I did a pretty thorough search and couldnt find the specifics I was looking for. I have a ton of Bluray rips on my iMac. 100% of them came from Netflix blurays that I ripped with MakeMKV then converted to m4v with Handbrake (h.264 full 1080p) to help conserve space. The m4v files look absolutely perfect. I stream them to my Mini connected to my HDTV no problems.
This solution has been working perfectly for me until my wife mentioned wanting to watch movies upstairs where I dont have a media renderer like the Mini or a PS3.
So I searched online and found the Iomega ScreenPlay Plus HD Media Player. The concept seems nice, it claims to support a bunch of formats up to 720p/1080i. MPEG-1, -2, -4, DivX, Xvid.
In comes my issue. I dropped a bunch of my bluray rips on there and none of them played. I remembered that the box said 720p or 1080i so I converted a couple to 720p h.264 but they still didnt work. So I tried to convert one with the MPEG video encoder, the file plays but it looks hideous! Am I doing something wrong here? I tried multiple settings with the mpeg encoder and they all look like crap. I mean no where even close to HD.
Can anyone tell me if my issue is with the MPEG encoder or am I just missing a setting that should clean these up? Anyone have any recommended settings for something like this?
Thanks in advance for the assistance!
This solution has been working perfectly for me until my wife mentioned wanting to watch movies upstairs where I dont have a media renderer like the Mini or a PS3.
So I searched online and found the Iomega ScreenPlay Plus HD Media Player. The concept seems nice, it claims to support a bunch of formats up to 720p/1080i. MPEG-1, -2, -4, DivX, Xvid.
In comes my issue. I dropped a bunch of my bluray rips on there and none of them played. I remembered that the box said 720p or 1080i so I converted a couple to 720p h.264 but they still didnt work. So I tried to convert one with the MPEG video encoder, the file plays but it looks hideous! Am I doing something wrong here? I tried multiple settings with the mpeg encoder and they all look like crap. I mean no where even close to HD.
Can anyone tell me if my issue is with the MPEG encoder or am I just missing a setting that should clean these up? Anyone have any recommended settings for something like this?
Thanks in advance for the assistance!