MKV and MPC?????????

[MadMatt]

Have just download a film ,,a dvd rip ,,normally the files are of avi source and i encode to dvd etc ,,but this one i have downloaded is in mkv and mpc????Where do i go from here??? Vdub doesnt recognise the file type and have done some searching to no avail on these file types any1 else came across these ?ideally would like to convert to dvdr using my normall method of dvd2svcd ?
Any help or info greatly appreciatted
Cheers
Matt

[ragingdevil]

mkv files are a matroska file format container, and you have to download and install a codec (or whatever the matroska group wants to call it) to play it in Windows Media Player. Once installed, TMPGenc should recognise it and allow you to recode it. Never downloaded any mpc files myself, so can't help with that.

http://packs.matroska.org

[celtic_druid]

MPC = musepack and is an audio only compression format, which by the waycurrently can't be used in MKV or any other AV container format that I know of. MPC also often stands for Media Player Classic which interestingly has a built in MKV splitter.

VirtualDubMod can open MKV files.

For MKV playback in all dshow based players or anything else capable of opening files via dshow all you need is Gabest's splitter and whatever codecs that the file uses. Also VSFilter if it has subtitles. Could also grab the pack.

[MadMatt]

Thx for the replies guys,,have downloaded the pack shown above and all tht does is allows u to open in media player and listen to the sound no picture(mkv files)

Also have d/lded virtualdubmod but it doesnt like them either crashes as soon as i select an mkv file when i open it,,,yet if i select a normal avi file it runs fine!!!
Guess gonna have to ditch the files now
Thanx for your inputs
Matt

[nimbles]

it still doesn't pla after installing the full matroska pack (1.02), that raging devil linked to? hmmm.... thats strange

you have any idea what the video codec they've used for it? could be something like a real media codec

Would have said use g-spot to identify the video codec but at the mo that doesn't support the mkv container- i don't think

[celtic_druid]

You don't need GSpot for MKV files it has AV info on the status bar in explorer. Possible that you need Matroska Shell Extension installed first though.

RM MKV's should open fine in VDubMod, but be set to directstreaming due to the lack of a VFW decoder.