Blue lines on my film downloads

[beesonthewhatnow]

I'm now at the stage where everything apart form the .mkv file is playing fine, via Media Player.

So I'm gonna leave it the fuck alone

 

[Firky]

I would hazard a guess that it is only 99.9% complete. Reforce a hash recheck in Utorrent by right clicking on your torrent within UT.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I would hazard a guess that it is only 99.9% complete. Reforce a hash recheck in Utorrent by right clicking on your torrent within UT.

Do a what on my thingy in the eh now?

 

[Hi-ASL]

No, it's .mkv and probably Media Player doesn't support .mkv without an additional codec, as it's rubbish.

If (s?)he's having trouble with VLC and Media Player's rubbish... what are the alternatives? Media Player Classic seems quite popular, and might be worth a try. Any others?

 

[Firky]

Do a what on my thingy in the eh now?

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Firky - but the files aren't in uTorrent anymore, they're where I moved them to on my hard drive

 

[lobster]

What it could be the problem is the person who encoded that .mkv used some encoder option that is not supported by vlc...


To illustrate what i mean go to this page

That table shows the software encoder options, vlc uses x264 built-in , someone could have encoded that film with VSofts that supports Flexible Macroblock Ordering (FMO) and a few other features that x264 does not use.

This is not very common , but its possible. I remember when bbc released some HD h264 content and VLC could not play it at the time, its since been resolved..