MKV's just stop playing

Got a bit of an issue with some files playing to a Samsung C and D series TV. A handful of them just stop playing and then immediatley start playing the next one in the library (so it's not a network connection issue). The thing to note is they always stop at the same point on both TVs. I've eliminated a problem with the files as they play fine from Serviio via DLNA through to a Boxee, so I think there's something in all the files which the Samsungs don't like. In both scenarios the server is serviio running on a synology NAS. I've checked all the obvious with the samsungs - they're definitley using the right profiles, I've turned on Detailed logging and at the part where they crash an error gets logged in the Serviio log:

<timestamp> [webserver] Serviio IO error Connection Reset.

It's worth noting I've noticed a pattern - the ones which stop playing are ones which you can't fast forward / fast rewind.

Here's an example of one which stops at about 18 mins in:

  Code:

DiskStation> ffmpeg -i Looper\ \(2012\).mkv
ffmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Mar  7 2012 15:59:03 with gcc 4.2.1
  configuration: --arch=arm --target-os=linux --cross-prefix=/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi- --enable-cross-compile --enable-optimizations --disable-yasm --disable-altivec --enable-pic --enable-shared --disable-static --disable-swscale-alpha --disable-ffserver --disable-ffplay --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libfaac --enable-nonfree --enable-version3 --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --disable-decoder=amrnb
  libavutil    50. 40. 1 / 50. 40. 1
  libavcodec   52.120. 0 / 52.120. 0
  libavformat  52.108. 0 / 52.108. 0
  libavdevice  52.  4. 0 / 52.  4. 0
  libavfilter   1. 77. 0 /  1. 77. 0
  libswscale    0. 14. 0 /  0. 14. 0
[matroska,webm @ 0x33f20] max_analyze_duration reached
[matroska,webm @ 0x33f20] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 47.95 (5000000/104271) -> 23.98 (24000/1001)
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'Looper (2012).mkv':
  Duration: 01:58:53.05, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1536 kb/s
    Chapter #0.0: start 0.000000, end 447.447000
    Metadata:
      title           : 00:00:00.000
    Chapter #0.1: start 447.447000, end 811.686000
    Metadata:
      title           : 00:07:27.447
    Chapter #0.2: start 811.686000, end 1282.490000
    Metadata:
      title           : 00:13:31.686
    Chapter #0.3: start 1282.490000, end 1608.106000
    Metadata:
      title           : 00:21:22.490
    Chapter #0.4: start 1608.106000, end 1911.201000
    Metadata:
      title           : 00:26:48.106
    Chapter #0.5: start 1911.201000, end 2488.403000
    Metadata:
      title           : 00:31:51.201
    Chapter #0.6: start 2488.403000, end 2973.429000
    Metadata:
      title           : 00:41:28.403
    Chapter #0.7: start 2973.429000, end 3250.414000
    Metadata:
      title           : 00:49:33.429
    Chapter #0.8: start 3250.414000, end 3635.006000
    Metadata:
      title           : 00:54:10.414
    Chapter #0.9: start 3635.006000, end 4089.919000
    Metadata:
      title           : 01:00:35.006
    Chapter #0.10: start 4089.919000, end 4523.352000
    Metadata:
      title           : 01:08:09.919
    Chapter #0.11: start 4523.352000, end 5037.741000
    Metadata:
      title           : 01:15:23.352
    Chapter #0.12: start 5037.741000, end 5665.869000
    Metadata:
      title           : 01:23:57.741
    Chapter #0.13: start 5665.869000, end 6064.433000
    Metadata:
      title           : 01:34:25.869
    Chapter #0.14: start 6064.433000, end 6389.383000
    Metadata:
      title           : 01:41:04.433
    Chapter #0.15: start 6389.383000, end 6389.383000
    Metadata:
      title           : 01:46:29.383
    Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1920x816, PAR 1:1 DAR 40:17, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default)
    Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: dca (DTS), 48000 Hz, 6 channels (FL|FR|FC|SL|SR), s16, 1536 kb/s (default)
    Stream #0.2(eng): Subtitle: [0][0][0][0] / 0x0000
    Stream #0.3(eng): Subtitle: [0][0][0][0] / 0x0000
    Stream #0.4(eng): Subtitle: [0][0][0][0] / 0x0000 (default) (forced)


