Unable to play mkv containers with more than one audio or subtitle stream

[jptheripper]

ALl my mkv with just one audio video stream play fine. If i try to play one with multiple audio (directors comments, etc) i get "unable to play selected". Any ideas?

[jptheripper]

hmm,

i just tried one with h264 video, dts , and 1 subtitle. Didnt work. Removing the subtitle fixes it. grrr..

[jgourd]

BM will play anything that MS Media player plays. I recently (after figuring out how to get DVD Lib plugin to recognize mkv) discovered a bunch of mkvs that BM was "Unable to play" also played in MS media player but without sound. So my approach in the future is to fix MS media player playing issues and BM should fix itself.

[jptheripper]

my problem was that they had .ass subtitles.

turning .ass support on in ffdshow fixed the error

[jgourd]

My problem now is that when there are more than one sound track, sometimes the non-English one plays and I do not see a way to switch audio tracks in BM.

[jptheripper]

unfortunately the only way i have found is to go into the file and set english (for me) as default

[jgourd]

Originally Posted by jptheripper

unfortunately the only way i have found is to go into the file and set english (for me) as default

That is a reasonable suggestion. How do you do this?

[jptheripper]

i use a program called mkvmerge. Its pretty powerful, but you have to basically remux with the new settings (no re-encoding).
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MKVtoolnix