Movie format for viewing in Canada

mikinik2004 wrote on 6/8/2012, 1:55 PM

I have made holiday movies (in uk) in MP4 format and sent them over to family on SDHD cards for viewing in Canada. So far this has been unsuccessful,even after their purchase of a Media HD player as the files are not recognised.

Is the SD card format different between UK and Canada. (They can view JPEG photos on the same card.

What format is required for me to use for me to export a movie for them to ideally view on their TV set.

Surely regions don't come into play for this exercise as DVD discs do?

Comments

johnebaker wrote on 6/8/2012, 4:07 PM

There is no difference in SD card formats between nations.

If their TV can play mp4 files then you need know which codecs the tv can play and encode them as NTSC - their tv standard

AFAIK MEP creates region free DVD's so as long as you encode them as NTSC they will be able to play them.

HTH

John

johnebaker wrote on 6/8/2012, 5:49 PM

It is more a case of not all media players being the same, different manufacturers/models may have different file format capabilities eg for HD playback, some may play H.264 encoded mp4 while others play AVCHD encoded mts files and others both or even neither of these.

Without specific details of which Media player is being used it is difficult to say which format to use.

You need to find out which formats their media player can play and encode accordingly.

John

yvon-robert wrote on 6/8/2012, 8:25 PM

Hi,

Export usine NTSC format, n'est is DVD to avoir confusion with Blu-Ray DVD..

Regards,

johnebaker wrote on 6/9/2012, 1:11 PM

The issue with the hardware set up is outside the scope of this forum however the question you need to ask them is 'Is their tv capable of 1080i or 1080p or is it only 720p capable and have they been able to set up the media player for their tv via the players system menu and was this displayed through the HDMI cable?

What is in the scope of the forum - from the MEP point of view - is the output formats you can try given the above spec, I would try sending a selection of the same movie exporting in mp4 and mov formats with settings for 1080i, 1080p and 720p all NTSC and using the H.264 or mp4 codec (mov format).

John