Hello again!
After reencoding a non-playing file with Handbrake on High-Profile without 8x8cdt set to “No” the file still doesn’t play. To make things short here are now the profiles of a working file and a non working file.
Perhaps someone sees more than i do.
Working File:
Name: Battlestar Galactica - Pilot Part1 -HD720p-.mkv
Date: 27/12/2007 13:30:28
Size: 4,696,111,413 bytes (4478.561 MB)
[Generic infos]
Play duration: 01:30:46 (5446.104 s)
Container type: matroska
Creation time: 27/12/2007 12:22:11 UTC
Number of streams: 4
Type of stream nr. 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC) {BSG - S01E00}
Type of stream nr. 2: audio (A_AC3) {AC3 5.1 @ 384 kbps}
Type of stream nr. 3: audio (A_AC3) {AC3 5.1 @ 640 kbps}
Type of stream nr. 4: audio (A_VORBIS) {Commentary - Ogg 2.0 @ 96 kbps}
Audio streams: 3
Muxing Application: libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Writing Application: mkvmerge v2.1.0 (‘Another Place To Fall’) built on Aug 19 2007 13:40:07
[Relevant data]
Resolution: 1280 x 720
Width: multiple of 32
Height: multiple of 16
[Video track]
Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Resolution: 1280 x 720
Frame aspect ratio: 16:9 = 1.777777
Pixel aspect ratio: 1:1 = 1
Display aspect ratio: 16:9 = 1.777777
Framerate: 25 fps
[Audio track nr. 1]
Codec ID: A_AC3
Channels (container): 6
Sample rate: 48000 Hz
Mode: 3 front, 2 rear, 1 LFE
[Audio track nr. 2]
Codec ID: A_AC3
Channels (container): 6
Sample rate: 48000 Hz
Mode: 3 front, 2 rear, 1 LFE
[Audio track nr. 3]
Codec ID: A_VORBIS
Channels (container): 2
Sample rate: 48000 Hz
[About H.264 encoding]
User data: x264
User data: core 57 svn-709C
User data: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec
User data: Copyleft 2005
User data: http://www.videolan.org/x264.html
User data: cabac=1
User data: ref=5
User data: deblock=1:-2:-1
User data: analyse=0x1:0
User data: me=umh
User data: fpel_cmp=sad
User data: subme=6
User data: me-prepass=0
User data: brdo=1
User data: mixed_ref=1
User data: me_range=16
User data: chroma_me=1
User data: trellis=2
User data: 8x8dct=0
User data: cqm=0
User data: deadzone=21,11
User data: chroma_qp_offset=0
User data: threads=3
User data: nr=0
User data: decimate=0
User data: mbaff=0
User data: bframes=3
User data: b_pyramid=1
User data: b_adapt=1
User data: b_bias=0
User data: direct=3
User data: wpredb=1
User data: bime=1
User data: keyint=250
User data: keyint_min=25
User data: scenecut=40(pre)
User data: rc=2pass
User data: bitrate=5755
User data: ratetol=1.0
User data: rceq=‘blurCplx^(1-qComp)’
User data: qcomp=0.60
User data: qpmin=10
User data: qpmax=51
User data: qpstep=4
User data: cplxblur=20.0
User data: qblur=0.5
User data: ip_ratio=1.40
User data: pb_ratio=1.30
SPS id: 0
Profile: Main@L5.1
Num ref frames: 8
Chroma format idc: YUV 4:0:0
PPS id: 0 (SPS: 0)
Entropy coding type: CABAC
Weighted prediction: No
Weighted bipred idc: B slices - implicit weighted prediction
8x8dct: No
[Profile compliancy]
Profile to check: MTK PAL 6000
Resolution: 1280 x 720 > 720 x 576
Framerate: Ok
And now a non-working file:
Name: BBC.Earth.Power.of.the.Planet.1of5.Volcano.mkv
Date: 6/05/2009 21:19:03
Size: 2,322,379,888 bytes (2214.794 MB)
[Generic infos]
Play duration: 00:59:12 (3552 s)
Container type: matroska
Creation time: 3/10/2008 06:26:14 UTC
Number of streams: 3
Type of stream nr. 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC) {x264 at 4843 kbps}
Type of stream nr. 2: subtitle (S_TEXT/UTF8)
Type of stream nr. 3: audio (A_AC3) {ac3 at 384 kbps 6 ch}
