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I stopped reading after:
Avi…
(lol)
The town I live in says I can’t drive my Steam Powered Tractor to Church any more…
they say it scares the children and horses and stops the hens from laying for 4 days…
Modern Hippies taking over the world - is what I say.
â– â– â– â– 'em!
Hicksville is over the ridge from where I live…
You can’t get here, from anywhere…
Yep…
I’ll say this about Juicetown:
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We have as much toilet paper as everyone else - none - but we have an endless supply of corn cobs that take off all the new and part of the old.
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I can go to the DMV on any day, at any time, and walk right up to the window.
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We don’t have an AVI file anywhere around here - 'cause I’m the only one that even knows what an AVI file is - and I got rid of mine years ago…
… and one last Tourist Bureau message…:
I live at the end of a 700 mile cable run, I get the full 1000/50 'cause I’m the only one using it…lol
Nonsense - I’m using it to help derail this thread…
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Dancing Baby.avi would like a word.
I downgrade to 1.16 on my synology and all ok…
THANKS GUYS
You are right , sadly omg I have some many old tv shows that i think will take me forever.
But I can see where this coming, new files are supported and old ones getting obsolete.
I am not hoping for a fix from plex updates .
yeah once again you are right actually i do have very powerful hardware and to mp4 acc was from 254mb to 190mb took one min …
i have decided avi RIp.
started today.
trumpy thank you so muck you are a legend
I started 15 years ago…
…finished up last week…
The Good News:
I am AVI Free!
Thumpy … just sharing something kinda weird… as i mentioned i was on versionn synology 1,16 . after i decided to start encoding all my avi , i upgraded to the new release 1.20 form 4th of august.
Something very strange happen all my avi were working for lets say 2 to 3 hrs then stop same as i know it happen. black screen audio and distortion.
I just sharing maybe this could help some others, seems very weird …
I do confirm avi not longer work and i am converting all to mp4 acc…
With that being says case close
thanks bro
May I please have a sample or two of the file(s)?
About 30 seconds worth should do?
Also, may I please see the DEBUG log files of one such failure?
I looked above in this thread and did not find any. Please forgive me if they were there previously then removed.
It’s funny that this topic came up, because I’ve been working on my long-term plans for similar files.
Anecdotally, my old “can’t replace these easily” AVI’s (typically Xvid or similar) play fine in Plex clients. So it makes sense for Chuck to look for a sample. Sure sounds like a bad file.
For my clients, the Roku requires transcoding, as does PlexWeb. The Shield can direct-play it, as can Plex for Windows. But as you can imagine, real-time transcoding is a small downgrade in quality for those videos, even on a LAN. I’ve debated using Handbrake to encode them all to HEVC (which would be relatively quick, since they’re all SD). All the files would direct-play then, and would have the best possible transcode quality, but since half my clients play them natively already, I also can’t convince myself it’s worth it yet.
In short, after going through a similar debate and being undecided, I understand why the OP might want to just leave them alone if he can get Plex can play them again.
I had started a script, which would work perfectly on Synology, QNAP, or any other Linux system, to convert ( not re-encode like HandBrake does) from AVI to MKV or even MP4.
The script, while not complete and tested, doesn’t lose quality in any way. It changes the container only. The AVI container is the problem 99% of the time as the index blocks are easily broken.
While not what the OP has requested but is it appropriate for me to provide as an option?
Holy cow, I always assumed it was a codec problem, not a container problem. So I looked into re-encodes.
The script would be welcome. I’m guessing it basically calls FFMPEG and does a remux of all streams? I may test that on a few sample files tonight in advance.
That’s what the problem is most of the time. Windows systems are the primary users of AVI files. While nothing bad ever happens to Windows (like BSOD or any other such nonsense) it’s a mystery as to what damages them but they do get chopped up. 
Rewriting the stream with fresh timing markers ( what container conversion will do) remedies that part of the problem. If the video stream itself is damaged then indeed it must be repaired or replaced.
something along the lines of:
ffmpeg -i filename.avi -c:v copy -c:a copy -c:s copy filename.mkv
expressly copies video, audio, and subtitles. The -c copy option, without qualifier should do the same but I do not know if that’s true on Windows.
Remember: Remux is not Re-encoding. This is why mkvmerge (mkvtoolix) is so popular. The original streams are kept intact; without any alteration whatsoever.
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bulk remuxing script would be sweet, but also thanks for your already existing converter script.
