Playing HD .mkv Files

[MTWest]

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?

 

[MTWest]

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

 

[MTWest]

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.