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matroska is a general use container format, and as a result of that MKV files can contain many tracks with different audio and video compression formats. We try to provide most of the necessary decoders in our full playback pack for Microsoft DirectShow, but for some formats we are not allowed to do this because of licensing problems. Typical examples are all codecs of RealNetworks Inc. ( Realvideo, Realaudio, RV 9, RV 10 ) and ON2 ( VP 4, VP 5, VP 6 ). All these formats can be stored fine in MKV files, but for playback it is necessary to have the right decoders installed on your PC. To help all our users to identify the codecs that were used in their MKV files, especially in case when the matroska full pack will not provide the right decoders and the files wont play, we provide a new tool called matroskadiag.exe . The tool will check your MKV file and report if you have the right DirectShow decoder filters installed or not, and point you to the right place where you can obtain the necessary filters, in case they are missing. If your files still dont play, you are likely facing a problem with your DirectShow installation ( too many filters installed ). In this case all we can recommend is a new installation of Windows, or the use of players like VLC ( Videolan ) or Xine, which dont need an underlying framework like DirectShow for movie playback, but will provide decoders for most formats with the player itself.
How to play MKV files on Windows
The Core Media Player
The Core Media Team are great supporters of matroska , and they invested a lot of time to help one of our team members, Jory 'Jcsston' Stone, to add specific matroska support with a so-called CDL plugin. Of course, its coming with a built in audio stream switcher. TCMP is currently the only player with support for 'nested chapters' in MKV files.
VLC ( Videolan )
It was a big honour when Fenrir from the Videolan team added matroska support to this player, and more or less over a ( looong ) night. VLC has great streaming possibilities, as it can act as a streaming server also, and is not based on DirectShow. Because of that, it doesnt need installation of any other filters or codecs, as its coming with support for the most used video and audio for-mats already built in. We strongly recommend this player if you dont want to mess with installation of any codec packs or the like, just to be able to play a matroska file a friend has sent to you ;-).
Very unfortunately, VLC has no support for proprietary codecs like Realvideo ( RV 9, RV 10, RV 40 ) or ON2 VP6, because its developers decided to include support for only those formats where a free, GPL decoder is available. RealNetworks and ON2 did not provide such a decoder, so MKV files using these formats are not supported.
Media Player Classic
Gabest, the subtitles wizzard, has made a Mediaplayer of his own based on DirectShow also, and he recently added matroska support to it with a self made DirectShow parser filter that will work on all other players named above also, but does allow a few specific functions in conjunction with his player, like switching audio streams, etc..
Important Note : MPC is still a great mediaplayer with excellent matroska support. However, as Gabest doesnt have the time to update the player anymore ( Real Life Issues ;-) ), the internal matroska parser in MPC is outdated. This is not a big problem, just make sure to de-activate the internal matroska parser and subtitles renderer in MPC's advanced settings, so that the external matroska parser from the latest matroska packs will be used. If you don't do this, newer MKV files will maybe not play correctly.
Zoomplayer
Blight, who made his hobby a profession and is coding this player for his living, recently added specific matroska support to his player ( since ver. 3.30 ), using the possibilities that the newest matroska splitter filter offers via a special, extended 'track info interface', created by Toff from the CorePlayer team. His player now supports AR correction, and has a built in audio stream switcher. Zoomplayer is DirectShow based, like TCMP.
Xine
This great Linux player has matroska support meanwhile, thanks to the hard work of thibaut, and is available as a Windows compile also. Other than the VLC guys, its developers will also add support for proprietary formats like RealVideo or ON2, using the specific Windows DLLs. For this very reason, Xine is your first choice if you have to play a MKV file with a proprietary codec, but you dont plan to install any more DirectShow filters than you already have.
Foobar2000
Peter Pawlowski, a former member of the winamp development team, has created his own audio player project, and got a huge group of fans for it meanwhile. His player has support for almost all existing audio compression formats, can transcode from one audio format to another, and was one of the first apps that supported the new matroska tagging system.
It's very convenient to be used as a converter for audio streams embedded in MKV video files, offering the ability to open them directly, without any time consuming extraction process beforehand.
CCCP Community Pack
Although not being as complete as our full pack with respect to supported formats, as its mainly dedicated for anime MKV playback, this special pack can help if your DirectShow setup is messed up and you don't manage to play MKV files after installation of our full pack. It is coming with a very smart installer that is checking for the existence of several filters on your machine which are known to cause problems, like the old DVobSub filter coming with vobsub, and will deinstall them automatically. The CCCP pack is slim and neat, and can help you even in cases when no other tool can help anymore.
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Related Terms |
What is MKV?
Generally video files, as well those containing audio ( movies ) or video only.
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What is Video?
A recording produced with a video recorder (camcorder) or some other device that captures full motion.
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