Need help playing a .mkv file - may need a decoder

[Pedro333]

I am trying to watch a .mkv file and get the below error. I can view the picture but there is no sound...

"This file contains an audio track in an unknown format. You may need to install a DirectShow decoder in order to hear the soundtrack of this file"

I have searched google for "directshow audio decoder for mac" and just don't seem to be getting anywhere. Can someone please give me a link to the download.

 

[Hellhammer]

Are you using Quicktime? Try Perian, it adds support for many formats

 

[stridemat]

I found that with QuickTime and perian installed I still couldn't play some file formats, I downloaded vlc and I have never found a file that it cannot play, all be it the interface is not as nice.

Try it and see if it will play the files?

 

[kasakka]

Just for the record, there are no DirectShow codecs for OSX because DirectShow is a Windows technology, part of DirectX.

Perian has allowed me to play all files. I don't like VLC because its user interface kinda sucks and I find that on some videos the picture quality is also worse than when using Movist (which also supports FFMPEG as well as Perian) or Quicktime with Perian.

 

[chels18]

Hi all!

I have the same thing with a few movies..

perian didn't help my problem... just says quick time can not support this video file and some of them are .AVI????

eek!

 

[chels18]

cancel that - VLC is working amazingly!! Thank you

 

[MacHamster68]

only because the ending is .avi it can contain anything really
as its a multimedia container ......and from microsoft

and yes VLC is the way to go if perian cant open the file