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I tried another one of my Christmas presents yesterday, the bluray extended version of Avatar. Makemkv was able to extract the mpeg4 video and create the .mkv file, but when played with vlc the video is jerky, pausing briefly ever couple of seconds. I am running Ubuntu 10.10 on a 64-bit system with a M3N78-VM AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 8200 mb, and I am running vlc version 1.1.4.

The other failure, reported on another thread on this forum, was the BBC Doctor Who "The Complete Specials" bluray. The .mkv files produced from these blurays had audio, but no video. This was a VC-1 encoded disk.

The success was the Revolver bluray.

Update, 1-18-2011:
Just successfully ripped The Girl Who Played With Fire which, btw, was also an mpeg4 video.

--Doug

UPDATE 1/31/2011:

Unsuccessful with Gone Baby Gone, another one with VC-1 encoding.
Success with The Soloist (mpeg-4).

Hi, try playing back with mplayer instead. VLC is known to suck with mkv.

Hi,

I did try mplayer, with same result. I've never had a problem playing Matroska vids with vlc before, btw. However, I'm not sure I've ever tried to play an mpeg4 before, and that's what the Avatar Bluray has in it.