Matroska problems

mckeed · Post by **mckeed** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 4:06 pm

I went to the site
http://matroska.org
and dl'ed their matrovska pack which has all these things in it:
Matroska Pack Full v1.0.0:
- MatroskaSplitter v1.0.1.9
- MatroskaMuxer v1.0.0.7
- VSFilter v2.30
- MMSwitch v0.99 (modified Matroska Edition)
- CoreAAC v1.0b8
- CoreVorbis v1.0b5
- AC3Filter 0.70b
- MatrixMixer v0.30b
- ffdshow alpha 2003-05-23
- RealMediaSplitter v1.0.0.7

I installed it and things went fine. But i can't double click and get media player to play the file. I managed to dl a shell extension for it, but I still can't double click it and get media player to play it. I know i can manually associate it, but shouldn't this happen automatically. Also, when i drag it to media player it gives me a warning. I play it anyway. The subs are all boxes as opposed to actual text. Anyone know where i went wrong?

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 9:09 pm

Well what happens when you double click the file? Surely SOMETHING happens? Is another player playing it? If thats the case then you need to manually change the association.

mckeed · Post by **mckeed** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 10:30 pm

when i double click it the dialog box for choosing what program you want to open it comes up. The one when it doens't know the file type. I can get it to play in mediaplayer, but the sub font it all messed up. Looks like a string of boxes. Can't change any of the options that you are supposed to with it. The file is supposed to have different sudio tracks or something. I can't access any of it.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 11:57 pm

When the box comes up asking what program to open it with, make sure the box is checked, "always use this program to open these types of files".

For the subtitles, an icon should appear in your system tray when the video starts that lets you access the subtitle options. If you dont see this icon, or if you do see it but it doesnt help, then something may be wrong with the subtitle filter or the file you are trying to watch.

ChristianHJW · Post by **ChristianHJW** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 6:22 am

I just can recommend to use another player than just WMP for matroska files. TCMP, MPC, Zoomplayer, BSplayer, VLC, Koolplaya, all have much better matroska support.

In WMP 7/8/9, all you can really do is to play file with the very basic features audio and video, all other things suck .... in WMP 6.4 at least subtitles switching works .....

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 3:56 pm

Boycot Matroska! >.<

danielwang · Post by **danielwang** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 5:11 pm

DJ_Izumi wrote:Boycot Matroska! >.<

I agree. Matroska is... just not good.

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 5:14 pm

danielwang wrote:I agree. Matroska is... just not good.

That coming from wmv boy.

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 5:21 pm

Matroska is simply evil, dispite -meaning- well. I mean, it's not REALLY the 'future video container' it still uses common video compression formats. It's really just crap backwards engineered from RealMedia technologoies for the purpose of including soft coded subtitles in something. That's it, subtitles. I mean, it dosn't do anything else, except utalize the nightmare that is Vorbis/OGG audio. Oh yes, can it can have chapers. *twirls her finger* Wow, Chapters.

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 5:23 pm

I'm sorry, what?
How can you say it uses common compression formats... it doesn't use any compression format.. it's a container. One that's got absolutely nothing in blue hell to do with realmedia.

I'll leave the rest to trythil.