Transcoding h265 onto Sony BDP-S470
I've been having some trouble getting h265 media files to transcode onto my device without forcing transcoding of all files, needless to say a less than optimal solution, but the answer came to me while writing this post so I thought I'd share my experience.
Initially I just added the bolded line below to the "unsupported" part of the the "bdp2010" profile.
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<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" maxVBitrate="17000" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="320" forceVTranscoding="true" forceInheritance="true">
<Matches container="asf" />
<Matches container="*" vCodec="h265" />
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However, this didn't work and I suspected that my test file either
- didn't correctly identify as h265 or
- some existing target in the profile were interfering with my addition.
Turns out it was the latter, specifically the forced remuxing of matroska to mpeg-ts to fix stutter after seeking on my device.
Since the software matches against the first possible hit, and the remuxing bits being at the top of the transcoding profile, I went back to the original profile and simply added the following at the very top of the transcoding profile.
<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" >
<Matches container="*" vCodec="h265" />
In short nothing too fancy and only really suitable for my personal use but as it was a new experience to me, and a positive one at that, I thought I'd share it in case it helps someone else out there.
Many thanks for an awesome software package!