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>From my equally ignorant view on video containers: is it possible that the TV can read files if they are in an "old skool" format like .avi or .divx or .mpg? Once it has a peek inside a more esoteric container, such as mkv, and thinks "oh, it's just an avi file!" it then has a go at playing it. <div><br /></div><div>As a caveat, I know little about how (or why) we have video containers with different codecs in them either. </div><div><br /></div><div>Neal. <br /><br /><br />19. Jun 2016 21:42 by <a href="mailto:nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><div><div><div>I am running a media server (Emby) and if it was on a powerful enough server it
could transcode them. Thing is, it's on a fairly lower powered HP
MicroServer and transcoding kills it.<br /><br /></div><div>The files I rip myself I can handle (simply rip to a format that requires no transcoding).<br /></div><br /></div>I had some older files from my Windows Media Server days that were in "dvr-ms" and they would need to be transcoded. The TV even refused to show them in it's network file browser - it seriously did not like the files. To "fix" this, I renamed on to ".mkv" and it started playing fine via the file browser and DLNA. No transcoding, the TV just played the file.<br /><br /></div><div>What?<br /><br /></div><div>From my admittedly limited and somewhat confused understanding of video containers etc, how on Earth can that work? The extension doesn't match the container format, the TV appears to not know how to handle the container (hence not listing it in the file browser) and yet....it plays fine.<br /><br /></div><div>Although I'm happy it's working, I'm now more confused than ever.<br /><br /></div><div>Does anyone have any clue on that?<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Oh, and it seems DLNA (on Panasonic and Samsung) cannot cope with multiple audio tracks or subtitles. Something of a glaring omission for video playing if you ask me.<br /><br /></div><div>J.<br /></div></div></blockquote></div> </body>
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