Topic: 1080p mkv file

[Geemonster]

I have Full Metal Jacket as a 1080p mkv file,it's big at 14GB.
  Thing is all my other 1080p's play fine but they're m2ts.
 Can anyone suggest a player to play it?
  It might be my hardware's not up to the job.

[goldshirt*9]

VLC plays most formats.

i even gave up my media player classic and codec pack for VLC.

plays alot of blue ray rips for me

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/how_to_play_mkv.cfm

[Geemonster]

Same poo with VLC the sound's fine but the pic freezes.
  I've got a PCI Express Graphics card,so you'd think it'd play it.

[dweez]

I had some issues with some mkv files on VLC.  I think I ended up using BSPlayer to view them and it worked fine.

[Geemonster]

BS plays mkv's perfectly,the 720p ones,this a 1080p file.
  The sound's fine the pic freezes.

[feelingindifferent]

tried mplayer yet?

[Geemonster]

Never heard of it,i'll have a look see.  Thanks.

[goldshirt*9]

usually mplayer is for  linux  but
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

[Methiah]

tried mplayer yet?

Good suggestion. If vlc has a problem mplayer usually remedies it.
It's installed along with the real or quicktime alternative installers for windows.

Although under windows 7 (and maybe vista, not tried) running mplayer can cause the colour theme to change while it's running which is not good from an aesthetic perspective.

[Geemonster]

No go with Mplayer.

[dweez]

Have you considered the option that it might be the video file itself and not the player?

[Geemonster]

The comments on the file are all positive,a couple of moans about file size,but quality's fine,allegedly!
  This comp's coming apart tonite anyway,she needs a tune up.
Fresh OS install,maybe Windows 7.

[Methiah]

Ooops... I said Mplayer when I was thinking of mplayerc i.e. media player classic.
I tried Mplayer once on a mkv file that VLC couldn't play with the same negative result although mplayerc could play it (through real alternative package), the slider bar didn't work so you couldn't skip through the video.

[goldshirt*9]

does xine work on microsoft 
plays bruy rips d/loaded for me but a madam to use.


ha ha ha no swearing or am i that drunk that the word i type isn't the word i thought 

[dweez]

I'm confused. 

[goldshirt*9]

I'm confused. 

i didnt type madame

and only noticed after i  posted ( but i am drunk )

[chekovsulu]

Would it be possible to mux the MKV file to an M2TS using the following tutorial:
http://www.bitburners.com/articles/convert-mkv-video-files-to-m2ts-for-playstation-3-using-tsmuxer/4015/

The tutorial is to make it compatible for a PS3, but you've got something better and it can work with these codecs:

Supported video codecs: | - H.264 - VC-1 - MPEG2

Supported audio codecs: - AAC - AC3 / E-AC3(DD+) - DTS/ DTS-HD

Sometimes the container is no good.  I find VLC does not handle MKV as well as it handles MP4 and if I want to do a lot of jumping forwards and backwards, I have to remux the MKV files to MP4 to get it to work.

[Geemonster]

Thanks there Chekkie,i might have to do that.

[goldshirt*9]

nice one