Split mkv file no playing correctly

[mchild]

I use MKVMerge to split large mkv files so that I can put the video on a FAT32 flash drive and play it with my Sony BD player. Never had an issue of replaying properly - until now. I have tried multiple times to split this particular 8.5GB file down to three 2.9GB parts. I link each of the parts for seamless replay (at least near seamless). But, with this video when the first part ends and the second part begins I loose the video while the audio works. Same if I try to start with part 2 or part 3, I only get the audio. Only part 1 properly replays the video and audio components. Also, if I play the three part version on my computer there is no issue as all works as expected.

Does anyone have an idea what may cause this?

Thank you.

[Baldrick]

Does the splitted parts work on your computer?

[mchild]

Does the splitted parts work on your computer?

Yes, it works correctly on my computer. Any thoughts?

Thank you.

[johns0]

Just reformat your flash drive to ntfs format and put the whole file there with out splitting it.

[davexnet]

If you want to give the split method another try, this product gets mentioned often on this forum:
https://www.videohelp.com/tools/SolveigMM-AVI-Trimmer

[Selur]

Yes, it works correctly on my computer. Any thoughts?

Problem might simply be that due to the inherent remuxing during the splitting some container tags changed, see: https://trac.bunkus.org/wiki/FAQ%3AImprovingPlaybackCompatibilityWithPlayers to figure out which settings might be the problem.

[mchild]

Just reformat your flash drive to ntfs format and put the whole file there with out splitting it.

johns0

Thanks for obvious solution. For some reason I had it in my mind that the BD player required FAT32 formatting on the flash drive. I looked where I thought I had seen that spec, but couldn't find it again so reformatted the flash drive to NTFS and it works perfect.

Many thanks.