Do you have a recommended player for Matroska MKV files? All this ones I have including DIVX 5.1.1 seem not to except this format.

Thank You & Pls Adv BluGeminEye@Yahoo.com

-- BluGeminEye (BluGeminEye@Yahoo.com), January 16, 2004

Answers

In principal you can play matroska files on almost every Mediaplayer on Windows if you have the latest matroska DirectShow parser filter from here

http://matroska.sourceforge.net/downloads/downloads.html

-- RedPenguin (realityfrost_01@yahoo.com), February 06, 2004.

not

-- Nobu (bouckly@hotmail.com), February 17, 2004.

Sourceforge !!! again !! oh my god .....

The right place to download the matroska packs is

http://packs.matroska.org

The project on sourceforge was abandoned long ago, but the suckers wont delete it, although i told them to many times ...

ChristianHJW matroska project admin

-- ChristianHJW (chris@matroska.org), April 01, 2004.

http://packs.matroska.org is down when I tried to connect just now. Downloads the frameset page, and then says page not found shortly after.

-- Mike (moo@moo.com), April 25, 2004.

great now theres no where to download it, your f*cking site is down, & sourceforge is down, im shit out of luck

-- pro (pro@dateva.com), May 30, 2004.

Use google, or some other search engine.. it ain't hard!

-DD

-- Doctor DETH (nospam@spammenot.com), May 31, 2004.

Here one:

http://park14.wakwak.com/~flower/Matroska_Pack_Full_v1.0.2.exe

-- Aidan Mowat (mowat.aidan@shaw.ca), June 04, 2004.

Hey that works :)

-- HoB (hol3@hotmail.com), June 09, 2004.

thanks !

-- chris (chris@ls.com), June 12, 2004.

that really works, thank you very much!

-- sealone (joassus@eyou.com), June 19, 2004.

http://park14.wakwak.com/~flower/matroska/ try this page

-- Anjin (anjin308@163.com), June 22, 2004.

i still can't get to play the matroska file although i've downloaded matorska pack full version 1.0.2...HELP!!!

-- me_me (antchia86@hotmail.com), June 24, 2004.

what a bunch of pussy whiners ive never heard such an ass fest why not go to matroskas homepage huh ya dumbasses

-- (demonmasterhiro@aol.com), June 25, 2004.

who do i have to kill to get a proper codec and a MKV player????

-- Liquid Chaos (torbenthomsen512@msn.com), June 29, 2004.

You can download this packet with: VSFilter 2.33 - Required for ALL (OGM/MKV) softsubs Matroska Splitter 1.0.2.3 - Required for MKV playback OggDS 0.9.9.5 - Required for OGM playback CoreVorbis 1.0b6 - Decoder for OGG audio in MKV files CoreAAC 1.0b9 - Decoder for AAC Audio in MKV files

I play the mkv file with Playa (i think is the ones that is with DIVX 5). The only problem I have, and I don't know if is a real problem, is the audio. I hear 2 diferents languajes (in my case Japanese and English).

Well, I hope you can play the file.

http://www.anime-legion.net/downloads/a-l.playback.pack.20040530.exe

Sorry for my english -> I speak spanish ;)

-- Sebastian (gomera@laufquen.com.ar), June 29, 2004.

I like the phishes cuz they're soooo delicious! Gone gold fishin'!

That *.exe file worked for me! Cha-Ching$!$!

-- TitO (bosemachine@hotmail.com), June 30, 2004.

...OR just use VLC Media Player which also support Matroska files. You can download it from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Enjoy!! Joey, Denmark

-- Joey (michael_schau@hotmail.com), July 01, 2004.

i can play the file now but isn't there a converter so that i can make an *.avi or *.mpg file

cya

-- yoshie (josjr@home.nl), July 04, 2004.

If any of u have problems with .mkv files format, just download the core media player 4.0.1. It supports almost every format.

-- kenshin (mylonica@yahoo.com), July 15, 2004.

I've downloaded and installed every audio & video codec on the list of those reccomended for enabling playback of mkv files, along with every player available including BSPlayer, Core Media Player, MPlayer, and VLC. Though many people whose entries I have read on many websites seem to think that a lot of these player include support for MKV files, this is in fact not true. The only player which seems to actually claim to support playback of MKV files is the VLC media player, which also, in fact, cannot offer such.

After downloading every playback back, mixer, lazy man's guide and shell extension, I have still yet to achieve layback of said file.

I am at a loose end. Until someone can expatiate upon the subject further than offering me links to, for example, Sourceforge or the Matroska website, I will unfortunately have to assume that any program able to support the MKV video format is mythical.

As a last note, I may add that I am in fact recieving audio output from the files which I am trying to play, but video support does not seem to be available.

I am in a bad mood; please excuse my perhaps nasty tone, and offer any help available.

-yousrekh

P.S. I'm using Windows 98, is this a problem? :D

-- Yousrekh V'aloukh (steevk69@hotmail.com), July 18, 2004.

I actually had the exact same problem. It took me a week to download something off of suprnova, anime of course, and then it showed up as .mkv I have been on lazy mans guide, downloaded 2 or 3 different separate players, the full codecs, and everything, and any time I go to play the file with saide media player, it opens, I get an initial screen, then it freezes my whole computer. So, here is something for everyone with the same damn problem. Hope this helps....it is instructions and links for converting it to .avi http://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/184742.php

-- Jared Adolf-Bryfogle (jadolfbr@lhup.edu), July 20, 2004.

hehe, well, I would try that, but, I am in the middle of decompressing it using the program listed, and to my dismay, it froze. :) Just my luck (:

I'd try it anyway though, it may be just my computer having an attitude problem.

-- Jared Adolf-Bryfogle (jadolfbr@lhup.edu), July 20, 2004.

i say drop this stupid mkv shit and just make it a fucking avi

-- butt munch (lemmiisgod@hotmail.com), July 22, 2004.

MKV is really a fucking format .. forget it and don't waste your time anymore

-- Loup (louishor@nortelnetworks.com), July 23, 2004.

Installing the latest Matroska pack ( http://packs.matroska.org/ ) should work for many mkv files.

If not, make sure you know which audio and video codec your particular file uses. Often with mkv files, the filename itself tells you, such as rv10, ogg, etc.

To play stubborn mkv files, try installing the Windows command-line version of the Linux media player, mplayer ( http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html ) and then add appropriate codec packages ( http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/codecs.html ) For example, for rv10-encoded files, download the RealPlayer 9 Win32 package and place its files in the "codecs" directory of your mplayer installation.

Run mplayer at a command line (Start > Run > cmd ) by navigating to your mplayer directory and typing: "mplayer "

If the file has multiple language tracks, add an argument to specify which one you want. For example, to hear the English audio track, use: "mplayer -alang eng"

Finally, if it still won't work, check the output text when mplayer runs. It will tell you which codecs it is trying to find and which might need to be downloaded.

Hope this helps.

-- Larz Chan (adirondax@myway.com), July 23, 2004.

LOL vlc... i just used that on my other computer, it crashed my system. bios wont detect both harddrives, LOL. i know how to fix it, but this is the perfect opportunity to get my parents to let me buy a new rig :D since they are dumb with computers >:)

but anyway, after i buy it ill pull the jumper for cmos and it shoudl be back to normal :D

later.

-- Evil Monkey (knf_qball@hotmail.com), July 25, 2004.

loup's instructions work for me thnx

-- somone (frea@gmx.de), July 28, 2004.