Playing Mkv files on the vero 4k

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Hi there…I have a Vero 4k that i have had a few months now…apart from the latest update i have installed nothing on it,All i use it for is watching movies from a Ext HD…these being in MKV format.

sometimes when i am playing a movie it will suddenly freeze…when i re-run the movie it will freeze again at exactly the same point in the movie.Therefore it is a clitch/error within the movie and not the box…

If i run the same movie on say a ps3/Multiman or on a pc they will just except the clitch/error and move on,but that is not so for me on the 4k box

My question is…Is that the way it is or do i need to install a movie player/app on the 4k box… TIA

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Different decoders have different tolerances to bugs in videos.

You can try remuxing the video, playing it in software or resourcing it. It shouldn’t be a common occurrence

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What do you mean sam by “playing it in software”…is there a addon player that i can put on the vero box ?

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Try disabling amcodec for H264.

Ultimately this is a workaround. If the file is bad, the file is bad.

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where do i find amcodec sam in the system ?

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Settings, player - its under the Processing Header

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Still keep getting this happen on many movies i play and it happens in random places throughout the movie… ive done a log file of where it happens (20:00:42.427) there seems to be a few warnings and errors in the script,i just wondered if they are ok .

http://paste.osmc.io/emihadohab.vhdl

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You can check your files for errors with ffmpeg

For example: ffmpeg -v error -i movie.mkv -f null -

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just a quick update on this problem and how i solved the problem…

I drag the mkv files over to MKVtoolnix in there the chapters are removed.and the file then plays spot on…ive done this plenty of times now so its not just a coincidence…it would always crash also when you try to step forward or back in the movie…but once them chapters are out it perfect…

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That sounds like an issue with the video. Usually remuxing it – as you have done, is a good enough solution.

Sam

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Sam ive not really remuxed it…is it multiplexing…a 4 gig file takes about 2mins and just removes the subtitles…where if i put it through say handbrake then it would be a remux and take ages

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No – Handbrake is a transcoder.
Extracting the streams and putting them in a new container (which is what you’ve done) is remuxing.

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Right ok …Many thanks…Well it done the job for me just fine