Best output for HD media player?

I have a seven-hour project shot in high definition with the Sony PMW EX-1 at 1080i 60. All clips have been through Color and are now in Pro Res 422 HQ. There are six to eight tracks of audio as well. My goal is to output to a file to play on a media player, in this case the ASUS O!play. I want the highest quality possible. This will be used to play a continuous loop of nature footage.
The O!play will play H.264, and mpeg2/4. I've tried to use Export Sequence-Quicktime conversion. I've set options to:
Data rate: 10,000 kbits/sec
Size: 1920X1080 HD
Sound: 320 kbps
A three-day render of this huge project compressed the file size down to 28.9GB. While the overall picture quality is acceptable, there are motion artifacts--water does not look fluid and can appear blocky and sometimes briefly freezes or "hangs up", leaves in wind seriously blur--and some cross dissolves are not smooth. Must I accept this extreme degree of compression? File size is not an issue for me. I have a dedicated 1T hard drive feeding the media player via e-Sata cable.
I've also tried a sample through Compressor using the HDDVD 30-minute preset and making it a transport mpeg-2 and the same issues were there.

Back of napkin calculations tell me your 7 hour ProRes (HQ) movie would be about 500-600GB. Your H.264 version was 1/20th of that size.
Try changing the Keyframes from Automatic to 30, and set the Data Rate to 15,000 - your movie will probably double in size, but my guess is you'll get a better result.
Also - pick or create a 30 second problematic section - water/leaves/etc. That's small enough to do tests on. Play with the settings in Compressor (set up Compressor properly to take advantage of multiple CPU's - 1 instance for 2 processors - to minimize your compression times). Use that section as a test lab to dial in your settings. Instead of 3 days, you can home in on what you need quickly.
Post back with your results.
Patrick

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