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.mkv player for linux
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2018-05-19 at 3:29 PM UTCDoes anyone know of a media player i can get with linux mint 17(cinnamon) that will play .mkv videos?
I've been binge watching game of thrones recently as I only ever watched up to the middle of season 4 and have been meaning to catch up for ages. Had no problems with the first 4 seasons, but for some reason most of the more recent seasons seem to be mostly uploaded in .mkv format. I downloaded the whole of season 5 only to find out afterwards that it was .mkv and nothing I have seems to be able to play it. It said that if I update vlc then that should play it, but when I went to update it said I already had the most up to date version, yet it won't play them. I tried mplayer and that's no better. None of the media players I can find that supports .mkv seems to have a linux version.
Thanks.
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2018-05-20 at 8:16 AM UTCVLC, bruv.
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2018-05-20 at 8:20 AM UTCit don't tho
Originally posted by NARCassist Does anyone know of a media player i can get with linux mint 17(cinnamon) that will play .mkv videos?
I've been binge watching game of thrones recently as I only ever watched up to the middle of season 4 and have been meaning to catch up for ages. Had no problems with the first 4 seasons, but for some reason most of the more recent seasons seem to be mostly uploaded in .mkv format. I downloaded the whole of season 5 only to find out afterwards that it was .mkv and nothing I have seems to be able to play it. It said that if I update vlc then that should play it, but when I went to update it said I already had the most up to date version, yet it won't play them. I tried mplayer and that's no better. None of the media players I can find that supports .mkv seems to have a linux version.
Thanks.
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2018-05-20 at 8:22 AM UTCi'm using winff to convert it to an mp4 atm, but its sure taking a long ass time.
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2018-05-20 at 8:37 AM UTCWell what can i say, Mint is a shitty OS. I got Ubuntu and VLC just works like a charm my nigga.
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2018-05-20 at 9:11 AM UTCit might be that mint repos have an old version, try removing it and installing from the latest .deb from the vlc site
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2018-05-20 at 10:59 AM UTCwould you agree with any of the advice they gave me here:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=269719&p=1471449#p1471449
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2018-05-20 at 11:51 AM UTCYeah, couple of things - I don't use Mint, but Mint is essentially just Debian anyway so the same procedures should work.
1. You can try different media players but I suspect the issue is underlying, ie. they'll all have the same problem.
2. the link suggests installing the mint-meta-codecs package (sudo apt-get install mint-meta-codecs from terminal), this may fix it.
On the topic of MKV -
I don't think it's the MKV format the video player has an issue with - MKV is a 'container' format; it doesn't determine the video codec or anything, it basically just determines how the video, audio and subtitle streams are organised within the file.
As a result it's probably the actual video codec you're having a problem with, not the MKV format. There are a few ways to determine this - the easiest may be to open the file in VLC (even if it fails), open playlist view, right-click the file and click 'info' (as per this link). Take a screencap of the results, you can crop or blur out the actual video file.
If that fails you might need to use something else to determine what audio/video codecs are being used, mediainfo looks to be a simple choice, sudo apt-get install mediainfo mediainfo-gui, load the file and screencap the data from that
