![]() This means those authored formats (1st type). BD players are only guaranteed to play AUTHORED BDs (and usually DVDs and CDs). When you say "back up burn", that means NO conversion throughout the process: strictly as-is.Īs mentioned before, I'm not surprised your MKV data disc didn't work in your sony BD player. Next, if you are unsure of success, never use a BD-R (DVD-R, CD-R), rather use a BD-RE (DVD-RW, CD-RW) for initial testing. Or better, bump it over to a PC and easily and speedily do the conversion, before bumping it back to the Mac (if necessary). Check out ffmpeg variants, or QTPro, or FCP/Premiere/Avid, or $$ batch converters, or even (forbid) MpegStreamClip. It has always been, and probably always will be, slow and mediocre quality. Next, use a better converter than Toast - even if you intend to still BURN with Toast, don't use it as a converter, it sucks. Sometimes this is a simple remux, sometimes this requires a full re-encode. Next, find out exactly WHICH streams/streamtypes are actually contained in those MKVs (using MediaInfo) and convert accordingly. Also, AVI files don't seem to FF properly so, again, Handbrake or MP4Tools are your friends here.įirst thing you need to do is stop thinking of them (MKVs) as a single type - it's a generic container that can hold a multitude of various types of compressed & uncompressed streams! While MKV files do work on the WDTV, I also have other Mac and iOS devices so I almost always transcode to MP4 (H264/AAC) using a baseline 3 setting ( Handbrake makes this easy and fast). I've got a few of them in my house and I can even stream from one to a TV connected to a second. Just copy the files to the appropriately formatted flash drive or hard drive (4+GB files aren't compatible with FAT32 so use a normally formatted Mac HD or flash drive) and plug the drive into the WDTV box. I've often suggested up here that DVDs and even BluRay are so yesterday instead, a device like the WDTV media player permits both PAL and NTSC material (indeed, virtually -any- frame-rate) to play on your HD or even SD TV. The "4-7gb" source file may also have to be down-sampled or, depending on the source material, have its frame-rate altered (PAL > NTSC or vice versa). Do remember that, if the source file is HD, Toast (or any other app that will be doing the authoring) will have to down-size the frame (because DVD is SD, not HD). Once the container is in a more compatible format, Toast may be happier (and faster). In many cases you may simply re-wrap the contents (if they are a compatible form such as H264/AAC) and that only takes a few minutes). I'm not going to claim this will solve your problem but it's worth trying: ![]() But if it works for you, that may be all you need. However, you would then not be assured of (near) universal playability. And the quality would have been fully retained. You could just as easily have chosen to burn them as a Data disc (onto either CD, DVD, or BD media), aka the 2nd type, and saved yourself the time & trouble. That required the application to re-encode them to get them compliant with DVD-Video's strict requirements. Your "MKV" files are of the 2nd type, and you probably (inadvertently?) chose to burn them as the 1st type. But, your compatibility varies greatly (usually better w/ newer devices) and only core features are guaranteed (menus, chapters, subs, multiple streams, interactivity, etc are much less supported). If it's the second type, none of that preparation has to be done beforehand. This adds steps, but ensures compatibility and allows for much more & varied features are supported. And then the burning has to be done in a certain way and with a certain strict order. If it's the first type, it has to be prepared to be compliant with a very strict subset of file/folder structure, container, codec, bitrate, and other settings FIRST. Authored media: AudioCD, VideoCD, DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, SACD, HD DVD, Blu-rayĢ. There are multiple ways of burning media to disc:ġ.
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