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Video "Casino_Royale" UPC: 043396163362 aborts on startup with "Connection error: java.io.IOException" error. Data seems to be valid as it plays in a previewer and on the Blu-ray disc. INFO 2015-10-11 11:01:30.679 [StartPlaying Event] Started playing Casino Royale.mkv on your TV-...

UMS immediately aborts upon starting movie "Casino Royale".
The files are good as they look fine in a a previewer.
Same results with v5.1.2.

Seen with two files:

• Casino Royale UPC: 043396163362
  Departed UPC: 085391117292

SubJunk wrote:Does anyone else have this issue?

Yes - but not this configuration (see signature).
All my non-Blu-ray *.mkv videos get the pillar bars.
Extraction done with MakemKV.

Closing this thread since the root cause is known and fixed.

The further local ffmpeg builds are covered in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3494

added more trace info.

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