MPC "cannot render the file" on some .M2TS files, but not all??

[insaneoctane]

I've got a set of files ripped from blu-ray and processed using tsmuxer for PS3 playback.
For some reason, on one title, of the SEVEN m2ts files in the STREAM folder, 6 of them will not playback with MPC with the error "cannot render the file", but one can. Here are the two mediainfo outputs for the files:

FILE that will NOT play:
General
ID : 1
Complete name : f:\AVCHD\BDMV\STREAM\00000.MTS
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : BluRay Video
File size : 3.91 GiB
Duration : 22mn 1s
Overall bit rate : 25.4 Mbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 35.5 Mbps
Video
ID : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : VC-1
Format profile : AP@L3
Duration : 22mn 1s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Language : English
Audio
ID : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Duration : 22mn 1s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Channel(s) : 8 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R C, Middle: L R, Rear: L R, LFE
Video delay : -140ms
Text #1
ID : 4608 (0x1200)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Text #2
ID : 4609 (0x1201)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS

File that WILL play:
General
ID : 1
Complete name : f:\AVCHD\BDMV\STREAM\00006.MTS
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : BluRay Video
File size : 1.46 GiB
Duration : 13mn 4s
Overall bit rate : 16.0 Mbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 35.5 Mbps
Video
ID : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : VC-1
Format profile : AP@L3
Duration : 13mn 4s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Language : English
Audio
ID : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Duration : 13mn 4s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Channel(s) : 8 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R C, Middle: L R, Rear: L R, LFE
Video delay : -123ms
Text #1
ID : 4608 (0x1200)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Duration : 12mn 58s
Video delay : 4s 42ms
Text #2
ID : 4609 (0x1201)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Duration : 12mn 58s
Video delay : 4s 0ms

Here's the directory 00000 thru 00005 won't play....
Volume in drive F is SCRATCH500
Volume Serial Number is DC71-ED27
Directory of f:\AVCHD\BDMV\STREAM
06/23/2010 09:54 PM <DIR> .
06/23/2010 09:54 PM <DIR> ..
06/23/2010 09:40 PM 4,193,753,088 00000.MTS
06/23/2010 09:42 PM 4,194,091,008 00001.MTS
06/23/2010 09:45 PM 4,193,482,752 00002.MTS
06/23/2010 09:47 PM 4,192,714,752 00003.MTS
06/23/2010 09:50 PM 4,193,458,176 00004.MTS
06/23/2010 09:52 PM 4,193,280,000 00005.MTS
06/23/2010 09:53 PM 1,566,984,192 00006.MTS
06/23/2010 09:54 PM 1,142,784 83001.MTS
06/23/2010 09:54 PM 73,728 93001.MTS
9 File(s) 26,728,980,480 bytes
2 Dir(s) 66,351,239,168 bytes free

The files WILL playback on PS3 (and VLC), but not MPC and so I can't run any avisynth scripts....Can someone please help me understand why?

[mikiem]

"The files WILL playback on PS3 (and VLC), but not MPC and so I can't run any avisynth scripts....Can someone please help me understand why?"

A *guess* would be because MPC uses files/apps/DS filters etc *outside* MPC, while VLC & your PS3 do not. Maybe MPC is using something that you've installed, & it doesn't like those files, or it loads a different combo of DS filters with the different files or something similar? 2 different troubleshooting paths I might use would be 1) using a process monitor to see if there was a difference in what loaded between the files, &/or trying to force MPC not to use 1 or more filters [by renaming files etc], &/or 2) look at the files themselves to see if they were bad somehow -- it would not be *that* unusual if a portion of the file was damaged, which many players & some DS filters/apps will ignore. In cases with files that were damaged I often start by taking a small section of the file & seeing if that played - if so then I try to find the bad section(s) & either cut them out or replace them - if not I try without audio. Sometimes I wind up re-encoding the file - many times it makes more sense to just re-encode, since diagnosing the prob can take 3 X the time to re-encode, if not longer. But that's just me -- there are much smarter, more experienced people than me & maybe one of them will post a better answer?

[jagabo]

Try (re)installing Haali. In AviSynth try using DSS2() instead of DirectShowSource(). DSS2() comes with Haali as avss.dll.