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Been trying to play a bunch of episodes of Dragon Ball and it just gives me this error. However playing episode 153 works fine. They're both .mkvs and all the episodes were encoded in the same way.

UMS Version: 2.2.6

If you need more information feel free to ask, I'm a bit short on time at the moment so I can't say everything yet.

Anyone? Why does this happen to only certain .mkvs and not all of them?

Just tried it again with 2.3.0 and...no dice. Time for full specs and more information this time (+ cleaner logs).

(information overload below, I have a text file with all my peripherals/components that I copy and paste when needed instead of re-typing them every time)
CPU: Intel Corei5 2500k @ 4.1ghz
GPU: AMD Raddeon HD6950 @ 840/1325
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws 12GB 1600mhz DDR3
MoBo: Gigabyte GA-z77x-D3H
SSD (OS and PCSX2 here): Crucial M4 256GB
HDD 1 (Game ISOs here): Western Digital Caviar Black 7200rpm 1TB
HDD 2 (Storage): Samsung Spinpoint F4 5400rpm 2TB
HDD 3 (More Storage): Western Digital Red 3TB
ODD: LiteOn DVD/Blu-ray player/burner
Sound Card: Asus Xonar DGX
Case: Coolermaster HAF-X
Keyboard: Ducky DK9008 Shine II Mech Keyboard Red LED (Cherry Red)
Mouse: Logitech G9x
Monitor: BenQ G2420HD
Headphones: Audio-Technica ATH-M50
Router: Netgear WNDR3700 (PC connected to router via Cat6 cable, PS3 connected to router via Cat6 cable).
Operating System: Windows 8 Pro x64

Everything plays perfectly on my PC. These are the codecs/filters/player/whatnot I use.

JanWillem32's MPC-HC x86 deviation of r5050
madVR v0.85.7
madFLAC v1.10
LavFilters x86 v0.55.1
Haali Media Splitter v1.11.288.0

Episode 9-11 do not work but episode 153 does.

Episode 9 Mediainfo: http://pastebin.com/sc2FFgvZ
Episode 10 Mediainfo: http://pastebin.com/DyteDzGg
Episode 11 Mediainfo: http://pastebin.com/HN3k2AGU
Episode 153 Mediainfo: http://pastebin.com/r82ubQMm

Tyestor,
The only thing that stood out to me was it looked like the one file that works uses a more recent version of mkvmerge than the others (ver3.3 vs. ver1.5). I'm not too familiar with the app, but I have run into issues with different version of Handbrake, which is what I use for ripping.
Might try repackaging your non-working episode using the ver3.3 of mkvmerge.

Good luck!

danielt wrote:Tyestor,
The only thing that stood out to me was it looked like the one file that works uses a more recent version of mkvmerge than the others (ver3.3 vs. ver1.5). I'm not too familiar with the app, but I have run into issues with different version of Handbrake, which is what I use for ripping.
Might try repackaging your non-working episode using the ver3.3 of mkvmerge.

Good luck!

Yep. Remuxed episode 9 with the latest mkvmerge (5.6.0) and now it's working. My question is as follows: Why does it do this? Wouldn't this be a bug with UMS? If so, it should be fixed. I have thousands of mkvs that may or may not work and I probably won't have the time to remux them all.

Yeah seems like a bug with MKVToolnix at the time, not much we can do here

Tyestor,
If you know what type of file the original source was, you can probably scan through the change log linked below and figure out which version of mkvmerge had the fix. that should help you narrow down which files will have issues and which will not. It looks like 1.5.5 had several issues with defining display size depending on what the source material was and what information the source file contained in its header.

http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoo ... /ChangeLog