MKV files in Windows 7's Windows Media Center (x64)?

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

x32 only.

I posted a link to Haali above, did you miss it? http://haali.net/mkv/mkx.y.9.exe

[Elliot B.]

I posted a link to Haali above, did you miss it? http://haali.net/mkv/mkx.y.9.exe

Did you not see I quoted Mr Dan? ;)

[br0adband]

I play any and all MKV files using Media Player Classic - Home Cinema x64 (as I run Windows 7 Professional x64) and have 0% issues. Nothing else is used: just the single .exe file for MPC-HC x64 and that's it.

[Elliot B.]

So you admit you don't read titles before opening a thread? It doesn't need to be written in huge obvious font, it's a topic title, the first thing you should read ;)

edit: Haali Media Splitter for x64 - http://haali.net/mkv/mkx.y.9.exe All you should need, you don't need a codec pack, you need an mkv splitter.

I posted a link to Haali above, did you miss it? http://haali.net/mkv/mkx.y.9.exe

Worked a treat, thank you! (Y)

I play any and all MKV files using Media Player Classic - Home Cinema x64 (as I run Windows 7 Professional x64) and have 0% issues. Nothing else is used: just the single .exe file for MPC-HC x64 and that's it.

Windows Media Center.

[Rob2687]

Why isn't Haali's x64 splitter posted on their main page? It works great.

[sialivi]

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Edited August 1, 2009 by sialivi

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Why isn't Haali's x64 splitter posted on their main page? It works great.

Because it's still in beta I guess...

[limok]

Get the gabest matroska x64 splitter and register it regsvr32.exe, u could even get the x64 ac3filter if you want, but the built in codecs should suffice.

[Subject Delta]

Both of those codec packs contain a splitter, CCCP uses Haali. He doesn't need to install a codec pack, just the splitter.

Windows 7 has native codecs to play back H264 which will be the video codec inside the MKV file, Windows 7 however does not have a splitter to enable the use of the MKV container.

Nope, he doesn't have to, but there are other benefits of having a codec pack installed

[Elliot B.]

I posted a link to Haali above, did you miss it? http://haali.net/mkv/mkx.y.9.exe

I'm not getting sound when playing an MKV within WMC with that.

EDIT: Installing the latest CCCP (Combined-Community-Codec-Pack-2008-09-21) didn't help.

Edited August 5, 2009 by King Mustard

[Elliot B.]

http://www.codecguide.com/klcp_64bit.htm

works like a charm for me:)

How did I miss this? Worked perectly, thank you! (Y)

[ilev]

Anyone got them working? I've followed various guides, and nothing has worked.

MKV playback is fully supported.

The Win7codecs package which I have created does not change or interfere with what Microsoft has going on concerning native codec support in Windows Media Player 12 and Media Center.

DXVA accelerated H264 playback is provided by the codec package for all other capable players.

The latest release contains a new Settings Application which enables the user to choose a different splitters 'on the fly' for specific filetypes. The application will also allow you to choose from 10 different speaker configurations from 'same as input' and all the way up to full 7.1 channel output....

http://https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=announce&f=12&id=11.net/win7codecs.html

[ilev]

Anyone got them working? I've followed various guides, and nothing has worked.

MKV playback is fully supported with https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=announce&f=12&id=11 codec pack

The Win7codecs package which I have created does not change or interfere with what Microsoft has going on concerning native codec support in Windows Media Player 12 and Media Center.

DXVA accelerated H264 playback is provided by the codec package for all other capable players.

The latest release contains a new Settings Application which enables the user to choose a different splitters 'on the fly' for specific filetypes. The application will also allow you to choose from 10 different speaker configurations from 'same as input' and all the way up to full 7.1 channel output....

Edited August 5, 2009 by ilev

[Camlann]

I play all my media files in WMC incl. MediaBrowser :)

To geht mkv files played you need the Shark Codec Pack and the x64 Components

I got a Reg-File from Hack7MC.com, but the website is down since a few days... so here is the Reg-File

