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Hi,

LOTR "Fellowship" Blu-Ray rips and plays OK but "Two Towers" and "Return of the King" rips do not play...They both crash Windows Media Center and Media Player Classic apps.
I select DTS-MA audio only and no subtitles.

eac3to/mkvmerge works fine on all three blu-ray movies.

Thanks.

I have done all three with no problems. Are you ripping from the original bluray disks?

Yes...Original blu-ray disks.

Are you using v1.5.4 ?
Did you select DTS-MA and subtiles ?

I tried on 2 PCs one 64-bit and one 32-bit but the "title00" file just crashes Windows Media Player and Media Player Classic Home.

"Fellowship" rips fine.

I am using the registered version (paid for) of MakeMKV.

-Thanks.

I ripped all 3, and converted to MP4/AAC. They worked perfect and we watched all 3, finished return of the king last night.

Had exactly the same problem as the OP, and traced the issue to the 'splitter' being used by the player.

As I want bitstream audio from my MKV's I used MPC-HC as the player. This has worked perfectly until the LOTR trilogy, where Fellowship is fine but the 2 other films crashed the player. Clicking the splitter option in MPC-HC would result in the film either playing, or not playing, but then caused issues in films with TrueHD soundtracks.

The ultimate answer was to install the latest Haali splitter (27/3/10 I think). Now all the films play properly with HD bitstreamed sound. Hope this sets you along the right track

Thanks Ben12!

Odd that all three movies play fine when ripped with eac3to/mkvmerge.....

Yes identical...Video, HD Audio, Chapter with both rips...No subtitles.

The MakeMKV rip is about 80 bytes larger than the eac3to/mkvmerge rip.

-Thanks

I also have this problem with 1.6.8 - The Two Towers and Return of The King won't play, while Fellowship of the Ring is fine.