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If you have a BD burner, can you please help me?

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As I had some compatibility problems with my past project, I decided to make as many tests I can to reach the best compatibility with standalone BD players.

I should thank a lot Chewtobacca, because he helped me a lot!

Here it is his advice for proper x264 settings to use when encoding BD compliant files:

x264 --pass 1 --bitrate xxxxx --bluray-compat --level 4.1 --preset slow  --tune film --keyint 24 --sar 1:1 --slices 4 --vbv-bufsize 30000 --vbv-maxrate 40000 --b-pyramid none --weightp 0 --colorprim bt709 --transfer bt709 --colormatrix bt709 --merange 24 --stats ".stats" --output NUL "input.avs"
x264 --pass 2 --bitrate xxxxx --bluray-compat --level 4.1 --preset slow  --tune film --keyint 24 --sar 1:1 --slices 4 --vbv-bufsize 30000 --vbv-maxrate 40000 --b-pyramid none --weightp 0 --colorprim bt709 --transfer bt709 --colormatrix bt709 --merange 24 --stats ".stats" --output "output.264" "input.avs"

I followed these settings, and produced a short clip just to test it using a BD-RE; I tried it alone (video only), with one or more soundtracks, with and without subtitles, and in my PS3 it works flawlessy, while in my standalone BD player (a Philips BD-7100) it stutters after few seconds... as I have a strong suspect it is faulty (because sometimes it doens't play also commercial BD), and because I have no access to further standalone BD player, I need your help...

If you have a BD burner, and a standalone BD player (NOT a PS3), you have to download this small clip (650MB), unzip the folders (BD ready), burn the two folders into a BD-RE - or a BD-R, if you have one to "sacrifice" for the cause (^^,) - play it in the standalone BD player and report if it plays well or stutters; standalone BD player model and BD-RE (BD-R) brand are also welcome!

Here you are the files:

https://mega.co.nz/#!kh9iwJCS!YqdOZLvIbhcfhDJLUjICmUXpHlPP5veBYYOZ861P19g
https://mega.co.nz/#!4lMkEJBZ!wNMX9JS1BV4ciPA8GfyXaMnjlnOI2OkhNfeh4dcHazc
https://mega.co.nz/#!NgNn1JAI!ttm53NEb3HnJxOtfwOMb0XhDLMxgWSmDUl9WDu4UYsw
https://mega.co.nz/#!MgMk1LAC!HZp0i9lDKbcoA5_LXqlEAOAzs7LFcy0PXVvMqr--734

Many thanks in advance!!!

Sadly my projects are lost due to an HDD crash… 😦 | [Fundamental Collection] thread | blog.spoRv.com | fan preservation forum: fanres.com

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Your sample works on a Toshiba BDX3300 and a Sony BDP-S370.  The problem is your stand-alone player.

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THANK YOU!!! Better my old crappy standalone BD player instead all my future projects... I'm going to start to encode one right now!

Sadly my projects are lost due to an HDD crash… 😦 | [Fundamental Collection] thread | blog.spoRv.com | fan preservation forum: fanres.com

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probably too late and not related but i had trouble with a clip stuttering on standalone players (was fine on pc) but it turned out i was setting the bitrate too high! if i lowered it, it played fine but the loss in detail was begining to show, i ended up encoding it as mpeg2 and it has played on all the standalones since!