Issue with Plants episode on BBC Life Blu-Ray Disk 4

[moltikon]

I am in process of ripping all my Blu-Ray disks into MKS so I can view them from XBMC. After ripping I use VLC to make sure that the rip displays properly. I had no issue with ripping most episodes of BBC Life except for one. When playing back the ripped-to-MKV episode called Plants on disk 4 I hear only the audio but no video plays back. I tried to rip and playback both on Linux and the Windows with the same result. Now, I know there was another thread here about not being able to playback the video of any of the episodes in the Life BR but this is not the case here. The problem I am having is only with one specific episode.

Any suggestion what I can do?

[mike admin]

Please post mediainfo output for produced MKV file.

[moltikon]

I think I figures out the problem why this is the only episode having this problem. Apparently it is the only VC-1 interlaced episode (1080i) while all the others are 1080p.
I now need to figure out a way to convert the video to something that is playable on XBMC (or VLC). Any suggestions?

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mediainfo output:

General
Unique ID                        : 136938775252152853047465101097426930729 (0x670572E348C92F0C205E2A9E1F42CC29)
Complete name                    : title01.mkv
Format                           : Matroska
File size                        : 12.4 GiB
Duration                         : 58mn 25s
Overall bit rate                 : 30.5 Mbps
Encoded date                     : UTC 2011-02-03 01:03:03
Writing application              : MakeMKV v1.6.3 linux(x64-release)
Writing library                  : libmakemkv v1.6.3 (0.7.7/0.8.1) x86_64-linux-gnu

Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : VC-1
Format profile                   : AP@L3
Codec ID                         : WVC1
Codec ID/Hint                    : Microsoft
Duration                         : 58mn 25s
Bit rate                         : 26.3 Mbps
Width                            : 1 920 pixels
Height                           : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Frame rate                       : 29.970 fps
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Interlaced
Scan order                       : Top Field First
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.424
Stream size                      : 10.7 GiB (86%)
Language                         : English

Audio #1
ID                               : 2
Format                           : DTS
Format/Info                      : Digital Theater Systems
Format profile                   : HRA / Core
Codec ID                         : A_DTS
Duration                         : 58mn 25s
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 2 047 Kbps / 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 6 channels
Channel positions                : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                        : 16 bits
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Stream size                      : 855 MiB (7%)
Title                            : HRA XBR
Language                         : English

Audio #2
ID                               : 3
Format                           : DTS
Format/Info                      : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID                         : A_DTS
Duration                         : 58mn 25s
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 6 channels
Channel positions                : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                        : 16 bits
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Stream size                      : 631 MiB (5%)
Title                            : 3/2+1
Language                         : English

Text
ID                               : 4
Format                           : PGS
Codec ID                         : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info                    : The same subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Language                         : English

Menu
00:00:00.000                     : en:Chapter 00
00:07:33.219                     : en:Chapter 01
00:19:08.881                     : en:Chapter 02
00:29:10.115                     : en:Chapter 03
00:39:48.719                     : en:Chapter 04
00:47:47.531                     : en:Chapter 05

[Bling2Ming]

Any suggestions?

I've used Xvid4PSP successfully as per the post by NomadCF in this thread.

http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1096

Xvid4PSP is windows only i'm afraid., but I've also heard of people using Flip4Mac on OSX to convert but I can't confirm if that works.

http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac-wmv/overview.htm