tech help with avi torrents?

[tzikeh]

I have complete seasons of tv shows I've downloaded from torrent sites (HI THERE MPAA COME GET ME), and this weird thing happens.

I burn them to DVD in order to watch them on my DivX player on tv. Every once in a while, one file out of the 11 or 12 on the disk is all blocky and yucky. The rest of the files play just fine. To make it extra weird, the blocky and yucky file plays perfectly on the computer.

Anyone out there know of a way to fix this? Some kind of re-encode or something?

Comments

[terrio]

Alas, I don't know how to re-encode said files, but if you happen to have a Philips DVP player, start one of the problematic eps, hit the "System Menu" button on the remote, hit it again to exit the System Menu, and the file should now play correctly. (You don't need to hit "Pause" or anything, just "System Menu" twice.) I have no idea why this works.

If you don't have a Philips... I have no idea.

[terrio]

Hee, day late, dollar short. But I'm glad you figured it out!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

:-D Thank you anyway! And I'm doing this for someone else; I think *they* have a Philips. So your advice may come in handy!