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jbickmore
Visitor
16 years ago

who has gotten HD video to play?

from our testing so far, we've gotten SD MP4 videos to play but not much beyond that. we've tried a couple HD MP4 files at the specs mentioned, and tried HD VC1 (WMV) files as well but they are not playing.

i found a wonderful thread covering encoding options with handbrake, which i'm downloading, but it seems from that thread all the encoding options that people got working were for 720x480, i.e. SD resolutions but not HD

so, is anybody out there successfully streaming HD video at 1280x720? if so, what file type and encoding options did you use?
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  • bbefilms's avatar
    bbefilms
    Visitor
    16 years ago
    Yep, H264 HD videos encoded with the X264 codec work great. Up until that, I found myself knocking my head against a brick wall using VC1 or even the Apple H264 codec. Since both Netflix and Amazon encode their videos with VC1 we know it's possible but I'm clueless how.
    Greg
  • dadw2grls's avatar
    dadw2grls
    Visitor
    15 years ago
    What did you use to encode the HD files (ffmpeg?) and what were the settings that worked for you.

    Thank you.
  • Arwen's avatar
    Arwen
    Channel Surfer
    15 years ago
    I've gotten 720p HD to encode with Handbrake
    using a super bit, (high bit rate), DVD. It was
    just a test but seems to have worked fine.

    This is what I used for HandbrakeCLI;

    HandBrakeCLI --no-dvdnav --cpu 8 --large-file \
    --input /dev/sr0 --longest \
    --audio 2 --arate 48 \
    --optimize --format mp4 --vb 6000 --deinterlace \
    --width 1280 --keep-display-aspect \
    --output my_video_file.mp4

    You should specify which HD standard you are
    asking about, as 1080p 24/30fps is now available
    on some Roku streaming media players.