How to play MKV files?

Greenlizard0 · 10 Jan 2009 at 14:38

I'm having trouble with VLC which upto now used to be pretty impressive at running anything I could throw at it.

However *.mkv files tend to be slightly choppy now and so I'm looking for anything else that could play these files? I have downloaded the Matroska codec pack thing but that seems to have similar issues.

What do I need? :confused:

Greenlizard0 · 10 Jan 2009 at 14:43

Never mind - after googling around for ages I find the answer as soon as I create a thread.

Media Player Classic Home Cinema plays it perfectly.

Greenlizard0 · 10 Jan 2009 at 16:08

lmfy2k said:
VLC plays 1080p MKV just fine for me, and im talking 15Gb sized files!

What CPU do you have? I have an AMD AM2+ 6000 which I'm quite annoyed isn't clearly fast enough.

Greenlizard0 · 10 Jan 2009 at 19:30

Core AVC, pity it's not free.

Greenlizard0 · 10 Jan 2009 at 19:42

Nope, I only needed on file from my linik above

I have to say I'm ****ing impressed with the quality of the video. Watching Transformers atm and you can see every divot on Bumblebee and on Sam's forehead

Greenlizard0 · 10 Jan 2009 at 20:04

MarcLister said:
I too used that linik.

tsk..!

MarcLister said:
Why are you looking at Sam's (Shia's) forehead? Shouldn't you be inspecting Megan more closely?

Oh I've done plenty of that - don't you worry

Greenlizard0 · 10 Jan 2009 at 20:34

Ok this really does irritate me. Now, I don't mind widescreen, however I don't want it like that. Why can't they release products where you're able to show more than one aspect ratio without the image being distored. Pfft...

Greenlizard0 · 10 Jan 2009 at 20:50

MarcLister said:
Hic.

Good stuff. How does MPC HC do "rendering" Megan?

Very satisfactorily. The robots just look phenominal - and I'm using a CRT!

Greenlizard0 · 11 Jan 2009 at 15:21

Hefner said:
So you want to remove parts of the film to fill the screen?

If that's the unfortunate result then yes. It's just stupid that I buy a blu-ray and it doesn't fill my screen.

Greenlizard0 · 11 Jan 2009 at 19:36

Vertigo1 said:
With all due respect, it's not the slightest bit "stupid" and I'm staggered how often I'm seeing this question/issue crop up.

If anything, what's "stupid" is those expecting all films to fit their television screen perfectly because "well it's all widescreen innit?".

It doesn't take too much thinking to realise that virtually all big films are films at around 2.35:1 aspect ratio which is around 21:9, whilst widescreen televisions are 16:9 as this is the widest that it's practical to make them. Whilst broadcast TV has adopted the 16:9 aspect as it's the obvious thing to do when all your consumers have 16:9 screens, you can hardly expect the film industry to abandon the very wide aspect people demand in cinemas and output everything to fit televisions instead.

Not everybody demands the ratio of the cinema to be matched on their tv sets at home. As you say, there are people out there who do wish it could be different.

Vertigo1 said:
I question the sanity of anyone who invests in a high-definition TV and blu-ray player to go with it, only to knacker the resulting image in this way.

I don't like viewing widescreen on a tv unit. It'd be a far better experience if I didn't have large chunks of the screen go to waste.

I didn't say widescreen should be scrapped - I said that there should be a choice of ratios without distortion. I honestly don't mind missing a little off the sides.