MKV won't play - media player problem

[Goku]

I have several anime MKV files on my PC. When I open them in windows media player i get the "Windows Media player has encountered a probelem and needs to close" window. Now is there a solution to this, oh and by the way, I do have the codecs to play MKV because I have other MKVs I have played before. This batch just seems to be different.

[Baldrick]

try the latest haali media splitter.

or try play with vlc.

[celtic_druid]

mkv is a container. It can contain many different streams which use many different decoders.

[Baldrick]

so be sure to have all codecs... ffdshow can decode most crap.

or use vlc!!!! all codecs built in...

[celtic_druid]

Well VLC wouldn't be able to play an mkv file containing real video and wavpack audio I don't think.

You just need to make sure that you have decoders for all streams in whatever mkv you are trying to play.