How to properly play .mkv x264 in vista 64bit?

[xfezz]

I was wondering what codecs I would need to properly play .mkv x264 files in Vista 64bit? I would like to play them in windows media player.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Just to name a few possibilities:
MPlayer (http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer) -or- VLC PLayer (http://www.videolan.org/) -or- MPC-HC (http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/) -or- MPC (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=205650&package_id=245753)+ffdshow (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=173941&package_id=199416)+HaaliMediaSplitter (http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/) -or- MPC (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=205650&package_id=245753)+CoreAVC (http://www.coreavc.com/)+HaaliMediaSplitter (http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/).

(Note that most of the players mentioned don't need any "external" Codecs/Decoders/Splitters to play H.264 MKV files)

[Altaria]

Is it possible to use in KMPlayer the HD support of nivida's geforce 8 series in vista?

[ShadowVlican]

Just to name a few possibilities:
MPlayer (http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer) -or- VLC PLayer (http://www.videolan.org/) -or- MPC-HC (http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/) -or- MPC (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=205650&package_id=245753)+ffdshow (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=173941&package_id=199416)+HaaliMediaSplitter (http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/) -or- MPC (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=205650&package_id=245753)+CoreAVC (http://www.coreavc.com/)+HaaliMediaSplitter (http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/).

(Note that most of the players mentioned don't need any "external" Codecs/Decoders/Splitters to play H.264 MKV files)
great post with links and all!

i've been using the "MPC+ffdshow+HaaliMediaSplitter" combo with Vista 32bit successfully

however! i can't seem to find 64bit versions of MPC and Haali Splitter? well, unless those files work in 32bit AND 64bit

[tetsuox]

There's an experimental version of Haali's Splitter x64. You should be able to find the link somewhere on this forum. You can get x64 versions of MPC-HC (has internal splitter) and ffdshow here: http://www.xvidvideo.ru/

But the x86 versions work fine in Vista x64. AFAIK there are no real advantages of WMPx64 over WMPx86.