MKV on N900
 

Hi All,

Well, I know this topic has been done to death in the forum but, still, I was not able to find the appropriate thread, so thought of asking this in a separate post.

I'm trying to run mkv files on N900, I've kmplayer, sib, etc, but the videos were not playing, then I also installed the debs to view 720p videos, along with vlc player. Now, when i open the files on vlc, then the audio can be heard with a blank screen. I thought I might be near to a resolution, so thought of asking you all for advice.

Please let me know. Thanks.

Re: MKV on N900
 

It seems the files have started working on the media player but doesn't work on km or sib etc. Is there any particular setting that I need to do, the issue is that the mkv files have dual audio and I want to select a particular audio.

Re: MKV on N900
 

I believe the n900's mplayer version for the command line allows you to select audio tracks as well. But I don't have any dual audio vids at hand at the moment, so I can't tell you for sure.

Have a look at the man page for operation instructions as well...

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html

Re: MKV on N900
 

MKV is a contianer format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska
I have the FreemanGordon 720p upgrades installed and I can get 720p contianing MKV's to play, others not. Sometimes it just takes renaming the file to AVI or MP4 though it is a long time since I have needed that trick and never in my memory on the N900.
The file that I tried now and just failed was a MKV containing h264 720x480 video and mpeg-4 AAC audio.
BTW where did you find VLC, chroot Debian?
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found it from videolan repo
http://nokia-n900.com/vlc-on-the-n900/
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so I can play another with H.264 / AVC 720 x 404 and MPEG-4 AAC it plays even in the native player
I installed VLC and I also was only able to get audio for the h264 720x480 video and mpeg-4 AAC audio file which fails in the native player.