[MPlayer-users] .mkv files after using mkvpropedit not able to play...

[Uoti Urpala]

On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 21:20 +0100, Andreas Allacher wrote:
> I found out that in most cases if I use mkvpropedit those files won't play with mplayer anymore. It says no track information found.
> At least by using the default demuxer.
> HOWEVER, if I use "-demuxer lavf" it works.

I got a crash when testing that with "-demuxer lavf"...

> Regarding the mkvpropedit author it is probably because after editing those files the track information are stored at the end of the file instead of the beginning which is allowed according to mkv specifications.

Yes that is the reason. A simple fix enough to play back such files was
easy to make, but I think it's better to improve the code in a somewhat
more general way. I'll probably implement that sometime next week.