Lord of the Rings Trilogy with v1.5.4

[markb]

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.

[dtblair]

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

[markb]

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.

[ragboy]

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

[Ben12]

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

[markb]

Thanks Ben12!

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

[setarip_old]

@markb
Hi!

With the two different methods, were your audio and subtitle selections identical?

[markb]

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

[vddobrev]

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.