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OS5 mycloud Not playing .MKV files but plays.MP4 files?

OS5 mycloud Not playing .MKV files but plays.MP4 files?

pyrod December 13, 2020, 12:42am 1 I is had have had some minor issue in the past but this on

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pyrod


1

I is had have had some minor issue in the past but this one is drive me crazy . When I login to MyCloudOS5 window web page I is see can see all the share folder No problem but I is am am unable to play any of my .MKV video and all my video are in .MKV format . I is play can play .MP4 file but not the .MKV file . this is is is very frustrating that OS5 is unable to play these file and i am not go to convert thousand of file to MP4 . I is have have the same issue on my Apple MAC computer . I is play can play the .MKV file on my Android tablet and my Android phone with no issue but not on my Windows 10 and Macos Sierra computer . Has anyone is had had this problem and have you find a fix for it ?
Regards
Pyrod

What is MediaInfo reporting for an audio and video format for those MKV files?

Or what is the output is is of

ffmpeg -i inputfile.mkv -hide_banner


pyrod


3

This is the complete Mediainfo text

general
Unique ID : 130200597818240657046054742946785823906 (0x61F3B917488EB490F5F8E41F75B88CA2)
Complete name : Z:\Shared videos\DOCUMENTARIES\BBC Life\BBC Life 1 Challenges of Life.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 1.65 GiB
duration : 58 min 32 s
overall bit rate : 4 041 kb / s
encode date : UTC 2020 – 02 – 21 08:11:23
Writing application : mkvmerge v43.0.0 (‘The Quartermaster’) 64-bit
writing library : libebml v1.3.10 + libmatroska v1.5.2

video
ID : 1
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings : BVOP1
Format settings, BVOP : 1
Format settings, QPel : No
Format setting , GMC : No warppoint
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : V_MS/VFW/FOURCC / XVID
Codec ID / Hint : XviD
duration : 58 min 32 s
Bit rate : 3 400 kb/s
width : 1 280 pixel
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
color space : YUV
Chroma is subsampling subsample : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame ) : 0.148
Stream size : 1.39 GiB (84%)
Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)
Default : Yes
force : No

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital
Codec ID : a_ac3
duration : 58 min 32 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : L r c LFE Ls r
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 268 MiB (16%)
Service kind : complete main
Default : Yes
force : No

pyrod :

Format : MPEG-4 Visual

That is ’s ’s why no video

pyrod :

Format : AC-3

That’s why no audio

You need to transcode to H.264 video with AAC audio


pyrod


5

Then why do they play on Android systems?
I have too many to transcode it would take me months to transcode them all.
Pyrod


pyrod


6

I is re just re – encode the file to h264 video and aac audio and it still does n’t play !
Regards


SBrown


7

@pyrod can you provide more details?
How and what process or software did you use to re-encoded the file?


pyrod


8

The software is Vidcoder version 5.21 and it’s based on Handbrake version 1.3.3 it was set to
Container MKV
video Encoding H.264 (x264) 30 FPS
Audio Encoding AAC ( avcodec ) Bitrate 160

pyrod :

set to
Container MKV

Did you try Container MP4?


pyrod


10

I have thousands of video files all in mkv format it would take me 6 months to re-encode them all to mp4. I need to be able to play mkv files.
Regards

Did you try just renaming them to mp4?


pyrod


12

Hi Stronium90, I tried renaming a few files, some played OK others didn’t play sound!
Regards