What is ".xvid.mkv" codec and how can I play/burn

[Ladd]

I should stick to gardening.

I've bumped into yet another codec that isn't straight-forward. What is ".xvid.mkv" and how can I play it and dump it to CD/DVD?

QuickTime player 6.5 won't touch it.

VLC opens it and plays the video, but only plays one of the 6 audio channels (and not the main one).

Seeing as it is an XVID file, I downloaded and theoretically installed correctly an "XVID Delegate Component" that purportedly allowed QuickTime to access XVID files, but that didn't make any difference with this XVID.MKV file.

VLC info on this file:

Stream 0 (Video):
codec = XVID
size = 640x340

Stream 1 (Audio):
codec = mp4a (English 6 channel)
sample rate 1 22050

There are also additional streams for Japanese audio and English/Japanese subtitles.

Under "file information", the muxing application is listed as:
"libebml v0.6.3 + libematroska v0.6.2"

writing application is listed as:
"vkvmerge v0.8.1"

Any clues or tips appreciated.

[galactica]

does mplayerosx play it
if so then you can use that or possibly even convert it over to a more acceptable file type for the other players

where did you get a file like this is the question on my mind

[fugu]

I believe mkv is the Matroska container extension. I would expect both VLC and mplayer to play it, failing that, I think ffmpegX accepts matroska, perhaps you could demux the mkv and remux as avi.

[Ladd]

does mplayerosx play it?

Nope, I already tried that. My apologies for not including that info in my original post.

where did you get a file like this?

It's an anime file, the first one I've seen.

[Ladd]

I believe mkv is the Matroska container extension.

Yes, it is.

I would expect both VLC and mplayer to play it

As noted in my original message, VLC plays the video properly, but only plays one of the six audio channels (and one of the back ones, at that). mplayer is a no-go.

failing that, I think ffmpegX accepts matroska, perhaps you could demux the mkv and remux as avi.

I tried ffmpegX with no luck. However I just checked and there has been a minor update since the version I have, so I will try that one.

[fugu]

Apparently, a special version of mplayer is req'd.

http://matroska.free.fr/downloads/downloads.html

There are also some CLI Utilities to work with mkv

http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/index.html#dlinst_macosx[/url]

[galactica]

i love it

For playback of matroska files on MacOSX you also need a special version of Mplayer

wonder if OSX is the only one with special versions of things

[thoughton]

You can demux it with mkvtoolnix. It's command line only but very easy to install/use. There's a link on my website if you cant find it on google. Also very fast (couple of mins for 700MB mkv file) and you'll end up with the xvid and whatever audio it contains without the silly mkv container. Once you have those it's easy.

Galactica why do you always wonder where we get our files from? What does it matter to you? And please don't feed me some line about crappy encoding on PCs.