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Just a quick update, for the sake of any others who go googling for answers. Ripbot264, although ridiculously slow (two frames per second on a quad core, 2.8 GHz Xeon system - albeit in a VMware virtual host rather than on the raw hardware), succeeded in transcoding the file from interlaced VC-1 to ...

Ah. That would do it - thanks. Time to go a-googlin' for methods of transcoding, and from what little I've seen so far, it Ain't Gonna Be Pretty.

I appreciate the quick reply.

I picked up this blu ray disc from Amazon UK (region B, in other words). MakeMKV beta rips it fine, creates four MKV files. Only one of them plays back with video, and it's pretty obviously a background clip for the menus. The others play back with sound only. Running it through VLC spits out error ...