Dear Folks,
Unable to play some mkv files which play well with VLC. I have tried mkvmerge etc and no luck.
any one can help ?
Post the MEDIAINFO for one of the files.
Look into this post:
http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-Elements-Play/MKV-movie-not-playing-on-play/td-p/140734
Dear Friend ,
I have tried with MWDdclean , the file is saved , but doesn’t work on WD elements Play. WD says , the format is not supported , refer user manual. Tried mkvmerge same result. Any other way of doing it ?
As Tony already said, why don’t you post the MEDIAINFO for one of the files ?
How do I get the media info from an mkv File ?.. Please guide me …
Download and install Mediainfo:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mediainfo/MediaInfo_GUI_0.7.43_Windows_i386.exe
Use it on your mkv to get info from it (e.g. view/text and then copy paste it here).
Thanks for the help
please see the details
General
Unique ID : 201511134343527842507645682571085492703 (0x9799A1FD9B06D026BEF22368238231DF)
Complete name : C:\Users\Saturn\Desktop\Rob-B-Hood.Hindi.Dubbed.720p.Bluray.DjVikas\Rob-B-Hood.Hindi.Dubbed.720p.Bluray.DjVikas.mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 1.98 GiB
Duration : 2h 0mn
Overall bit rate : 2 347 Kbps
Movie name : Rob-B-Hood.Hindi.Dubbed.720p.Bluray.DjVikas
Encoded date : UTC 2011-01-29 06:36:37
Writing application : mkvmerge v4.2.0 (‘No Talking’) built on Jul 28 2010 18:38:23
Writing library : libebml v1.0.0 + libmatroska v1.0.0
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 2h 0mn
Bit rate : 2 044 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 544 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Original frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.117
Stream size : 1.72 GiB (87%)
Title : Rob-B-Hood.Hindi.Dubbed.720p.Bluray.DjVikas
Language : English
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 2h 0mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 256 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : 24ms
Stream size : 221 MiB (11%)
Title : Hindi_DjVikas
Language : English
It has Header Compression enabled:
Muxing mode : Header stripping
If you ran mkWDclean against the file, it didn’t work…
You are doing something wrong mate,I have to refer you again to my previous post:
http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-Elements-Play/MKV-movie-not-playing-on-play/td-p/140734
What I did now is actually the same as before:
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I downloaded Rob-B-Hood.Hindi.Dubbed.720p.Bluray.DjVikas.mkv which doesn’t play due to same reason (header compression)
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I used mkvmerge with this command line:
mkvmerge -o output.mkv --compression -1:none Rob-B-Hood.Hindi.Dubbed.720p.Bluray.DjVikas.mkv
File output.mkv is now perfectly playable.
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Thanks mate …
it worked… Thanks a lot …
Hi Brother,
Could you please explain to everyone with the print screen,
where and how should we use this command line in this program…
I mean i sterted the program but i dont know where should i write this command
mkvmerge -o output.mkv --compression -1:none
Thanks alot.
With command line I mean
Start
Run
(and you type)
cmd
and so you get the command line. Please google it next time 
