From slhomme at matroska.org  Wed Apr  2 16:32:47 2008
From: slhomme at matroska.org (Steve Lhomme)
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:32:47 +0200
Subject: [Matroska-general] playing mkv files
In-Reply-To: <BAY133-W23FE2336AE9AFE16815EE9A0F90@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY133-W23FE2336AE9AFE16815EE9A0F90@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <47F3990F.6040905@matroska.org>

Ian Brownlie wrote:
> Dear Chris,
> My name is Ian Brownlie and I will state at the outset that I am no programmer, I am merely a user. I use ubuntu 7.1 because of it's versatility and reliability. However, I have recently run into what I believe to be an insurmountable problem. That being making a dvd out of mkv files, I have spent the last week trying to find a way, all to no avail. Even all the experts at ubuntu launchpad don't know how.
> My main point is, what is the point of a system that can't be used by the everyday user such as myself. I have wasted countless hours trying to find out. I now have a computer full of files I can't use, these files will be erased as soon as I have finished this email, and my only recourse is to studiously avoid anything that has 'mkv' attached to it. The final straw came when I was reading a forum this evening and found a quote from you and your organisation 'admitting' that the format is useless, i.e. I have to crowd my wife and children around my computer monitor to watch a film. I have also emailed Azureus and informed them that I will no longer be downloading anything from them, there is no point.
> That being said, I wish you well in your endevours to get the dvd manufacturers to adopt the system. Don't hold your breath, unless they get a slice of the action they won't want to know about it.
> Yous sincerely,
> Ian Brownlie.

I guess it tells a lot about your research if you come here last and not 
first...

Steve


From kohlrabi82 at gmx.de  Thu Apr  3 15:53:27 2008
From: kohlrabi82 at gmx.de (Christoph Terasa)
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:53:27 +0200
Subject: [Matroska-general] still cant play mkv files
In-Reply-To: <20080129185325.AD8B21158CC@ws1-7.us4.outblaze.com>
References: <20080129185325.AD8B21158CC@ws1-7.us4.outblaze.com>
Message-ID: <op.t81fjdwl5cjkmr@kohlrabi>

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:53:25 +0100, Wydma <wydma at email.com> wrote:

> hi guys. i downloaded CCCP installed it and
> still cant play mkv files :( i have windows
> media player and winamp and only CCCP no other
> codecs. i will attach MatrioskaDiag report,
> please help me.
>
>

The two players provided with CCCP should work. I use Media Player Classic  
(it has NOTHING to do with Windows Media Player) succesfully. Though my  
MKVs work fine in Windows Media Player 11, I don't have any with vorbis in  
them, maybe that's the bad guy.
Just try using Media Player Classic and report back if you still have  
problems.
I also found mention of this error on  
http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/18579p1.html with a possible "solution".
Have you tried cleaning any traces of codec packs with the insurgent-tool  
 from the CCCP-website, and then reinstalling CCCP?

regards
Christoph


From vigueras at seg-social.es  Fri Apr  4 09:24:03 2008
From: vigueras at seg-social.es (Ignacio Vigueras)
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 09:24:03 +0200
Subject: [Matroska-general] Matroska tags
Message-ID: <000301c89624$dc3be140$d603630a@99G.GISS.SS>

Hello.
 
I am encoding all my music -mostly classic music- in mka files. Usually I
copy one CD on one FLAC file and then one or more FLAC files on one mka
file, deppending of the estructure of the works and how it comes in the CDs.
Tagging is fine and your examples helps but, after many attemps, I am not
able to tag the case of only one FLAC file -all tracks in the file- with two
or more works and there are not example for this case in your examples page.
 
This is a tipical case -all tracks in the same file-:
 
Track 1: Work 1 - Mov 1. 
Track 2: Work 1 - Mov 2.
Track 3: Work 1 - Mov 3.
Track 4: Work 1 - Mov 4.
Track 5: Work 2.
Track 6: Work 3 - Mov 1.
Track 7: Work 3 - Mov 2.
 
