Playing MKV files

[Guest Robert Davidson]

I was wondering if there has been any further news on the playback of mkv files, I remember that MyAdventVega had said that they were looking into this back in Nov or Dec but as yet I dont think I have seen anything more on this. I was hoping that this would have been sorted out soon as I dont want to have to recode everything just for my Vega.

[Guest MaxiP]

As yet, no support for MKV but you can cheat if you want to watch videos on the Vega. Rather than re-encoding you can 're-package' (or however it should be described) as a MP4 / M4V which will work. I've found GotSent works well although it doesn't shrink your media - you would have to run handbrake or similar to do that.

HTH

[Guest BlackCat^]

As for streaming MKV is there any proven method of transcoding on the fly to something the Vega is happy with (keeping HD if possible)?

I have found Orb degrades the quality far too much and I cant setup TVersity without either getting no audio or choppy playback.

[Guest gingercat]

As yet, no support for MKV

Not true actually, they will play, but audio playback depends on the codec used, see here

[Guest BiggerH]

no luck here yet - tried re-encoding to mp4 with Handbrake/etc, but my Revo takes about 3 hours to convert with a 40 min program.

I'm hoping Core Player app, when it's finally released, will be the answer

[Guest jegupi]

no luck here yet - tried re-encoding to mp4 with Handbrake/etc, but my Revo takes about 3 hours to convert with a 40 min program.

I'm hoping Core Player app, when it's finally released, will be the answer

I use xyplayer and have no problems with mkv files, could post a link of a mkv file that doesn't works

[Guest newbe5]

As for streaming MKV is there any proven method of transcoding on the fly to something the Vega is happy with (keeping HD if possible)?

I have found Orb degrades the quality far too much and I cant setup TVersity without either getting no audio or choppy playback.

With Orb you can force the connection speed, instead of having it detect it. Orb automatically detects your home Broadband speed as the connection speed, and degrades the video accordingly. Unfortunately it's too stupid to realise that your actually on the same LAN as your media. You can manually force the connection speed instead of having it auto-detect, this fixes the quality issues.

Zeb