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Title: Jittery Playback of AVI XVID files using Media Server
Post by: slipgate on October 22, 2009, 09:20:54 PM

I recently purchased a DSM-750 to use in the den and moved my older DSM-520 to the bedroom.  For some reason AVI files with XVID seem to play jittery when streaming over a wired connection from the Media Server application.  When I play the same files on my DSM-520 or on the computer, I have no such problem.  MP4 files seem to play fine, even the HD ones, so it's not a cabling issue.  I've tried restarting the computer and the 750 with no luck.  I'm running the latest firmware on the DSM-750, and I tried both Media Server versions 1.08 and 1.10.

Any help is appreciated!

Title: Re: Jittery Playback of AVI XVID files using Media Server
Post by: slipgate on October 22, 2009, 10:19:06 PM

Looks like I should have searched a bit longer before posting!  ::)  So I found my answer here:

http://forums.tversity.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28130&p=80989&hilit=750#p80989 (http://forums.tversity.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28130&p=80989&hilit=750#p80989)

I also modified the great batch file that segdell wrote to allow right click -> Send To conversions to make it a little more automatic.  My version will rename the video.avi file to a video.avi.old file while processing.  If it needs unpacking (to play properly on the DSM 750) it will create a new video.avi file, while leaving the old version as video.avi.old.  If the file is already in the proper format, it will rename the file back to video.avi. 

I also moved the logging location to the root of C:\ since I don't like random log files in my video folders  :)

My modified version (and credit goes to segdell on the TVersity forum for the original):

Create a text file named "MPEG4 Modifier (Folder).bat" in your "%userprofile%\SendTo" folder.  Next, copy and paste the below text into the file and save.  Now find a folder with your videos, right click -> Send To -> MPEG4 Modifier (Folder).  A log file will be created in C:\ called MPEG4Modifier.log.

REM @ECHO OFF
cd %1
echo.
echo Folder Location:
echo %1
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set /A Counter=1
echo Start of conversion: %time% %date%.>"c:\MPEG4Modifier.log"
echo.>>"c:\MPEG4Modifier.log"
for %%f in (*.avi) do (
echo !Counter!. File found: %%f>>"c:\MPEG4Modifier.log"
move "%%f" "%%f.old"
MMCL --unpack "%%f.old" "%%f">>"c:\MPEG4Modifier.log"
IF NOT EXIST "%%f" move "%%f.old" "%%f"
set /A Counter+=1
echo.>>"c:\MPEG4Modifier.log"
)
echo End of conversion: %time% %date%.>> "c:\MPEG4Modifier.log"