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osgZach · 26th January 2011, 20:48

Alright. I ran a 2-pass mkv create (mode 4/ mode 5) with TFM/TDec and muxed two mkvs from it.

One with no header compression, and one with. The one with header compression would not even play (it would start the play screen, then exit immediately). And from what I could gleen from brief Googling, the issue with the WDTV and header compression is people complaining about audio files not playing (I'm guessing compression was not used on the video tracks). So in either case I think we can rule out header compression as the culprit.

The one I made without compression enabled, played pretty much flawlessly from what I could tell. However I did not compare different timecode format ouputs, so I won't make any accusations either way about that, as I don't think its all that important anyway. I can stick with V1 if I want to be superstitious.

I guess the problem with some of my older files, was the age of the tools? In either case now I'm at a different crossroads of sorts.

I can't decide whether to continue my current programming project (very early testing, but assuming I don't lack the skill, it would be a tool like YATTA only much easier to use and with a half decent documentation), or to scrap that and instead focus on writing a simple GUI to ease the manual script creation process (I will be doing lots of batch encodes) of a 2-pass VFR MKV using TIVTC...lol I guess its a more preferable problem to files that won't play right.

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osgZach Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: USA Posts: 676	Alright. I ran a 2-pass mkv create (mode 4/ mode 5) with TFM/TDec and muxed two mkvs from it. One with no header compression, and one with. The one with header compression would not even play (it would start the play screen, then exit immediately). And from what I could gleen from brief Googling, the issue with the WDTV and header compression is people complaining about audio files not playing (I'm guessing compression was not used on the video tracks). So in either case I think we can rule out header compression as the culprit. The one I made without compression enabled, played pretty much flawlessly from what I could tell. However I did not compare different timecode format ouputs, so I won't make any accusations either way about that, as I don't think its all that important anyway. I can stick with V1 if I want to be superstitious. I guess the problem with some of my older files, was the age of the tools? In either case now I'm at a different crossroads of sorts. I can't decide whether to continue my current programming project (very early testing, but assuming I don't lack the skill, it would be a tool like YATTA only much easier to use and with a half decent documentation), or to scrap that and instead focus on writing a simple GUI to ease the manual script creation process (I will be doing lots of batch encodes) of a 2-pass VFR MKV using TIVTC...lol I guess its a more preferable problem to files that won't play right. Last edited by osgZach; 26th January 2011 at 20:51.