Sunday, April 24, 2011

Samsung LCD TV Media player - Series 5 - some MKV files do not play - Video codec not supported error

This could be because the .h264 video stream was encoded using Advanced Video Codec with format Level greater than 4.1. The samsung media player usually checks for the codec level and if it is outside the compatible range it simply refuses to play.

Though the codec format level is more recent, it still might play on our device. To resolve, you would need to change the .h264 level id to 4.1 (or lesser value). H264LevelEditor is a simple tool to help you change this id value without needing to recode the video files.

Try this at your own risk and make sure you back up your file before experimenting.

Enjoy ! - this worked for me.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Krishna Chaitanya said...

Glad to share..

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