Video files

[proudlyfallen]

Anyone know what the hell I need to play MKV files? Media Player Classic gave me this information, but I don't know what to do with it:

F:\Desktop\SHARED\Videos\Coupling\Coupling-Series 1-Episode 1-Flushed.mkv::English (Audio 1)
ffdshow Audio Decoder::Out
Audio Switcher::Out

Any ideas? Anyone?

Comments

[mastergode]

.mkv is, I believe, Matroska Video. You should be able to play it with VLC (which should be your default video player). But otherwise, just do a google search for .mkv codec or somesuch, and it should come up with something for you to download.

[proudlyfallen]

.... VLC???

[julix]

its the video progam i mentioned earlier to you.

http://www.videolan.org/

Its among my favorite and will play almost anything pretty well with the exception of some wmv's.

[tkitch]

I actually dislike VLC.

Mainly due to the fact it REFUSES to play on a secondary screen for me, which is where most of my video is played (my TV.)

But for odd formats, it's the shit.

Kat, go google "Community Codec Pack" It's a pack of codecs for windows with a single installer. Once done it plays damned near anything you want.

Otherwise just google "matroska driver" and you'll find it. MKV and a couple other formats are really fucked up for getting them to run.

[proudlyfallen]

Already downloaded the CCP. That's why I needed help -- it doesn't have the audio codec that the damn files are in. And the video's playing quickly... what would cause that?

(I'm gonna go download VLC and play with that... but that won't help the audio, will it?)

[tkitch]

VLC should handle it nicely.

Some of the funny formats (OGM and MKV especially) are beatuiful formats, but a pain in the ass to get working at times.

*grumbles*