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Hi,
So recently I bought Doctor Who Series 5 on Bluray and have been trying to use Makemkv to convert it. It seems to work; recognizes the disk, converts, and I could convert the resulting file to mp4; but then I saw it was really pixelated, glitchy, and kept jamming. I tried re converting, and found that the mkv file itself had the same problem. I'm not sure if this is a glitch in the software (seems unlikely, since I ripped another movie and it seemed to work,) a problem with the disks (also unlikely, as they were brand new,) or a region problem (possibly.) Any help is appreciated.

Does your player support VC1 Interlaced video?

No idea. How would I check that?

If you have VLC installed (from videolan.org), it can play most "flavors" of VC1. Try playing it in that.

I downloaded both VLC and the VC1 codec, and that seems to have done the trick. Thanks for the help!

OK, that tells us that it is the interlaced issue, but...

If you still want to use the old player, you might want to go over to handbrake.fr and look at handbrake - it can read VC1 Interlaced and output a more compatible h.264 video. Lots of other things it can do, too.

I actually have Handbrake, but I haven't used it in a while simply because I found MakeMKV and Wondershare converter, and they take less time, come out with lossless quality, and usually work well. Admittedly, I am a bit confused, because I looked at the MKV and MP4 files again. Opened in VLC, the files are HD, lag a little bit once in a while, but otherwise look fine. Opened in Windows Media Player or Media Cope, they glitch terribly, even in MP4. But when I open them in Sony Vegas (my editing program,) they look and play just fine again. My main objective is completed, so I don't care much, but I still find it odd.