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Thanks for the help

I'll give these a shot and get back here with more logs. It might be a day or so - my kids are going back to school tomorrow so we're going to spend their last day of summer being incredibly lazy, so I'll be busy with that.

Does anyone else have any ideas?

OK, I've updated Java and I've done a clean install of the most recent version of UMS (6.7.3).

The problems have continued with no change that I've noticed. I played several files. The .mkv files still don't play at all (I skipped instead of stopping for a few files, just because). The .mp4 files ...

I still didn't looked at your log, but did you put some of your MP4s or MKVs files that have similar issue into a same folder and play them all before create the log ?
Because, as i said, one file could be not suffisant...


I didn't put them in an individual folder, but I did play four different ...

Didn't mean to mix up the .mkv and .mp4 things earlier. I have no idea why I did that.

Anyway, I'm not sure what you can and can't tell from the logs I post here, so if you need more details about what's going on please let me know. So far, the .mp4 files crash a minute or two before the end and ...

Sorry it took me a few days to get back to you - we were on vacation

I'll pick a few sample files of different types that aren't working, try to play them while keeping a log then post it here.

The files are .mkv but if I understand correctly that's pretty vague. Should I try to find out something more about them?

This problem has been happening increasingly often over the past several months, but it's getting to the point that nearly all of my new media is behaving this way.

I'll play a file on my TV, the file gets within about 1-3 minutes of the end and freezes for a few moments then the TV turns itself ...