BDV-E380 and the MKV conundrum

[evildead6661666]

Hi everyone,

I have a Sony BDV-E380 home cinema system.  It is on my home network.  My network router is an ASUS RT-N66U Dark Knight, with a 2TB USB hard drive plugged into it acting as a NAS.  It all works well, except...

Some MKVs will play and some will not.  The ones that won't give the "corrupt or unsupported file type" message.  I have tried hundreds of video files, so though some may be corrupt, certainly not all of them are.  They all play perfectly in VLC player.

I have used MediaInfo to check the specifics of the files that play and those that don't.  Someone on this forum suggested that "Header stripping" might be a considersation, but I can confirm that some videos with header stripping will play.  Also, some XviD will play and some will not.

Can anyone suggest what I might look for in the MediaInfo information to try to work out why some will play and some will not?

Are audio streams likely to be involved?  Or more likely, only the encoding of the video streams?

It would be great to get to the bottom of this, so all suggestions greatfully received.

xx

ED

[Bravia55HX]

Hi,

the only useful thing i can add is have you tried Homestream? as this seems to work albeit minus .srt files which to some is frustrating!, i have enclosed a link below if your unsure.

http://www.sony.co.uk/hub/1237485339460

[evildead6661666]

Thanks for the suggestion, but Homestream is software to be installed onto a computer.  I'm trying to stream from my network attached storage (2TB USB hard drive plugged into my router).