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BakaBT => Need Help? Ask Here => Playback => Topic started by: Reinvent on October 08, 2008, 06:13:12 PM
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With some of my mkv files, the video freezes randomly while the audio continues. The video will catch up after a few seconds, but this is actually very annoying. I played other files from the same series fine, but now all the episodes after are doing this. The thing I noticed was that before I had to change the audio to Japanese and turn the subtitles on, but now it is already on the Japanese audio and subtitles are already on. I am playing all these files on VLC.
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I am playing all these files on VLC.
Aaaand there's your problem right there. VLC doesn't do very well with handling several video containers and formats, and MKVs in particular are one of the most troublesome containers when playing files with VLC.
Assuming that you're using Windows, go install The Combined Community Codec Pack (http://www.cccp-project.net/). It includes both Media Player Classic and Zoom Player, both of which play videos using CCCP. This player/codec combo should play just about any anime out there without a hitch.
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Hmm, I never had any problems with VLC player so I didn't think it was it. Thanks though, I'll try playing with Zoom and MPC, but which do you recommend?
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they're pretty much the same for the most part. so its all up to personal opinion.
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After a little using both, I think I will go with MPC. The video quality seems to be better for some reason.
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After a little using both, I think I will go with MPC. The video quality seems to be better for some reason.
o.O Their should be no difference in quality of the video between the players unless ZoomPlayer is using VMR which sucks on resizing to fullscreen (aka jaggies on subtitles etc). I dont see any difference anyways..
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Yeah it is exactly that jaggies every where.
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if you enable your advanced options in zplayer you can go to video and change it to haali i think it is and it looks much better
although on occasion ive had to use vmr9 because something was fucked up in the video and it fixed it i guess i had a bad encode or something but it was all fucked up and vmr9 fixed it like magic and then just switched back
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Anyone know something that I can play mkv files with on Macs?
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Anyone know something that I can play mkv files with on Macs?
Check the wiki for details (http://wiki.boxtorrents.com/), but the two best solutions are probably any Quicktime-based player after installing Perian Quicktime Components (basically a CCCP equiv) or MPlayerOSX Extended.
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I'll try Perian, thanks again iindigo.