[MPlayer-users] Can't get matroska (mkv) to work in mplayer

Moritz Bunkus moritz at bunkus.org
Sat Mar 13 11:03:39 CET 2004


Hi,

> I'm running gentoo 1.4 and have emerged libmatroska-0.6.2 and faac. I have 
> then (re)compiled mplayer 1.0_pre3 and I still can't play my mkv files... 
> I just get a really screwed up screen of colors and then mplayer closes 
> shortly thereafter...

Gentoo is known to silently --disable-matroska in their ebuilds. So
please download the current CVS version of mplayer (which contains a new
Matroska demuxer that doesn't nee libebml/libmatroska anymore) and
compile manually without the gentoo build system.

Mosu

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