Supported CODEC overview for ALL models (TV, HTS, and Blu-ray)

[Philips]

Please find attached an overview of all supported CODEC's in our model numbers. Now not only for TV but also for HTS (HTSxxxx) and Blu-ray (BDPxxxx) players.

Codec_table_all.xls
Codec_table_all.pdf

You can consult this file to see if your movie file is playable on your product.
1. Analyse with e.g. Mediainfo or G-spot your movie file (both are freeware programs).
2. With this info (audio and video codec), check in the XLS overview if this format is supported.
3. If, according to the XLS overview, this format is supported but it still does not play on your model (*), contact your local help desk.

(*) If the format is NOT supported, you might consider converting it to a format that IS supported. There are several freeware programs for doing this. Consider www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html or www.pcfreetime.com.

[GuinnessTrinker]

This means it is impossible to watch _any_ video from an "Open Internet" address via NetTV -> Internet with 2010 TV devices??

Are all the other NetTV sources filtered/transformed through a specific NetTV-proxy like

itv.mit-xperts.com/zdfmediathek/
nettv.cinetrailer.it/philips/
nettv.tomtom.com

?

[Jomsp]

Please find attached an overview of all supported CODEC's in our model numbers. Now not only for TV but also for HTS (HTSxxxx) and Blu-ray (BDPxxxx) players.

Attachment 164

This file is an MS Excel file that you can consult to see if your movie file is playable on your product.
1. Analyse with e.g. Mediainfo or G-spot your movie file (both are freeware programs).
2. With this info (audio and video codec), check in the XLS overview if this format is supported.
3. If, according to the XLS overview, this format is supported but it still does not play on your model (*), contact your local help desk.

(*) If the format is NOT supported, you might consider converting it to a format that IS supported. There are several freeware programs for doing this. Consider www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html or www.pcfreetime.com.

Thanks Philips for accurate information

Not listed in the table row TV2010-models for "avi" in "File Extension". I guess it is a mistake, right?. In my TV 40PFL8605 I can play without problems the "avi" and see "avi" in the table of TV2009.

Moreover, by DLNA, I could not play any of the six or seven "mkv" with "H.264" and "MP3" I've tried. I guess it would not meet any of the other parameters (container, resolution, frame rate, bit rate). Is the resolution has to be exactly 1920x1080p to 1920x1080 or is it?.

In the first two rows of the table models TV2010, are empty values "File Extension" and "Container". I suppose in both rows, they mean mkv (File Extension) and "MKV" (Container), right?.

I would appreciate clarification of the issues.

Best regards
Thanks

[Toengel]

Hi,

you could use mediainfo.sourceforge.net to take a look at the used codecs in the media files (switch to text mode in mediainfo).

Toengel@Alex

[Jomsp]

Hi,

you could use mediainfo.sourceforge.net to take a look at the used codecs in the media files (switch to text mode in mediainfo).

Toengel@Alex

Thanks Toengel,

In future I will do as you say sometimes.

However, they also appreciate it if Philips, or yourself, I clarify the other issues I asked ..

Greetings

[WHA1949]

I found that my BDP5100 also recoginzes and plays files with extension .mov and .vob, in addition to what is explained in codec table.

[sheldor]

I got 40PFL7605H/12 and I am having problem with .mkv I have tryed about 7 files and just one was possible to read. I don't know if it's something I am doing wrong or it's codec problems.

The file I could read with the program MediaInfo say:
1 video stream: AVC - Writing application: mkvmerge v4.0.0
1 audio stream: AC-3 - Writing library: libebml v1.0.0 + libmatroska v1.0.0

The files I could not read
1 video stream: AVC - Writing application: mkvmerge v3.2.0
1 audio stream: DTS - Writing library: libebml v0.7.9 + libmatroska v0.8.1

1 video stream: AVC - Writing application: mkvmerge v3.1.0
1 audio stream: DTS - Writing library: libebml v0.7.9 + libmatroska v0.8.1

Any help please.

[petasis]

Philips' TVs do not handle files with DTS at all. This of course makes the internal :media player" useless, so its better to use an external one. Also, subtitles are not supported.

[eyolf2006]

I use TVersity MediaServer to stream pictures, music and movies (.avi) via LAN from my server.
For some reason, I seem to be unable to play .mkv and .m4v files both via DLNA and USB on my BDP5100.
Any attempt to play .mkv will result in error message complaining about the file format.
Upon purchase, my BDP5100 had firmware version 1.27 installed.
I then upgraded to 1.31, then 1.53 (latest one?), but still no luck with my matroska-videos.
Found a tip in another thread suggesting renaming .mkv's to -avi would bypass this problem, but it did not provide any solution to me.
Please advise.

[Freddo]

Also, subtitles are not supported.

That's something I really want them to add. They should support these to 100%.
http://www.matroska.org/technical/sp...itles/ssa.html
http://www.matroska.org/technical/sp...itles/srt.html
http://www.matroska.org/technical/sp...es/images.html

And of course, it should also support as many codecs as possible from here, especially DTS and Vorbis audio would be nice.
http://www.matroska.org/technical/sp...cid/index.html

[carlosfm]

I have Foobar2000 set up as UPnP server for music files - it works very well.
It is transcoding Flac to Wav for my Philips 37PFL7605H/12 TV.

Why doesn't Philips include the Flac codec on their products?
It's a Free Lossless Audio Codec...

[Franck78]

Hello Philips, Toengel,

Funny to constat only proprietary format are playable on cheap cpu and none of the free format have powerfull enought cpu.
Funny to constat a 'container' format is hard to understand.
The response to this is easy
-fully describe the build process to get the autorun.upg
-or release an alternative unsupported version that you may use for feedback testing.

HDCP is dead. It's a matter of some years before a chineese manufacturer produce a chip with the master key, always saying "ok, send me your valuable data on the secure link" ;-)

For people reading this, HDCP is the main source of problem when connecting HDMI devices. Every device in the world have a bug free implementation of mpeg, of mp3, of h264. And HDCP comes on top of that to break simple things. Manufacturers decide by default that their customers are robbers. Yes no more. (http://www.abccables.com/info-hdmi-problems.html)

Software is the only component you can rely on to differentiate. Remember that. It will take ~five years to sort out wich one is good. Remember also that with the poor hardware design, a product is 4/5 years life before going to trash (ah green bashing marketing). Moving to another manufacturer is very fast.


Franck

[yanayz]

+1
it's elementary to fully support standard formats for HD videos, like MKV.
Also, every lame no-brand product plays subtitle files, so as someone who goes for a higher-end product, I would expect they'll make an effort and have these features long ago.

[Franck78]

Also, every lame no-brand product plays subtitle files,

yes yes yes, the small unknown company have to be perfect, full of software (cheaper than hardware). The mastodonte can produce low-low-low-end product and sell it as high-end with it's marketing power.

Franck

[starterz]

Pfff, I mean really, subtitles (at LEAST .SRT) must be supported. Anything else is just non-sense.