uncropMKV: Video height not compliant

[Patapin]

Hi everyone,

I found a few Bollywood movies in MKV (1280x544) on an indian site! So, now, they are on my PC, but I would like to read them on my standalone Home Cinema, via an USB device, alas my Sony player says the format is not compatible.

So I read your forum, and found a tool that seems to be appropriate: uncropMKV.
I succeeded with some files, but for one of them, there is this message in red: Video height not compliant.
I wonder why it works for one, and not for the other. Maybe I should add the mediainfo files?

[ndjamena]

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uncrop is only useful if you actually want to create a Blu Ray structure, not just to play a random file on a USB drive.

Have you tested it to see if what you're doing works because what you're saying seems kind of strange to me.

What is the actual model of your Sony device? Is it supposed to play MP4 or MKV? Are you actually trying to create a Blu Ray/AVCHD structure on your USB device or do you just not really know what you're doing?

[sneaker]

I believe the main point of uncropMKV is to detect "not [Blu-ray] compliant" video height. If it detects that it should re-encode to make the height Blu-ray compliant (which may or may not be necessary for your player). So it is not an actual error and your problem description is not helping us. Post complete uncropMKV log, MediaInfo log (better yet: actual sample), media player model and say what exactly isn't working (actual error messages).

[Patapin]

Hi guys, thanks for all your questions, I'll try to do my best to answer you properly.

My standalone player is Full HD 3D Blu-ray Disc player SONY BDV-N590, it can read a lot of video formats, but can't read 1280x544 mkv.

[Attachment 40780 - Click to enlarge]It needs something like 1280x720.
I just bought it (it's a second hand player), and someday I will install kodi on it, but for the moment I don't know how to do it. So I try to read my movies on a USB device.

Why I use uncropMKV is because the video file contains subs that I want to keep. So I need a 1280x720 file, I don't need a AVCHD structure.

So, what is the problem? uncropMKV won't work entirely.

[12:03:00] Detected audio: ID#2:A_AAC (48000Hz/2ch) Language: hin
[12:03:00] Detected subtitles: ID#3:S_VOBSUB Language: none
[12:03:00] Detected video: ID#1:Unsupported:1280x544 25.000fps (AR:2.35)
[12:03:00] Video height not compliant (480/576/720/1080)!


I click on QUEUE, then START, and...
3 seconds later:



[12:06:20] Will keep track#2, Audio, AAC, hin, 48000Hz 2ch
[12:06:20] Will keep track#3, Subtitles, S_VOBSUB, none
[12:06:20] File queued: Bollywood2 1280x544 ENG.mkv
[12:06:22] Re-encoding with x264 (Ek.Paheli.Leela.2015 1280x544 ENG.mkv)...
[12:06:22] Will keep track#2, Audio
[12:06:22] Will keep track#3, Subtitles
[12:06:22] mkvmerge: -o "C:\Bollywood2 1280x544 ENG-uncropped.mkv" -a 2 -D -s 3 "C:\Bollywood2 1280x544 ENG.mkv" --default-duration 0:25.000fps -d 0 "C:\Bollywood2 1280x544 ENG.264"
[12:06:22] Done!
[12:06:22] Author: Dean Kasabow (dean@deanbg.com)


Now, the mediainfo:

General
Unique ID : 195577764271173278637420196722443130792 (0x9322E8429FFCC347B2D4C779039597A8)
Complete name : C:\A Pascal\Films moyens\Bollywood2.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 602 MiB
Duration : 2h 24mn
Overall bit rate : 583 Kbps
Movie name : Bollywood2.720p.DVDRiP.x265.HEVC.600MB.BollySite
Encoded date : UTC 2015-05-03 21:26:04
Writing application : mkvmerge v4.0.0 ('The Stars were mine') built on Jun 5 2010 17:44:09
Writing library : libebml v1.0.0 + libmatroska v1.0.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC
Codec ID : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC
Duration : 2h 24mn
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 544 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Default : No
Forced : No

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : HE-AAC / LC
Codec ID : A_AAC
Duration : 2h 24mn
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz / 24.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Language : Hindi
Default : No
Forced : No

Text
ID : 3
Format : VobSub
Muxing mode : zlib
Codec ID : S_VOBSUB
Codec ID/Info : The same subtitle format used on DVDs
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No


'or in attached file)

Do you think you can find why uncropMKV didn't work?

[ndjamena]

How exactly did you decide it was the resolution the player was rejecting?

Do you have a similar file that DOES play? Can we have the MediaInfo data from that?

(I've downloaded the manual for your player and it doesn't mention anything about resolution locks)

The file is obviously supposed to be 720p (1280x720), so all you'd really have to do is add 88 lines to the top and bottom to get to a standard resolution if that really is what's needed.

[ndjamena]

*sigh*

V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC

That's h265, there's no way that old Blu Ray player is going to support that!

Just load the damn thing in Handbrake and convert it to h264 and the problem should be solved without needing to add borders.

Somehow I doubt you'll be able to install Kodi on an old Blu Ray player, especially one from Sony.

[jagabo]

*sigh*

V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC

That's h265, there's no way that old Blu Ray player is going to support that!

Yes, that's the problem. Not the frame size. You want h.264, aka, AVC. And beware that most players do not support all possible settings (too long GOPs, too many consecutive b-frames, too many reference frames, etc.) that can be used in h.264. You should stick with high profile, level 4.1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Profiles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Levels

[Patapin]

So you solve the problem, congratulations!

handbrake 1.0.3 did the job (even though I lost the subtitles), so I could uncrop et mux everything with the demuxed subs. My movie is now ready to be read! Ready-read!

Thank you, everyone, you're great.