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Brilliant, thanks very much for your help.

Thank you for your quick replies. I've uploaded a small (14mb) broken MKV here: http://www.2shared.com/video/fCXajqhc/lost-test.html This is an incomplete .mkv file (about the first 2% output of a commandline x264 encode). The file plays fine in VLC 1.1.8 but fails in 2.0 (play icon turns to pause, ...

In previous versions of VLC, I could check the quality of x264 encodes while they were still encoding by playing the partially encoded file in VLC, but I notice that VLC 2.0 no longer plays broken or incomplete .mkv files. Is this a feature or bug?

Thanks for the excellent program!