[MPlayer-users] mplayer not playing sound

[Chaddaï Fouché]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Erik Post <ejjpost at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can someone help me solving a problem?
> With my old version of mplayer, I tried to play an mkv file. Display was
> choppy and stopped then and and again.
> I've installed a new version of mplayer followin various instructions on the
> net, resulting in having the file played smoothly, but without sound.
> Following various instructions again, I've tried several codecs, none of
> which seem to work.

The first thing to do is to get as much info as you can about the
content of your file, try the following :

mplayer -identify -frames 0 YourMKV.mkv

and paste the output in your next message.

-- 
Jedaï