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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 19 for Windows => Topic started by: 6233638 on March 14, 2014, 06:56:28 pm
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Well I just bought my first Blu-ray audio disc, and I'm having a bit of difficulty getting it to play in Media Center.
The main album works fine, as that's a "video" (just a blank screen showing the track names) with a PCM stereo track and a DTS-HD multichannel track.
But most of the other titles on the disc won't play. Media Center hangs at "opening..." for 30-60 seconds, and eventually I get a black screen and playback appears to be paused. (progress bar doesn't move)
If there's a video it seems to work fine, but I think the ones which are hanging are audio only.
It also looks like there are tracks on the disc which don't have playlists associated with them, as I can't seem to find all of the bonus tracks - but I guess that's because they expected them to be accessed via BD Menus/Java.
Browsing the disc via Explorer, I am able to load the audio-only m2ts files directly, and they do play in Media Center - I'm just having some difficulty figuring out what tracks they are.
I think there is something odd going on with the authoring though - I thought I'd try ripping the audio out of the M2TS files and putting them into MKAs, but MKVmerge is giving me a "The input file does not contain any tracks" error with some of them - though Media Center doesn't have a problem playing them when I load them directly. (rather than via a playlist)
I think I'll be able to figure something out (I'll probably use Media Center to convert from DTS-HD to FLAC since it can play these files) but I was wondering if anything could be done to improve the playback of these "audio-only" playlists.
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Which disk do you have?
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Which disk do you have?
Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning. (it was a blind purchase and I'm not sure that it's to my taste from what I've heard so far, but I'm more concerned about titles not playing correctly)
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I'll see if I can grab a couple today and have a play.
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FYI - they did not have this disk and the 4 I purchased were all fine. I've created a thread for these - http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=88100.msg603779#msg603779
PS - do you want me to merge this thread into the one I created?
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Hey jmone. Did you buy them from a shop in Sydney or online? If a shop which one?
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JB Chatwood Chase had a dozen or so - but more online (https://www.jbhifionline.com.au/support.aspx?post=1&results=10&q=Pure+Audio&source=all&bnSearch.x=0&bnSearch.y=0&bnSearch=Go%21)
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FYI - they did not have this disk and the 4 I purchased were all fine. I've created a thread for these - http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=88100.msg603779#msg603779
OK - thanks for the update. Good to see that these discs seem to work correctly.
PS - do you want me to merge this thread into the one I created?
No - I think this is a specific issue with LAV Filters (or the disc's mastering) rather than being something which will affect all Blu-ray discs.
I'm not sure this disc is under the "Pure Audio" branding either.
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JB Chatwood Chase had a dozen on so - but more online (https://www.jbhifionline.com.au/support.aspx?post=1&results=10&q=Pure+Audio&source=all&bnSearch.x=0&bnSearch.y=0&bnSearch=Go%21)
Cool that's just 5 minutes from my place. Will check it out next time we go shopping.
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No - I think this is a specific issue with LAV Filters (or the disc's mastering) rather than being something which will affect all Blu-ray discs.
I'm not sure this disc is under the "Pure Audio" branding either.
I agree - from what I could see it is just branded as "normal" BD so I'm thinking it has some "unique" mastering....
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Dudes ... you've just sent JB's international.
You should hit them up for commission.
Anyhoo, thanks for the intel. Now I've got another outlet for my cash.. ;)
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But most of the other titles on the disc won't play. Media Center hangs at "opening..." for 30-60 seconds, and eventually I get a black screen and playback appears to be paused. (progress bar doesn't move)
If there's a video it seems to work fine, but I think the ones which are hanging are audio only.
Hendrik - any suggestions for what I need to send you so you can investigate why this isn't playing?
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What's your medie center? Have you tried common audio format like MP3, AAC, or AC3 for output?