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MKV playback problems Panasonic TX-L42E30B, TX-L37E30B and TX-L32E30B
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There's something wrong with the Panasonic TX-L42E30B, TX-L37E30B and TX-L32E30B TVs not recognising certain MKV container specific settings.
There is nothing actually wrong with the x264 encoded video and audio streams - the solution is to correctly re-mux the contents of the MKV container into a compatible MKV container while avoiding a time consuming re-encode.
I have found 2 solutions (on OSX) to the problem that don't require re-encoding.
1) Repackage the MKV as a mp4 using mp4tools (http://www.emmgunn.com/mp4tools/mp4toolshome.html). This works, but is unable to handle MKVs with DTS encoded audio streams on my machine.
2) Repackage the MKV as an MKV using mkvtools beta (http://www.emmgunn.com/mkvtools/mkvtoolshome.html). This has worked flawlessly on all the broken MKVs I've tried. mkvtools also can split MKVs into FAT32 compatible chunks for playback from USB sticks and so on.
For some reason, remuxing using mkvtoolnix does **not** solve this problem, but mkvtools does.
Hope this helps other Google travellers get their videos working on this great TV.
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