Wed Jun 08, 2011 3:41 pm by adam-bertil
I have a similar problem, I downloaded Band of Brothers in 1080p mkv files and 4 of 11 episodes are playable, when I try to play the other ones I get the "codec not supported message". I have a Samsung LE46C635 (LCD 6 Series) TV.
This is mediainfo from one of the files which aren't playable:
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General
Unique ID : 195958560335869883158704121798780748608 (0x936C3EF4AD824851BDE36ACAED878340)
Complete name : G:\Downloads Film\TV\Band.Of.Brothers.2001.Blu-Ray.1080p.x264.DTS-WiKi\Band.Of.Brothers.Ep02.2001.BluRay.1080p.x264.DTS-WiKi.mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 6.56 GiB
Duration : 52mn 1s
Overall bit rate : 18.1 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2008-12-11 03:37:10
Writing application : mkvmerge v2.2.0 ('Turn It On Again') built on Mar 4 2008 12:58:26
Writing library : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 8 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 52mn 1s
Bit rate : 16.2 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.325
Stream size : 5.74 GiB (88%)
Writing library : x264 core 65 r1029M cb3c213
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=8 / deblock=1:-2:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=6 / psy_rd=1.0:0.0 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=16 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=16176 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:1.00
Language : English
Audio #1
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 52mn 1s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 562 MiB (8%)
Title : eng
Language : English
and this is mediainfo from one of the playable files:
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eneral
Unique ID : 242101098682585717788252698943449126075 (0xB622F9BDC9B6416688A0218EE656D4BB)
Complete name : G:\Downloads Film\TV\Band.Of.Brothers.2001.Blu-Ray.1080p.x264.DTS-WiKi\Band.Of.Brothers.Ep01.2001.BluRay.1080p.x264.DTS-WiKi.mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 6.56 GiB
Duration : 1h 13mn
Overall bit rate : 12.8 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2008-12-08 04:51:50
Writing application : mkvmerge v2.2.0 ('Turn It On Again') built on Mar 4 2008 12:58:26
Writing library : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 13mn
Bit rate : 10.9 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.220
Stream size : 5.46 GiB (83%)
Writing library : x264 core 65 r1029M cb3c213
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=4 / deblock=1:-2:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=6 / psy_rd=1.0:0.0 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=16 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=10943 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:1.00
Language : English
Audio #1
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 1h 13mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 791 MiB (12%)
Title : eng
Language : English
The only difference I can see is
High@L4.1 on the playable file and
High@L5.1 on the file that's not playable.
I've tested a couple of solutions in this thread, H264LevelEditor, tsMuxer and adding following lines into the profiles-file in windows:
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<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video">
<Matches container="matroska" profile="high" levelGreaterThan="4.1"/>
</Video>
But none of the solutions have worked. I still don't really know how to use tsMuxer so maybe someone could help me out with that? Or are there any other solutions?
Thanks