I'm so ignorant and new at this that I don't know where or even how to ask this question. But I figure the combined knowledge here will put me on the path to success.
I have a shiny new Panasonic DMP-BD60K that claims to be able to play MPEG2 files on an SD card. The Internet Archive is packed with public domain videos (Love Buster Keaton!), but I haven't been able to figure out what the player expects to see before it will even display the file. JPEGs are no problem. It finds and displays them wherever I bury them on the card. But no luck with MPEG2s. I suspect the file structure has something to do with it, but I'm clueless to figure it out. Panasonic support can't even be expected to return an email.
Exactly. Further, the manual is ambiguous as to whether or not it will only read MPEG2s created on a Panasoniccamcorder.
I've emailed them twice with no response. (Should I have to call?) The next hour I spend in terms of support will be to return it. SD card capability was a deal-breaker for me. Do I sound miffed?
Just got off the phone with them. It wasn't as bad as I expected (except for the satellite delay). Unfortunately, they couldn't help me figure out what the drive is looking for. We jointly concluded that it must simply be the way the MPEG2 is configured - rather than it being an incorrect file structure.
I've looked through the How-To guides and didn't see anything specific for creating/converting an MPEG2 for playback from SD card.
Taknig a different approach (MP4 to AVCHD), I stumbled onto multiAVCHD which has a setting specifically for converting videos to AVCHD for playback on PanasonicBlu-Ray players from SD cards. It works well, but the videos need to be of a minimum quality. Yet another hurdle. :-P
