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Playing videos on a DVD player using USB or SD
sapsa:
you can allways buy a tv that play mkv, like samsung b/c650 or sony (dont remamber which one)
Been using c650 with 1080p mkv's and no problem till now :)
SprkLft Drvr:
Thanks rathoriel, I've ordered it. That was an even better price than the best one I saw on Amazon.com and shipping was still free too.
I'll be posting my experiences with the player when it arrives, seeing as I cheaped out and didn't expedite processing or shipping that will be a few days.
thanks for the advice sapsa but I won't (hopefully) have to buy a tv any time soon. It's good to know about that though.
Looked the Samsung c650 up, impressive!
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: sapsa on September 26, 2010, 07:57:33 PM ---you can allways buy a tv that play mkv, like samsung b/c650 or sony (dont remamber which one)
Been using c650 with 1080p mkv's and no problem till now :)
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lol you missed the part about him not being able to afford even a netbook for increased playback didn'cha? :P
AFAIK, the playback built into the tv is sort of silly. It's nice to have if you have it, but it's definitely not a selling point for me personally. Probably because I have no space issues or lacking in inputs for my TVs and I don't mind extra cables (because they can hook to other stuff generally).
As for the blu ray thing... I don't mind it, but have no use for it yet. However, it really does remind me of the midi vs mp3 "issue" back in the day. Give me another 2-3 years and I'll not even care.
SprkLft Drvr:
Got it. Actually it was waiting for me when I got home late on Tuesday. They sent it fedex anyways but didn't charge me for shipping, so good for me. Navigating the directories on my usb thumbdrive was easy, any file it could play would show up when I navigated to a folder and any that it couldn't play were invisible. Pictures, music and video files except for mkv all did well. Trying to find a 16x9 aspect ratio in my collection but everything high resolution seems to be mkv.
Why is mkv the preferred format for large video files? I know there's some technical reason that I couldn't appreciate with my old piece of junk but mainly it meant can only watch up to 360p instead of 480p.
Tried it with one of my external hard drives but it only reads fat not ntfs. Going to reformat my older smaller drive as fat32 and load it up with stuff to watch just as soon as I'm sure I've backed up anything I don't want to lose, this will give me easy access to stuff to watch if it works but mainly I just want to see if it does work.
x5ga:
--- Quote from: SprkLft Drvr on October 01, 2010, 04:54:54 AM ---Why is mkv the preferred format for large video files? I know there's some technical reason that I couldn't appreciate with my old piece of junk but mainly it meant can only watch up to 360p instead of 480p.
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Well, the main reasons mkv are used instead of anything else are probably:
- AVI is outdated, and you can't usually put h264/avc1 video in it due to limited b-frame support. Also, good luck trying to put Vorbis audio in it.
- WMV is ... no, let's not talk about WMV
- OGG is weird, also, lol no AAC, AC-3, DTS support.
- MP4 would be ok, but lol no FLAC support. Also, the tools to make/edit mp4 are horrible, and they all suck. Has sometimes trouble handling >1 subtitle tracks.
- MKV can fit a lot of video/audio/sub tracks of any format that isn't APE or ALAC. Also, the tools are easy to use and the whole stuff is open-source. Also supports ordered chapters / linked files.
but the main reason is that MKV is cool.
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