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    Hi,

    I've been researching for a few days about this subject but haven't gotten anywhere. I can't seem to find one straight answer.

    I have a 90 minute feature that I would like to play on a Samsung BD-P1590. This player has a USB port so I can play movies from a flash drive. It say's it will play h.264 video but I think I must be doing something wrong. I've tried encoding to an h.264.mov but that won't play on the BD player.

    It's pretty obvious I don't have any idea what I'm doing when it comes to Bluray content. I know a lot about authoring regular DVD's.

    Please help me figure this out.

    I'm using the Final Cut Studio 2 and I have the Adobe suite CS3 with After Effects and Premiere.

    Thanks!
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  2. Most standalone players need it to be authored with proper directory structure, and accessory files.

    On windows, a free application to author would be multiavchd , not sure if there are any on mac ( i think there is a port of tsmuxer for the mac version, you can try that)

    Some specific models may have quirks or need special firmware to play properly (check your model's support forum)
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    Thanks for the fast reply. I figured it needed to be in a certain structure...probably similar to regular DVD's.

    It looks like initial tests work using tsmuxer. I'll do some quality tests tonight.

    Thanks!
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    Good luck. I never did get anything to play on the BD-P1590 - you can find my comments on what I did here - but I was only experimenting, so I didn't really spend too much time trying to get a video to work.

    I don't think it supports playback of .mov videos. Also, I read from Samsung's FAQ (the exact quote is in the link, above) that the 1590 doesn't play videos from a USB drive, simply because the port isn't USB 2.0.
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    I actually read your thread before I started this one.

    I'll give it a go and see what I come up with.

    Thanks for your help!
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    The top level overview is:

    Blu-Ray (the disc) has tight a/v standards and disc structures as summarized here https://www.videohelp.com/hd

    Many but not all Blu-Ray players directly play the AVCHD camcorder variant of h.264.

    Some specific Blu-Ray players directly play other formats (see manual) but some of those may be restricted by DRM.

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    If I can find the free time (and one or more DVD blanks - wonder if the player has any problem with RWs...), I'll try another experiment.
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