Wont load video file

[Gooner]

I'm trying to load an avi file, but when i do it just momentarily goes to a black screen for a split second, then it does not load. Whats wrong?

Also I want to load another file but it only plays the sound with no video, it just shows the bubble visualisation, and the start button wont work during its playback. Is there anything I can do?

[Dastan]

The first video, probably isn't compatible w/ SMS yet! The second video, the audio in the video is probably coded in mp3 format, that's why you can only hear it!

[peterdcrees]

Use MediaInfo to find out what types of audio and video are in your avi file: http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

Then post the output from MediaInfo (View->Text) here if you need more help.

Example of a file that will work in SMS:

General
Complete name                    : C:\Downloads\JLBIB6.avi
Format                           : AVI
Format/Info                      : Audio Video Interleave
File size                        : 89.7 MiB
Duration                         : 17mn 4s
Overall bit rate                 : 734 Kbps
Writing application              : FairUse Wizard - http://fairusewizard.com
Writing library                  : The best and REALLY easy backup tool

Video
Format                           : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile                   : Streaming Video@L1
Format settings, BVOP            : Yes
Format settings, QPel            : No
Format settings, GMC             : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix          : Default
Muxing mode                      : Packet Bitstream
Codec ID                         : XVID
Codec ID/Hint                    : XviD
Duration                         : 17mn 4s
Bit rate                         : 594 Kbps
Width                            : 432 pixels
Height                           : 288 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 1.500
Frame rate                       : 29.970 fps
Resolution                       : 24 bits
Colorimetry                      : 4:2:0
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.159
Stream size                      : 72.6 MiB (81%)
Writing library                  : XviD 1.1.0 (UTC 2005-11-22)

Audio
Format                           : MPEG Audio
Format version                   : Version 1
Format profile                   : Layer 3
Codec ID                         : 55
Codec ID/Hint                    : MP3
Duration                         : 17mn 4s
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 128 Kbps
Minimum bit rate                 : 128 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Resolution                       : 16 bits
Stream size                      : 15.6 MiB (17%)
Alignment                        : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration             : 33 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration     : 504 ms
Writing library                  : LAME3.97b
Encoding settings                : CBR

[Gooner]

For the first video that only shows the black screen momentarily, the info is:

General
Complete name : D:\Anime\Hunter x Hunter\5472-episode-008-training-x-raw-ore-x-scissor-hands.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 233 MiB
Duration : 23mn 23s
Overall bit rate : 1 394 Kbps
Writing library : VirtualDub build 15584/release

Video
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format settings, BVOP : No
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Codec ID : DIVX
Codec ID/Info : Project Mayo
Codec ID/Hint : DivX 4
Duration : 23mn 23s
Bit rate : 1 259 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4/3
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.171
Stream size : 211 MiB (90%)

Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 22mn 53s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Stream size : 21.0 MiB (9%)
Alignment : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration : 43 ms (1.02 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms
Writing library : LAME3.92

And for the one that shows just plays the sound is:

General
Complete name : D:\Anime\Bleach\[DB]_Bleach_183_[07493DEF].avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format profile : OpenDML
File size : 170 MiB
Duration : 24mn 1s
Overall bit rate : 989 Kbps
Writing application : Windows Movie Maker 2.1

Video
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames
Codec ID : H264
Duration : 24mn 1s
Bit rate : 857 Kbps
Width : 848 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.088
Stream size : 147 MiB (87%)
Writing library : x264 core 60 r889bm 2c59717
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=1 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=5 / brdo=0 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=3 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=2 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=857 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=1.00 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=2:1.00

Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Stream size : 22.0 MiB (13%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 719 ms (17.23 video frames)
Interleave, preload duration : 216 ms
Title : final

Can anyone help me out?

[peterdcrees]

OK. The second one uses AVC/H264 video, unfortunately that is not supported by SMS, and may never be, as the PS2 simply does not have enough processing power to play that type of video. ('Bleach' releases recently changed to this incompatible video type, they used to play fine )

To play that file on SMS you will need to convert the video to a compatible format. Personally I use avidemux for this task http://downloads.sourceforge.net/avi....4.3_win32.zip
Open the video in avidemux, choose 'avi' as the format, leave audio on 'copy', choose 'MPEG-4 ASP (xvid)' for video, then save the file with an .avi extension.
(If the file comes out too large you'll need to click on the 'configure' button under 'video' in avidemux and turn the 'quantizer' up to 7 or 8 and save again.)

The first file really should work in SMS. Try opening it in avidemux and setting both audio and video to 'copy' and format as 'avi' then saving. This 'might' do the trick.

[remax]

On some video i had to change the frame rate to 25 FPS to see something (i could hear the sound but nothing else)... As your video is not at 25FPS, it could be the reason...

[Gooner]

I tried reencoding the first file but the result was the same. I'll try the other file soon

[Gooner]

I encoded the second file (bleach), but it gets the same problem as the first, but shows the beggining of the video in that split second.

[Gooner]

Yes! I got the first one working all I did was encode it the way peterdcrees suggested (mpeg4-asp). The only problem is that its a bitch to encode, takes quite a while. Thanks alot peterdcrees.