08-24-2005, 07:11 PM
I downloaded 25 episodes of an anime series I enjoy over Bittorrent just about a day ago, and when I looked at the files, it turns out that only 4 of them were .avi, whereas the latest 20 were all in a format known as .mkv, or "Matroska."
Well, the Matroska files would only play sound, but the video portion wouldn\'t play properly. Discouraged, I went to the site that provided the anime files and accessed their mIRC server to ask them what the problem might be. They told me to download a helpfull pack called the "CCCP", the Combined Community Codec Pack, which was some kind of collection of codecs and needed programs such as VobSub. Then I tried to make the vid play in all types of players....Anything from Zoom Player to VLC, Media Player Classic, and The Core Media Player. Each time, I received the same error message..."(Insert player name here) has generated errors and will now be closed by Windows." Afterwards, the program debugs itself and shuts down. WTF, you know?!
These damn videos should play properly...I have every bit of software needed to do it. Maybe it could be a hardware problem? Does anybody here have any knowledge of such things? I am NOT deleting these 5 gigs of videos just so I can spend another 6 days downloading them from somewhere else. haha.
Ryan Bean
Well, the Matroska files would only play sound, but the video portion wouldn\'t play properly. Discouraged, I went to the site that provided the anime files and accessed their mIRC server to ask them what the problem might be. They told me to download a helpfull pack called the "CCCP", the Combined Community Codec Pack, which was some kind of collection of codecs and needed programs such as VobSub. Then I tried to make the vid play in all types of players....Anything from Zoom Player to VLC, Media Player Classic, and The Core Media Player. Each time, I received the same error message..."(Insert player name here) has generated errors and will now be closed by Windows." Afterwards, the program debugs itself and shuts down. WTF, you know?!
These damn videos should play properly...I have every bit of software needed to do it. Maybe it could be a hardware problem? Does anybody here have any knowledge of such things? I am NOT deleting these 5 gigs of videos just so I can spend another 6 days downloading them from somewhere else. haha.
Ryan Bean