[vlc] VLC and .mkv movies

[Mike Brown]

On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 10:45:04PM +0000, Malcolm Waterman wrote:

There is nothing wrong with VLC 1.1.11 and MKV wrapped files, when played under
XP.  I do it every day.

First off, MKV is not a "recording suffix," it is a wrapper.  MKV is the
wrapper of choice for H.264/AVC encoded files.

Download MediaInfo (google it) and have it list the contents of the MKV wrapped
file.  More than likely the video is H.264 (listed as AVC) and encoded with
the x264 H.264 encoder.  If that is the case, VLC works out-of-the-box with
these files.

Possible non-playback causes could be a misconfiguration of VLC, or a codec
that you've installed that is conflicting with VLC.  Just a WAG.

> Have you tried K-Lite Codec package?
> http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm. That's what I use for all of my
> codecs when using Windows. I can't remember if it works with VLC now (I
> stopped using Windows every day)
> 
> On 1 January 2012 06:15, Garry and Pam Stiles <gapa2 at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> > **
> > My computer is using Windows XP and VLC 1.1.11.
> >
> > I am very pleased with the playing of most movies by VLC.  However I
> > cannot play movies recorded with .mkv suffix - the screen blanks out and,
> > although I can hear the audio, no picture appears.
> >
> > Is there any program/driver I can download which would allow VLC to play
> > .mkv movies?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Garry Stiles

MB
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