Can anyone share HD video playback experience? Has anyone tried playing a HD video (like a 720p H.264 encoded .mkv file using vlc player)?
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So 720p on youtube and other engines plays perfectly with no lag. When playing 1080p on youtube, which they now have, seems to lag a bit, but easily fixed. There is a new beta version for flash player 10, it's 10.1. Once downloaded, the computer seems to be a entertainment powerhouse. It takes the consumption off the processor and puts it on the GPU, and then runs so smooth. Use the hdmi port for your 1080p tv and it looks amazing. Hope this helps.
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Sean,I was wondering about playing back AVCHD files captured on the SDHC card via the PS3 and your post answered my question. Just want to say thank you. As for the PS3 being a versatile multimedia media, I do agree with your statement. Thanks again.
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It is not designed as an HDTV player, but if you are playing .avi files you should be able to view them as good as your set can be!
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Looks like it uses h.264 which is a quicktime format. Do you have quicktime installed? I'm a mac user and never use AVI's so I hope I'm correct in this assumption.
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I was at Sam's Club the other day and did a side by side comparison of a 32-in 1080p and 720p playing the exact same programming. I felt I could tell a difference in the HD programming. The 720p had less details in the skin tones than the 1080p.
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NOPE. Took many tries but later did install. It was a waste of $100.00 because it doesn't do anything. Might be OK for someone who really...really... wants Media Player. There are many FREE media players on the Internet. I like VLC. It results in a better picture and better sound. Save your money and go FREE with VLC.
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Fine. I am using VLC media player on Linux Mint though. Maybe Win8 has higher demands. I haven't tried it.
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I am serving files via a Synology NAS, model # DS210J. I could not view or play .MKV or M4V video files on the BD player. My solution (after many hours of hair-pulling) was to change the video file name extension from .MKV to .MPG and the 720P video files would be recognized by the Sony and play correctly. I hope this helps.
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Hi. There are various MP4 file formats. If our unit does not read or recognize the file you would like to play, we recommend converting or downloading file as a AVI, DVIX or M4V.
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This thing is amazing! It has supported every format ive thrown at it...the pic. quality is awesome...however it depends on the quality of the video before download...it does play and show in HD though.
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I don't know, but I own the player, and it has no problem with a surprisingly wide variety of files. DVD .iso's are no problem, and neither are video_TS folders. Sometimes I don't get audio on .mkv files (I understand these usually result from blue ray ripping) but then I just convert the file to. mp4 or .avi. If this causes quality to go down, I can't see any difference. In short it's a good player. The only caveats the remote is hard to use; the menues are hard to read; and I had to downgrade the firmware to get it all going.
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Make sure you didn't accidentally set the playback speed to 1.5x , try VLC media player
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Video streaming seems to be great, even with HD. That's primarily what we use it form, and no complaints at all for that.
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Update: With the newest firmware the BDP 80 plays MKV just fine! Now my only wish is for H 264 playback. THEN it would truly be universal. (although limited to Fat 32 making large NTFS USB drives pretty useless for now)
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How is the playback of the choppy file from cam to tv via HDMI? If that's choppy too, I'd suspect it was a recording issue. Does your memory card have a high enough transfer speed to handle the bitrate of that file? I film in the bluray format , and have no issues, however I do use a 600x card.
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So my non-hd movies from other regions would be able to play on this player in the upconversions with no problem? Thanks for the info.
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Yes I actually have this setup so I stream from my main pc to my multimedia room. Before i did try it i had the idea that a really big hd movie like 10Gb would give me problems but its pretty amazing how the media player reproduces the movie with no problems at all.Configuring your shared folder so the box can see your videos can be the tricky part but here is the video I used to configure my shared folder so it wont ask for password and all my family can view the content.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQstgQ4eJCM