For over a year now I've used MCEBuddy to process recorded over the air TV and make it available to Plex as MKV h264 files that I view on Roku 3 devices. I've always resized my video to 720p even if the source was 1080i. This all works perfectly and I've been very happy with the results.
The problem comes in when I try to leave the video at 1080 (after deinterlacing, of course). Roku 3 cannot directly play the resulting MKV or MP4 files. It just hangs before displaying any video. I can download other people's 1080p content and play it directly without any problems, and I have compared MediaInfo results from mine and theirs and can't determine any significant differences.
I've tried both the MKV (high) and MP4 (high) profiles and both do the same thing on Roku.
Below is the MediaInfo for a short clip that exhibits this bad behavior. I would be glad to upload a clip if you would like to examine it. Any help would be much appreciated.
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 56s 557ms
Bit rate : 4 800 Kbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 072 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Original display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.078
Stream size : 32.6 MiB (91%)
Writing library : x264 core 140 r2377 1ca7bb9
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-1:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=hex / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / lookahead_threads=2 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=25 / keyint_min=13 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=25 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=4800 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 56s 491ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Original Channel count : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 2.58 MiB (7%)
Language : English
Comments: Roku does not support more than 4 ref frames and bframes
The problem comes in when I try to leave the video at 1080 (after deinterlacing, of course). Roku 3 cannot directly play the resulting MKV or MP4 files. It just hangs before displaying any video. I can download other people's 1080p content and play it directly without any problems, and I have compared MediaInfo results from mine and theirs and can't determine any significant differences.
I've tried both the MKV (high) and MP4 (high) profiles and both do the same thing on Roku.
Below is the MediaInfo for a short clip that exhibits this bad behavior. I would be glad to upload a clip if you would like to examine it. Any help would be much appreciated.
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 56s 557ms
Bit rate : 4 800 Kbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 072 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Original display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.078
Stream size : 32.6 MiB (91%)
Writing library : x264 core 140 r2377 1ca7bb9
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-1:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=hex / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / lookahead_threads=2 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=25 / keyint_min=13 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=25 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=4800 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 56s 491ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Original Channel count : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 2.58 MiB (7%)
Language : English
Comments: Roku does not support more than 4 ref frames and bframes