any1 know a player/codec for .mkv files?!?

abgdinjk

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i have winxp sp2, using wmp10 and recently download latest full pack from matroska site in order to watch anime .mkv file it works fine with me with option to change audio either in english or in japanese. when installation,you should select full installation and press yes..yes to all query for peace of mind. i thinks matroska great...please rtfm..and read available guide on the net.Read first then act

devourer

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Do Mkv players support subtitles for movies?

obeyyourlaw

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yeah they support sub titles... thats all i watch these days

L337

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I had the same problem, I had English and Japanese voices at the same time. I went to corecoded.com and downloaded The Core Media Player 4.02. Everything works great now! I can cycle my subtitles and voices!

obeyyourlaw

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ok i;ll check out that player, for now i’ve had no troubles with Zoom player

wvtn

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i haven’t posted for a LONG time but its ok now i deleted the file (no space) and its not up for dloads anymore so tys anyways

nenyo

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Hi... this extension works perfectly for me on WinMediaPlayer. look for lazy man’s mkv on Yahoo.

petrockstar

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player for mkv files.. after u get the codec u can use mplayer2. its in all windows os. justgo to run type in “mplayer2” and an old version of windows media player will show and it will play the .mkv file.

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Each of the Windows Mediaplayers will play MKV files fine after installing one of the matroska packs from http://packs.matroska.org , but they are not the recommended players, especially because they can not be made to recognize the matroska extensions. If you want WMP to open MKV files by default, you have to set this in Windows Explorer in the 'open with' dialogue by clicking 'always open this file type with the following program' .

Recommended players are :

Zoomplayer : http://www.inmatrix.com

TCMP : http://www.corecoded.com

MPC ( disable internal MKV splitter for newer files ! ) : http://sf.net/projects/guliverkli

VLC : http://www.videolan.org ( NOT DirectShow based, doesnt require matroska pack. Won’t play RV9 in MKV )

Foobar2000 : http://www.foobar2000.org ( audio only )

Merry Christmas

Christian
matroska project admin
http://www.matroska.org

guest

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Go here to How to Decompress a MKV file to Avi
http://www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/t184742.html

peter

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core media player is quite good for mkv files.
also if you want to burn to disc you will need river past video cleaner which convers it to avi.

we

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Download VLC player! It’s definetly the best one. although scrolling is not the best since it oftens smears the colors all over the screan. it gets better after a second or two...I love VLC player!

johnny-c

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— - FINAL SOLUTION — - =0

-download this version of bs player

http://www2.tw.freebsd.org/cpatch/media/bsplayer/source/bsplayer121.816.exe

- download lazyman’s MKV
which can be found here

http://ld-anime.subforge.net/guide/mkv-eng

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Final Solution ?

Just one of many many solutions ..... just wait for the brand new matroska playback pack with Haali’s splitter ... soon to come on http://packs.matroska.org

ChristianHJW
matroska project admin
http://www.matroska.org

Michael David

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I tried playing .mkv in BS player, Zoom player, WMP, TCMP, and MPC. (I have them all.)

But whenever I try playing them there, my computer would freeze, and it takes resetting, and I’ve tried it a lot of times already.

I think I have RealAlternative already, since I can play .rm/.rmvb files in MPC.

Only VLC plays the .mkv file for me, but it still has a tendency to freeze the computer later in the show.

Can someone help? I can say that when I play the .mkv file in the other players, though, a green arrow appears on the bottom right of my screen, in the icons beside the time.

I’m clueless about this... can someone help?

Michael David

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I tried playing .mkv in BS player, Zoom player, WMP, TCMP, and MPC. (I have them all.)

But whenever I try playing them there, my computer would freeze, and it takes resetting, and I’ve tried it a lot of times already.

I think I have RealAlternative already, since I can play .rm/.rmvb files in MPC.

Only VLC plays the .mkv file for me, but it still has a tendency to freeze the computer later in the show.

Can someone help? I can say that when I play the .mkv file in the other players, though, a green arrow appears on the bottom right of my screen, in the icons beside the time.

I’m clueless about this... can someone help?

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Hi,

we dont have such behaviour reported from anybody else. If even VLC will freeze your PC when trying to play MKV files, my best bet is that you are facing serious hardware problems ( CPU overheat ). Check the CPU usage during playback, it might be quite high. This is not the container’s fault, the guy creating the file obviously was using codecs needing a lot of CPU power, like Realvideo at high resolutions, HE-AAC audio or SSA subs with many fancy features.

Christian
matroska project admin

guest2

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I recently got mkv files to work perfectly on Windows Media Player 9, I didn’t want to install any more media players onto my computer as it takes up space. I think this method should work for other versions of Media Player as well, but I’m not sure.

First I installed Lazy Man’s MKV codec pack from here:
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022257/matroska/

Then to deal with the dual audio problem (where two languages would play at the same time) I downloaded Morgan Stream Switcher, which you can find here:
http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/mmswitch/

Hope that helps.

jason

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Morgan Stream Switcher works great with WMP10, which is good cos I am running windows media center edition (mce), stops the problem of booth streams playing at the same time, but can’t find a way of switching to differnet auto track, since everything seem to work in english, not a problem at the moment

Alacard

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I am running WMP10 and installed the Lazy Codec. It starts to play and says it is playing ( my mkv file ) but I hear nothing and see nothing.. any ideas?