Please, could you explain a xml tag file for this case?.
 
Thank you very much.
Best regards.
Ignacio.
 
 
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From stargate1121 at yahoo.com  Sun Apr 13 19:39:43 2008
From: stargate1121 at yahoo.com (susan watts)
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:39:43 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Matroska-general] problem with classic media player
Message-ID: <938885.32414.qm@web52310.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

I downloaded a mkv file and am trying to get it to play. the video works great but I have no sound at all.
     I sure hope you can help me fix this movie. I would like to hear it and see it. 
    the movie is french and has english subtitles but all I'm getting is the subs. I'm sure the voice is in french. The movie is The Secret.
     Thanks.
       Susan Watts

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From lior.galanti at gmail.com  Mon Apr 21 18:25:03 2008
From: lior.galanti at gmail.com (Lior Galanti)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:25:03 +0300
Subject: [Matroska-general] bidirectional support for UTF8 hebrew subtitles
	in matroska on mplayer 
Message-ID: <BBC455CE-99E6-4FA4-B017-09D1A3E6C0CC@gmail.com>

when playing a utf8 subtitle track stored in a matroska file, mplayer  
seems to behave exactly the opposite way from how its behaves when  
loading an identical stream (demuxed from the mkv with mkvextract)  
from an external srt file.

i understand this is due to the matroska demuxer being unaware of  
directionality.

i compiled an example, available here : http://lior.galanti.googlepages.com/mkvbidi.zip

internal.png: mplayer -slang heb test.mkv
external.png: mplayer -utf8 -sub test.srt test.mkv

in the file, as far as i can tell, the top line is in correct order  
and the bottom is flipped.

"???? ?? ?? ???????? ?????"
"????? ???????? ?? ?? ????"

when i load the external file that is what i get (see external.png)
when i load the internal matroska track i get the opposite.

Can this be fixed?

L.



From christophe.paris at free.fr  Wed Apr 23 20:26:16 2008
From: christophe.paris at free.fr (Christophe PARIS)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:26:16 +0200
Subject: [Matroska-general] bidirectional support for UTF8 hebrew subtitles
	in matroska on mplayer
In-Reply-To: <BBC455CE-99E6-4FA4-B017-09D1A3E6C0CC@gmail.com>
References: <BBC455CE-99E6-4FA4-B017-09D1A3E6C0CC@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <480F7F48.6030107@free.fr>

Lior Galanti wrote:
> when playing a utf8 subtitle track stored in a matroska file, mplayer 
> seems to behave exactly the opposite way from how its behaves when 
> loading an identical stream (demuxed from the mkv with mkvextract) from 
> an external srt file.

Your sample seems to works correctly on Windows using vsfilter :
http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/9859/clipboard01sg7.jpg
It looks like your "external.png" file.

In my opinion it's not a Matroska issue.
Unicode already store everything you need to handle text in any direction.
So there is no need to store directionality at the matroska level.

The problem is probably in mplayer which doesn't handle subtitles in
the same way if they are loaded from an external file or from an embedded stream.


From ken.the.friend at gmail.com  Mon Apr 28 08:09:19 2008
From: ken.the.friend at gmail.com (Kenneth Becker)
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:09:19 -0400
Subject: [Matroska-general] codec issues
Message-ID: <c29fa460804272309ra9e2fc8v287f0b075973fb55@mail.gmail.com>

Hey there,

I seem to be having a great amount of difficulty playing valued mkv video
files.  Even when I download the latest Gom player, VLC player, and CCCP
package, I have difficulty.  The symptoms range from overlapping subtitle
text (where two lines spoken at the same time overlap) to the file not
playing at all.  This is not related to the file because several different
files produce similar errors.

So please, tell me which codecs work best for mkv files so I can get these
to work.

Thanks so much
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