i cant take it anymore! i HATE mkv files!!!

[Belldandy16]

ok, ive tried EVERY player under the sun to try to get mkv files to play but it wont work!

i have an old mac and just nothing plays. .


if anyone here has a mac and they can play .mkv files, what player do you use?

ive tried... vlc, mplayer, realplayer, flv player, and windows media but nothing plays it ( i FINALLY got something i REALLY wanted to watch and i cant see it ).

PC people, what player do you use for the mkv? im going to try to take my files to work to see if i can play them there.

thanks!

[Belldandy16]

oh i forgot,
i have a imac powerpc G4 10.3.9

thanks

[chibikitty2045]

You may want to try VLC player. I use it to play those file types all the time.

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

[Ryouko]

I absolutely hate MKV with a passion. WITH A PASSION. This coming from a windows user, even. They lag on my laptop or the subs go out of sync and it drives me absolutely nuts.

Not to mention my Xbox 360 can't play MKV off my portable drive, only AVIs instead. Which means if a fansub is MKV only, I don't watch it.

[Belldandy16]

yeah the only thing i can watch are avi files too.

i mean why do you make videos if only a part of the population can look at them (MKV files, i mean)???

oh chibikitty2045, thats my main player (the VLC) but it cant play them either.

[Golden Boy]

hey B16,
have you tried the Perian plug-in with Quicktime?
http://www.moviesmac.com/tutorial/play- ... t-mac.html

good luck!

gb

[duotrouble]

I absolutely hate MKV with a passion. WITH A PASSION. This coming from a windows user, even. They lag on my laptop or the subs go out of sync and it drives me absolutely nuts.

I absolutely HATE mkvs too. I thought it was just me because I have so little drive space on an older computer. I use the VLC player. Since their recent upgrade, I rarely encounter any problems playing mkvs. I still hate them because I can't transfer those files to my PSP, which is how I'm watch a vast majority of my anime nowadays.

[Belldandy16]

Thanks Goldenboy! i downloaded it but when i tried to open it, it came up with an error,,
"the following disk images failed to mount...
Perian 0.5.dmg
Reason: Corrupt image"

what does this mean?

[Keropi]

A lot of files are pretty big nowadays. I'm sure that's not helping the situation any.

[moonrabitt]

If worst comes to worst, you could just get a program to convert them to a playable file...

Of course, you could turn to Wikipedia, knower-of-all, that has a list of players that should be able to play it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mkv

[Golden Boy]

Thanks Goldenboy! i downloaded it but when i tried to open it, it came up with an error,,
"the following disk images failed to mount...
Perian 0.5.dmg
Reason: Corrupt image"

what does this mean?

Hey B16,
I think that's an old version. The latest can be gotten here, but it requires a newer OS. sorry!

http://www.perian.org/

good luck!

[beatrush]

I use good ol most up to date version of the k-lite community codec pack and windows media player for mkv files.

[Belldandy16]

lol, thanks Goldenboy! yeah i know i have to break down and get a new system.

Beatrush, where do you get that from? oh are you on a PC?

[transmet]

I'm willing to bet it's because most of the new mkv files are in HD H.264 or higher and that you simply do not have the CPU horsepower to play them.

[Belldandy16]

probably. my poor baby's so old ( from - GASP - 2003) that its just starting to wane on me ( freezing up on me more frequently).
it breaks my heart to think about getting a new one (it was the last presant my dad gave me before he passed).