Hi Rkk -

You're on the right track to getting the best video possible. The choices you've made are excellent.

If you want your video to look crisp & clean on your TV, the best options are (in approximate order of quality - top down):

1. Copy the m2ts file to a USB storage device - plug in ito you TV or BR/DVD player & play! (if you have a USB input for that purpose)
2. Plug your USB device into a media player connected with HDMI cable & watch it through that
3. Burn a BR disc... but you have no burner
4. ** Burn an AVCHD DVD & watch it on your BR/PS3 player
5. Burn a standard DVD

I'm surprised you're not getting excellent results playing through your WD Live TV media player!

** Using a standard DVD, go to Create Disc - select (Disc Type) AVCHD > (Profile) 1920x1080 60i - burn & play in BR player

Cheers - Tony
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If you are experiencing choppy video, I'm wondering if the 28mbps option is correct. I'm three weeks or so into pd10 so am quite new as you are, but I found matching a bitrate to that of the original video file solved a lot of quality issues.

Check your Mbps rate in the properties of the original movie file. You may find the same profile with the 24mbts works better?? The meek shall inherit the earth, if that's ok with everyone else....

Tony - I replying to RKKs question, you recommended:

Using a standard DVD, go to Create Disc - select (Disc Type) AVCHD > (Profile) 1920x1080 60i - burn & play in BR player

Isn't there an option to burn AVCHD in 60p? (I thought there was, but just now,checking my PD10 with a clip produced in H.264 1920X1080 60p, I see only a 60i option in Create Disc/2D Disc.)

Bill Hansen Bill Hansen

Hi,

one of the reasons I picked the PD 10 product was the excellent contributors in this forum!!!

The options 1-2 described by Tony are currently being tried by me.

Regarding option 1 I already have a question into Samsung for an "official" statement from them if/how they support m2ts files, since the m2ts files are not found in their directory on the USB drive when I try to access them via the USB port on my Samsung TV. I will post the feedback from Samsung as soon as I have it.

Regarding option 2 I have a question based on the feedback from Tony and Loveclose.
The video source files that make up my movie have the following properties.
VIDEO:
- Type: H.246 AVC
- Bitrate: 15.91 Mbps
- Resolution: 1920*1080
- Framerate: 25 fps
- 16:9
- Interlacing

Based on these properties what is the fileformat (AVC?, MPEG-4?, MOV?,..) and corresponding profile that should be picked when producing with PD 10? And what would be the corresponding setting (if not AUTO) that I would have to select on the WD TV Live box?

Regards,
RKK

RKK -

WD Live TV
According to the manual & the WD website, the supported video formats are...

● AVI (Xvid, AVC, MPEG1/2/4), MPG/MPEG, VOB, MKV (h.264, x.264, AVC, MPEG1/2/4, VC-1), TS/TP/M2T (MPEG1/2/4, AVC, VC-1), MP4/MOV (MPEG4, h.264), M2TS, WMV9, FLV (h.264)

... so the format you're using should be OK. The MPEG-4 profile below would be fine too.

Samsung TV USB Playback
It's surprising the .m2ts files aren't recognised! If the manual give you no clues, I guess you'd need to wait for a response from Samsung.

Given that the Samsung isn't recognising the .m2ts files, I'd try producing in MPEG-4 Best Quality. It closely matches the properties of your original clips. The default bitrate is 13MBps, but you can customise that to match your original clips (16MBps) by clicking the + button. You didn't mention the audio bitrate, but that's customisable too.

Cheers - Tony
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I use both of the items mentioned. The Samsung TV and most other TV will not play m2ts files very well or at all. They will play mpeg2 HD video however. The WD Live unit plays BOTH formats beautifully.

When trying to determine the best "rendering" option using "Intelligent SVRT" in the Produce tab in PD10 gives you a good clue. Win 10, i7

Quote: When trying to determine the best "rendering" option using "Intelligent SVRT" in the Produce tab in PD10 gives you a good clue.

Agree with that, even if you then decide not to use the Intelligent SVRT afterwards. I found I had mixed results with SVRT, but it did pick a rendering option in the way described here. The meek shall inherit the earth, if that's ok with everyone else....

To play M2TS on TV, we had better convert M2TS to TV more supported video format.

iDealshare VideoGo can convert all kinds of M2TS, M2T, MTS, AVCHD, MKV files to TV supported format.

You may find it at http://www.idealshare.net/video-converter/avchd-samsung-tv.html

With iDealshare VideoGo you can easily convert m2ts file to TV more supporting format with high video quality so as to play AVCHD on TVs.

Besides, iDealshare VideoGo can also convert FLV, SWF, MOV, VOB, MXF, DVR, RMVB, DV, MKV, MP4, MVI and etc to TV supporting video format.