1080p MKV Video Playback Issues

Kronus980 · 03-28-2013, 02:09 AM

Seems like every video player I find has trouble playing these 1080p mkv files I have. When it gets to a certain point, in the video there's some kind of video static, and when the player tries to render the effects it slows down, skips during playback of that video effect only (and it spawns often in what I'm watching), and in VLC's case it froze entirely. I've tried every player in the Ubuntu Software Center. Anyone have any I can try? Or maybe help me tweak something to work? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Hopefully something in equal to Windows' MPC

yooy · 03-28-2013, 05:26 AM

Your pc is too slow i guess, but you can still watch 1080p avi files by converting those mkv files you have.

John VV · 03-28-2013, 12:40 PM

mkv is a holder is the video in h264

have you looked into "Mplayer" ? and installing the codecs and plugins

there is the all 2011 codec package from mplayer.hq
and all the plugins for xine and gstreamer that can be used

4 gig ram is enough
the core 2 duo is a bit old but usable
NVIDIA 9800 GT ?
what driver are you using ?
the opensource "nouveau" ?
or the proprietary nvidia.run or the kmod-nvidia

my 12 year old P4 computer did not have any issues with HD avi's and mkv's
though the 1 gig ram was a bit low so there was some buffering issues do to 1 gig ram

H_TeXMeX_H · 03-28-2013, 01:50 PM

That nvidia card should be enough to play 1080p. The drivers you use are important, but newer nouveau drivers should be able to play it. If not, then I guess you have to use the proprietary blob.

teckk · 03-28-2013, 06:12 PM

Mpeg2 or 4

Code:

mplayer -nodouble file.mpg

Code:

mplayer -lavdopts lowres=1 -vfm ffmpeg file.mpg

H264

Code:

mplayer -lavdopts skiploopfilter=all file.mkv

Code:

mplayer -lavdopts skipframe=nonref:skiploopfilter=all:fast=1 file.mkv

Also using ffmpeg will help on a lower resource machine.

Code:

mplayer ffmpeg://file.mkv

Also look at

Code:

ffplay file.mkv

Look at -framedrop and -hardframedrop

I can watch 1080p on a P4 with an old nvidia 5200 without framedropping or low res.(just barely)

Code:

lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

Code:

cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 15
model		: 2
model name	: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.20GHz
...........
...........

Emerson · 03-28-2013, 06:56 PM

An 1.7 GHz Atom can play back x246 1080p with proper GPU. By proper GPU I mean something like nVidia which offers a capable Linux driver, see VDPAU. Your player has to be aware of VDPAU and use it. There is another API emerging, VA API, which can utilize hardware decoding as well.

Madhu Desai · 03-29-2013, 12:50 PM

i also had similar problem. i installed nvidia driver from manufacturer's website. i have GeForce 9500 GT. it solved everything. but my distribution is CentOS 6.4. dont know about ubuntu.

Kronus980 · 03-30-2013, 03:23 PM

Nothing worked

XBMC works! But seems like such a haul JUST to play a 30 minute clip.. And when I had Windows 7 on my comp it did the same. But I tried it with MPC and it works fine.