First of all, thank you for this project! Awesome! Spent too long waiting for this to be released officially and stumbled upon this wonderful site. I have one question, though. I got everything downloaded and working, (YAY!) but when I try to find it on my TV or PS4 from my networked drive, the movies don’t show up. All my other MKV movies show up just fine. Also, it shows up just fine on my computer from my networked drive. Any thoughts?
My assumption would be that your TV and/or PS4 are incapable of the codec used (can’t remember which is used for DeEd, but it should be in the first post). MKV is simply a container, so I’d guess that none of your other MKV movies are in the same codec.
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While Harmy’s MKVs are often known to push unexpected limits and challenge playback methods that generally seem otherwise capable, it would help greatly for us to first make sure what files you are actually working with. With Star Wars, for instance, did you get it from less controllable public sources like piratebay or our normal sources like the spleen or TP? Is it a 17GB+ sized MKV and is it called v2.5 or v2.7?
When you say you access your networked drive, are you doing so via DLNA, SMB, NFS, etc.? Does the computer access the networked drive in a different listed protocol than the TV/PS4 does? What model TV?
Would you happen to be capable of burning to a Blu-ray disc or connecting a computer straight to your TV (and A/V equipment)? Do you have a Roku, FireTV, Chromecast, etc.?
Anyway, just give us as many specifics like that about your situation as you can, so we can better know how to help you.
I just followed the ultimate guide thing. I’ll admit, I’m not extremely knowledgeable about this stuff, but what Colson said makes sense. I have the 2.7 19.9 gb. Would I be able to burn it into a format that a blu ray player would be able to read? Or convert it? Thanks guys! (UPnP Media server, with an LG tv using the Smart Share app)
The MKVs played on all my devices just fine - my Panasonic TV, my panasonic BD player, my Samsung BD player, my folks’ Samsung BD player and Samsung TV, even on my grandparents’ LG BD player.
The encoding is h264 - it should work on most MKV capable players. It might be possible though that some players have trouble with so many different audio tracks.
PS4 can’t do DTS-HD MA. But it usually just plays the MKV without audio (with an error).
A response from both Harmy and Towne32; wow you guys stay active. That’s awesome!! I’m new here, but it’s great to see such dedication to the work! Just watched IV with the wife; what a treat! It was her first time seeing the theatrical release. Thanks so much for making that possible without having to bust out the vcr or laser discs which just don’t look that great.
Still not sure why it’s just not showing up at all. Even video files that my TV can’t play show up, they just give an error message when I try to play them. To watch IV, I just plugged my laptop into my TV. Not ideal, but certainly better than the alternative (nothing or “special” editions). There were a couple of graphical glitches (scene turned gray/white). Would that just be a problem with the download and or compilation process?
If the TV normally displays all files, my only guess would be that it doesn’t like files above a certain size, for some reason.
I have other large blu ray files on there. I’m at a loss.
… There were a couple of graphical glitches (scene turned gray/white). Would that just be a problem with the download and or compilation process?
Were you using VLC player? I noticed that VLC sometimes does that for me. Clears up after a few seconds. If it’s really bad I load it with Media Player Classic and it never has those types of problems.
I have the 2.7 19.9 gb. Would I be able to burn it into a format that a blu ray player would be able to read?
Yes, you can easily get this into a format that will burn nicely to a Blu-ray recordable disc, though if you intend to play it on that PS4 you mentioned, I remember hearing that it refuses to play any Blu-ray recordable discs… So that’s another hurdle if it’s your only Blu-ray disc player…
My PS4 plays recordable BDs just fine! 😃
I have the 2.7 19.9 gb. Would I be able to burn it into a format that a blu ray player would be able to read?
Yes, you can easily get this into a format that will burn nicely to a Blu-ray recordable disc, though if you intend to play it on that PS4 you mentioned, I remember hearing that it refuses to play any Blu-ray recordable discs… So that’s another hurdle if it’s your only Blu-ray disc player…
Nope, that’s Xbox One!
Can you put the .mvk versions of the DE Trilogy onto a disc for a dvd player?
Can you put the .mvk versions of the DE Trilogy onto a disc for a dvd player?
No, they are too large to fit.
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There’s AVCHD versions that should each fit on DVD9s I think.
I think there’s also DVD5 versions (not sure how ‘official’ those are).
I have the 2.7 19.9 gb. Would I be able to burn it into a format that a blu ray player would be able to read?
Yes, you can easily get this into a format that will burn nicely to a Blu-ray recordable disc, though if you intend to play it on that PS4 you mentioned, I remember hearing that it refuses to play any Blu-ray recordable discs… So that’s another hurdle if it’s your only Blu-ray disc player…
Nope, that’s Xbox One!
Thanks for clearing that up for me! Obviously I got the two mixed up, I’ll make sure to keep the correct distinction from now on.
There’s AVCHD versions that should each fit on DVD9s I think.
I think there’s also DVD5 versions (not sure how ‘official’ those are).
The DVD5 versions are generally sanctioned by Harmy, BUT once you get down to that point it is not HD anymore, but authored DVDs (as in 480p MPEG2 for playback in standalone DVD players).
My DVD-5s are approved by Harmy.
The AVCHD versions fit nicely on a dual layer DVD (use Verbatim) and they are in beautiful HD. They clock in at just over 8 gigs. I’ve played them on various displays through several different blu-ray players and never had a problem. They are pristine and never fail to impress. A large MKV is very nice but by no means the only way to watch Harmy’s work.
I had the 20GB mkv before and it played fine, but the AVCHDs are encoded in some peculiar way such that they’re impossible to remux into a matroska container and play successfully. High cpu usage and long delays are common on the players I’ve tried, that’s if it even plays at all. The m2ts files will play on MPC if I have HW acceleration enabled so I have to leave them in that format.
I don’t have the resources at the moment to make my own, if anyone does have the resources (preferably in Australia) I’d be willing to pay you, message me if interested !
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