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Biggiesized
17th October 2008, 05:00
I've been dabbling around with the Big Buck Bunny PNG sequence and I just got a new TV that has DLNA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLNA) functionality. I can stream my media over my network connection to the television to decode and play it back. I don't have any HD media yet, but I'm dying to see some high quality video on it. The HD content on my Comcast service is severely compressed. Big Buck Bunny is total eye candy.

Anyhoo, is there a profile for MeGUI (or even a command line input) for DLNA compatibility? As far as I know with respect to MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video, my television can decode up to Level 3.0 Main Profile. That doesn't exactly help me when it comes to tweaking all of the other settings however.

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Wishbringer
19th October 2008, 11:34
DLNA is as far as i know only a communication protocol.
Some DLNA Server as TwonkyMedia, Nero MediaHome have some additional encoding engines included to transcode videos on the fly to the settings the client device accepts.
So there can't be a general DLNA Profile, because each DLNA-client has other requirements...

For your device you have to test. Choose Level 3.0 Mainprofile and encode a short clip at lowest setting. Play it and then increase settings and add additional features every new encode till it won't play anymore.
Start first with Ref-Frames, Then B-Frames, then features like b-pyramid and so on.
Don't encode a whole movie, a clip of a few seconds or minutes is enough.