Re: [xine-devel] MKV videos play with no AC3 sound or subtitles

[Andrew de Q. <ad...@li...>]

On Sunday 12 Dec 2004 14:17, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 14:09 +0000, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> > If I convert any video to MKV with mkvtoolsnix, xine plays only the video
> > stream - no sound or subtitles. (tried mkvtoolsnix 0.9.7 AND 1.0.0).
> >
> > In fact, if I use the kaffeine UI, its submenus indicate there ARE no
> > sound or subtitle tracks. However, mkvinfo lists the tracks correctly.
> > vlc, and mplayer play it correctly.
> >
> > I'm converting FROM an AVI to an MKV - reason being I want to multiplex
> > subtitles in with the file. However - the subtitles are not the factor
> > here. If I just convert the AVI, I get the same erroneous behaviour.
>
> <snip>
>
> You might want to provide a test file, rather than debug logs. So that
> people can debug it for themselves.

Duh! Good point :)

http://lidskialf.net/x.mkv
(~5Mb)

Its the standard dolby canyon trailer encoded into AVI, but leaving the AC3 
soundtrack intact. Same problem as before.

Oh - the command I used was "mkvmerge -o x.mkv dolby_canyon.avi"