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Chronos[Ha-G]
Right, quick rundown.
I "acquire" episodes of Top Gear, and recently I've been experimenting with playing them through my 360 onto my new HDTV - this has worked well thus far. However, I've run into an problem recently that has irritated me since it renders my setup useless for the most part. The files I get - in .avi format - work perfectly fine on the computer, and most of them work perfectly fine on the 360 as well. But, a few of the episodes - most notably, the last two files I've received - have some sort of error/EOF/whatever issue in them; I'll describe it as best as I can.
Basically, the 360 reads the offending files - which are approximately an hour in length normally - as only about 15-16 minutes in length. If I let the file play past this limit, the audio's still there, but the video cuts out. I'm no video guy, but it looks to me like the 360 thinks that the file actually does end there. Further, since I know of no way to force a 360 to play a file past it's end, I can't check if the video would pick back up afterwards. The most irritating part of it is that my computer has no issue playing the episodes normally, only my 360.
To correct this, I've been thinking of trying to convert the files from .avi to something else (.wmv, perhaps?). I'm curious as to whether or not the conversion might cull the issue I'm seeing with these episodes. However, if anyone knows anything else about why exactly these files might be doing this, or what I could do to fix this problem - I'm all ears. The quicker the solution, the better as far as I'm concerned.
I "acquire" episodes of Top Gear, and recently I've been experimenting with playing them through my 360 onto my new HDTV - this has worked well thus far. However, I've run into an problem recently that has irritated me since it renders my setup useless for the most part. The files I get - in .avi format - work perfectly fine on the computer, and most of them work perfectly fine on the 360 as well. But, a few of the episodes - most notably, the last two files I've received - have some sort of error/EOF/whatever issue in them; I'll describe it as best as I can.
Basically, the 360 reads the offending files - which are approximately an hour in length normally - as only about 15-16 minutes in length. If I let the file play past this limit, the audio's still there, but the video cuts out. I'm no video guy, but it looks to me like the 360 thinks that the file actually does end there. Further, since I know of no way to force a 360 to play a file past it's end, I can't check if the video would pick back up afterwards. The most irritating part of it is that my computer has no issue playing the episodes normally, only my 360.
To correct this, I've been thinking of trying to convert the files from .avi to something else (.wmv, perhaps?). I'm curious as to whether or not the conversion might cull the issue I'm seeing with these episodes. However, if anyone knows anything else about why exactly these files might be doing this, or what I could do to fix this problem - I'm all ears. The quicker the solution, the better as far as I'm concerned.
