I can confirm that this does not play any sound either via HDMI or the composite audio output. It must be some strange thing to do with audio encoding.
Run the file through MKVmerge Version 4.0.0 (The stars were mine) and the new file should now have sound. It takes a few seconds and obviously corrects some problem with the file which may have been caused by the latest MKVmerge 4.1.0 (Boiling point). Just add the original file and start muxing.
frakkin awesome. this has been bugging the heck outta me. newer versions of mkvmerge don’t work. v4.0.0.0 works perfectly for this. wish i read this post before i deleted some things.
Hey RichUK thanks so much for the 4.0.0 fix! It worked for me, only catch was I could just run mux right away, I had to set the default track flag to default and forced track flag to yes. that seemed to do the trick as I am watching and listening to it now! Thanks so much.
The Matroska specifications know a feature called “header removal compression”. This allows a muxer to keep a certain number of bytes that are identical for each frame in the track headers removing them from the individual frames. This reduces the size of the tracks significantly without altering the content as a demuxer can add the bytes found in the track headers to each frame during demuxing.
Starting with v4.1.0 mkvmerge uses header removal compression for a couple of track types by default. These include AC3, DTS and MP3 audio tracks as well as Dirac and MPEG-4 part 2 (aka. XviD/DivX) video tracks. The user muxing a file may disable it by explicitely selecting ‘none’ as the compression scheme for such a track.
If your player has difficulties playing such files then it is a bug in that player or in the demuxer but not in mkvmerge. This feature has been part of the Matroska specification since more than six years, and there’s no excuse for refusing to add support for it.
The proper solution is to ask the vendor of your player to support this feature. A temporary solution is to re-mux such files turning off extra compression for all tracks.
You should be able to play AC3 sound – can you post the MediaInfo on the file that won’t play?
If it’s something to do with the codec it can always be changed or re-encoded, using ffmpeg would be the best bet. But let’s see what that file looks like. Also, I’d advise you to start your own thread, as it is not the best idea to post at the end of a long thread of someone else’s.
I already sold my first wd player, then bought the live, now I need to go buy the live plus?!?!
Give me a break! Whats up with this company?? This is totally ridiculous!
Next purchase will be asus or another competitor. There is plenty of competition and I’m sure they are studying all the short comings of this media player and will design ONE machine that will cover ALL of these redundant issues that the users keep complaining about…
