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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-323 => Topic started by: vinetree on September 19, 2008, 02:35:18 PM
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My setting is DNS 323 (fw 1.05) with DSM 510 (fw 1.08) over a wired network. DSM 510 can play Xvid (in avi) but not Divx (in avi). The screen shows "format is not supported".
Please help!
Thanks!
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Can you play the DivX file if stored locally on your PC? If the answer is "No", then download and install the DivX codec. Windows does not play them natively.
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On a side note (that may not necessarily be related to your problem):
If you're trying this out on a PC and are using the DivX Player itself, keep in mind it isn't the greatest software out there. When I play a .divx or .avi file with DivX Player over a network drive or UNC path, it takes an amazingly long time to start playing the movie. The longer the movie, the longer the delay. For a two hour movie, I once let it sit for over an hour and a half before the DivX Player actually played the file.
Should you have trouble on a PC, you can install ffdshow-tryouts from sourceforge.net & haali splitter (also called matroska splitter.. Google it) so you can playback DivX/XviD content in Windows Media Player - and it will play instantly with no delay. After installing ffdshow-tryouts & haali, you can also reconfigure Winamp's DirectShow plugin to play .avi, .divx, .mp4 files as well which removes delays in playing those types of files from the DNS-323.
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I can play the video file on PC with VLC and Media Player Classic from the DNS 323 as file server.
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Don't know if this will help but did you try installing the K-lite codec pack. I swear by that. Wired, I can play anything from the DNS-323, over my Wifi nothing -- can't get it working for the life of me wireless and using Vista!
Had no problems playing video with K-lite and Windows Media Player classic. Alternative, try the KMPlayer, the best media player I've ever used, especially with torrents and playing video files spread over networks.
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I think most have missed the question he asked which is a DNS-323 NAS streaming to a DSM-510 media player.
The easiest way to check if this is a DNS-323 issue or the codec issue in the file is to copy the file to a usb thumb drive or hard drive and plug it directly into the DSM-510. If the file still will not play then it is a codec/media player issue. However if it does play this means that the UPNPAV server in the DNS-323 is not recognizing the AVI file type as divx.