How to reduce video bitrate of .m2ts and remux later into mkv?

[tanyo95]

Hello. I have a Samsung hd player at home. I play my movies by putting the mkv files onto an external HDD and then plugging it to the HD player. The problem is that when I try to play movies with bitrate over 25mb/s, the movie starts lagging and it makes pauses from time to time. This does not happen with movies with bitrate less than 25mb/s. So what do I do?

[poisondeathray]

you can either get a new player , or re-encode using lower bitrate (if that's really the cause) and/or compatible settings

you might use something like ripbot264, handbrake, megui , avchdcoder, (many others)...

for maximum compatibility , you probably want to use "AVCHD" compatible settings

check with samsung forum also, sometimes a certain firmware issue might "fix" the playback problem

[tanyo95]

That is what I'm asking. how do i re-encode. i dont know how to do this. please explain it to me and tell me which programs i have to use

[poisondeathray]

perhaps you typed before the message board processed the edit I made.

e.g. ripbot, handbrake, megui, avchdcoder

there are many guides on how to use the programs when you click on the links

avchdcoder is probably a safe bet to re-encode for compatibility

[tanyo95]

thanks. but does this process take too long. say, for a 20 gb movie, how much time would it take to reduce the bitrate

[poisondeathray]

thanks. but does this process take too long. say, for a 20 gb movie, how much time would it take to reduce the bitrate

It depends on hardware, and quailty/compression settings used. It can take anywhere from couple hours , or days. And you always lower the quality. Current hardware players cannot player the lossless compression varieties

If possible, usually better idea to get more compatible hardware player