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mkv]
@="MatroskaVideo"
"Content Type"="video/x-matroska"
"PerceivedType"="video"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mka]
@="MatroskaVideo"
"Content Type"="audio/x-matroska"
"PerceivedType"="audio"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\MIME Types\video/x-matroska]
@="MatroskaVideo"
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"
"Extensions.SpaceSep"=".mkv"
"Extensions.CommaSep"="mkv"
"Extension.Key"=".mkv"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\MIME Types\audio/x-matroska]
@="MatroskaVideo"
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"
"Extensions.SpaceSep"=".mka"
"Extensions.CommaSep"="mka"
"Extension.Key"=".mka"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Groups\Video\mkv]
@="MatroskaVideo"
"Description"="Includes files with .mkv extensions."
"Extensions"=".mkv"
"FriendlyTypeName"="Matroska Media File"
"MIME Types"="video/x-matroska"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Groups\Audio\mka]
@="MatroskaVideo"
"Description"="Includes files with .mka extensions."
"Extensions"=".mka"
"FriendlyTypeName"="Matroska Media File"
"MIME Types"="audio/x-matroska"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Extensions\.mkv]
"Permissions"=dword:0000000f
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"
"Runtime"=dword:00000007
"PerceivedType"="video"
"MediaType.Description"="Matroska Media File"
"Extension.Handler"="MatroskaVideo"
"Extension.MIME"="video/x-matroska"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Extensions\.mka]
"Permissions"=dword:0000000f
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"
"Runtime"=dword:00000007
"PerceivedType"="audio"
"MediaType.Description"="Matroska Media File"
"Extension.Handler"="MatroskaVideo"
"Extension.MIME"="audio/x-matroska"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Extensions\Descriptions]
"819"="Matroska Media File (*.mkv;*.mka)"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Extensions\MUIDescriptions]
"819"="Matroska Media File"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Extensions\Types]
"819"="*.mkv;*.mka"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\MLS\Extensions]
"mkv"="video"
"mka"="audio"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\MIME Types\video/x-matroska]
@="MatroskaVideo"
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"
"Extensions.SpaceSep"=".mkv"
"Extensions.CommaSep"="mkv"
"Extension.Key"=".mkv"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\MIME Types\audio/x-matroska]
@="MatroskaVideo"
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"
"Extensions.SpaceSep"=".mka"
"Extensions.CommaSep"="mka"
"Extension.Key"=".mka"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Groups\Video\mkv]
@="MatroskaVideo"
"Description"="Includes files with .mkv extensions."
"Extensions"=".mkv"
"FriendlyTypeName"="Matroska Media File"
"MIME Types"="video/x-matroska"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Groups\Audio\mka]
@="MatroskaVideo"
"Description"="Includes files with .mka extensions."
"Extensions"=".mka"
"FriendlyTypeName"="Matroska Media File"
"MIME Types"="audio/x-matroska"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Extensions\.mkv]
"Permissions"=dword:0000000f
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"
"Runtime"=dword:00000007
"PerceivedType"="video"
"MediaType.Description"="Matroska Media File"
"Extension.Handler"="MatroskaVideo"
"Extension.MIME"="video/x-matroska"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Extensions\.mka]
"Permissions"=dword:0000000f
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"
"Runtime"=dword:00000007
"PerceivedType"="audio"
"MediaType.Description"="Matroska Media File"
"Extension.Handler"="MatroskaVideo"
"Extension.MIME"="audio/x-matroska"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Extensions\Descriptions]
"819"="Matroska Media File (*.mkv;*.mka)"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Extensions\MUIDescriptions]
"819"="Matroska Media File"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Extensions\Types]
"819"="*.mkv;*.mka"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\MLS\Extensions]
"mkv"="video"
"mka"="audio"

Here is a Screenshot of my Win7 RTM MC (x64) :)

[vassie]

New version of CCCP out (09-09-09), should fix the problem with MKV thumbnails

[deactivated_]

Wow, seems like people go through more work than they need to.

<< warez >> Codec Pack x86 AND x64. Done. Only x64 is necessary for Media Center, but might as well install the x86 so the files play in Media Player as well.

Happily playing MKV files in Windows 7 x64 without issue.

Edited September 9, 2009 by John S.
codec pack mentioned contains proprietary codecs and is considered warez

[bob21]

Just MUX the garbage to MP4 with MKV2VOB problem solved.

Edited September 9, 2009 by bob21

[bryonhowley]

Just mux the crappy mkv's to something that works with out jumping though hoops. If your files are DXVA compliant I would recommend TsMuxeR. I know that MP4 can support AC3 now but I have never had any luck getting that to work. On the few files I have tried it on if it did not crash MP4Box or Yamb the file would simply not play any audio.

After moving 500gig of mkv's to .m2ts I would never go back to the mkv format again. The best part is that Windows 7 has zero added codec's installed and all my audio and video play without problems.

[bob21]

That works too but Try MKV2VOB next time.

The freeware encoders tend to suck , Premier can create the files directly.

[norseman]

Thank you! My friends and I have been trying to get this to work.

Nice alternative to media player classic.. Can now watch it in media player / media player browser.. looks amazing! :D

[rajputwarrior]

i used this

http://https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=announce&f=12&id=11.net/win7codecs.html

and everything worked fine

[Joel]

I love watching the spam filter do its work. I also love how people don't read the link they end up posting, so they bypass it it thinking they're smart.