[Craig Seeman] "I notice I left one thing out. I need
Force headers for every GOP
That's required for Blu-ray compatibility so I need to do that to emulate a Blu-ray encode.
On the other hand Compressor 4.0.3 Blu-Ray encoding (.h264) can't be played in QT (any) or FCPX."
Thanks for the effort, I appreciate it.
Ah, Episode, from what I know the encodes can be used for self-burned discs with some apps but they won't pass Sony or Eclipse verification for replicaton (same for Matrox's Compress HD card). Does Episode actually produce proper elementary streams? The spec sheet on their site only lists transport. If so, that's very likely the reason why it plays but those streams cannot be used for authoring.
http://www.telestream.net/pdfs/datasheets/EpisodeSeries_Format_Support.pdf
None of the encoders I know that do produce compliant elementary streams work in X, ie. compressor, adobe media encoder, squeeze, mainconcept reference, netblender or cinemacraft.
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