Cannot Get Matroska Files To Play

[EpheMeroN]

I am new to Matroska. I have some anime in *.mkv format and installed The Matroska Pack Full. I then associated *.mkv files with Zoom Player. They do not playback. I get a filter error:

An ERROR has occured!
Unable to create filters for xxxxxx.mkv

I even tried to run them in the old WMP v6.4 and they didn't playback.

[Hiro2k]

Do you have any other codec packs installed? There might be a conflict between them and the Matroska Full Pack.

Also could you give us more information on the errors you are getting. Have you tried using the built in splitter in MPC?

[EpheMeroN]

I wish I could give more info on the error but that is truly all Zoom Player tells me.

As for codec packs, I stay away from them. Only codecs that I have installed are the WMV/WMA M$ Codecs, XviD v1.0.2, DivX v5.0.2, AC3Filter, and Huffyuv.

I have not tried the built-in splitter in Media Player Classic. I don't have it installed. What is the built-in splitter exactly?

[Cyberman]

Media Player Classic has a Matroska Splitter(that´s a "program" that recognizes the Matroska format and splits it into separate streams like Video,Audio, Subs, etc...) built in.
So you don´t need an external splitter - the downside is that it won´t get updated with new Matroska Packs, though.

Go to VIEW->OPTIONS->FILTERS and enable/disable the Matroska Splitter.

[Hiro2k]

From the list of codecs you have installed I can see your problem. You don't have the Matroska splitter installed and so you won't be able to playback any MKV files. You have two options.

1) Use media player classic and avoid installing any more software.

2) Install the Matroska Pack so that you can view your MKV's in any Direct Show player like Zoom Player. You can install only the Matroska splitter from the pack which is all you really need. Just make sure you have the correct audio codecs installed.

[EpheMeroN]

I actually do have the Matroska Pack Full v1.03 installed, I just forgot to mention that.

A friend told me that some programs or codecs require certain versions of DLL or EXE files to run properly and me being on a WinME system might explain why when I try to config or do anything Matroska-related it tells me I'm missing RUNDLL32.EXE when I do have that on my system.

I tried the MPC method and it freezes upon opening each *.mkv file every time. I'll transfer these files over to my XP Notebook tomorrow to test that.

[unmei]

@Hiro2K: from first post
and installed The Matroska Pack Full
btw, a splitter may be a direct show filter, but i don't think that it is a codec as such.

[edit] good timing :D

[Cyberman]

I don´t think it´s that, but - do you have the file MSVCP60.DLL on your system? Some programs need it, it should be with Windows AFAIK, but I recently had a problem because it´s missing.
Maybe it´s that.

[Atamido]

Off hand I know that a lot of anime is encoded using Real's codec. On the Matroska Packs download page there is a warning in huge red letters about making sure that you have Real's codecs installed to play back those videos. Do you know what codec was used for your video clip?

[thoralf]

Originally posted by EpheMeroN
I wish I could give more info on the error but that is truly all Zoom Player tells me.
You can use mkvextractgui (or so, can't recall the exact name atm) to get an overview of the streams muxed in your mkvs. Then you'll be able to tell what DirectShow-Filters are missing on your system.

As for codec packs, I stay away from them.
Great idea ...
Only codecs that I have installed are the WMV/WMA M$ Codecs, XviD v1.0.2, DivX v5.0.2, AC3Filter, and Huffyuv.
That should do for the video part, at least.

However, it might be that your mkvs come with subtitles, in which case you'll need to install the directvobsub filters. Or the audio is ogg and not mp3, then you need the oggds-filter as well.

It's a pity that the DirectShow-Framework doesn't seem to be able to show a dialog box stating something like "ooops, you don't have codec xyz installed, please install it and try again" when a codec is missing.

Hope this helps,
Thoralf.

[ChristianHJW]

As Pamel was telling you, you are likely missing a Realvideo decoder. Reinstall the 1.0.3 pack and see if it pops up a warning window about missing Realvideo ( RV9, RV10 ) decoder. Then follow one of the links on how to solve this problem ....

Christian
matroska project admin

[[Toff]]

You could also try that :
http://www.matroska.org/~toff/MatroskaDiag.exe
It will give you informations about your matroska file, suggest some codec to use for each track and generate a report (great for live irc support ;) ).
No idea if it works on WinME though, that would be a good occasion to try :D

[DKDIB]

Toff wrote:
> It will give you informations about your matroska file, suggest some
> codec to use for each track and generate a report (great for live
> irc support ;) ).

O_O
Wonderful Toff!!! :D
:thanks:

[EpheMeroN]

Hey guys. Thanks for all the suggestions. I had no idea so many more posts were um, posted ;)

I put the Matroska files on my XP Laptop, and then installed the Matroska Pack Full. They played back 100% perfectly. So, I'm assuming it's lovely Windows ME taking care of business again.

The files were not encoded w/ any Real Codec. They were encoded w/ XviD. I made sure and checked.

As for the "MSVCP60.DLL" missing on my system ...I checked, and it's right there in my C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM Directory.

I'm starting to think what was wrong was the lack for OGG Audio support and that was rendering the files unviewable. Just a few days ago I installed that OggDS DirectShowFilter Package and have been watching OGM files very well on here. I'll put back one of the Matroska files tonight and see if that was the problem to begin with!