MKV Files

schweet · Feb 18, 2007

I've never used these before and I'm having trouble playing a video that is an mkv file.

Whenever I try to view the video through BS Player, it stutters and freezes.

Is there a specific codec I need for these files? I tried using GSpot but it doesn't recognise mkv files.

Thanks for your time.

Jukiz · Feb 19, 2007

Try to first use VLC or Media Player Classic. If it doesn't work after these, download this:
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/codecs_and_filters/matroska_splitter.cfm

schweet · Feb 19, 2007

Thank you for replying.

MPC has never worked on my PC; whenever I open it, I select 'file' and it freezes up.

I downloaded the Matroska Splitter but I have no idea what to do with the files?

I'll look into it while I await your reply and see if I can figure it out via google and wiki.

celtic_d · Feb 20, 2007

mplayer or VLC should work out of the box. No need to install any extra decoders or splitters. Thought that latest GSpot handled mkv's?

schweet · Feb 21, 2007

I tried to play it through VLC, it was the first prog I used as it's always worked perfect (and as you said, no codecs were ever required), but it was giving me the same problems. I then posted on a torrent forum that had the same video file available for download, and I got replies saying that VLC is crap compared to BS player, and that I should switch to BS.

And with GSpot I am indeed using an older version (not too old I thought), I'll get the latest v and see what comes up.

Also, I couldn't find any info on how to use the Matroska Splitter, but it does seem that I should copy paste the files into the BS directory........yeah? No?

Thanks for helping.

celtic_d · Feb 22, 2007

The splitter is a directshow filter. BSPlayer is a dshow player.

Could be that you have high resolution AVC video and your CPU isn't up to the task. If you are just going to use ffdshow for decoding then using BS Player won't help (ffdshow uses libavcodec same as VLC, VLC should still be faster (mplayer>VLC>ffdshow)). If you were to use say CoreAVC, it is faster.

Rikoshay · Feb 25, 2007

I have just the thing. I wrote just a while ago about How to set up MPC to play Matroska files without problems, so I'll just copy/paste most of what I said there:

(*Note - You can skip the part about changing the audio default language to Japanese if you want; I had put that in there because someone asked to have the Japanese audio stream play first or only)

What you need is:
-Media Player Classic
-Haali Media Spliter
-A recent release of FFDShow

First, set them all up to run. I assume you know what to do there, so I'll skip to how you should set them up for it to work.

Open Haali Media splitter, and under Options > Input, put Yes to Load embedded fonts, and no to Merge all segments.

This is the important part. Under Languages, under Audio Language priority, put jpn,eng in that area, for Subtitle Language priorty, but eng or whatever you want, and under Audio and Subtitle Languages, put jpn,eng again. Also, if you want, go to Interface > Show tray Icon and put No.

Now open Media Player Classic and go into options either through View > Options or just pressing O.

Under Playback > DVD/OGM, and where it says "Preferred language for...", for menu make it English, for audio make it Japanese, and for Subtitle make it English again.

Now go to Output, and under Direct Show Video, move the bullet to VMR9 (renderless) and check the box "Lock back-buffer before presenting...".

Under Internal filters, uncheck all of these from both sides, AVI, Matroska, MP4/MOV, Ogg, Real Media and AAC. Go to Audio switcher, and check "Enable built-in audio switcher filter...", "Normalize", and "Regain Volume".

Under External Filters, search for FFDShow Audio Decoder and when it shows up there, mark the bullet Prefer on the right.

This next step is optional but I would use this or set it up to whichever style you prefer. Under Subtitles, Place the Vertical override placement at about 98% if you have a full screen monitor or 94% if you have a wide screen one. Under Default Style you can change the color of the subtitles that play; I personally prefer Yellow primary and if there's a secondary I put Teal, then I put Arial 16pt as the font. After you do all that hit Apply and OK.

Now to set up FFDShow. I'm pretty sure you may have an idea of how you want to set up your FFDShow Video decoder, but I'll make a quick run through as to how I set it up.

In Codecs, I just enable FFDShow to play it from XviD to FLV1 in that list. Go to Info & Debug, and in there, check the box "Don't use FFDShow in:". Also, in Tray, dialog and paths, uncheck "show tray icon" if you don't want it there.

I enable Postprocessing, enable automatic quality control, Processing strength to 112%, and under processing method, have mplayer, Luminance, and Full Luma range checked.

I put Saturation to 84 under Picture properties.

Under sharpen, I put unsharp mask on and put it to 16. You can make any changes you see fit here, but these settings usually give a nice, crisp look.

Now for Probably the most important part, setting up FFDShow Audio decoder.

If you prefer to use a different MP3 decoder, then skip my advice about it here, but I use mp3lib to run it in FFDShow. In Codecs, put libavcodec for Vorbis and AMR, and put libfaad2 for AAC.

Go down to Volume, enable it, check Decibels scale, check Normalize, and put Buffer length to 384.

You can check mixer and put the Output speakers config to 2/0 if that's all you support, or change it to whatever you can support.
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