BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH?

[Dominick1978]

I tried playing the following mkv  file and it gave me the black screen:

General

Unique ID                        : 179517758728875460311983695370009295631 (0x870DDCDA7739D583AF61A1EB1595BB0F)

Complete name                    : C:\Users\Dominick\Videos\Wedding.mkv

Format                           : Matroska

Format version                   : Version 2

File size                        : 936 MiB

Duration                         : 3h 40mn

Overall bit rate                 : 593 Kbps

Encoded date                     : UTC 2011-05-11 23:13:10

Writing application              : mkvmerge v4.4.0 ('Die Wiederkehr') built on Oct 31 2010 21:52:48

Writing library                  : libebml v1.0.0 + libmatroska v1.0.0

Video

ID                               : 1

Format                           : AVC

Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec

Format profile                   : High@L4.0

Format settings, CABAC           : Yes

Format settings, ReFrames        : 8 frames

Muxing mode                      : Header stripping

Codec ID                         : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC

Duration                         : 3h 40mn

Nominal bit rate                 : 560 Kbps

Width                            : 1 280 pixels

Height                           : 544 pixels

Display aspect ratio             : 2.35:1

Frame rate                       : 23.976 fps

Color space                      : YUV

Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0

Bit depth                        : 8 bits

Scan type                        : Progressive

Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.034

Writing library                  : x264 core 112 r1867 22bfd31

Encoding settings                : cabac=1 / ref=8 / deblock=1:-1:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=2 / threads=16 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=560 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00

Language                         : Hindi

Audio

ID                               : 2

Format                           : AAC

Format/Info                      : Advanced Audio Codec

Format profile                   : HE-AAC / LC

Codec ID                         : A_AAC

Duration                         : 3h 40mn

Channel(s)                       : 2 channels

Channel positions                : Front: L R

Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz / 24.0 KHz

Compression mode                 : Lossy

Language                         : Hindi

Menu

00:00:00.097                     : en:00:00:00.097

Now I can't play any file. It shows the black screen everytime.

I reseted to factory defaults but no luck.

Can yoy help me?

Thanks in advance.

[TonyPh12345]

The file has HEADER STRIPPING.

Any time you try such a file, you'll have to reboot the box.

You'll have to REMOVE the header stripping from all your files; they don't work.

[harsh2uk]

Whats header stripping please? I have just had the same problem.

[TonyPh12345]

Header Stripping is a type of additional (though very tiny) compression in MKV streams. 

It was enabled BY DEFAULT in MKVMerge version 4.1.0 and later.

http://matroska.org/news/compressed-headers.html