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Question

Philips bdp2100 playing video files out of sync

Feb 10, 2015 10:07AM PST

I have a Philips BDP2100 Bluray player that I sometimes use to watch MPEG2 video files on that are on a USB stick. The problem is that sometimes the sound on the video files will be out of sync when I play them by up to five seconds.

Now the video files are in sync on my computer, it's only when playing them on this device that they go out of sync.

I figured that the video files were just running at a frame rate the player didn't support so all I have to do is convert the files to a supported frame rate. The only problem is I can't find anything anywhere on how many frames per second it plays video files at. I was wondering if anyone here could help with that. If you know what frame rate this player plays video files at that would be a big help and I would be very grateful. Philips doesn't have anything on the web about this and their tech support people will not get back to me.

Thank you for your time.

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True. Widely noted on many players.
Feb 10, 2015 10:11AM PST

There's not much new to report here except it's a common complain. Keep in mind there are thousands of prior posts on many devices that do what you are reporting. Frankly, why not return it as defective and try something else?

It's not as if we can fix it, well we can but everyone seems to explode when asked to try re-encoding.
Bob

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Okay thanks anyway.
Feb 10, 2015 10:16AM PST

Okay thanks any way.

The player is a could of years old, I only just started using it to watch files I record off air on my computer. I used to have a stand alone DvD recorder for that but it died last year I just thought someone here might know the answer. Thanks for your time and thank you for answering my questions.

At least I know this is a widespread problem. I figured it was either the DvD player or I had messed something up big time on my computer and it was screwing up the video files. Glad to know that is not the case.

Thanks again for your time.

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I normally avoid Philips if possible
Feb 10, 2015 11:28PM PST

Usually they are only useful if you want an inexpensive region-free player. Most of the other brands sold in the US by the 'big box' stores are more locked down, unlike yours.

IME anyway, the other media features are best left for higher priced models with better support.

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video/audio out of sync on Blu Ray player
Feb 19, 2015 4:26AM PST

I had an issue with my LG Blu Ray player, although it wasn't a sync issue. Any video that I played from a USB that was higher than 720p in resolution would look "choppy". I bought a media player called a Micca Speck for about $40 and it plays various formats/resolutions flawlessly.

Al at ZVOX audio

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Some misses. Example at link.
Feb 19, 2015 4:39AM PST