how to play .mkv file

vegetassj2 · 08-28-2006, 02:39 PM

hey,

I downloaded something from an irc channel. It seems it's a .mkv file and I don't know with what player I should play this... Do I need any codecs?

thanks

Matir · 08-28-2006, 05:20 PM

Googling for .mkv takes me to the Matroska homepage, an open source AV container format. Their docs indicate a codec pack as well as GStreamer plugins.

vegetassj2 · 08-29-2006, 04:05 AM

so I have the codecs and the plugins. What do I do now? I'm getting this error message using mplayer:

Code:

$ mplayer movie.mkv
MPlayer 1.0pre8-Fedora-GS-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU:               Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 7)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.



Playing movie.mkv.
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_REAL/RV40), -vid 0
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_AAC/MPEG4/LC/SBR), -aid 0, -alang eng
[mkv] Track ID 3: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8), -sid 0, -slang eng
[mkv] Will play video track 1
[mkv] Will play audio track 2
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO:  [RV40]  576x432  24bpp  25.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
==========================================================================
open: No such file or directory
Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
open: No such file or directory
Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
[VO_TDFXFB] Can't open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory.
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error: /usr/lib/codecs/drvc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: drvc.so, /usr/lib/codecs/drvc.so, /usr/lib/win32/drvc.so, /usr/local/lib/win32/drvc.so
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.so.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error: /usr/lib/codecs/drv4.so.6.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: drv4.so.6.0, /usr/lib/codecs/drv4.so.6.0, /usr/lib/win32/drv4.so.6.0, /usr/local/lib/win32/drv4.so.6.0
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv4.so.6.0.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: drv43260.dll, /usr/lib/codecs/drv43260.dll, /usr/lib/win32/drv43260.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/drv43260.dll
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv43260.dll.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error: /usr/lib/codecs/drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc, /usr/lib/codecs/drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc, /usr/lib/win32/drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc, /usr/local/lib/win32/drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x30345652.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:   4.8 (04.8) of 1707.9 (28:27.8)  2.4%

MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: play_audio
$

Matir · 08-29-2006, 08:56 AM

Looks like you also need the Win32 codecs (such as real and directshow) for the video portion of the stream. See the docs it refers to in the error.

vegetassj2 · 08-29-2006, 11:56 AM

I followed the instructions on this site:
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...es.html#Codecs

and it turns out that it still doesn't work with mplayer nor xine

Do I need another codec pack? please post a link or so.

thanks

dunkert · 08-29-2006, 03:18 PM

xine plays mkv no problem...
mplayer should also at least mine does ( I heard something about that format being remove in mplayer...not sure)

vegetassj2 · 08-29-2006, 03:20 PM

so what codecs should I download?

dunkert · 08-30-2006, 08:11 PM

my mplayer uses FFmpeg

dunkert · 08-30-2006, 08:28 PM

I just realize something my mkv movie file are all "mpeg" type mkv file yours is rv4 (real video 4) which requires real video libraries. I guess installing realvideo and its libraries should do the trick.

vegetassj2 · 08-31-2006, 05:48 AM

I can't find the real video libs @ google

can anybody tell me a website or so?

dunkert · 09-01-2006, 07:14 AM

this should help

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...-fc1.html#real
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mp...tml#realplayer

vegetassj2 · 09-01-2006, 11:50 AM

hmm I added the codecs but I still get the same problem :?

dunkert · 09-02-2006, 03:16 AM

send the output I need to see If mplayer finds it

vegetassj2 · 09-02-2006, 04:44 AM

Code:

$ mplayer Golden\ Boy\ 2.mkv
MPlayer 1.0pre8-Fedora-GS-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU:               Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 7)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.


Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.

Playing Golden Boy 2.mkv.
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_REAL/RV40), -vid 0
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_AAC/MPEG4/LC/SBR), -aid 0, -alang eng
[mkv] Track ID 3: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8), -sid 0, -slang eng
[mkv] Will play video track 1
[mkv] Will play audio track 2
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO:  [RV40]  576x432  24bpp  25.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
==========================================================================
open: No such file or directory
Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
open: No such file or directory
Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
[VO_TDFXFB] Can't open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory.
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error: /usr/lib/codecs/drvc.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: drvc.so, /usr/lib/codecs/drvc.so, /usr/lib/win32/drvc.so, /usr/local/lib/win32/drvc.so
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.so.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error: /usr/lib/codecs/drv4.so.6.0: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: drv4.so.6.0, /usr/lib/codecs/drv4.so.6.0, /usr/lib/win32/drv4.so.6.0, /usr/local/lib/win32/drv4.so.6.0
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv4.so.6.0.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: drv43260.dll, /usr/lib/codecs/drv43260.dll, /usr/lib/win32/drv43260.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/drv43260.dll
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv43260.dll.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error: /usr/lib/codecs/drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc, /usr/lib/codecs/drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc, /usr/lib/win32/drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc, /usr/local/lib/win32/drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x30345652.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:   0.6 (00.5) of 1707.9 (28:27.8)  2.0%

MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: play_audio
$

As root I get the same prob

dunkert · 09-03-2006, 08:44 AM

mplayer is looking for a file called drvc.so, drv4.so.6.0 or drv43260.dll
So you need to find them ... How ?
on a terminal do ...

>updatedb
>locate drvc

your looking for either
/usr/lib/codecs/drvc.so, /usr/lib/win32/drvc.so, /usr/local/lib/win32/drvc.so
or somthing close
if nothing try

>locate drv4

/usr/lib/codecs/drv4.so.6.0, /usr/lib/win32/drv4.so.6.0, /usr/local/lib/win32/drv4.so.6.0
/usr/lib/codecs/drv43260.dll, /usr/lib/win32/drv43260.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/drv43260.dll

if you get somthing close like drv[4-9].so.{somthing} link it to one of those

/usr/lib/codecs/drv4.so.6.0
/usr/lib/win32/drv4.so.6.0
/usr/local/lib/win32/drv4.so.6.0

with ln -s your_file file_above

if none of these work send a list of the codec that you installed.