Hello,
I have a bunch of DV AVI files (standard definition) captured from a camcorder and sitting on an external hard drive, which I would like to play on a TV without first converting them to another format (although converting on the fly would be ok, if needed). After reading on this, I found that DV codec doesn't seem to be supported by any TVs, blueray, DVD or hardware media players in the consumer range, so I've given up on the idea of playing these directly, and now am trying to play them from a laptop to the TV. I am able to do that through HDMI cable, but have a few questions:
1) How can I do this wirelessly? Since the TV and blueray player can't decode DV, I guess this would need to be either decoded video sent from computer over wifi uncompressed, or DV converted on the fly on the computer and sent over wifi in a format that the the TV or player can decode.
2) How can I send it over HDMI or VGA interlaced, to see if the TV would do a better job deinterlacing than the computer? DV video seems to be deinterlaced by default when played in software players on the computer, and I am not sure how to disable that.
3) Is it safe to assume that HDMI will do a better job than VGA (+audio)?
Here's what I have:
- Laptop: Asus Q500A-BHI7T05 (Windows 8, Intel HD 4000 video, otherwise pretty powerful, HDMI and VGA out)
- HDTV: Panasonic TC-P50G25 (from 2010)
- Blueray player: Philips BDP3406
- No hardware media players, but I would consider buying one if needed
- No game consoles
- Wifi home network
Both the TV and the blueray player have wireless (player internally, TV through a USB adapter), but that seems to be for internet streaming from predefined sites like Netflix, and neither shows DLNA in the manual.
Thanks a bunch!
I have a bunch of DV AVI files (standard definition) captured from a camcorder and sitting on an external hard drive, which I would like to play on a TV without first converting them to another format (although converting on the fly would be ok, if needed). After reading on this, I found that DV codec doesn't seem to be supported by any TVs, blueray, DVD or hardware media players in the consumer range, so I've given up on the idea of playing these directly, and now am trying to play them from a laptop to the TV. I am able to do that through HDMI cable, but have a few questions:
1) How can I do this wirelessly? Since the TV and blueray player can't decode DV, I guess this would need to be either decoded video sent from computer over wifi uncompressed, or DV converted on the fly on the computer and sent over wifi in a format that the the TV or player can decode.
2) How can I send it over HDMI or VGA interlaced, to see if the TV would do a better job deinterlacing than the computer? DV video seems to be deinterlaced by default when played in software players on the computer, and I am not sure how to disable that.
3) Is it safe to assume that HDMI will do a better job than VGA (+audio)?
Here's what I have:
- Laptop: Asus Q500A-BHI7T05 (Windows 8, Intel HD 4000 video, otherwise pretty powerful, HDMI and VGA out)
- HDTV: Panasonic TC-P50G25 (from 2010)
- Blueray player: Philips BDP3406
- No hardware media players, but I would consider buying one if needed
- No game consoles
- Wifi home network
Both the TV and the blueray player have wireless (player internally, TV through a USB adapter), but that seems to be for internet streaming from predefined sites like Netflix, and neither shows DLNA in the manual.
Thanks a bunch!