Blu Ray Rips not playing on Sony W900a TV DVD Rips OK

[idontspeakmonkey]

My DVD's ripped with MKV all play just fine on my new TV KDL55W900A.

With my BluRay's they all look like they are playing, but there is no video or audio.

I can pause a movie (black screen) or skip chapters (black screen) or FF etc.

I assume it is a Sony problem (some have suggested DRM), but I just wondered if anyone has a work around. The Specs say that it supports MKV.

I'm in love with the PQ on this set (I've already returned 3 other brands this week (Vizio,LG,Samsung) for poor PQ, and poor DLNA support). The Samsung UN55f7100 played everything I sent to it, but the PQ was not great (only OK) and the darn user interface / remote was horrible, and it would lock up frequently forcing me to "reboot" the TV.

If I have to I'll use Handbrake and re-encode them all again, but I'm hoping to avoid that.

Any ideas, much much appreciated.

[ndjamena]

DVDs are mostly all MPEG2 and AC3. Blu ray is a whole different kettle of fish.

In MKV:

Xvid 1920x1080@30fps 1280x720@60fps
AVC / H.264 BP@L3, MP@L4.2, HP@L4.2 1920x1080@60fps
MPEG4 SP@L6, ASP@L5, ACEP@L4 1920x1080@30fps 1280x720@60fps
VP8 1920x1080@30fps 1280x720@60fps

DTS core / AC3 / AAC-LC / E-AC3 / HE-AAC v1 / HE-AAC v2 / MPEG1L1 / MPEG1L2 / Vorbis

SubRip *.srt
MicroDVD *.sub/*.txt

For one thing it can't play back VC-1.
You may have to extract the Core from DTS-HD streams, there's no TrueHD support at all so you'll need the 'core' from that.
It won't show PGS subtitles, you'll have to convert them to SRT or SUB/IDX

Oops, sorry:

I'm not sure how it would handle MakeMKV's way of writing 5.1 pcm, you'll have to figure that out yourself.

Edit: No PCM in Matroska

The AVC profile is above 2D Blu Ray specs, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Of course it's possible you've run into a bug, keep trying and you'll figure it out.

[idontspeakmonkey]

Thanks, but Confused by your response???

Got the first part, DVD's have been around longer and are more common formats likely to be supported.

Not sure I understood the second part.

If the Blu Ray Rips work on WDLive, Various Blu Ray Players, and Samsung TV's then I assume there is something not fully supported on the Sony TV.

I think the next part of your post is saying that Blu Rays could be any one of many formats.

Other than transcoding them down to AVI / MP4 I don't have anything else to try.

I hate to loose any quality. Hopefully Sony has some ideas

[ndjamena]

Learn Monkey, it's a useful language to know:

http://www.sony-asia.com/microsite/brav ... ist.html#5