MP4 encoding is all over the map so I'm calling it a non-standard. You are just beginning to grasp the mess that CODECs and video encoding is today. And to make it worse you find that one model Samsung may play this and then the next model won't play it.
Forget all that and try these on a WDTV. Much more forgiving.
If you want to transcode, sure. Pick something tame from the default offerings and test which works.
Bob
I just got a Samsung BD-H6500 Smarthub bluray player to which I have my WD MyColud external hard drive hooked up by way of ethernet cable.
I like being able to watch all of my videos and photos on the big tv screen through the player and I am happy with the results except for one issue. Some of the videos in my albums will not play on the bluray player as it does not recognize their format, even though they are MP4.
I have isolated the files in question to be videos taken on an old HTC One smart phone shot in 'portrait'.
I have read some of the threads on this site but I want to share my specific issues. This is a little confusing so I will try my best to be clear.
All of the videos that were recorded with the HTC One smartphone were viewable except for certain videos taken that were shot in 'Portrait' form which is just holding the phone vertically instead of horizontally. I dont know why there would be any difference, but in fact there was. All videos shot with the phone held horizonally were fine, but the videos shot vertically, although playable on the phone itself, would not play on my PC.
When I downloaded the videos off my phone to my PC, I found that these specific videos (the ones shot in 'portrait' mode) wouldnt even play on my PC at first until I ran them through HANDBRAKE and converted them to MP4. Then I could actually see the content of the video, albeit the video was sideways or upside down or both, but its okay because it is still atleast viewable.
So having these videos converted to MP4, they will still not play or be recognized through the Smarthub player. Not being very knowledable about this issue, I have read on this forum that MP4 is just a container of sorts and there are differences in codecs (which I am also not knowledgable about)
My question is how can I find the detailed properties of these specific videos to possibly share on here and maybe someone can suggest a program that I can run them through so they will be formatted in a way compatible with the Smarthub system.
Handbrake has done a great job re configuring my 3gp videos to MP4 so I can watch them through the Smarthub but it is not working on the aboue videos.
Thank you.

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