Invalid file MKV

[Sro]

Thanks for the info - I thought as much - the extra features seemed good but Im getting an internal HDD soon so will upgrade then. Cheers

[Maasbommel]

2.1.0 should work fine without HDD installed, so you can give that a try 

[Sro]

2.1.0 should work fine without HDD installed, so you can give that a try 

Thanks - Ill give it a try and see if I get the invalid files again.

Gotta say the responses and support on here is bloody champion! 

[marten72]

Hi!
I feel the need to open this again since I have the same problem as Wilmer. I just recieved my player and it has v 2.10. I only have an external HDD. It will play some of my mkv:s but almost half is marked as invalid files. I tried to remux with mkvmerge but then I only get audio and subtitles but no picture! Oh, and they all play perfectly in my mac. I have tried to search this forum but havent found a solution yet. Maybe I should just return it or is there an solution?

[tachita]

Try to post a log from MediaInfo software, maybe the video codec isn't supported .

[marten72]

Here are 2 examples:

#1

General / Container Stream #1
   Total Video Streams for this File.................1
   Total Audio Streams for this File.................1
   Total Subtitle Streams for this File..............2
   Video Codecs Used.................................AVC
   Audio Codecs Used.................................AC3
   SubTitle Codecs Used..............................UTF-8 / UTF-8
   Available Sutbitle Languages......................English / English
   File Format.......................................Matroska
   Play Time.........................................1h 33mn
   Total File Size...................................7.95 GiB
   Total Stream BitRate..............................12.1 Mbps
   Encoded with......................................mkvmerge v2.2.0 ('Turn It On Again') built on Mar  4 2008 12:58:26
   Encoding Library..................................libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Video Stream #1
   Codec (Human Name)................................AVC
   Codec (FourCC)....................................V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
   Codec Profile.....................................High@L4.1
   Frame Width.......................................1 920 pixels
   Frame Height......................................1 072 pixels
   Frame Rate........................................23.976 fps
   Total Frames......................................135216
   Display Aspect Ratio..............................16:9
   Scan Type.........................................Progressive
   Color Space.......................................YUV
   Codec Settings (Summary)..........................CABAC / 3 Ref Frames
   QF (like Gordian Knot)............................0.232
   Codec Settings (CABAC)............................Yes
   Codec Settings (Reference Frames).................3
   Video Stream Length...............................1h 33mn 59s 640ms
   Video Stream BitRate..............................11.5 Mbps
   Bit Depth.........................................8 bits
   Video Stream Size.................................7.37 GiB (93%)
   Video Encoder.....................................x264 - core 60 r928M 4816918
   Video Encoder (Settings)..........................cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy_rd=1.000000 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=6 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=24 / keyint_min=1 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=11461 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=1.00 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=38000 / vbv_bufsize=30000 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=2:1.00
   Video Stream Language.............................English
Audio Stream #1
   Codec.............................................AC-3
   Codec (FourCC)....................................A_AC3
   Audio Stream Length...............................1h 33mn 59s 648ms
   Audio Stream BitRate..............................640 Kbps
   Audio Stream BitRate Mode.........................CBR
   Number of Audio Channels..........................6
   Audio Channel's Positions.........................Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
   Sampling Rate.....................................48.0 KHz
   Audio Stream Size.................................430 MiB (5%)
   Audio Stream Language.............................English
Subtitle Stream #1
   Language..........................................English
   Format............................................UTF-8
   Codec ID..........................................S_TEXT/UTF8
   Codec Info........................................UTF-8 Plain Text
Subtitle Stream #2
   Language..........................................English
   Format............................................UTF-8
   Codec ID..........................................S_TEXT/UTF8
   Codec Info........................................UTF-8 Plain Text