...and mediainfo output =

  Code:


General
Complete name                    : /Volumes/House47/Movies/Looper (2012).mkv
Format                           : Matroska
File size                        : 8.74 GiB
Duration                         : 1h 58mn
Overall bit rate                 : 10.5 Mbps
Writing application              : mkvmerge v4.1.1 ('Bouncin' Back') built on Jul  3 2010 22:54:08
Writing library                  : libebml v1.0.0 + libmatroska v1.0

Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : AVC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                   : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC           : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames        : 5 frames
Format settings, GOP             : M=2, N=32
Codec ID                         : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                         : 1h 58mn
Bit rate                         : 9 022 Kbps
Width                            : 1 920 pixels
Height                           : 816 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 2.35:1
Frame rate                       : 23.976 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.240
Stream size                      : 7.32 GiB (84%)
Writing library                  : x264 core 129 r2230 1cffe9f
Encoding settings                : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / lookahead_threads=2 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=9022 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Language                         : English

Audio
ID                               : 2
Format                           : DTS
Format/Info                      : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID                         : A_DTS
Duration                         : 1h 58mn
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 6 channels
Channel positions                : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                        : 24 bits
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Stream size                      : 1.25 GiB (14%)
Language                         : English

Text #1
ID                               : 3
Format                           : UTF-8
Codec ID                         : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info                    : UTF-8 Plain Text
Language                         : English

Text #2
ID                               : 4
Format                           : UTF-8
Codec ID                         : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info                    : UTF-8 Plain Text
Language                         : English

Text #3
ID                               : 5
Format                           : UTF-8
Codec ID                         : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info                    : UTF-8 Plain Text
Language                         : English

Menu
00:00:00.000                     : en:00:00:00.000
00:07:27.447                     : en:00:07:27.447
00:13:31.686                     : en:00:13:31.686
00:21:22.490                     : en:00:21:22.490
00:26:48.106                     : en:00:26:48.106
00:31:51.201                     : en:00:31:51.201
00:41:28.403                     : en:00:41:28.403
00:49:33.429                     : en:00:49:33.429
00:54:10.414                     : en:00:54:10.414
01:00:35.006                     : en:01:00:35.006
01:08:09.919                     : en:01:08:09.919
01:15:23.352                     : en:01:15:23.352
01:23:57.741                     : en:01:23:57.741
01:34:25.869                     : en:01:34:25.869
01:41:04.433                     : en:01:41:04.433
01:46:29.383                     : en:01:46:29.383



Just wondered if there was anyone out there with similar issues? Cheers for reading.

I am coping with the same problem. I also have Plex and I can agree that the problem might be caused by the TV as Plex playback also cuts off at the same time (when playing back the problematic MKVs). Pretty annoying

I seem to have fixed the problem by renmaing my mkv's to avi. DTS sound seems to be preserved and the added bonus is i can fast forward and fast rewind. Bizarre but it works.

I seem to have fixed the problem by renmaing my mkv's to avi. DTS sound seems to be preserved and the added bonus is i can fast forward and fast rewind. Bizarre but it works.

Does anyone have any idea whether this is something that can be solved by tweaking profiles.xml?

It would be much easier if I didn't have to go and manually change file names each time playback stops, this happens way too often lately - more than 50% of the videos I try watching break playback at some point.

Thanks.

[zip]

both mkv and avi ae passed to the TV natively, you could try to change MKV mime type to AVI.

tried changing

  Code:

<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/x-mkv">MATROSKA</MediaFormatProfile>


to

  Code:

<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/x-msvideo" name="">MATROSKA</MediaFormatProfile>


But this changed nothing

I guess I'm stuck with manually renaming files...

