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

[Michael Waters]

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 02:46 -0330, Chris Babstock wrote:
> I don't know exactly what I have to do here.. I looked on google yet 
> couldn't find any standard instructions to get this working...
> 
> 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...
> 
> here is my mplayer output:
> 
> MPlayer 1.0pre3-3.2.3 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team
> 
...
> 
> Playing Hime-chan no Ribon - 01 [Solar-Genbu] (En_Ru).mkv.
> LMLM4 Stream Format not found
> RAWDV file format detected.
> ==========================================================================
> Opening audio decoder: [libdv] Raw DV Audio Decoder
> Unknown/missing audio format -> no sound
> 
> Exiting... (Quit)
> 
> If anybody can give me some advice, please do so.. It would be greatly 
> appreciated.
...

I don't think you have matroska compiled in for some reason. Maybe you
don't have the dev libs installed or configure is not detecting it.  Is
matroska listed when you do './configure' for mplayer ?  Or you could
use mplayer cvs which has internal matroska support.

Michael