[xubuntu-users] VLC 3.0.9.2 and .mkv-Files

[Chris Spackman]

On 2020-10-14 01:42, Hans Schneidhofer wrote:

> No - I don't have a solution since that.

> But I have realized that it is generally a very big problem with .mkv-
> files from Youtube to download and - if sometimes goes well - to play
> such files with VLC.

What are you using to download the files? I use youtube-dl and can't 
remember the last time I had a problem. But, I usually use mpv to watch 
videos and not vlc. When I do use vlc, I also can't remember ever having 
a problem.


> Can it be, that .mkv-files - made from Windows-machines or Macs - has
> own formats eq. special formats of .mkv ?

It shouldn't unless they used a weird MS Win / MacOSX proprietary codec, 
but we already established that the file you have is uses a regular 
codec that is well supported.

Have you tried re-encoding with ffmpeg or handbrake? If ffmpeg can't 
re-encode it, that might give you some info as to what the issue is, for 
example.

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