HDTV USB file formats

[Sani]

Hello Everyone!
I just bought Sony KLV-32EX400 and saw its specifications, it says that it can play Photo (JPEG), Music (MP3), Video (MPEG1, MPEG2 TS & PS) via USB. Now my question is that is it mean that i can play .mp4 and .m2ts videos directly? Thanks!

Regards,

[jagabo]

Maybe *.M2TS with MPEG 2 video in it, not with AVC/h.264. Probably nothing in *.MP4.

[Sani]

Anybody who owns this T.V can help more on this i guess.

Online manual says its USB can play :

- MPEG-1
– MPEG-2 (MPEG-1 Layer II audio codec only)

[edDV]

Anybody who owns this T.V can help more on this i guess.

Online manual says its USB can play :

- MPEG-1
– MPEG-2 (MPEG-1 Layer II audio codec only)

Then the manual means what it says. It should also specify max resolution and bit rate.

[jagabo]

Given the specs the OP posted, and the fact that it's Sony, I suspect the TV is limited to standard definition files.

[fk]

Why don't you just try it?

[jagabo]

lol

[Sani]

T.V can play .vob . I figured it. Can someone related some other formats? In specs, its written that MPEG-1 PS and MPEG-2 TS are supported. .VOB is extended from MPEG Program Stream (PS).

[edDV]

So it only plays standard def transport streams? A digital TV tuner will produce those as *.ts or *.m2t files.

You can convert normal mpg to a transport stream with TSMuxer.

You can also convert nearly anything to an MPeg2 VOB using standard DVD encoding techniques.

You just need to experiment.

[Sani]

What's about mk2tovob ? Does this conversion lose any quality?

[edDV]

I've never used it.

[[_chef_]]

What's about mk2tovob ? Does this conversion lose any quality?

Depends on what you mean with conversion.
Transcoding, which is meant in most cases, always gives a quality loss (bitrate/res).
Digital tuners also record & save content as *.trp files and most times they are cut into 1.5gb pieces...*.ifo and *.idx files are added too.

The recordings are TS / transport Streams in disguise, mostly.
You need to combine them, then (re)mux to ts, vob, whatever you want.

[Sani]

TsMuxer converts MKV blu-ray rips to MPEG-2 Transform Stream but it comes with two folders i.e; BDMV and Certificate. Don't know T.V usb will detect it.

[jagabo]

TsMuxer just re-multiplexes the video. Ie, it takes the video out of one container and puts it in another without changing the video otherwise. Like taking a VHS tape out of a paper envelope and putting it in a cardboard box -- what's on the tape is unchanged.

[Sani]

I think best option is to burn movies to DVD-RW and watch it via my blu-ray player and then delete it.

[[_chef_]]

Maybe usb stick, CD-RW or BD-RE or DVD-RAM also comes into play, whatever your standalone is capable of managing...

[Sani]

Here are specs of my player : http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&stor...specifications

Can anyone tell me that is it capable of playing dvd-rw because its said DVD-RW read compatibility. See in Video Features.

Here:

[jagabo]

It looks like the player will read DVD-RW. But Blu-ray players usually aren't very flexible with their playback of video files -- accepting a very limited range of file types, frame sizes, etc.

[Sani]

At least it will play .avi

[[_chef_]]

It says DVD-RW in VR and videomode, which sounds good.

But, have inmind, a DVD-Rw isnot always a DVD-RW. I know it sounds weird, but using 2x DVD-RW is not entirely the same as a 6x DVD-RW.