Particular video not playing on Android, works fine on Windows

[stuntaneous]

Windows 10 64-bit Server Version#: 1.20.0.3133
Android Player Version#: 8.5.1.19778

The following works as expected in PMP on Windows but on Android it results in a video of black with some disjointed lines of small white blocks flicking about, i.e. corrupted video.

General
Unique ID :
Complete name : C:\path\anime.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 719 MiB
Duration : 26 min 13 s
Overall bit rate : 3 835 kb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2018-03-05 02:38:24
Writing application : mkvmerge v19.0.0 (‘Brave Captain’) 64-bit
Writing library : libebml v1.3.5 + libmatroska v1.4.8
Attachments : FLIGHTCASE.OTF / GANDHISANS-BOLD.OTF / GANDHISANS-BOLDITALIC.OTF / QUADRAAT-BOLD.OTF / arialbd.ttf

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High 4:4:4 Predictive@L5
Format settings : CABAC / 16 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, RefFrames : 16 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 26 min 13 s
Bit rate : 3 386 kb/s
Width : 960 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:4:4
Bit depth : 10 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.204
Stream size : 635 MiB (88%)
Writing library : x264 core 152 r2851 ba24899
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=16 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x1:0x131 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=0 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=4 / threads=6 / lookahead_threads=1 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=8 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=16.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=81 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Fixed with another encoding on top, unfortunately.

[JuiceWSA]

16 Reference Frames and 10 bits…
I’m not surprised PMP is the only thing that’ll play it.

Back the Reference Frames down to 4 and it’ll probably play.

[Volts]

Agreed. A lot of anime is encoded with “exotic” combinations - like H.264 High/10, huge numbers of reference frames, high levels (5+).

… and almost nothing can play them.

H.265 is way better supported by hardware than H.264 10 L5+.

[JuiceWSA]

@Volts

… and almost nothing can play them.

…they’re trying to protect us from them, but people keep making players that play that stuff… we need to attack the supply lines - you can’t run an army of crappy cartoons on an empty stomach:

The fact is - ask any great-grandfather who won WW2 and if any of his offspring are watching Anime he’ll say: Japan.

[Volts]

I’m embarrassed I laughed.