boxeebox cant play any XVID videos with sync

[Bearwolf]

Since the latest upgrade version. My boxee box can't play any SD xvid videos or clips. Doesn't matter if it's a 600mb standard axxo movie, or a 90mb robot chicken episode, the audio and visuals drop their sync from the first second. All matroska containers work fine, 720 and 1080 works like a charm. But the SD stuff is unwatchable. I usually play them through a laptop connected to the pc these days.

But what the hell! my 2 year old phone can play these clips without problems. I've seen some jira tickets for similar problems but everything seems a tad off. and they're mostly closed.

I've just done a full factory reset with update to the latest firmware from usb, still the same problem. Does anyone have this problem or is it only me?

adding info from a robot chicken episode:
General
Complete name : \\B\supermedia\Serier\Robot.Chicken.S01.DVDRip.Xvi D-DIMENSION\robot.chicken.102.dvdrip.xvid-dimension.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 86.8 MiB
Duration : 11mn 40s
Overall bit rate : 1 040 Kbps
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.1 (build 2439/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2439/release

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : 2
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 11mn 40s
Bit rate : 836 Kbps
Width : 576 pixels
Height : 432 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.112
Stream size : 69.8 MiB (80%)
Writing library : XviD 1.1.0 Beta2 (UTC 2005-04-04)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : 2000
Duration : 11mn 39s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 16.0 MiB (18%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 33 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 512 ms

[war59312]

The problem is "Packed bitstream".

You can try unpacking it using something like avidemux @ http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ and it should play fine.

Unpacking is very quick by the way if you have a decent CPU (Intel i3 or newer or at least a dual core AMD CPU) and hard disk (at least a 7200rpm SATA driver or SSD).

[Bearwolf]

i will try that! any reason why the boxee doesnt support it? will it be implemented? did it work in a previous version?

[war59312]

The Boxee Box devs clam it was fixed: http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-7693

But I am having the same issue as you still so I'd have to say it's NOT fixed.

And nope, never worked right for me. I don't watch too many XviD videos these days so not an issue really for me.

[Bearwolf]

Opened up a new Jira ticket for this at http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-12986
feel free to go comment and upvote it so i may get some attention.