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I've been experiencing a VLC "hang" on certain mkv files. This occurs both on Windows 7 and windows XP (the logs below are from a Windows 7 machine) and I believe it also occurs on Windows Vista as per this post: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=71300. Basically, when the file finishes playing, the player gets stuck at the end of the file, and nothing registers if you try to open a new file in that instance or play the next playlist item (either by skipping or trying to open that item manually).
I also tried these same files on an OSX machine and it works fine; I have successfully tried other mkv files and have this not happen, so I know its not machine-related. I am running latest VLC (1.0.5 Goldeneye).

This dump was performed with vebosity level of 2. I have a similar dump from another entirely unrelated file (this is from a Stargate Atlantis 720p video, the other is a cartoon (Futurama) mkv). I can post it as well if desired, but it suffered from the same missing block EOF warning.
p.s. There was a large number of unknown seekhead references, but I removed them to fit within the allotted character limit.

Does it look like ticket 2864 or ticket 3088 ?

I had seen #2864, and #3088 sounds similar, but my test videos each have only one, English, audio track. I suppose its possible that they may be labeled as "English" tracks but do not register as English to the VLC decoder.

You have 2 audio tracks in the debug you posted.

Well then, I stand corrected. Looks like multiple audio tracks is the issue, but I was using the primary English track on both of them (and in the Futurama sample (not posted) both tracks are English; I didn't check on the Stargate sample). Are there any updates on when either of those tickets will be fixed?

Edit: I guess its been fixed for 1.1 but that isn't released yet? Is there an alpha/beta posted that I could test with? I'd also like to add that if you quit the GUI (as per #3088), the process which continues to run will continually consume memory (I had two each go up to 256+ megs a piece)

Edit2: Found the nightlies, if its still broken with 1.1.0 I'll update here

Edit3: Well, I downloaded vlc-1.1.0-git-20100305-0002-win32.exe, but both tests failed as before. Was able to successfully go between files with a different mkv, so my 1.1 install does work.
If its useful, I can download the debug version and try with it; I can also try to splice together a sample and upload it so that the developers have a copy of the file to test with.

Thanks again for looking into this.

If its useful, I can download the debug version and try with it; I can also try to splice together a sample and upload it so that the developers have a copy of the file to test with.

Thanks, but we have everything we need.