MKV files?

I downloaded what claims to be a DVD rip, but it is two .MKV files.
What are these?

No One

No One wrote:

> I downloaded what claims to be a DVD rip, but it is two .MKV files. What
> are these?

"Extension: MKV

Matroska Video Stream Matroska Association

The Matroska multimedia container formats were derived from a project
called MCF, but differ from it significantly because it is based on EBML
(Extensible Binary Meta Language), a binary derivative of XML. EBML
enables future format extensibility, without breaking file support in
old parsers. This is a container, not a CODEC. Get the parser from the
Matroska site.

MKV is the typical extension for a Matroska video file, it may contain
several video tracks (in most cases only one), as well as several audio
and subtitles tracks, in various formats. In addition to that the files
can have attachements like JPEGs, song lyrics, decoder filters for
DirectShow or other decoders, etc."


drc

Darrel Christenson

On 5/28/2005 3:00:01 PM, No One wrote:

> I downloaded what claims to be a DVD rip, but it is two .MKV files.
> What are these?

http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=mkv
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Tarkus

Tarkus wrote:

> On 5/28/2005 3:00:01 PM, No One wrote:
>
>
>>I downloaded what claims to be a DVD rip, but it is two .MKV files.
>>What are these?
>
>
> http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=mkv

yeah...I've been there..downloaded the mplayer...the files now have an
icon, but they still don't play.

No One

No One wrote:

>>>I downloaded what claims to be a DVD rip, but it is two .MKV files.
>>>What are these?
>>
>>
>> http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=mkv
>
> yeah...I've been there..downloaded the mplayer...the files now have an
> icon, but they still don't play.

Use VLC http://videolan.org/vlc

Just drag and drop the .mkv file onto the player window.

Hans Schlager