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USB movie quits before end on TV

Feb 17, 2015 6:27AM PST

SOLUTION: change format to .mkv

Movies play just fine on computer. I had more than 30 such movies.

Extensive testing led me to:
Redownloading and recompiling
Recompile movies multiple times.
Compiling in temporary formats such as .avi (my TV wont play avi) and then converting to .mp4 for the TV using an independant converter.
Compiling video in parts to avi and then recompiling the parts into one movie
Compiling in smaller file size formats

NONE of the above (and more) methods would allow the movie to play through to end. The best result I could attain in these efforts was to have the movie stop at a different time in the movie.

CHARACTERISTICS of problem:
NOT related to file size however it appears to happen mostly in files over 2 GB
NOT related to Time length of movie however it appears to happen to those over 2 hours in length
NOT related to any piracy protection conspiracy. The TIME (in hours:minutes) and byte point of the interruption is not the same in all movies which shows it has nothing whatsoever to do with a hidden agendy of piracy protection by the manufacturer. If it were the manufacturers using a piracy protection they would not wait until near end of a very long movie and they certainly would put such protection into .MKV also, which they have not done.

CONCLUSION:
Multiple brands of TVs are having this problem (not surprising they all probably use the same codec chip). The problem seems to be the .mp4 codec they are using and possibly the size of video chunk running thru the codec interpreter at a given moment. If you fast forward thru the video you will notice the movie doesn't end suddenly, it just goes black and sits there for a time as though it is unable to interpret the information (unable to calculate).

MP4 microchip is something they made millions of and they buy them by the millions. Simply bad engineering and poor testing.

SOLUTION:
MKV has the same resolution and quality as MP4 or other MPEG copyrighted codecs.It also has the same file size. MKV is an open and free format used primarily for DVD. Its codec in these TVs seems to be solid circuitry.

MP4 is not free and it seems the codec (circuitry) on these TVs is faulty.

Discussion is locked

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So far, it's a mix of CODEC in hardware and software.
Feb 17, 2015 6:38AM PST

Samsung proved that by newer firmware that removed encoding that worked but was not in the documentation.

The thoughts I've heard of suggest this was to make room for other fixes.

My conclusion: Folk want TVs to be on par with PCs in web and video playback.
Bob

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Firmware yes!
Feb 17, 2015 6:50AM PST

Thank you for the Samsung undocumented proof Bob.
Real tired of seeing and hearing the thousands of Internet theories of Piracy Conspiracy.

When I first set my HEAD AGAINST THE WALL to conquer this problem I was faced with hundreds of posts that simply gave up with "piracy blocker". Unlike most who are ignorant of electronics, I was determined to solve this and I did. THANK YOU

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There is one area that does lead one to piracy prevention
Feb 17, 2015 6:59AM PST

It's the recurring fail at the just over 2 hour mark. It's been kicked around for years now that makers don't see why any home movie would be over so many minutes.

There's also so _rap about 30 minute limits in cameras due to tax reasons. No "technical" reasons for either limit so it's another poor showing as the industry does dumb things like HDCP.
Bob