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I am trying to play mkv file but vlc goes blank & doesnot play the video. I am able to play the same video using Xubuntu on the same hardware. What I am missing here? OS version
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Linux debian 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1 (2016-12-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux
As with your other thread (related?), you're missing details that would let us help you. What version of VLC, installed how, and did you install the relevant codecs?
I have Jessie and some mk4 files. They work here.
Some of my Videos started out black, but they were on a network resource.
I copied them locally and blackness went bye-bye.
It seems that MKV is a container that can hold various encodings. The best thing to do is to install all the codecs available for Debian http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs
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