Tutorial: Playing .mkv-Files (1 Viewer)

[Pastill]

Mplayer as external player ?

Goose (or someone else)

I also find Mplayer Classic Home Cinema the best.
Easy to install, good quality and most of all you get HA on .mkv files, means my HTPC is very quiet.


I tried to use the codecs/filter MPCVideoDec.ax in MP's player but then I can't get any subtitles with mkv-files.
To get subtitles I have to install and use VobSub or some other stuff and that means I'm loosing Hardware Acceleration and on 1080 video I then easily loose sync with video, audio and/or sub.

But in MPC HC I get subtitles ( if it's contained in the mkv-file) with HA and very good quality.

So I tried MPC HC as external player in MP.
Then MPEG2 files is running just as the MP player
BUT with mkv/.264 files means that MPC HC is opened in a new window and normal MP commands from my remote is not working.

What should I do to avoid MPC HC to open in a new window ?
Or at least react on normal MCE remote commands.


I'm still running MP 0.2.3.0 on XP

 

[frank75]

I downloaded "x264 Video Codec rev. 1028" from free-codecs and then almost every movie worked again .

But 2 movies will not start not at all in MP. I tried them on a popcorn machine and they worked, but i could not skip forward in time. Could this mean something?
And they play in vlc but the sound is stuttering.

Any idea anyone?

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Run them through mkvmerge (part of mkvtoolnix, google) see if that corrects the problem.

 

[frank75]

Strange, mkvmerge stops almost at the finish.
Program not responding??

Downloaded mkvtoolnix today. What can i do to fix this

Edited.

I started it again and let it run some time, then it stopped and said everything ok and no errors reported.
But, the original file is 4,11gb, time 01:35:46 and the muxed file is 3,75gb, time 01:25:10.

What can be the problem now?

 

[Frutas]

No doubt, for me MP Home Cinema.....With this tutorial....plays every mkv files with DXVA.....what mines....
cpu only about.....+/- between 5% and 10%.
very quiet HTPC...

Read this ....is very easy!!!!!!!!!


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ENJOY

 

[GarenT]

I have been chasing a problem with my .mkv's that even the OP's how-to did not fix, maybe you guys can help. I am using ffdshow, and even tried CoreAVC, but i am still getting a stuttering of my video stream at the beginning of a movie. If I Fast Forward 15 seconds it almost always fixes itself? what could be wrong. I am running Windows 7, is that the culprit?

Thanks,
Garen

EDIT: I FINALLY got it fixed!!!! Turns out it is a windows 7 issue. I finally was able to get graphedit to run during MP and see that it was not using what I had designated for my MKV's and learned that Win7 defaults to their video decoder no matter what you pick in MP. So I downloaded the Preferred Codec tweaker, and it worked right away!! No more video stuttering and frame dropping!!!!

 

[WTBHelp]

Rename the file to .avi and open them in Mediaportal default player or run them from a shortcut to PDVD? Thats what I'm doing, far easier.
-FFDShow
-AC3 Filter

 

[loadme]

hey ppl

mkv works fine for me since 2-3 months
installed:

win7 codec pack
win 7 64bit codec pack
2 month old version of ffdshow

it started to play every mkv i had listed
sometimes when i jumped to a special point, it showed up with some huge pixels until the next keyframe was found
i think everyone knows the mkv pixel blur thing

but now there s my problem

on some mkvs, maybe 20-30% it latley started to get the same blurry effect i talked about above maybe every 10-20 seconds while only watching
felt like it is losing key informations of the video stream

next thing i found out: this occured mostly in the first 10-20 minutes and often turned into a clear mkv file

i checked and compared the playback with VLC playback and within VLC everything is displayed normal

has anyone encountered a thing like this?
has anyone an idea about this?

would help me very very much



edit:
using mediaportal: 1.0.4.23491
using moving pictures for playback

media portal configuration is set to:
videos->player:
mpeg-2: ffdshow video decoder
h.264: coreAVC video decoder
mpeg/ac3 audio decoder: ffdshow audio decoder
AAC: ffdshow audio decoder
audio renderer: direct sound

no check: automated decoder settings
no check: enable audiodualmono mode

check: use 5.1 for wmv

no check: external player