Playing HD .mkv Files

MTWest · 21 Feb 2008 at 11:11

So I have a few .mkv files at 720p here on my MBP, but I find that it doesn't play very well. I would've thought my spec is good enough to play these kind of files?

In VLC it'd give me the "computer too slow?" message pretty often. Then I tried this thing called Perian and whilst that played it without stutter it seemed to cap the framerate so that the video looked slow to the eye or something.

Any ideas? :confused:

kvfb97 · 21 Feb 2008 at 16:05

Strange. Friends Macbook (2.16) plays them fine with VLC, no perian. Sorry I can't help.

hyper_piper45 · 21 Feb 2008 at 21:54

That is strange. I have a MacBook 2.2 and it plays them perfectly fine in VLC player

Mr Jones · 21 Feb 2008 at 22:25

I play it on my MacBook Core Duo, 2GB system without a problem; maybe VLC is playing up?

kilvano · 22 Feb 2008 at 00:17

I would unistall VLC, clear the config files and reinstall.

MTWest · 23 Feb 2008 at 19:22

kilvano said:
I would unistall VLC, clear the config files and reinstall.

How to clear config files? I just tried uninstalling it using AppZapper but not sure if that includes what you mentioned. Still no luck

Aspect · 24 Feb 2008 at 10:29

.mkv files play fine on my MBP

Mr_White · 24 Feb 2008 at 11:31

Try MPlayer OS X

chex · 24 Feb 2008 at 12:10

I have this same problem with a 1080p file. M Player doesn't play it at all (for me), Perian is a bit better if you wait for it to load all the way before trying to play. It plays fine in windows though so it's definitely a software thing.

Those of you that don't have problems: are you playing back HD video?

kvfb97 · 24 Feb 2008 at 13:11

chex said:
Those of you that don't have problems: are you playing back HD video?

Yes, 720 and 1080 too.

MTWest · 24 Feb 2008 at 14:05

MPlayer doesn't like my files either, so I guess it just doesn't support .mkv at the moment.

I think the reinstall did the trick, tried out some more files and it seems I'm only having the problem with only one of them so that's nicely isolated

The rest play very smoothly.

chex · 24 Feb 2008 at 15:22

Ya, I just updated my perian and it works better albeit with 100+% CPU load, haven't tried with VLC yet.

Aspect · 24 Feb 2008 at 20:38

chex said:
Ya, I just updated my perian and it works better albeit with 100+% CPU load, haven't tried with VLC yet.

What's the size of the video file mate?

1337z0r · 24 Feb 2008 at 21:02

Hey, try out Perian you can play .mkv .avi ect all in quicktime it works pretty well

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Aspect · 24 Feb 2008 at 21:05

1337z0r said:
Hey, try out Perian you can play .mkv .avi ect all in quicktime it works pretty well .

Does that mean you can also play them in front row?

chex · 24 Feb 2008 at 21:43

Aspect said:
What's the size of the video file mate?

It's huge - 6.5GB

MagicBoy · 24 Feb 2008 at 21:46

Shouldn't be a problem. My original rev MBP 1.83 played them fine in standard trim with 512Mb RAM.

Where is the .mkv stored?

Mr_White · 25 Feb 2008 at 06:43

Is the file ok?

MPlayer should play it fine.

chex · 25 Feb 2008 at 09:26

How do I check if it's ok?

Magicboy - Right now it's on an external, but it was the same before I put it on there.