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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: "Brandon J. Wandersee" <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com>
Cc: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Matroska video format
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On Mon, 23 May 2016 10:22:32 -0500, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote:
> Matroska is a truly free and open container format that's been around
> for over a decade now, and I've played *.MKV files in MPV, Parole (the
> Xfce media player), and Kodi/Plex Home Theater without having to take
> any extra steps. I haven't used VLC in a long time, but it's claim to
> fame is that it supports almost every format under the sun out of the
> box. So I would bet it's just a poorly encoded video, not a problem with
> VLC.

Using "mplayer -identify <filename>" is a good tool to check 
what actually is inside the MKV container. The -dumpvideo and
-dumpaudio options can be used for further examination. In
case the file in question is just improperly encoded, this
is a good way to find out.

I'd like to repeat the suggestion to use different files and
different players. Just make sure the required libraries and
codecs have been installed.


-- 
Polytropon
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Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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