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Lifestyle => Tha G-Spot => Topic started by: Portugoal on February 03, 2010, 04:23:13 AM

Title: How do I play .mkv files?
Post by: Portugoal on February 03, 2010, 04:23:13 AM: Without converting them? And without having to burn them to a disc?

Does anyone here know?
Title: Re: How do I play .mkv files?
Post by: No Compute on February 03, 2010, 04:39:32 AM: VLC should work I believe.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Title: Re: How do I play .mkv files?
Post by: Okka on February 03, 2010, 04:41:47 AM: Quote from: No Compute on February 03, 2010, 04:39:32 AM
VLC should work I believe.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Yeah, it's the best player. Plays almost every file that's out there.
Title: Re: How do I play .mkv files?
Post by: Twentytwofifty on February 03, 2010, 05:58:54 AM: I use shark007 codec pack. Works like a charm, it plays everything even in Windows Media Center.
Title: Re: How do I play .mkv files?
Post by: Portugoal on February 03, 2010, 07:09:29 AM: Quote from: Knuckles on February 03, 2010, 05:58:54 AM
I use shark007 codec pack. Works like a charm, it plays everything even in Windows Media Center.

Thanks. I'll try that first!

Quote from: No Compute on February 03, 2010, 04:39:32 AM
VLC should work I believe.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

And if that doesn't work I'll re-install VLC. I installed that about 5 years ago.
Title: Re: How do I play .mkv files?
Post by: Twentytwofifty on February 03, 2010, 08:36:47 AM: Quote from: The Bigg M-A-U on February 03, 2010, 07:09:29 AM
Quote from: Knuckles on February 03, 2010, 05:58:54 AM
I use shark007 codec pack. Works like a charm, it plays everything even in Windows Media Center.

Thanks. I'll try that first!

Don't know if what media player your are using but if it's Media Center, here is the guide I used: http://www.hack7mc.com/2009/01/playing-mkvs-in-media-center.html
That website is gold.
Title: Re: How do I play .mkv files?
Post by: es-jay on February 03, 2010, 09:02:55 AM: Quote from: The Bigg M-A-U on February 03, 2010, 07:09:29 AM
Quote from: No Compute on February 03, 2010, 04:39:32 AM
VLC should work I believe.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

And if that doesn't work I'll re-install VLC. I installed that about 5 years ago.

yeah, VLC should play the file.
Title: Re: How do I play .mkv files?
Post by: Portugoal on February 04, 2010, 07:57:55 AM: I installed the latest version of VLC Player and the files now play! :raisetheroof:

Thanks, guys!
Title: Re: How do I play .mkv files?
Post by: Okka on February 04, 2010, 08:08:06 AM: VLC is good cause it's real easy to use and it plays almost any file available.
Title: Re: How do I play .mkv files?
Post by: Portugoal on February 04, 2010, 08:15:59 AM: Quote from: Okka on February 04, 2010, 08:08:06 AM
VLC is good cause it's real easy to use and it plays almost any file available.

and it uses almost no ram memory
Title: Re: How do I play .mkv files?
Post by: The Watcher on February 04, 2010, 10:49:19 PM: use http://www.cccp-project.net/

click the download cccp link

it comes with ffdshow and mpc-hc (the best player for windows) in an installable pack. with vlc you will experience alot of blocking or artifacts depending on how the mkv (720p or 1080p x264 rips?) are encoded
Title: Re: How do I play .mkv files?
Post by: acgrundy on February 04, 2010, 10:51:34 PM: how can you burn mkv files to play on your dvd player hooked up to your tv?
Title: Re: How do I play .mkv files?
Post by: The Watcher on February 05, 2010, 12:36:39 AM: you'll need to convert it using meGUI (windows) or visualhub (osx)
Title: Re: How do I play .mkv files?
Post by: Okka on February 05, 2010, 04:09:43 AM: Quote from: Acgrundy on February 04, 2010, 10:51:34 PM
how can you burn mkv files to play on your dvd player hooked up to your tv?

Yeah, you need to convert it but when you do the quality won't be same.
Title: Re: How do I play .mkv files?
Post by: Episcop Cruel Cvrle on February 05, 2010, 04:36:05 AM: I use KMplayer, its a great player,plays everything- no problems with it at all. Plays mkv. files great.
Title: Re: How do I play .mkv files?
Post by: Carlscodi on February 02, 2018, 04:51:37 AM: MKV Player is a good solution: https://mkv-player.en.softonic.com/
But I have many mkv videos in large size so I still need to convert them to MP4 with h.264 codec. I don't notice any quality damage after conversion. Here is the video conversion tool that supports kind of video and audio conversion inculding mkv to mp4, avi to mkv and so on: Three Useful Methods to Convert AVI to MKV without Losing Quality (http://www.videoconverterfactory.com/tips/how-to-convert-avi-to-mkv.html)