[Nigel Deans]

Try installing the LAV filter package - http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=156191 - and set the 'Video Codecs' - http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_...guration/9_Codecs_and_Renderer/0_Video_Codecs - to be LAV Video and LAV Audio.

Tony

Thanks for the suggestion Tony... I installed the LAV Filter Package and set the codecs to LAV as you had outlined, but to no avail.

An I'm getting a little bit wary of installing all these codecs on my laptop... I just finished configuring the ffdshow package, now the LAV package... How is this so easy for the other applications?

 

[Owlsroost]

One thought - MP is a 32-bit app, so it needs 32-bit codecs (I think the LAV installer installs both 32 & 64 bit versions, so that should be fine).

Can you collect/attach logs please - see http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/16_Support/3_Forums/2_Log_Files

Some of the other players you mention have lots of codecs built-in, but MP uses whatever DirectShow filters are available on the PC - hence the need to have something like LAV installed (which will be installed by the MP installer in MP 1.3.0 onwards, to improve the 'out of the box' experience )

Tony