Twonky crashes on certain xvid files

[pk1209pk]

Hi all,

I've moved this posted from the PS3 forum as I'm not sure it's a PS3 issue.

Been using twonky since 4.4.4 and it's been working perfectly for HD mpgs, xvids, music, piccies and so on. I ran into my first problem last night. I selected an xvid from the list and after 30 secs or so, the PS3 threw up a protocol error (haven't got the number with me). I tried again but the media server couldn't be found. I went upstairs to the PC, and Vista was reporting that Twonkymediaserver.exe had stopped working. I restarted it, played the file again through the PS3 and exactly the same thing happened. The files play fine on the PC. So I upgraded to 4.4.7 - same thing happens. Database has been rebuilt twice - no joy.

The weird thing is it's only particular xvid files, other ones work fine. Could these files just be problematic, ie. wrong aspect ratio, frame rate or something along those lines?

I burnt the files to a dvd, and they play fine in the PS3.

Twonky Media content breakdown as follows:

Music tracks: 2861
Photos: 2948
Videos: 393
Radio stations: 0

I used GSpot and couldn't see any obvious difference between the files, other than dimensions.

See: http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/9325/gspotzz6.jpg

One of left causes crash, one on right works.

Any help much appreciated!

[pk1209pk]

Hiya,

I've figured it out... opened the offending video files with VirtualDubMod and it reported an error in the VBR encoding. Re-encoded with a CBR and they're working fine.