Does not support trick mode

Have a .Mkv file that appears to  have the same attributes as all the others that play fine, but  this one will not FF/Pause/Resume AND just stops half way thru the movie. Anyone have a fix and reason for this issue?


General  
Complete name                    : K:\MY MOVIE.MKV  
Format                           : Matroska  
File size                        : 4.03 GiB  
Duration                         : 1h 56mn  
Overall bit rate                 : 4 933 Kbps  
Encoded date                     : UTC 2010-04-19 04:32:25  
Writing application              : mkvmerge v3.2.0 ('Beginnings') built on Feb 12 2010 16:46:17  
Writing library                  : libebml v0.7.9 + libmatroska v0.8.1  
  
Video  
ID                               : 1  
Format                           : AVC  
Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec  
Format profile                   : High@L4.1  
Format settings, CABAC           : Yes  
Format settings, ReFrames        : 5 frames  
Muxing mode                      : Container profile=Unknown@4.1  
Codec ID                         : V\_MPEG4/ISO/AVC  
Duration                         : 1h 56mn  
Bit rate                         : 3 326 Kbps  
Nominal bit rate                 : 11.9 Mbps  
Width                            : 1 920 pixels  
Height                           : 816 pixels  
Display aspect ratio             : 2.35:1  
Frame rate                       : 23.976 fps  
Resolution                       : 8 bits  
Colorimetry                      : 4:2:0  
Scan type                        : Progressive  
Bits/(Pixel\*Frame)               : 0.089  
Stream size                      : 2.71 GiB (67%)  
Writing library                  : x264 core 93 r1542 5b86182  
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=1 / chroma\_qp\_offset=-2 / threads=16 / sliced\_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained\_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b\_pyramid=2 / b\_adapt=2 / b\_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / wpredp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint\_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra\_refresh=0 / rc\_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=11872 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip\_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00  
  
Audio  
ID                               : 2  
Format                           : DTS  
Format/Info                      : Digital Theater Systems  
Codec ID                         : A\_DTS  
Duration                         : 1h 56mn  
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  
Resolution                       : 24 bits  
Stream size                      : 1.23 GiB (31%)  
Language                         : English  
  
Text  
ID                               : 3  
Format                           : UTF-8  
Codec ID                         : S\_TEXT/UTF8  
Codec ID/Info                    : UTF-8 Plain Text  
Language                         : English  

Thanks!

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Try make remux this file through mkvmerge

Remuxing will not work.

“Trick mode” is a standard video term, that refers to things like  “pause”, “fast forward”, and “reverse”.

If the video track of the file was not encoded to support these features, then the video file will not have these features.  It will only play straight through.  Muxing will just put the same video track into a new container with the audio track(s) and the subtitle track(s).  It won’t change the video stream.

I don’t know how or why you got your encoder to not put the correct sequence headers into the video stream for trick mode functionality, but you’ll have to either use a different encoder, or use different settings for the one you used if you want to make trick mode-capable video files.

Also FYI, I could be remembering wrong, but I thought one of the WD guys said ages ago that the WDTV wasn’t physically capable of handling files with more than 4 reference frames… the memory available to the decoder chip just simply wasn’t enough for it to handle any more.  If you keep encoding your files with 5 or more reference frames, they’re not going to play back well to begin with, even if you can figure out what wrong setting caused the lack of trick mode functionality.  They’ll still play, but the picture may be glitchy at times.

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Thanks RoofingGuy! Found out the file was also corrupt towards the end, had to trash can it…