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| 1211153 | 2011-06-22 10:24:00 | We have a Panasonic TH-P42X20Z TV which is supposed to play MPEG2 Video from a SD Card. It will read MP3 music & JPG picture but not MPEG2. Have done the conversions with Koyotesoft free converter & they play ok on other devices. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1211154 | 2011-06-23 00:14:00 | TVs are not computers - they are very picky. (Something I learned from ChillingS in connection with USB wifi adapters) There's probably something in your file's MPEG2 settings that your TV doesn't like. You could drag one of the MPEG2 files into the freeware MediaInfo to provide a read-out of the settings. Copy and paste here |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1211155 | 2011-06-23 01:04:00 | ;) It could be some kind of container issue, or the way that the MPEG2 is encoded, or right the way down to the actual naming of the file. MPEG2 is usually a DVD Rip, with a collection of .VOB files. I've tried looking on the Panasonic website but they don't give any details at all about what specifics you need in order to get it to play back MPEG2. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1211156 | 2011-06-23 01:07:00 | Convert it, easier.... | pctek (84) | ||
| 1211157 | 2011-06-23 01:32:00 | I've given up on the MPEG2. The other format listed is AVCHD. Have just downloaded a converter & will try that. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1211158 | 2011-06-23 02:24:00 | h.264 is *much* better! Better quality for the filesize. Grab Handbrake and use it to convert. It's insanely easy and very standards-compliant with what it spits out for the better part ;) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1211159 | 2011-06-23 03:51:00 | h264 (MPEG-4 Pt10) is better but it doesn't play everywhere. Xvid (MPEG-4 Pt2) pretty well does play everywhere. I sent an Xvid file on a DVD to a friend who has a cheapest-of-the-cheap DVD player. I wrote on it "Not a DVD. Play in computer". Next time I saw him he said it played fine in his DVD player The compatibility problem is why I routinely encode to Xvid 720 x 576. I keep the originals of course I use XmediaRecode to convert. I like it because I can set the KeyFrameInterval to 25 frames (ie, every second) This causes a 4% penalty in file size but it allows me to fast forward/rewind like a VCR - ie, able to see just about everything |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1211160 | 2011-06-23 05:05:00 | True, but if your TV supports h.264, then you'd encode to h.264 and not XviD wouldn't you ... ;) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1211161 | 2011-06-23 05:12:00 | According to the manual it only supports MPEG2 & AVCHD. I have been browsing the forums on this & the feeling is, MPEG2 only works if it has been created in a Panasonic camera. There has been some sucess with the AVCHD format if MultiAVCHD is used for the conversion. I have tryed this but it keeps shutting down partway through the process. So I must be doing something wrong, which isn't hard these days. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1211162 | 2011-06-23 20:07:00 | Try Handbrake, one of the output options is *bound* to work. Grab a short 20 second video and give it a whirl in a variety of profiles. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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