WD TV Live Plus stopped playing mpeg-2

[damacas]

I have been using my WDLTV+ to connect to a mythtv backend for about a year now, and watched many SD cable recordings from my Hauppauge 1600 TV capture card.  Recordings are MPEG-2, and start to play..after about 6 seconds the video freezes and the audio shortly thereafter breaks up.  The time indicator will continue to run for about 30 seconds, and then restart at 0 (with no change the video image or audio). 

I can play any other files types on my network, just not the MPEG-2.  If I re-encode the files, no problem to play over the network. If I try to play the file directly from the network share (and not the media server view), NO-GO.  If I copy the mpeg-2 file to a usb drive, same result, playback hangs after about 6 seconds.  I can just press the back button, and the system responds. 

I have reset and power cycled the unit with no change. 

Scratching my head...any ideas why this might be happening, and more importantly, is there anything I can do to get it working again?

Thanks, 

[Alucardx23]

Weird, if the same type of mpeg-2 used to play before, are sure you didn't change the way the mpeg-2 are being created?

[damacas]

Thanks.  You are right, definately something in funny about this.  Here is the media info for an MPEG that DOES play

General
Complete name                            : /Videos/myth/1006_20110104210000.mpg
Format                                   : MPEG-PS
File size                                : 2.17 GiB
Duration                                 : 59mn 58s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 5 189 Kbps

Video
ID                                       : 224 (0xE0)
Format                                   : MPEG Video
Format version                           : Version 2
Format profile                           : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP                    : Yes
Format settings, Matrix                  : Custom
Format settings, GOP                     : M=3, N=15
Duration                                 : 59mn 58s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 4 701 Kbps
Maximum bit rate                         : 6 000 Kbps
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3
Frame rate                               : 29.970 fps
Standard                                 : NTSC
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Interlaced
Scan order                               : Top Field First
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.454
Stream size                              : 1.97 GiB (91%)

Audio
ID                                       : 192 (0xC0)
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 2
Duration                                 : 59mn 58s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 384 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 32.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : -58ms
Stream size                              : 165 MiB (7%)

 And here is the video info for a file that does not play more than 6 seconds:

General
Complete name                            : /media/myth/1002_20120621190000.mpg
Format                                   : MPEG-PS
File size                                : 2.18 GiB
Duration                                 : 59mn 59s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 5 211 Kbps

Video
ID                                       : 224 (0xE0)
Format                                   : MPEG Video
Format version                           : Version 2
Format profile                           : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP                    : Yes
Format settings, Matrix                  : Custom
Format settings, GOP                     : M=3, N=15
Duration                                 : 59mn 59s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 4 723 Kbps
Maximum bit rate                         : 6 000 Kbps
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3
Frame rate                               : 29.970 fps
Standard                                 : NTSC
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Interlaced
Scan order                               : Top Field First
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.456
Stream size                              : 1.98 GiB (91%)

Audio
ID                                       : 192 (0xC0)
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 2
Duration                                 : 59mn 58s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 384 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : -80ms
Stream size                              : 165 MiB (7%)