Playing Bluray movies

hmm, I got this blue ray documentary in x264 .mkv format, I tried playing it with VLC, it freezes to death. Also it it because of the 8600M GT card? Any other options? Thanks

 

for .mkv format, you should use windows media classic, google it, it's free too

 

I tried MPC, it doesn't want to play that particular mkv format (x264)... :S searched the net didn't find anything really.

 

Install some codecs (e.g. ffdshow, cccp, etc). I recommend CCCP as it will come with media player classic.

 

http://www.cccp-project.net/ + http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/jetaudio/ = play everything under the sun!!!

 

Thanks for the hint, I installed K-Lite codec pack and now it plays fine. The codecs that appear here are ffdshow and haali media splitter.

Thanks guys!

 

i'd suggest avoiding k-lite unless CCCP really fails.

k-lite is some conflicting issues and it is really overkill for
most of the people.

 

Install Divx 7. It now comes with an Directshow decoder for x264 - It means that although it complains about an 'unsupported file format' if you drag and drop a .mkv file onto it Windows Media Player WILL play it (as will Winamp after a bit of tweaking)

Divx Player is now also supposed to be able to play them (and will try and associate itself with .mkv at install) however I've not managed to get it to do it yet.

 

Cool, I have installed that now. Thanks.

 

Could you elaborate on this?

I can't even find a list with the contents of CCCP. All I see is an outdated ffdshow-tryouts r2133 whilst K-Lite is on r2624 and the latest beta6 is on r2527. I also seen an outdated MediaPlayer Classic. What has a mediaplayer to do in a codec pack anyway?

K-Lite Basic is streamlined and you know what it does to your system:
http://www.codecguide.com/features_basic.htm

The last aspect is important: Codecs work with priorities (these priorities are called "merit"). If you install many codecs they interfere since only one codec can will the game.

The only thing I like about CCCP: It does include a discussion of Players:
http://www.cccp-project.net/wiki/index.php?title=Media_Players#VLC_media_player_.28Bad.2FEvil.29
VLC has some very unique streaming and remote control features. And for this purpose it's great, but for everything else it's the worst player you can choose.

 

^ so K-Lite pack is better than CCCP because of the old versions that are in CCCP pack?

I did experience some freezing when playing a movie with CCCP pack, didn't have any previously using K-Lite.. hmm