Video Freeze After MKV Creation

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xclmr
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Video Freeze After MKV Creation

Post by xclmr »

I am having a problem with some of my Bluray backups. Most of the time MakemMKV works fine for me however some of time the .mkv file that it creates does not work properly. I will start to play the file with Media Player Classic and it seems to be going fine for about 5 seconds. After that the video just freezes completely and the audio keeps going. If I try and skip to a later part the video freezes at that exact part and the audio plays from there.

Like I said this is only with some Bluray's and not all of them. The most recent one I had trouble with was "The Kingdom". I have done some searching but cannot seem to find out why this is happening.

Anybody have any suggestions?
setarip_old
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Re: Video Freeze After MKV Creation

Post by setarip_old »

Hi!

If you have a software BluRay player, use MakeMKV to make a FULL disc backup of one of the BluRays that resulted in a problematic .MKV, use IMGBurn to create an .ISO image file - and mount it using Virtual Clone Drive.

If, on playback, it exhibits the same problem as the .MKV that would indicate a problem with the physical disc.

If it plays back properly, use the hard drive version of the disc to make a new .MKV.

If the new .MKV once again exhibits these problems, we'll call on "mike admin".

BTW - A guess on my part is that the problematic .MKVs may have excessively high bitrates that your player can't cope with...
mark-1978
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Re: Video Freeze After MKV Creation

Post by mark-1978 »

to make mkv with dtshd work, you have to use eac3togui to extract video and audio stream, next mux the audio and video stream to a .m2ts file using tsmuxergui. Should play fine now on any standalone bluray player.
Woodstock
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Re: Video Freeze After MKV Creation

Post by Woodstock »

Or, considering you're replying to a nearly 7 year old thread, one COULD use a more modern player that understands DTS-HD. Those became available 5 or 6 years ago.
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