Playing MKV from from USB

[marcobjorge]

Hi,

Whenever I try to play these files I get the error "File cannot be read or found". If I change the extension to avi it plays but without image.

I have a 47PFL7606H, can it play MKV files? Anyone else has this problem?

Thanks,
Marco

[Toengel]

Hi,

MKV is only a container. You need to have supported codecs. Please see: http://www.supportforum.philips.com/en/showthread.php?1067-Supported-CODEC-overview-for-ALL-models-(TV-HTS-and-Blu-ray)

2010 = 2011

Toengel@Alex

[marcobjorge]

Thanks for the reply.

The same movie works when the filesystem is NTFS but not exFAT (wah? how come?!).

When it is on exFAT I get the error "File not cannot be read or found".

It might have something to do with a combination of exFAT and big files (over 4GB). Any ideias?

Anyway, just changed the format and it works now (would prefer exFAT but...).

Marco

[Philips - Thomas]

Hi

Supported is only NTFS and FAT(32).
exFat might work due to the Fat-family but this is not supported.

Regards
Thomas

[Sam@]

Hi,

I've a similar problem on my new 42PFL7666h.

The hardware manual indicates that the .mvk is supported (h.264 codec) video format and HE-AAC, AC3, MP3 & PCM audio codec.

So I've some mkv files and I re-encoded the audio tracks (from DTS) to MP3 or AC3.
So my mkv are (Philips) compliants :
1 video track h264
1 audio track MP3 or AC3.

But the TV don't want to read them (file not supported) from DLNA nor USB. I tested several matroska files.
I updated the firmware (the last one 14.98).

Anyone else has some troubles with playing mkv files ?

Thanks all
Regards

[a_Tom]

hey sam; download and install mediainfo (mediainfo.sourceforge.net/)
and copy the analisis in this thread.

what you can check for yourself, bitrate, should not be higher tha 20mbit...

[Sam@]

Thanks for reply.

For example - The lion King - mkvinfo (it's in french) :

+ En-tête EBML
|+ Version EBML : 1
|+ Version EBML lue : 1
|+ Longueur maximale de l'ID EBML : 4
|+ Longueur maximale de la taille EBML : 8
|+ Type de document : matroska
|+ Version du type de document : 2
|+ Version lue du type de document : 2
+ Segment, taille 7089093429
|+ En-tête de recherche (sous-entrées ignorées)
|+ EbmlVoid (taille : 4043)
|+ Informations sur le segment
| + Coefficient temporel : 1000000
| + Application de multiplexage : libebml v1.2.3 + libmatroska v1.3.0
| + Application d'écriture : mkvmerge v5.5.0 ('Healer') built on Apr 6 2012 21:
43:24
| + Durée : 5331.008s (01:28:51.008)
| + Date : Mon May 21 17:52:08 2012 UTC
| + UID du segment: 0x8b 0x38 0xaf 0x16 0x33 0xf4 0x14 0x49 0x80 0x2f 0x90 0x1d
0x18 0x59 0x55 0x36
|+ Pistes du segment
| + Une piste
| + Track number: 1 (track ID for mkvmerge & mkvextract: 0)
| + UID de la piste : 437741968
| + Type de piste : video
| + Marque de laçage : 0
| + Cache minimum : 1
| + ID du codec : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
| + Langue : und
| + Piste vidéo
| + Largeur (pixels) : 1920
| + Hauteur (pixels) : 1080
| + Largeur à l'écran : 1920
| + Hauteur à l'écran : 1080
| + Encodages du contenu
| + Encodage du contenu
| + Compression du contenu
| + Algorithme : 3 (retrait des en-têtes)
| + Paramètres : longueur 1, données : 0x00
| + Données de codec privées, longueur 43 (profil h.264 : High @L4.1)
| + Default duration: 41.708ms (23.976 frames/fields per second for a video tra
ck)
| + Une piste
| + Track number: 2 (track ID for mkvmerge & mkvextract: 1)
| + UID de la piste : 2377958041
| + Type de piste : audio
| + ID du codec : A_AC3
| + Default duration: 32.000ms (31.250 frames/fields per second for a video tra
ck)
| + Langue : und
| + Audio track
| + Fréquence d'échantillonnage : 48000
| + Canaux : 6
| + Encodages du contenu
| + Encodage du contenu
| + Compression du contenu
| + Algorithme : 3 (retrait des en-têtes)
| + Paramètres : longueur 2, données : 0x0b 0x77
|+ EbmlVoid (taille : 1053)
|+ Cluster


Two scenariis :
- DLNA with Xbmc : file is not read from TV (ok on pc)
- DLNA with "Wild media center" : File is read from TV.

"Wild media Center" (XMC) can transcode movies, so I conclude that the format is not supported by my TV so WMC transcode it.

I think that I need a software who can transcode beacause the TV is restrictive, like XMC but it's not free and not user friendly.


Thanks

[Manuel]

For transcode, try this:

http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/

http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

[deadoc3]

Sorry, i have a problem with my 42PFL4307H/12, i can't see .mkv files via pc (LAN) but i only can read this files with usb connected on tv. some help??

[tripodzid]

For transcode, try this:

http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/

http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

Have you already tried this program? Does it work?

Cheers. http://imagicon.info/cat/12-19/icon_smile2.gif

[Toengel]

Hi,

www.xmedia-recode.de (http://www.xmedia-recode.de) is also a nice program.

Toengel@Alex