Yes, I tried two 720p HD Cinema trailors and it worked without problems.

More info:

/forum/beo5-and-beo6/beosound-5---first-impressions

Stefan

Hi Stefan,

Yes have read that thread. Strange that they work so poorly on my BM5. I dowloaded some trailers from Microsofts HD content website

Christian,

I got a lot of HD stuff from a friend. The movie trailers I tested were "King Kong" and "300" if I remember correctly. I copied the files directly into the PHOTO folder of my BM5. So the movies appeared in the PHOTO list, and I could start a movie just by pressing GO on the Beo4. Also rewind and fast forward work. Unfortunately the movies had no 5.1 sound, so I couldn`t test that. I looked for the files in the net for you but no success, sorry.

An mkv file I copied to the folder didn`t work...as expected.

Stefan

I got SD movies to work. Strange that mind doesnt play HD. Would you (or anyone else with a BM5) mind trying some of the video previews from the site I mentioned above and see if they  perform acceptably on your BM5? Thanks

Christian

I downloaded "Mystery of the nile" 720p from the site you mentioned, copied the file to an USB stick and again copied it to the PHOTO folder on the BM Shares.

Works without problems including play-stop-rewind-forward. Picture-sound always in sync. Looks great on my BV7-40.

Hope this helps.

Stefan

Mystery of the nile now suddenly worked OK on mine as well. The 1080 movies dont however. The Alexander trailer, Coral Reed Adventure and Rules of Attraction in 1080 either freeze or play and skip with no sound...so mine has a limit at least...

Christian

I never tested full HD movies on the BM5. I will try that today when I`m back home.

Actually I got a TVIX 6500 for movies that I can recommend.

But may be one time there will be a BVM5 (Beovideomaster) ?? No rumours - I`m just dreaming.............

Stefan

Let me know how it goes. The BM5 isnt that far off from being a mediacenter. A bigger harddisk and ability to play 1080 HD films in different formats and we are there.....But not the way B&O want us to use the machine apparently...

Boot it in windows and use IE to go to the DIVX website and download the codec pack. Install it on the underlying computer then go back into BeoSound 5 mode. Now video should work brilliantly on the BeoMaster 5. Admittedly I have way more DVD rips than HD, but it all looks great. 

I think the reason they don't officially support it is that most of the content you'd use this for is illegal. For now at least.