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Nelson wrote:

It will be playing fine, but then just stops, with the picture
frozen. But not at the same place each time, and on multiple
discs.

If possible, I need this to work because it plays DivX files.

Any suggestions? Should I try to clean the head?


I have the same problem, but only with DVRs which have been ripped by
someone else. I haven't pursued it, but I suspect errors in the
encoding rather than physical media errors.

That's distinctly possible. MPEG-2 and similar video-encoding
standards allow for a *lot* of flexibility in the encoding... but most
playback devices aren't designed to copy with the full range of
possible encodings.

Commercial-DVD encoding is usually done with well-tuned encoders,
designed to stay well within the envelope of encoding ranges that DVD
players can handle. DivX and other home-encoded recordings, not so
much.

I've seen some MPEG-2 decoder chips which would choke (badly) on some
borderline or out-of-spec MPEG data streams... sometimes so badly that
a hard reset was required to get them to decode again properly.

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