Vista MC 64 bit and MKV playback

asre1212 · **29th June 2008, 12:09 PM**

Does anyone know how to play mkv files in vista 64 bit MC. I read to install the haali (matrosla Splitter) and the ffdshow filter to make this work. After doing this, the mkv file plays audio only but not the video.

Any help would be appreciated.

thanxs.

logifuse · **29th June 2008, 12:10 PM**

See if this helps you: http://a8t8.spaces.live.com/blog/cns...13E8!141.entry

Justin

merovingian · **29th June 2008, 11:13 PM**

Vista Codec Pack and x64 Components do the job for me.

asre1212 · **30th June 2008, 12:59 AM**

@logifuse
I did exactly as it says, and MC says that it cannot play ythe format. I t seems as though the mkv was unpacked by the splitter, but could not play.

@merovingian

Where would i find this?

merovingian · **30th June 2008, 10:56 AM**

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Originally Posted by asre1212

@logifuse
@merovingian

Where would i find this?

http://shark007.net/

asre1212 · **30th June 2008, 12:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by merovingian

http://shark007.net/

thnxs, now the video plays in MC, but I have a couple of other problems:

1.) The audio seems to be very low, although when I play the same mkv in another player, the volume increases to high. I have checked, and my system and MC volume are on high.

2.) The video looks grainy compared to when I play the mkv in another player.

3.) I can not fast forward or rewind in MC.

Thnxs for all of ur help so far.

slimf · **1st July 2008, 12:06 PM**

I had issues with the audio when playing back MKV files, but it turned out that the MKV files had 5.1 audio, and the FFDSHOW (that gets installed by Vista Codec Pack) wasnt down sampling the 5.1 to two channel for me.. it was simply outputting the left and right channels to the left and right channels - so the voices sounded quiet as there was no center channel. You may need to go into the AUDIO DECODER PROPERTIES and check your MIXER settings.. You need to tick the mixer option and then set the output speaker configuration to whatever type of speaker setup you have.

asre1212 · **3rd July 2008, 12:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by slimf

I had issues with the audio when playing back MKV files, but it turned out that the MKV files had 5.1 audio, and the FFDSHOW (that gets installed by Vista Codec Pack) wasnt down sampling the 5.1 to two channel for me.. it was simply outputting the left and right channels to the left and right channels - so the voices sounded quiet as there was no center channel. You may need to go into the AUDIO DECODER PROPERTIES and check your MIXER settings.. You need to tick the mixer option and then set the output speaker configuration to whatever type of speaker setup you have.

Thnxs, buddy the audio was solved with this.

Do you think that the video choppyness could be also because of the codec settings? I just installed the video codec with standard options.

slimf · **3rd July 2008, 05:05 PM**

Hi

Glad your audio issue is solved :-)

Your video issue however will need some concideration..

Can you describe your choppy video? Is it more like a or b ?

a) Seems like your PC cant keep up - missing decent chunks of the video at a time

or

b) Seems OK, but when panning left to right it seems like the picture jumps accross the screen rather than smoothly pans.

Can you tell me about your PC as well. Hardware/ram/video card etc

asre1212 · **4th July 2008, 06:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by slimf

Hi

Glad your audio issue is solved :-)

Your video issue however will need some concideration..

Can you describe your choppy video? Is it more like a or b ?

a) Seems like your PC cant keep up - missing decent chunks of the video at a time

or

b) Seems OK, but when panning left to right it seems like the picture jumps accross the screen rather than smoothly pans.

Can you tell me about your PC as well. Hardware/ram/video card etc

Hardware specs:

Ram: 3gb
Video card: 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
OS: Windows Vista 64 bit
HDD: 240GB 7200RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive

It actually seems as though in fast moving scenes,that the video is missing some color, and in place of the color is just black boxes.

Thanks a lot

slimf · **4th July 2008, 01:39 PM**

Does this occur with all sorts of video.. example: HDTV, Recorded TV, AVI's (like downloaded TV shows) etc? Or just one sort?

asre1212 · **5th July 2008, 01:01 AM**

This only occurs with mkv files. Playback of other files in MC (i.e. wmv, avi,etc) is fine.

slimf · **5th July 2008, 01:23 AM**

got a smallish one you can get to me?

asre1212 · **7th July 2008, 05:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by slimf

got a smallish one you can get to me?

Thank you for all of your help, but I decided to odwnld smplayer, and in that no codecs are required, and teh image looks very clear. But thanxs for all of ur help.