MKV no video

[blix]

Hello all,

Received my PBO today and was all excited to test out the different file types that it supports over my wireless network and all went well until I got to certain MKV's which only played the audio and no video.

Now I've looked around on these forums for an answer and found some possible solutions like using mkclean but to no avail that did not fix the problem.

I'm running the latest firmware p61-r2 which I was under the impression that it was supposed to fix this problem??

Anyways here is the media info for the MKV that is giving me the problems.


General
Unique ID : 230047630006499297984284326925946175306 (0xAD118FDA69FC5BF59AD9913DA019BF4A)
Complete name : C:\Users\Phocker\Downloads\[HorribleSubs] One Piece - 483 [360p].mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 228 MiB
Duration : 23mn 31s
Overall bit rate : 1 355 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2011-01-15 18:03:04
Writing application : mkvmerge v4.0.0 ('The Stars were mine') built on Jun 6 2010 16:18:42
Writing library : libebml v1.0.0 + libmatroska v1.0.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : VP6
Format profile : Heightened Sharpness
Codec ID : VP6F
Codec ID/Hint : On2
Duration : 23mn 31s
Bit rate : 1 200 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 368 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.810 fps
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.214
Stream size : 202 MiB (89%)

Audio
ID : 2
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Codec ID : A_MPEG/L3
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 23mn 31s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 21.5 MiB (9%)



If anyone has any ideas or can tell me if it's something that will have to be fixed with a firmware update would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[tourist]

I followed this thread to solve the problem. I am using mkvmerge in mkvtoolnix to turn off the compression to make it to play in PBO. See this post.

[blix]

That didn't work unfortunately.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

[tourist]

Does it play on a computer? I wonder if there is a problem with that particular file. I have fixed 2 mkv by remuxing in mkvmerge. It does take some time for each file though.

[blix]

Yes, it works perfectly fine using VLC on the computer.

I read on another post about using ACRBO European 4824 image firmware for this problem. Would that be safe for me to attempt?

[scboley]

Yes, it works perfectly fine using VLC on the computer.

I read on another post about using ACRBO European 4824 image firmware for this problem. Would that be safe for me to attempt?

If you get the one from aasoror's makeover link or from the new wiki page for new links to everything. Do NOT any images from other vendor sites and apply them or they will brick the player.

[aasoror]

That didn't work unfortunately.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

If this is the header compression problem, you can try mkWDclean

[blix]

Alright so to update on what I've tried that hasn't worked is:

- Using mkWDclean on the file

- Using MKVMerge to turn compression off

- Finally using ACRBO European 4824 image from the PBO wiki page which I might add has a very nice layout.

So 0 for 3 right now.

Does the MediaInfo tell you anything that could be a problem?

Thanks again.

[aasoror]

Does the MediaInfo tell you anything that could be a problem?

Indeed it does, I am sorry I replied the first time without throughly checking your post.

The video formate used is VP6 which is a proprietary codec, as far as I know there is no legal way to get it for free and I would doubt RT would pay any royalties for the decoder.

I am afraid there is no way around this but recoding.

[blix]

Alright, good to know what I have to do now