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consistantly crashes after about a minuite of properly playing a MKV file

what gives?

Matroska is a container. What are the formats inside?

Press ctrl i while playing the video and go to the Advanced Information tab.

Messages within VLC will always give indications of problems. But 9 times out of 10 the problem is the file.

I just post a thread few minutes ago :

viewtopic.php?t=24747



but I hope this issue will be solve soon

Not playing with subtitles or any modification to player install or settings.

The stats say a lot of stuff and it will not cut and paste why is it everything in windows you want a hard copy of cannot be printed or put in a file?

ok highlights


codec XVId
english
video
544X416
stream 1

codec a52
etc etc etc

musing app libebml v0.7.7 _ libm....
writing app mkvmerge v1.7.0 .....
description AC3

that's all i have patences for

If the file plays fine without subtitles selected, the problem is the sub and just because it was multiplexed into the container does not mean the sub was made properly. The most usual condition is that the FPS is missing from the sub. While this will most generally play in other players because most of them are taking the frame rate of the video and applying it to the sub but this is against the specifications of most all of the subtitle formats and does not negate the fact that the real problem here is the subtitle. When the subtitle file is incorrect for the video or the FPS specification is missing the problems will range from simple drift in time to causing the video not to play.

VLC supports some 9 different Subtitle formats, but is does not support positional information, color or embedded fonts available in a few of them. This is being considered for the next revision.

but is does not support positional information, color or embedded fonts available in a few of them. This is being considered for the next revision.

I hope soon