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Streaming H.265 video from my Ultra2 Plus to Panasonic Viera VT60
Been a while since I have needed to post something on here however I got my hands on some H.265 encoded content which wont playback on my Panasonic TV. Generally not an issue with H.264 content so Im...
yeah good question. I tried looking on the Panasonic website but coudl nto find anything. Being a 2013 model Im guessing it is not
ipaul81 wrote:
yeah good question. I tried looking on the Panasonic website but coudl nto find anything. Being a 2013 model Im guessing it is not
Panasonic added H.265 support in their 2014 4K models. Your 2013 1080p TV doesn't support it.
Thanks StephenB. Since my last post I managed to find a more detailed user guide online that confirms my TV only supports H.264. Not the end of the world to be honest just means Ill have to transcode a couple videos.
Are there any Handbrake Gurus on here? I have movies thats encoded in H.265 6.1ch AAC in a MKV container. As mentioned above I cannot play these on my TV and VLC on my mac is unable to playback the audio track on these moves, only the video. I tried transcoding to H.264 AAC Passthrough in MKV container which works on my TV but for some strange reason VLC on my MAC cant playback the audio track. Any suggestions on what I can do during the transcode to get the audio workign on VLC? Teh strange thing is that its not a problem with Quicktime Player just VLC. Options In handbrake are to convert to AAC, HE-AAC, AAC Passthrough, AC3 and MP3. There are various Mixdown options including Stereo, Dolby Surround, Dolby Pro Logic II and 5.1. Unfortunatley no 6.1 like the orignal source. What is the best option to keep the audio 6.1 channels without noticably degrading the audio quality?
Thanks
Disclaimer: I'm not a handbrake expert, I use other tools.
I am seeing some other people seeing this problem with VLC on the videolan forum: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=136210 So one option is to stick with quicktime for now, and see if a new VLC comes along that fixes it.
If that won't do...
ipaul81 wrote:
Options In handbrake are to convert to AAC, HE-AAC, AAC Passthrough, AC3 and MP3.
Passthrough copies the audio, it doesn't transcode. So that won't fix your problem.
Of the choices you have, AAC and AC3 (Dolby Digital) are the most interoperable (play on the most devices).
I also see other choices when I select the MKV output - flac and opus. Flac is lossless, so it will preserve the full audio quality. It also will make the file a lot bigger, and it might not play on other devices like your TV. Opus certainly won't play on the TV, but it will play in VLC.
ipaul81 wrote:
Unfortunatley no 6.1 like the original source.
Handbrake will give you the 6.1 option with opus and flac - but stops at 5.1 for AAC and AC3. AC3 itself only handles up to 5.1, so that makes sense. I'm not sure why the limitation is there for AAC.
If you only want to play the output with VLC, then you can use Opus selecting the highest bitrate.
If you want to play it on the TV and with VLC, then either use AAC (matching the bitrate of the original) or AC3 (I'd use the max bitrate of 640 kbps). I'd use the Dolby Pro Logic II downmix (since you do want the output to render well on the mac, and not just the TV surround sound setup).
another possibility is to use AAC passthrough (for surround sound on the TV) and then add a second track that is downmixed to stereo (for VLC playback on the mac). That assumes you can pick the surround sound track on the TV when you play it there (or that the TV will play the first track by default). You can select the stereo track from VLC (slight nuisance). AC3 (or MP3) @ 192 kbps are reasonable choices for the stereo downmix. So is AAC @ 128 kbps.
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