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Agreed, that is what the parameter should do. It's available in the preferences in the GUI. But how to set it for makemkvcon?

Using makemkvcon (1.9.9 registered), what is the means for setting read retry count ? I tried adding it to /usr/share/MakeMKV/default.mmcp.xml: <mkvSettings ignoreForcedSubtitlesFlag="true" useISO639Type2T="false" setFirstAudioTrackAsDefault="true" setFirstSubtitleTrack...

I'm seeing the same error on Ubuntu 12.04. I will try building libavcodec (instead of relying on the package version) and post back.