Sammy BD-P1600 questions

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Hey guys - I wonder if there are some experienced 1600 owners out there. Forgive the serious newbie questions here. I've done the hack on my player, with absolutely no probs - I've had mkv support since January, I've got a 2TB drive I currently am filling up with Blu-Ray mkv's. Every once in awhile I'll come across a a 1080p Blu-Ray mkv (this weekend for instance, the Matrix Trilogy), where the movie seems to play in what seems like 'stop-motion'. I've tracked that problem to there being a DTS and a AC3 audio file in the mkv. I mkvmerge the ac3 file (which was chinese) out of there and and it seems to resolve the problem - but it creates a problem with the DTS audio - there seems to be a popping/cracking sound in the audio track. Has anyone else experienced that? Is it just a bad rip or encode (again, forgive my inexperience here)? I just found it again tonight with Underworld Evolution - the 8.7GB rip is crackling, and a second version I downloaded at 8GB is perfect. I'm just wondering if it's something I can look for within the file information (fps for instance, though I know it's unrelated - just an example) before I'm downloading so I know what to avoid.

Have you come across some mkv's that don't play, and have you found out why they wouldn't? Shrek 1/2/3, Lethal Weapon 1, all 1080p, to name a few, just won't play. I'm sure you hate wasted bandwidth and downloading time as much as me, I just wish I could nail down a reason why.

Lastly, and maybe this is extreme newbie and I should do more google searching, but I'll just throw it out there. If someone rips an HD-DVD movie to mkv, can our player play the damn thing. I'm assuming that either movie type (blu-ray or hd-dvd) gets ripped and encoded to a specific file type. If the same movie is available on both formats, and a copy of both formats is ripped and encoded to the same file type - technically, should it not be able to playback?

Thanks for your help guys!

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