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<blockquote data-quote="davedude" data-source="post: 4313993" data-attributes="member: 588451"><p>I had a Kenwood Tech Support representative call me back today on my question about MPEG 2 video files on the DDX 512.</p><p></p><p>Sadly, he was somewhat rude and insulting and didn't have an answer to my question.</p><p></p><p>When I asked him what bitrate I should encode my videos to play on the unit, he gave me the MP3 bitrates (32-320) which I told him that those were AUDIO MP3 bitrates that were already documented and I needed the video bitrate. He finally agreed that those were audio bitrates and then told me "that's all the information they gave me".</p><p></p><p>He also said "Your problem is that you are trying to play VOB files and VOB files are not MPEG 2. You should know better than that!" (Yes he said those exact words).</p><p></p><p>I then corrected him and told him "VOB files are actually just DVD compliant MPEG 2 files and they do actually play on your unit, but they just studder because my bitrate is probably too high and you can't seem to recommend any MPEG 2 specification for me to make the best videos for the DDX 512."</p><p></p><p>I will give him points that he actually called me back, but he had no useful information and this "you should know better than that!" attitude kinda pissed me off.</p><p></p><p>So it looks like I will have to do testing myself and create a bunch of different video files on my computer and find out what is the best by trial and error and report my results. I know for a fact so far that the number has to be less than 5000kbps for MPEG 2 videos since I tried a 9600kpbs and a 5000kpbs video and neither played smooth //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif but one of the other guys on this forum tried a 1200kbps-2000kbps MPEG 2 video and it played smooth. So the magic number is somewhere between 1200 and 5000.</p><p></p><p>On other news..I just got in my CA-SR20V Cable to connect my SIRIUS tuner to the head unit in and my BT200 bluetooth unit! I'm gonna see if I can get them installed today and then I will make a movie on youtube showing all the features of the unit once everything is connected.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="davedude, post: 4313993, member: 588451"] I had a Kenwood Tech Support representative call me back today on my question about MPEG 2 video files on the DDX 512. Sadly, he was somewhat rude and insulting and didn't have an answer to my question. When I asked him what bitrate I should encode my videos to play on the unit, he gave me the MP3 bitrates (32-320) which I told him that those were AUDIO MP3 bitrates that were already documented and I needed the video bitrate. He finally agreed that those were audio bitrates and then told me "that's all the information they gave me". He also said "Your problem is that you are trying to play VOB files and VOB files are not MPEG 2. You should know better than that!" (Yes he said those exact words). I then corrected him and told him "VOB files are actually just DVD compliant MPEG 2 files and they do actually play on your unit, but they just studder because my bitrate is probably too high and you can't seem to recommend any MPEG 2 specification for me to make the best videos for the DDX 512." I will give him points that he actually called me back, but he had no useful information and this "you should know better than that!" attitude kinda pissed me off. So it looks like I will have to do testing myself and create a bunch of different video files on my computer and find out what is the best by trial and error and report my results. I know for a fact so far that the number has to be less than 5000kbps for MPEG 2 videos since I tried a 9600kpbs and a 5000kpbs video and neither played smooth [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif[/IMG] but one of the other guys on this forum tried a 1200kbps-2000kbps MPEG 2 video and it played smooth. So the magic number is somewhere between 1200 and 5000. On other news..I just got in my CA-SR20V Cable to connect my SIRIUS tuner to the head unit in and my BT200 bluetooth unit! I'm gonna see if I can get them installed today and then I will make a movie on youtube showing all the features of the unit once everything is connected. [/QUOTE]
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