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What will play .mkv files
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jacatone

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PostPosted: Tue 03 Jul 2012, 13:41    Post subject:  What will play .mkv files  
I download a lot of video files. PL seems to play .avi, mgp files OK, but not .mkv. Anyone know what will play these? Thanks.
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PostPosted: Tue 03 Jul 2012, 14:25    Post subject:  
Most of the players should be able to play them, such as gxine, VLC and mplayer. On my setup, though, I've had problems playing most MKVs (they play with no problems in Windows, on the same system).

But, yes, VLC and mplayer do support MKV (I have no problems playing them using those players on my Windows or Mac systems, for the most part.)
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PostPosted: Tue 03 Jul 2012, 20:29    Post subject:  
gnome-mplayer plays them just fine, except not just "clicking" the file, you need to open gnome-mplayer and navigate to the file

NOTE: there is a difficulty with the mime-type of matrotska files. They seem to identify themselves as "application/octet-stream; charset=binary" which means that assigning an application is almost impossible. Many binary files are identified as "application/octet-stream" and to assign gnome-mplayer or any other player to open those would be irresponsible.

CORRECTION: As pointed out by jamesbond, the mime is correctly recognised as video/x-matroska by Rox when you right click the file >> Properties
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PostPosted: Tue 03 Jul 2012, 20:47    Post subject:  
01micko wrote:
gnome-mplayer plays them just fine, except not just "clicking" the file, you need to open gnome-mplayer and navigate to the file


Tried sample file in Wary5.3;
clicking file worked fine with mplayer.
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PostPosted: Tue 03 Jul 2012, 20:55    Post subject:  
rjbrewer, it may be the file itself, Slacko has all the mime-types wary has, do you have a link?
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PostPosted: Tue 03 Jul 2012, 20:59    Post subject:  
Slacko 5.3.3 ... Gnome MPlayer playing .mkv file.Clicking on file didn't work but navigating to the file or the rather simple drag n drop both work.
mkv test.png
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PostPosted: Tue 03 Jul 2012, 22:40    Post subject:  
01micko wrote:
rjbrewer, it may be the file itself, Slacko has all the mime-types wary has, do you have a link?


Here's the link:

http://www.filecrop.com/mkv-sample.html

I downloaded 2 small files:

1. Sample 23

2. Koyaanisquatsi
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PostPosted: Tue 03 Jul 2012, 22:50    Post subject:  
528- same as James..
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PostPosted: Tue 03 Jul 2012, 22:51    Post subject:  
Ok, looks like a bug in Slacko and Lupu, investigating...


Edit:

Ok fixed, thanks jacatone for the heads up

Attached pet fixes the problem
matroska-mime-patch-1.pet
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PostPosted: Tue 03 Jul 2012, 23:20    Post subject:  
Nice one Mick- Beautiful!
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