Trying to play back a *.mkv file

Joolander

I'm pretty sure i have all the codecs, i think 2gb of RAM is enough.

when i play in VLC media player, the video and audio move at nrmal speed, but the screen will like freeze for a second and then it does that thing where you can see like the impressions of the shapes on the screen moving behind a sheet made of the previously frozen screen, then it jumps ahead and does the same thing

in Media Player classic, there are no distortions or artifacts, but the video plays slower than the audio, so after a while its minutes behind

I'm also fairly certain that my nVidia geforce 9800 GTX can handle it, so im at my wits end

.kbf?

Maybe the file is corrupted?

Chef_Boom

I too believe parts of the file are corrupted, seems to happen alot with movies nowadays

Joolander

that would suuck


its a ~13gb file , so id like to hold out hope for any suggestions that might work besides "give up"

Spectral Swallow

Stupid question, but are you using the latest version of VLC?

Joolander

i thought i was

after checking again after you asked, i upgraded form 1.0.4 to 1.0.5


the problem is still there, but not quite as bad

Goetterdaemmerung

I have seen different players/codecs suffer from differing degrees of this problem (with a perfect file). Try media player classic with CCCP (which includes ffdshow, the codec which will render the mkv file).

Sir Headless VII

Use a different player. VLC plays mkv files badly, especially the really big ones.

Slicer

Sir Headless VII wrote: »

Use a different player. VLC plays mkv files badly, especially the really big ones.

Yeah, it is just incredibly awful. Seconding the whole "using media player classic with CCCP" suggestion.

Joolander

i have media player classic 1.3.1249.0 (latest version) with CCCP installed, and the video runs slightly slower than the audio, so that after about 2 minutes, the video is ~10 seconds behind the audio

picture quality is good, however

Slicer

I'd look into CoreAVC, I know nothing about your computer's processor but mine is fairly old and CoreAVC has helped in playing mkvs up to 720p without a problem.

Joolander

this one happens to be 1080p. before i go spending $10, you you think thats a problem?

MushroomStick

Are you playing the file on a 1080p screen? I've found that scaling largish video files to fit a screen in real time can eat a lot of system resources.

Joolander

MushroomStick wrote: »

Are you playing the file on a 1080p screen? I've found that scaling largish video files to fit a screen in real time can eat a lot of system resources.

on your suggestion i tried resizing the screen to 1920x1080


it helps a bit: certain parts run smoothly and in sync, but others run choppily, desynched as described above

Fubear

Joolander wrote: »

that would suuck


its a ~13gb file , so id like to hold out hope for any suggestions that might work besides "give up"

Can you run a hash check?

Rook

Joolander wrote: »

this one happens to be 1080p. before i go spending $10, you you think thats a problem?

Almost certainly the free codecs you get with VLC/Codec packs just aren't up to snuff to play back full quality rips of HD video. You can try the Power DVD trial version and see if that helps before you spend your monies.

arsonisfun

what sort of CPU do you have?

1080p MKVs ran like ass before I did my most recent mobo/cpu/ram refresh (was running a OCed X2 3800+, 2gb of ram previously)