Hmmm. The only thing I see there that causes question is the use of “Header Stripping.” I thought that WD had added that capability a LONG time ago, but I suppose it’s possible that it’s broken on the WDTV Live SMP.
I don’t have any MKVs with Header Stripping, so I wouldn’t have come across this yet.
I’ll try to remember to test this later today.
In the mean time, you could try REMOVING header stripping and try again…
Go download MKVToolnix version 3.4.4 here: http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/win32/
(Assuming you have Windows)
And “Remux” the file using the tool MKVMerge.
Watch the error logs, and try playing the resulting new file.
If it works, either there was something wrong with the original mux, or the LiveSMP doesn’t support header stripping.