[zip]

can you post ffmpeg -i for the file named with .mkv and then for .avi?

This is the output when the file is names .avi:

  Code:

ffmpeg version 1.0.5 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Mar 23 2013 19:11:20 with gcc 4.2.1 (GCC) 20070831 patched [FreeBSD]
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local --mandir=/usr/local/man --incdir=/usr/local/include/ffmpeg1 --libdir=/usr/local/lib/ffmpeg1 --shlibdir=/usr/local/lib/ffmpeg1 --datadir=/usr/local/share/ffmpeg1 --build-suffix=1 --progs-suffix=1 --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-avfilter --enable-pthreads --enable-memalign-hack --disable-libstagefright-h264 --disable-libutvideo --cc=cc --extra-cflags='-msse -I/usr/local/include/vorbis -I/usr/local/include' --extra-ldflags='-L/usr/local/lib ' --extra-libs=-pthread --disable-debug --enable-libaacplus --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libass --enable-libcdio --enable-libcelt --enable-libfaac --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-fontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libbluray --enable-libv4l2 --enable-libmodplug --enable-openal --enable-libopencv --enable-libopenjpeg --disable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --  libavutil      51. 73.101 / 51. 73.101
  libavcodec     54. 59.100 / 54. 59.100
  libavformat    54. 29.104 / 54. 29.104
  libavdevice    54.  2.101 / 54.  2.101
  libavfilter     3. 17.100 /  3. 17.100
  libswscale      2.  1.101 /  2.  1.101
  libswresample   0. 15.100 /  0. 15.100
  libpostproc    52.  0.100 / 52.  0.100
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'The.Walking.Dead.S03E15.720p.HDTV.x264-IMMERSE.avi':
  Duration: 00:43:21.39, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 4390 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1280x720, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default)
    Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s16, 384 kb/s (default)
At least one output file must be specified

And this is the output with the original .mkv extension:

  Code:

ffmpeg version 1.0.5 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Mar 23 2013 19:11:20 with gcc 4.2.1 (GCC) 20070831 patched [FreeBSD]
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local --mandir=/usr/local/man --incdir=/usr/local/include/ffmpeg1 --libdir=/usr/local/lib/ffmpeg1 --shlibdir=/usr/local/lib/ffmpeg1 --datadir=/usr/local/share/ffmpeg1 --build-suffix=1 --progs-suffix=1 --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-avfilter --enable-pthreads --enable-memalign-hack --disable-libstagefright-h264 --disable-libutvideo --cc=cc --extra-cflags='-msse -I/usr/local/include/vorbis -I/usr/local/include' --extra-ldflags='-L/usr/local/lib ' --extra-libs=-pthread --disable-debug --enable-libaacplus --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libass --enable-libcdio --enable-libcelt --enable-libfaac --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-fontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libbluray --enable-libv4l2 --enable-libmodplug --enable-openal --enable-libopencv --enable-libopenjpeg --disable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --  libavutil      51. 73.101 / 51. 73.101
  libavcodec     54. 59.100 / 54. 59.100
  libavformat    54. 29.104 / 54. 29.104
  libavdevice    54.  2.101 / 54.  2.101
  libavfilter     3. 17.100 /  3. 17.100
  libswscale      2.  1.101 /  2.  1.101
  libswresample   0. 15.100 /  0. 15.100
  libpostproc    52.  0.100 / 52.  0.100
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'The.Walking.Dead.S03E15.720p.HDTV.x264-IMMERSE.mkv':
  Duration: 00:43:21.39, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 4390 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1280x720, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default)
    Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s16, 384 kb/s (default)
At least one output file must be specified

Thanks!

[zip]

looks the same. Can you post detailed log of playing these 2 files? (one with .mkv and one with .avi)

just to add my 2ps worth i've had some files which renaming to .avi hasn't worked....but - i renamed them to .m2ts and they did work.