Hi everbody
Please help me. Few days ago I was streaming my video .avi from my plex server to my tizen samsung, home network.
It didn’t work, black screen. Probably because the .avi format is too old.
But if i’ll buy the lifetime pass, something will change? With the hardware transcoding something will change? Or i have to convertire my file into .mkw?
Thanks
I don’t think a plex pass will help with that. Converting the file to a newer format like mp4 will probably do the trick. I don’t know if you have a program to do it. Handrake can do it as well as ffmpeg
If the file isn’t playing there is likely a Plex issue here. If a client device cannot play a file directly then PMS is supposed to transcode it. That’s the entire point of Plex.
You should post the media info here at least, if not a sample file. AVI is just a container format. It does not tell us what the audio and video are you cannot play.
. Avi 694 mb, codec MSMPEG4V3, bitrate 1021 kbps, codec mp3 2 channels, bitrate 128 kbps.
These info are useful?
Thanks to you all
MSMPEG is a bit different as it’s not real DivX or XviD. Do you have a sample file?
No idea what you re talking about. Thanks for the link, i will tra to study, generate this sample and let you know.
Thank you so much
This happened to me after my most recent update. I found reference to it online, though I don’t recall where. All my older .avi files stopped being viewable on my Plex server. There weren’t many, so I just converted them to .mp4 and all was well.
Were you actually transcoding the video, or do you just mean moving the contents into an MP4 container?
All I did was use VLC media player to convert the file from Avi to mp4. Very easy process.
That doesn’t tell what you actually did with the file. 
VLC can copy component streams or transcode them to other formats as directed by the user. One method results in quality loss to the media, the other does not.
VLC… can? Huh. First I heard of it. Seems I never explored the Convert/Save dialog before. Is it just a wrapper around ffmpeg?
If you create a new Convert profile you’ll see you have options on what to do with the video, audio, etc. I would be make sure to test anything you make with it. I tend to get wonky mkv files out of it quite often that won’t seek properly for example.
