-=MrWizard=-
2nd January 2008, 07:49
Hello,
I got the HP SL4778N HDTV for Christmas, and I am impressed. Picture looks great (OK - first HDTV - but really - it does), and the MediaSmart network connectivity is nice. Especially once it gets the Pika Vista Media Center treatment soon.
Here is a link to the currently supported video containers/codecs:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3369899&lang=en&docname=c01107978
The one complaint so far is that it lacks MKV container support, and DTS audio support. Not surprising really, but disappointing. Which brings the question... I have a number of MKV files with h264 video and DTS audio. The TV supports h264 video, so I would prefer not reencode the video stream. So after spending a buncha time reading on the forums, it looks like I have two options; .ts and .mp4. My understanding is that avi has a 2GB or 4GB file size limitation that would rule it out for me. Now - how to get MKV to either of the other containers while moving DTS to, say, AC3 or ACC. So I used MVKExtract to pull out the streams, then tried tranzcode/besweet, which appears to create AC3 files, but not ACC. My understanding is that mp4 does not support AC3, so I'm down to .ts as a container option.
I can not find a tool that will create a valid .ts file from raw h264 and ac3 streams. TSRemux looks promising, but has only limited MKV support (didn't work with a test file). What tools should I use to get the last step? Or is there a better single utility to accomplish what I'm after?
Thanks in advance,
Jeff
I got the HP SL4778N HDTV for Christmas, and I am impressed. Picture looks great (OK - first HDTV - but really - it does), and the MediaSmart network connectivity is nice. Especially once it gets the Pika Vista Media Center treatment soon.
Here is a link to the currently supported video containers/codecs:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3369899&lang=en&docname=c01107978
The one complaint so far is that it lacks MKV container support, and DTS audio support. Not surprising really, but disappointing. Which brings the question... I have a number of MKV files with h264 video and DTS audio. The TV supports h264 video, so I would prefer not reencode the video stream. So after spending a buncha time reading on the forums, it looks like I have two options; .ts and .mp4. My understanding is that avi has a 2GB or 4GB file size limitation that would rule it out for me. Now - how to get MKV to either of the other containers while moving DTS to, say, AC3 or ACC. So I used MVKExtract to pull out the streams, then tried tranzcode/besweet, which appears to create AC3 files, but not ACC. My understanding is that mp4 does not support AC3, so I'm down to .ts as a container option.
I can not find a tool that will create a valid .ts file from raw h264 and ac3 streams. TSRemux looks promising, but has only limited MKV support (didn't work with a test file). What tools should I use to get the last step? Or is there a better single utility to accomplish what I'm after?
Thanks in advance,
Jeff