how the bleep do i open a mkv type file...

[SanDguy_22]

i googled it but the stuff on there were of no help.. so im wondering how do i access a file of the mkv type and/or convert it to somehting more common.

Its a video documentary some genious formated like that.

 

[MagicFingers]

i googled it but the stuff on there were of no help.. so im wondering how do i access a file of the mkv type and/or convert it to somehting more common.

Its a video documentary some genious formated like that.

Here's one place with some players:
http://www.mkv.cc/
Here's some more:
http://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=181406

Seems it is Matroska format:
http://www.matroska.org/
This has much details about it. An open source program.

 

[SanDguy_22]

Re: Re: how the bleep do i open a mkv type file...

Here's one place with some players:
http://www.mkv.cc/
Here's some more:
http://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=181406

Seems it is Matroska format:
http://www.matroska.org/
This has much details about it. An open source program.

did the matroska thing... didnt work... ill check on the other ones but i went to like 5 different sources for the files and they all traced back to matroska... thats why im asking.. like i said before i googled it first

 

[Weird Harold]

Re: Re: Re: how the bleep do i open a mkv type file...

did the matroska thing... didnt work...

There is a download at http://matroska.free.fr/downloads/downloads.html ( http://christian.hj.wiesner.bei.t-online.de/downloads/MatroskaPack0_4_3.zip ) that says it will check your system and install what is required to make it compatible with MKV files.

If you ran that and you still can't play the file, I suspect the file corrupted and you'll need to try downloading it again.

 

[Missingmeds]

Harold, can you explain to me exactly what kind of a file this is. I know he said that it was some sort of video documentary but it is not one that I recognize and why would someone choose it over the normal type of video file?

 

[SanDguy_22]

Re: Re: Re: Re: how the bleep do i open a mkv type file...

There is a download at http://matroska.free.fr/downloads/downloads.html ( http://christian.hj.wiesner.bei.t-online.de/downloads/MatroskaPack0_4_3.zip ) that says it will check your system and install what is required to make it compatible with MKV files.

If you ran that and you still can't play the file, I suspect the file corrupted and you'll need to try downloading it again.

thanks... but i gave up on the whole matroska thing...
i did find a divix codec pac whic has everything in it.
itll play anything from avi to mkv etc... and it actualy worked...

its called k-lite or something like that...
just dont let it install itself as your primary media utility if you decide to get it... the guys who were going off on it said that it would crash your system every time you try to open a media file after that.

It worked fine with me since i did what they said.

 

[Weird Harold]

why would someone choose it over the normal type of video file?

Rampant Technophilia -- if it's a new format, it must be a better format. Plus it's an "Open Source" format and to some people that makes it automatically better than any proprietary or "standard" format on purely philosophical grounds.

 

[JoseIsWild]

I never heard of that. It must be the native format of a specific software. Whoever created the file probably saved it in the software's default format rather than as a generic format that everyone is familiar with. It would be like saving a Photoshop picture as the default .psd rather than as a .jpg

 

[Missingmeds]

Rampant Technophilia -- if it's a new format, it must be a better format. Plus it's an "Open Source" format and to some people that makes it automatically better than any proprietary or "standard" format on purely philosophical grounds.

I am with Jose in that I have never heard of it, but I have the feeling that it isn't better.

Thank you WH for the information and taking the time to teach me things that college misses.

 

[SanDguy_22]

Rampant Technophilia -- if it's a new format, it must be a better format. Plus it's an "Open Source" format and to some people that makes it automatically better than any proprietary or "standard" format on purely philosophical grounds.

the video was compressed and i only found out about its format later on.
had it been labeled as being on one of the more common formats.. i had gone for those.

but such is life or rather the brains spams of some nerdy fucker who put it up there...

also if a video is on some fucked up divix format 99% of the time i wont bother at all...

 

[SanDguy_22]

I never heard of that. It must be the native format of a specific software. Whoever created the file probably saved it in the software's default format rather than as a generic format that everyone is familiar with. It would be like saving a Photoshop picture as the default .psd rather than as a .jpg

pretty much...

or if you have an older editing program and you save the file with one of its format options or use one of its special editing options...
new programs might not support the damned thing at all.

note 2002 power point vs 2003 or 2004 (cant remember what my brother had) there are certain text fonts which can only be edited with the older programs.