Audio streams: 1
Muxing Application: libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Writing Application: mkvmerge v2.3.0 (‘Freak U’) built on Sep 8 2008 18:32:16
[Relevant data]
Resolution: 1280 x 720
Width: multiple of 32
Height: multiple of 16
Average DRF: 22.863338
Standard deviation: 1.871462
Std. dev. weighted mean: 1.713558
[Video track]
Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Resolution: 1280 x 720
Frame aspect ratio: 16:9 = 1.777777
Pixel aspect ratio: 1:1 = 1
Display aspect ratio: 16:9 = 1.777777
Framerate: 25 fps
Stream size: 2,150,334,862 bytes
Play duration: 00:59:12 (3551.84 s)
Bitrate: 4843.314703 kbps
Qf: 0.210213
[Audio track]
Codec ID: A_AC3
Channels (container): 6
Sample rate: 48000 Hz
Stream size: 170,496,000 bytes
Bitrate (container): 384 kbps
Initial skip: 29,184 bytes
AC-3 frames: 110981
Play duration: 00:59:11 (3551.392 s)
Bitrate (bitstream): 384 kbps CBR
Mode: 3 front, 2 rear, 1 LFE
[About H.264 encoding]
User data: x264
User data: core 64 r994M b35a044
User data: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec
User data: Copyleft 2003-2008
User data: http://www.videolan.org/x264.html
User data: cabac=1
User data: ref=5
User data: deblock=1:-3:-3
User data: analyse=0x3:0x113
User data: me=hex
User data: subme=7
User data: psy_rd=1.0:0.0
User data: brdo=1
User data: mixed_ref=1
User data: me_range=16
User data: chroma_me=1
User data: trellis=2
User data: 8x8dct=1
User data: cqm=0
User data: deadzone=21,11
User data: chroma_qp_offset=-2
User data: threads=3
User data: nr=0
User data: decimate=0
User data: mbaff=0
User data: bframes=5
User data: b_pyramid=1
User data: b_adapt=2
User data: b_bias=0
User data: direct=1
User data: wpredb=1
User data: bime=1
User data: keyint=250
User data: keyint_min=25
User data: scenecut=40(pre)
User data: rc=2pass
User data: bitrate=4843
User data: ratetol=1.0
User data: qcomp=0.60
User data: qpmin=10
User data: qpmax=51
User data: qpstep=4
User data: cplxblur=20.0
User data: qblur=0.5
User data: ip_ratio=1.40
User data: pb_ratio=1.30
User data: aq=1:0.80
SPS id: 0
Profile: High@L4.1
Num ref frames: 5
Chroma format idc: YUV 4:2:0
PPS id: 0 (SPS: 0)
Entropy coding type: CABAC
Weighted prediction: No
Weighted bipred idc: B slices - implicit weighted prediction
8x8dct: Yes
Number of frames: 88796
Drop/delay frames: 0
Corrupted frames: 0
P-slices: 30869 ( 34.764 %) #########
B-slices: 57029 ( 64.225 %) ################
I-slices: 898 ( 1.011 %)
SP-slices: 0 ( 0.000 %)
SI-slices: 0 ( 0.000 %)
[DRF analysis]
Average DRF: 22.863338
Standard deviation: 1.871462
Max DRF: 30
DRF<12: 0 ( 0.000 %)
DRF=12: 23 ( 0.026 %)
DRF=13: 28 ( 0.032 %)
DRF=14: 71 ( 0.080 %)
DRF=15: 51 ( 0.057 %)
DRF=16: 78 ( 0.088 %)
DRF=17: 126 ( 0.142 %)
DRF=18: 420 ( 0.473 %)
DRF=19: 1597 ( 1.799 %)
DRF=20: 4969 ( 5.596 %) #
DRF=21: 11850 ( 13.345 %) ###
DRF=22: 19016 ( 21.415 %) #####
DRF=23: 19737 ( 22.227 %) ######
DRF=24: 15703 ( 17.684 %) ####
DRF=25: 8436 ( 9.500 %) ##
DRF=26: 3817 ( 4.299 %) #
DRF=27: 1845 ( 2.078 %) #
DRF=28: 766 ( 0.863 %)
DRF=29: 219 ( 0.247 %)
DRF=30: 44 ( 0.050 %)
DRF>30: 0 ( 0.000 %)
P-slices average DRF: 21.933849
P-slices std. deviation: 1.654549
P-slices max DRF: 29
B-slices average DRF: 23.408721
B-slices std. deviation: 1.745207
B-slices max DRF: 30
I-slices average DRF: 20.179287
I-slices std. deviation: 1.732094
I-slices max DRF: 27
[Profile compliancy]
Profile to check: MTK PAL 6000
Resolution: 1280 x 720 > 720 x 576
Framerate: Ok
I would be very thankfull for any advice.
Best regards
Andi