MKV playback issues

oxygene · 22 May 2010 at 15:48

Ok heres a confusing problem for you guys!
Got hold of a bunch of 70mb MKV family videos from a legitimate legal source online. Problem is they're 21 mins long and on half of them the audio stops at 19:00 exactly. Most are fine but several do this and its annoying cause I'm missing the endings.
I've tried playing them in media player classic first, then winamp, wmp, vlc, xbmc... Cant figure it out!

yhack · 22 May 2010 at 15:49

Find a better place to get your porn.

oxygene · 22 May 2010 at 15:50

Pfff my Porn is in 1080p HD

One day it will be 3d too

Tefal · 22 May 2010 at 15:52

Reacquire them from an illegitimate source, they're much more reliable

Marky · 22 May 2010 at 15:53

Just sounds to me the video file is corrupt - either the actual file is corrupt or it didn't download right

Hamster · 22 May 2010 at 15:54

70MB MKV videos being 21 minutes long seems a little odd.

oxygene · 22 May 2010 at 15:54

Hmmm I guess they could be corrupt downloads. if the connewction hiccuped or something. Doh. I'll try reaquiring one as a test sample.

Cosimo · 22 May 2010 at 15:57

yhack said:
Find a better place to get your porn.

It's "family videos".

oxygene · 22 May 2010 at 15:57

simulatorman said:
It's "family videos".

In his defence I have seen some porn that could count as a family video...

Cosimo · 22 May 2010 at 16:00

oxygene said:
In his defence I have seen some porn that could count as a family video...

I won't comment on that.

oxygene · 22 May 2010 at 16:02

Hey its not MY family! And I got the file again and same problem

Guess I'm going to have to miss out on the endings of a lot of these then.

Energize · 22 May 2010 at 16:13

Try putting it in avidemux and transcoding the video.

Shadows1990 · 22 May 2010 at 16:35

Would it be worth trying MediaInfo on a few of the files, to see what information can be read from the file?

Tefal · 22 May 2010 at 16:45

oxygene said:
Hey its not MY family! And I got the file again and same problem Guess I'm going to have to miss out on the endings of a lot of these then.

what are they?

Kol · 22 May 2010 at 16:48

The resolution of them must be awful :/ An average 20minute MKV of mine in standard def is 350MB!

720p is often around 600MB

masterluke · 22 May 2010 at 16:55

What codec does the video and audio use? MKV's can contain pretty much anything. Can other "members of your family" view the problematic files right to the end or is it just you?

oxygene · 22 May 2010 at 17:30

This is what it looks like on the inside:

and yes the quality isnt amazing but its fine to view on 2nd screen while I'm busy on the main. Its still as good as some 350mb avis I've seen. And not sure which 720p you get but mine are all 1.09gb!

Kol · 22 May 2010 at 19:07

oxygene said:
and yes the quality isnt amazing but its fine to view on 2nd screen while I'm busy on the main. Its still as good as some 350mb avis I've seen. And not sure which 720p you get but mine are all 1.09gb!

That's interesting. If reasonable enough to View I may compress more. Hmm you may be right on reflection, certains shows do some to be around 1gb

oxygene · 22 May 2010 at 19:16

Shows? "Home Movies"

Energize · 22 May 2010 at 22:08

Kol said:
The resolution of them must be awful :/ An average 20minute MKV of mine in standard def is 350MB!

Torrents are usually half that and the quality is fine, remember that a home movie doesn't require any more than 64Kb/s audio to sound fine and h.264 allows much better compression than torrents use. If the video is low motion then using a constant quality setting could achieve reasonable results for a standard vga video.