Problem with Samsung Blu-ray playing certain .MKV files

[avdoubleu]

Hi everyone.

Iv'e been trying to fo my own research and there aren't many out there that use my set up. I have a Samsung Blu-ray player (BD-C5500) that Iv'e had for about two years now and started playing around with hooking my 250GB external to. To my suprise the damn thing worked flawlessly reading movies. 250 GBs was not going to cut if for me though as I went out and purchased a 2TB iOmega Prestige External and I must say never having to change a DVD again is probably one of the greatest things ever.

Anyways, for some reason the player wont read some MKV files and even a few MP4 files. Ive looked and the manual and it describes the supported file types I'm just not that techy when it comes to file types and all that Jazz.

Please any help would be greatly appreciated or at least pointed in the correct direction.

Thanks a billion

[avdoubleu]

Come on people!!!!!!!!!!!

[TLS Guy]

Originally Posted by avdoubleu

Come on people!!!!!!!!!!!

I have experimented with sending MKV files to both my Oppo and Marantz pre/pro. For reasons beyond me, and my eldest son, who is a good software engineer, one player will read some the others won't and some files neither will read. Now both my units are nearly 2years old. I understand that this was in its infancy then and newer units may perform better, but I understand this technology is still not mature, so expect problems.

I use mainly disc for now and I bet you will to.

[BMXTRIX]

If you aren't creating the MKV or MP4 yourself, then you truly have no idea of the resolution, bitrate, or CODEC (for MKVs) which was used. All of these things affect compatibility within a player.

If you are doing all of the encodes yourself, then there must be something within the file which is getting messed up. I know that I had an external BD drive I was creating my rips from and I had a number of discs which did not rip properly. I recently switched to a better internal BD drive and all of my rips have been flawless.

So, doing it yourself is really critical to get the best quality.

[avdoubleu]

Originally Posted by BMXTRIX

If you aren't creating the MKV or MP4 yourself, then you truly have no idea of the resolution, bitrate, or CODEC (for MKVs) which was used. All of these things affect compatibility within a player.

If you are doing all of the encodes yourself, then there must be something within the file which is getting messed up. I know that I had an external BD drive I was creating my rips from and I had a number of discs which did not rip properly. I recently switched to a better internal BD drive and all of my rips have been flawless.

So, doing it yourself is really critical to get the best quality.

This is pretty much what I was thinking. Ill share this little tid bit though, upon searching for hours on how to fix this I came across a thread that recommended this..... Download mkvmergegui > select an MKV file > file > options > MMG > disable header removal compression > then his muxing.

I have no idea what its doing but it has fixed all mine so far. Takes about 5 minutes for a blu-ray quality movie.

Hope this helps someone else.

[BMXTRIX]

While I'm glad that you have found a solution and I hope others can use it, please be aware that if a file is under about 20GB, it is not Blu-ray quality.

Studios spend a lot of money on the encoding and authoring process of Blu-ray discs to ensure that the quality is top shelf 1080p. As soon as consumer encoders start messing with that original H.264/MP4 encode to make it smaller, you are moving away from studio grade Blu-ray quality to something lower.

The ONLY way to get Blu-ray quality is to get a bit-for-bit copy of the original video without reencoding the video or audio in any manner.

I've seen more than a few 'HD' copies of Blu-ray movies, and while they do have very good quality, they are not as good as the original 1080p from the disc itself.