Hi. 1st post here. Has anyone tried foobar 0.8 with a matroska file with chapters? It plays just fine when I use the 0.7.7 version. Now all I get is an "ERROR (foo_matroska) : Matroska: unable to find a '' packet decoder object." message for every chapter in the file. MKA files with no chapters work fine by the way. I can post the output from mkvinfo if someone wants it. Am I the only one having this problem?

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echo

No problem here with chaptered MKA's, anyway.

Thanks for your answer PlazzTT. Are you by any chance using any of the older components? I just installed the special version of v0.8 after I uninstalled everything from v0.7.7. Anyway I tried using foo_matroska.dll from v0.7.7 with foobar v0.8 and the chapter titles were read correctly but still I could not play them back. If anyone has any insights on this, please share your knowledge. It seems that I'm stuck with v0.7.7 for now

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echo

You need 0.8 version of foo_matroska, bundled with special installer.

Sorry for not making this clear, but I have downloaded the 0.8 special installer and when I use the foo_matroska.dll provided with it I don't even get the chapter names right, let alone playback. All I get is the file name displayed for every chapter in the file.

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echo

Then post sample file that supposedly doesn't work. Or report which codec it was encoded with.

Wow! That was fast! It is a vorbis encoded file. I've also tried making some more mka's that include vorbis with chapters and none worked. Foobar works just fine with mp3 and flac. I will upload a sample once I get home.

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echo

OK, reproduced, thanks for info.
No need for sample files, I've made my own ones.

Temporary fix.

I have the exact same problem with a .mka file (created with mkvmerge 1.6.5) with chapters and a WavPack stream (encoded with wavpack 4.31, -hm). I get the following error for each chapter:

foobar doesn't play the file at all. The URL for the fix isn't valid anymore, can I download it from somewhere else?
Edit: I use the latest stable version of foobar (0.8.3 special installer).

I have the very same problem and I already posted it in the past. No fix up till now: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....583&hl=matroska

I would advise to stay away of audio embedded in matroska because it simply does not work properly. At least with foobar....

??? Sorry, i don't get this logic. Anyhow, i hope we can assist the Foobar2000 team in updating MKA support in their player, to avoid that more and more users don't use our format because of bad support in a (excellent, widely used) audio player.

Christian
matroska project admin

The logic is that it doesn't work properly in foobar with wavpack embedded in matroska, which was the scope of skamp's post.

Anyway, if you embed art and wavpack in matroska you cannot display/playback in foobar. Better to not use matroska and embed the cuesheet in the image file or leave tracks separated and leave the album art as a jpg in the folder. This way it works.

I don't intend to diminish the value of matroska, it works properly with video, but unless devs take the format out of the coma in features related to audio (like proper wavpack playback in foobar and cover display) it will not be able to compete with current solutions.

The matroska team will offer at least one, if not more working playback solutions for all the stuff we do. Please accept we can't implement matroska support into any player out there.

IMO it should be the features of the format itself, compared to other formats, that make you go for it or not. Missing support in a specific player, even a very good one, is a strange logic to me. That's what i was expressing.

Your problem is BTW caused by the fact that a 'wavpack packet decoder' is missing for Foobar2000. This is no problem at all when playing wavpack from its default container/framing, but a big problem for general use containers like matroska or MP4. Of course, wavpack support in Fb2k could have been added based on separate parser for the framing and a wavpack packet decoder AFAIK, but the way it was done was obviously easier and quicker to do.

No offense taken though ... i am using Fb2k extensively, its a superb app ! It's by far my preferred audio encoder for all purposes, as its the only one (for the time being) that can read and convert audio directly from MKV and MKA files ....

Christian
matroska project admin