Playing a video.avi XVID & MP3 encoded usb flash drive from Panasonic TV dvd-player
 

My video.avi files will play from the player's dvd-drive but not the vfat formated usb-stick drive. The player just displays "DATA USB" but not the actual video.avi files on the TV so I can select one for TV playback.

Here is how I encoded the video dvd to a video.avi file:

tccat -i /dev/sr0 -T 1,2-5,1 | ffmpeg -i - -c:v mpeg4 -c:a libmp3lame -vtag xvid -f avi -q:v 2 -q:a 5 SixDays.avi

tccat -i /dev/sr0 -T 1,2-5,1 | ffmpeg -i - -c:v mpeg4 -c:a libmp3lame -vtag DIVX -f avi -framerate 24000/1001 -q:v 2 -q:a 5 SixDays.avi

tccat -i /dev/sr0 -T 1,3-3,1 | ffmpeg -i - -y -map 0:0 -map 0:2 -c:v libxvid -vtag xvid -f avi -b:v 800k -aspect 4:3 -g 250 -c:a libmp3lame -ac 2 -ar 48000 -b:a 128k SixDays.avi

My dvd-player is a Pioneer Model DV-310-k purchased in YR2008 & it used to play video.avi files from a usb-stick before.

Thank You for reading this post --Stan

do those videos work on the computer?
if it used to work before, what changed?

Video.avi on usb-stick TV playback
 

Yes, the video.avi files work on computer. The only thing I changed was the encoder. I now use ffmpeg instead of mencoder. However, when I copy an old video.avi created with mencoder to the usb-stick & try to play it on TV, it doesn't play either & I get the exactly same "DATA USB" message on the dvd-player & a empty TV display.

I have attached a screenshot of SixDays.avi being played on my computer in xine & the xine stream information.

Also, here is the info displayed when I execute ffmpeg -i SixDays3.avi in a console:

Input #0, avi, from 'SixDays3.avi':
Metadata:
encoder : Lavf57.71.100
Duration: 00:13:40.35, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 782 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (Simple Profile) (xvid / 0x64697678), yuv420p, 720x480 [SAR 8:9 DAR 4:3], 640 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 29.97 tbn, 29.97 tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: mp3 (U[0][0][0] / 0x0055), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16p, 128 kb/s
Attachment 27863At least one output file must be specified

that's weird.
something must be different now.
maybe you formatted the usb in a different way?
can you try with a different usb stick?

maybe the dvd player adds or looks for some hidden files? have you checked that?

in any case, also show us the old mencoder command.

Pioneer video player usb TV playback SOLVED
 

My Pioneer dvdplayer will not work with new uefi disklabel type "gpt" partitions.
It expects the old disklabel "dos" (type b W95 FAT32 partition formated with the FAT32 filesystem.

Here is how I created the old disklabel "dos" (TYPE b W95 FAT32 partition
fdisk /dev/sdc
o ..create a new empty dos partition
n ..make a new partition
p ..create a Primary partition
enter ..accept default (P1) primary partition
enter ..accept default (2048) first sector
enter ..accept default (entire disk) last sector
n ..no signiture removal
t ..change disk ID type
b ..create disk ID type W95 FAT32
W ..write the /dev/sdc usb partition

Here is the how fdisk partitioned my usb stick:
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdc: 1.9 GiB, 2003828736 bytes, 3913728 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x15f298b2

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdc1 2048 3913727 3911680 1.9G b W95 FAT32

Here is how I formated the usb-stick with a FAT32 filesystem:
mkfs.fat -v -F32 /dev/sdc1

My Pioneer dvdplayer now plays usb-stick video.avi files with ffmpeg -vtag: xvid DVIX DX50.

Thank you all for reading my post & your suggestions.
You were right as something did change. I started using the new UEFI boot process & GPT type partitions a few years ago & haven't played with video encoding for ages. I guess that "DATA USB" displayed by the dvdplayer was a hint.

Thanks again ..Stan

good.
please mark your thread SOLVED.