Now that I learned the DS Video iOS app has problems playing Digital Dolby Plus audio (another name for E-AC-3) I no longer need to convert the whole MKV to MP3: simply re-encoding the audio track is way faster!įirst, I make sure the audio is indeed E-AC-3 using ffprobe, an FFmpeg compagnion program. I removed the audio track from the Matroska container and… the DS Video app happily played the video. Enhanced AC-3 is the newer audio format, AC-3 the older one. Taking a closer look showed no difference between the video files but the audio had different encodings! The working one had an AC-3 audio track, the non-working an E-AC-3 one. Finding the Culprit: Audioįast forward a few months and another. Converting a video from one format to another takes time though and loses a bit of quality each time.
#Plex mkv files stop playing mp4#
Converting the Matroska files to MP4 fixed the issue. MP4 Always WorksĬomparing a working with a non-working Matroska file showed both contained MP4 video files so I gave up trying to understand the world of video codecs and blamed the weird Synology iOS app. Some played in the Synology web app but not on iOS, some played in the DS File app but not the DS Video one, etc, etc. I always thought the Synology DS Video iOS app had trouble reading the video format. mkv files can’t be played on the iOS DS Video app, a companion video player for the Synology NAS.
#Plex mkv files stop playing archive#
Think of it as a ZIP archive for videos.įor a while now I am trying to figure out why some. It can hold video, audio, pictures, and subtitles in a single file. mkv extension, is a media container format.
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