Problems with Playing MKVs

[wiirrest Gump]

Gotta say first, I love this project. This can play videos a lot better then my old Xbox using XBMC.

But I have been unable to play any MKVs yet. AVI’s play fine, but all the MKVs crash the player. I am loading them off a DVD (yes IOS 202 Installed Correctly). I have other MKVs to try, and I can post info from the video file but this is my only gripe with the player. I haven’t tried the audio yet, but I’m sure it works great too :mrgreen:. Anyways, just asking for some information on this problem.

Keep up the great work guys 😀 .

[cadbusca]

Most mkv’s are used to contain hi def avc/aac or avc/ac3 streams which the wii cannot play. See my sticky on what plays and doesn’t play http://www.wiimc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=224, and the solution I use for automatically flagging HD problem videos so you don’t try and play them on the wii http://www.wiimc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=571, and ximarx vlc-shares solution for streaming then from a pc after transcoding them to sd http://www.wiimc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=224. Might solve your problem.

[wiirrest Gump]

I looked at some of your stuff yesterday, and I might try the streaming thing (didn’t look to hard to do, and I can customize it since it uses php and etc :mrgreen:.

So just to clarify, is this file no playing because the wii can’t handle it? Here is the information my player has on it:
VIDEO
Dimensions: 720×400 (weird I know)
Codec: H264
Framerate: 24 FPS
Bitrate: N/A

Audio
Codec: Vorbis
Channels: Stereo
Samplerate: 48,000 Hz
Bitrate: 128 kbps

Is this a high def video that the Wii cannot play? I’ll have to try some of my other MKVs then the VLC-Stream if nothing works. Most of my other vids don’t go up to 720 x *, so should they play???

Anyways thanks for your help so far.

[cadbusca]

Yup, its the 720..IMHE any avc over 704 is a problem, some in the 705-850 range may open and play a bit then hang, anything over that will crash.

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