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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

vlc; mkv, mkvinfo; no sound

Hi, everybody,

I've got a rogue mkv file: video's ok, but no sound. No problem with all the other mkv files. Tried google; thing happens, but no clear answers. They mention mkvinfo utility; it barely surfaces on the Arch forums, but nothing (?) in the repositories. Nothing in the Wiki too.

(1)  It's possible that mkvinfo comes with a differently named package. If so, what is it?
(2) Is there an alternative player worth trying for mkv?

Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Re: vlc; mkv, mkvinfo; no sound

(1)  It's possible that mkvinfo comes with a differently named package. If so, what is it?

mkvtoolnix

Also, kaffeine works on the sorry file. Is there a way to discover the difference? Is the research worth the trouble ?

It's just that VLC uses no more than 70% CPU while kaffeine uses up 100% and overheating... I'd like to make VLC work...

Last edited by Llama (2008-06-26 16:07:19)

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: vlc; mkv, mkvinfo; no sound

mplayer works with mkv. i don't know the syntax to get subtitles up(someone please tell me?:)) but if you use graphical mplayer then you can choose them in a menu.

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test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

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Re: vlc; mkv, mkvinfo; no sound

also there used to be patches for different graphic cards that made mplayer faster. It prolly exists for vlc too..

edit: yeah, use edit. don't mention.

Last edited by test1000 (2008-06-26 17:05:53)

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daneel971

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Registered: 2008-03-28

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Re: vlc; mkv, mkvinfo; no sound

i don't know the syntax to get subtitles up(someone please tell me?)

on the command line, use sid=N or slang=SUB, being N the id of the sub stream or SUB the language code (3 letters for mkv, two for dvd). Use -ass in order to use ass rendering.
You can place all your options in the ~/.mplayer/config file, and you can even create profiles for different protocols/filetypes or per-file configuration...  Just dig a little in the manpage...

Last edited by daneel971 (2008-06-26 17:52:02)