Blu-ray and DVD Players/Recorders

[twoSlax]

Hello everybody,

I have quite a few MKV movie files stored on dvds.   My NS-WBRDVD plays them to a point, but can never get all the way through one.  It arbitrarily stops playback and the display says "Full Stop" without warning.  Furthermore, it always does it in exactly the same place in whichever video I'm watching.  I've tested these files' playback in VLC Media Player and they give no indication of any corruption or playback issues on my computer.

Any suggestions? 

Thanks in advance and happy new year! 

[mustseepc]

Out of curiousity, at what point do your mkv files stop working?  I just watched one the other day, and mine seemed to cut out at around 45 min.

[twoSlax]

All of mine have done it at different places.  One does it in the first 20 minutes.  One does it around the 39 minute mark.  It seems to be arbitrary.

[rhill0]

I have had the issue around the 2 gig mark on MP4 files.

[ChrisW]

Same here, around 45 mins appears to be a limitation, like 2 gigs as said by rhill0, very annoying as i had many friends over and watching homemade movies and it shuts down, the 2x FF or Rew stinks too.

I also own a WBRDVD3 model.....will have to try it on that.

*update* same issues with WBRDVD3

Wonder if usb playback suffers the same problem?

Also tried to move the mkv file to a external hard drive, it's over 4 gigs wont do it, found this on microsoft website......

The maximum possible size for a file on a FAT32 volume is 4 GB minus 1 byte (232−1 bytes). Video applications, large databases, and some other software easily exceed this limit. Larger files require another formatting type such as NTFS.

So if they can ever make it read NTFS format instead of Fat32 then we'll have problems

Message Edited by ChrisW on 01-03-2010 09:04 AM

[mustseepc]

OK!  I think I just figured out something with the MKV and/or large files.  I have one MKV file that is about 1,150,000 KB and it plays just fine with no fast forward limitations and no stopping issue.  But then a slightly larger file that is about 1,210,000 KB has the fast forwarding limitation, and presumably the stopping issue (although I haven't actually played it through to see if that's the case).  So it seems to me that as long as an MKV file is under 1,200,000 KB, it should work just fine.  So basically, the only way I see to get around playing a larger file is to split it into smaller chucks of maybe 1 GB each.  I tried splitting a 4.5 GB file using mkvmerge, and while it no longer had the fast forwarding limitation and stopping issue, I did have some audio issues that were probably caused by the splitting.  Maybe now I just need to find a better program for splitting MKV files...

[chic65]

Okay, this thread is making me nervous, I have a bunch of MKV moviess on DVD that I haven't tried out yet (all 4gb+).  Is anyone NOT having an issue with this??  Argh.

[Sephindale]

  I would just like to add that the NS-BRDVD3-CA does this, too.  It cuts mkv file playback at the 2 gig marker, at least on USB thumb drives.  I would bet their entire catalogue of products behaves this way since this is the 3rd model mentioned in this thread.  It's got to be something in the programming (firmware).

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[twoSlax]

It happens around 19 minutes on a 1080p mkv movie that I have.  Perhaps it does occur a certain number of bytes into a movie.  A 1080p movie would have a higher bitrate and thus the 2 gig (or whatever the limitation is) mark would occur sooner.

I definitely think this is an issue with all the players as opposed to a series of flukes as this is actually my second WBRDVD with identical results.

Thanks for all the replies! 

[chic65]

Just tried playing through one, and yup, stopped at around the 52 minute mark.  

Do we think this will be fixed, or, is that just the deal with MKV support on any brand of blu-ray player?  

So bummed.