I recently acquired a 1080p HD version of Reservoir Dogs, but the only problem is that the file quits abruptly after less than a minute of play. I am not good at debugging video playback issues so I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. And, yes all the RAR files extracted fine, and my RAR program gave me no errors when extracting the MKV file. The video stops at the same place in both VLC and MPlayer OSX Extended.

I attached the log file in this thread. If you download it rename it with a .rtf extension because if left .txt will show markup code. Or just open the file in a editor that supports rich text formattting.

The debug log can also be downloaded here

sometimes the video itself can be screwed up, being two players stopped at the same spot may be that part of the video is corrupted. you can try reencoding it and if it craps out at the same spot you have a bad video.

Are you trying to use subtitles to watch movie? Is their another soundtrack other than the DTS one? If so, try different audio track. Are you just watching video on your PC or are you viewing it on a TV using video-out? Which version of VLC are you using?

I looked up movie and saw that only DTS is available, but there is a directors commentary. Try listening to that, instead. I might try viewing the movie also and see if it plays fine. Maybe it's a OSX thing.

Tried playing the video with subtitles turned off and the audio switched to the commentary track, it's still stopping at the same place. :-/

Doing a little googlefu I came across this project.

http://meteorite.sourceforge.net/

It's free and open source for now, and it seems be processing the mkv file. Not sure if it will fix my file, but if it does I will post again

You can strip the commentary track out.

How is that going to make a difference?

If I might interject a little off-topic talk...
It's GPL, which means that it is and will always be open source...you can't revoke code that has been GPLed. The worst case is that the developers decide to release future versions of Meteorite under a more restrictive license, but even then the existing GPLed versions can be picked up by others.

I bring this up only because your "for now" puts an unnecessary (perhaps unintentional) cynical spin on free software. It's my opinion that there's already enough cynicism that is appropriately applied to various deserving elements in this world, and we don't need to go adding it to things that have enough P.R. trouble as it is.

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If you turn off subtitles again, maybe it will continue to play main audio track. Just an idea. I hate movie commentary, so I'd do it anyway.

Well first things first,



Second, on what you saying about the GPL seems fairly sound. I am all of for GPL and copyleft. I originally put that statement in my reply because on the developer's site there seemed to be a bit of reluctance to make his program open source.

"
This is Meteorite!
World the FIRST and ONLY MKV/Matroska Repair program.
This why could easily sold as a proprietary program like hot cakes..."

is exactly what this person says on the developer page here

Third,



The last thing, open source community needs is another forked project. In my opinion, this is one of the pitfalls of the open source community. That been said, I understand projects fork for various different reasons and do not really want to create a bulleted list to validate my statement, but I am sure a little googlefu and some reading and a list could be constructed.

Last, I did happen to read this and I actually own a hard copy, so I am last the person against open source, and the GPL. If you have the time I would highly recommend reading the book.


Ohh, and the program did not fix the MKV file :-O