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scott@scottlounge:/media/pool/Entertainment/Kids Movies/Toy Story$ ls -al
total 139475356
drwxrwxr-x 2 shagoo shagadmin 4096 Dec 21 07:38 .
drwxrwxr-x 4 shagoo shagadmin 4096 Dec 21 06:50 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 shagoo shagadmin 38283857591 Oct 29 08:00 'Toy Story 1 1995.mkv'
-rwxrwxr-x 1 shagoo shagadmin 38206970600 Dec 20 12:02 'Toy Story 2 1999.mkv'
-rwxrwxr-x 1 shagoo shagadmin 34866723380 Oct 31 03:48 'Toy Story 3 2010.mkv'
-rwxrwxr-x 1 shagoo shagadmin 31465184866 Oct 12 17:13 'Toy Story 4 2019.mkv'Toy Story 1 can be played on a remote Kubuntu VLC client but the other 3 cannot.
All of these movies can be played from a remote Windows 10 VLC client but the same issue, 1 can play and 3 cannot, applies for 3 Kubuntu 19.10 VLC clients. All the movies can be played on all the clients if the movie is played as a local file.
As I suspected there may be an problem with the multiplexing I demultiplexed Toy Story 1 and 2 and remultiplexed them but the results were unchanged. I also moved the newly multiplexed files to a different directory which also had no effect. I also installed the File Manager Nautilus to test if my normal File Manager, Dolphin was the culprit, also no effect.
Following on from this I tested several dozen other movies on the server and could not find a common feature that causes the problem, although it is worth noting that only mkv movies would not play and many mkv movies would. Of the 4 movies listed above, all are mkv 4K/UHD/2160P with colour space of BT2020.
Due to space limitations I am unable to post the log, or even appear to be able to upload it.