benefits of constant bit rate versus variable?

[Ivan Zhuang]

Just found this thread – awesome!

A question about my month old Samsung 2012 plasma, PN60E6500.

What I do is copy an MKV movie file onto a USB thumb drive and directly insert that into the TV’s USB port for video playback.

Most movies play flawlessly (that I’ve tested), however, I’ve had a couple of “problem” files.

Upon looking into this issue, I’ve sort of concluded it’s a video encoding / compatibility issue with the couple movies that have failed during playback.

Are CBR video files generally more “difficult” to decode and playback properly than VBR encoded files?

The only “common” factors of the files that have failed to playback correctly “seem” to be encoded in x264/CBR/L4.1 – would this potentially present any problems?

Could this be an issue? Most movies have played back well, however, most movies also do not list video encode specs as specific as I listed just above.

Cheers guys!

[Amando Sanchez]

Ivan- to play the files you mentioned will require an MPEG4 player. Try VLC (https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html) and see if you could play your file using this player. /nD