Panasonic does not support MKV header stripping/compression
Submitted by Age Bosma (IRC: Forage)
Link to original bug (#667232)
Description
I did some research as to why my Panasonic TV does play some MKV files fine, while it does not do so for others that are using the same audio and video codecs. Sometimes it does not play a file at all, something not audio is played.
Remuxing a working MKV, using mkvmerge, resulted in a non-working one, even though it should have resulted in a (nearly) identical file.
After a closer inspection I found the cause: Header stripping/compression. When an application like mediainfo reports "Muxing mode : Header stripping" for one or more streams, those streams will not be played.
mkvmerge uses header compression by default, even though more players suffer from the lack of supporting this.
Would this be something that can be dealt with in Rygel? I.e. a hack for one or more specific players to either transcode files with header compression to a different format or, preferably, keep the same format but uncompress the headers on the fly.
Example of remuxing an MKV turning header compression for all steams off: mkvmerge -o output.mkv --compression -1:none input.mkv
Version: git master