#2


General / Container Stream #1
   Total Video Streams for this File.................1
   Total Audio Streams for this File.................1
   Total Subtitle Streams for this File..............2
   Video Codecs Used.................................AVC
   Audio Codecs Used.................................AC3
   SubTitle Codecs Used..............................ASS / ASS
   Available Sutbitle Languages......................English / Romanian
   File Format.......................................Matroska
   Play Time.........................................51mn 10s
   Total File Size...................................2.18 GiB
   Total Stream BitRate..............................6 109 Kbps
   Title (Tag).......................................Planet.Earth.EP01.From.Pole.to.Pole.2006.720p.HDDVD.x264-ESiR
   Encoded with......................................mkvmerge v2.0.2 ('You're My Flame') built on Feb 21 2007 23:40:55
   Encoding Library..................................libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Video Stream #1
   Codec (Human Name)................................AVC
   Codec (FourCC)....................................V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
   Codec Profile.....................................High@L5.1
   Frame Width.......................................1 280 pixels
   Frame Height......................................720 pixels
   Frame Rate........................................23.976 fps
   Total Frames......................................73608
   Display Aspect Ratio..............................16:9
   Scan Type.........................................Progressive
   Color Space.......................................YUV
   Codec Settings (Summary)..........................CABAC / 9 Ref Frames
   QF (like Gordian Knot)............................0.256
   Codec Settings (CABAC)............................Yes
   Codec Settings (Reference Frames).................9
   Video Stream Length...............................51mn 10s 70ms
   Video Stream BitRate..............................5 660 Kbps
   Bit Depth.........................................8 bits
   Video Stream Size.................................1.98 GiB (91%)
   Video Stream Title................................Planet Earth - EP01 - From Pole to Pole
   Video Encoder.....................................x264 - core 54 svn-635M
   Video Encoder (Settings)..........................cabac=1 / ref=6 / deblock=1:-1:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=7 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=2 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=2 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / mbaff=0 / bframes=4 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=5660 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:0.5:18.0
   Video Stream Language.............................English
Audio Stream #1
   Codec.............................................AC-3
   Codec (FourCC)....................................A_AC3
   Audio Stream Length...............................51mn 10s 72ms
   Audio Stream BitRate..............................448 Kbps
   Audio Stream BitRate Mode.........................CBR
   Number of Audio Channels..........................6
   Audio Channel's Positions.........................Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
   Sampling Rate.....................................48.0 KHz
   Audio Stream Size.................................164 MiB (7%)
   Audio Stream Title................................AC3 5.1
   Audio Stream Language.............................English
Subtitle Stream #1
   Language..........................................English
   Format............................................ASS
   Codec ID..........................................S_TEXT/ASS
   Codec Info........................................Advanced Sub Station Alpha
Subtitle Stream #2
   Language..........................................Romanian
   Format............................................ASS
   Codec ID..........................................S_TEXT/ASS
   Codec Info........................................Advanced Sub Station Alpha

[marten72]

Hey!

I downgraded to v 1.22a and now I can see all my movies! Weird. Something has gone wrong somewhere in the updated firmware. Maybe it can be fixed so even I can enjoy the latest firmware with all the bugfixes. Anyone knows about this problem?

[tachita]

What i see in your logs is nothing out of common.
First file, it has i higher bitrate - but not too high, should give you problem only if you play it from flash usb drive ;
The second file is more problematic- it has 9 reframes and i think is a experImental video file, not very sure.
If i an not tricked , your files should work fine on M8R; dont find a plausable reason for such behaviour .
Maybe a bad mux proces or bad encoding...
 
The second file i have it also, with same parameters , except 9 reframes.

[marten72]

Ok, but the problem is they don't play in v 2.10 but I had no problem playing them when I downgraded to 1.22 a. That is kind of strange dont you think. I dont want to stay with 1.22 but I rather watch my movies than not. I am sorry to miss out of the bugfixes though.

[tachita]

From v2.1.0 and v3.0.4 is a little difference, don't you think?
To be honest, i am one of very few that never try the v2.1.0 fw version...it didn't pass trough beta testers stages... 

[Volfeed]

I also had the same problem with marten72. Tried to reencode the audio from AAC to AC3 since the output is so soft and my receiver cannot decode to 5.1 ch audio with AAC. Used the latest MKVMerge to merge the video + audio + subs to an MKV file but only subs and audio is played.

Tried upgrading to 3.04, nothing works.

Tried again, this time I just demux with MKVextract and remux with MKVMerge to check any potential mistakes during reenconding. The remuxed file played fine onmy PC but I  got no video on Mede8er.

Should I rollback the firmware like marten? Is that even possible?

[wayne99]

  finally i got 2 mkv file that doesn't play with mede8er yesterday... it plays without problem on PC

checking with mediainfo doesn't reveal anything when compare to my other playable mkv file.

then, when i use mkvmerge to load the "non-playable" mkv file, there is this additional TAG being added in there in addition to the video and audio file. I take risk and deselect it and remux again, and voila...it plays in mede8er....

this is my recent experience, so perhaps it can give u an idea to just strip it to just audio and video for the mkv merge...see it works for ur case...

i'm a happy man again... mede8er fail to dissapoint me...hehehe....

[Volfeed]

Tried again on another machine running Win XP (the one in previous post is running Win 7), and the MKV can be read!  

Well, although the muxing will be quite slower, at least the media file can be read.  

[jer1956]

Tried again on another machine running Win XP (the one in previous post is running Win 7), and the MKV can be read!  

Well, although the muxing will be quite slower, at least the media file can be read.  

Most people using WinxP will have installed something which will play MKV's. MKV is not supported "out of the box" with Windows7. I installed Divx Plus to get MKV support.

[the-osiris]

I never have problem playing media from my pc, since I use K-Lite Mega Codec ..

Although some of my media was unable play in mede8er  but it's not the player fault, some was poor encoded, some needs re-muxing, and some was corrupted ...