Comments on: Recent anime video playback issues…

By: deftoned

deftoned — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:22:18 +0000

I have problems with MKV using BSplayer as well. I have CCCP installed and it works perfect for everything, but I too am not a huge fan of the MPC interface (nor ZoomPlayer). I use MPC for MVK only and run everything else with BSplayer.

By: _Rand_

_Rand_ — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 06:13:00 +0000

If all else fails, use MKVextract to rip the subtitle track from the file, rename it to .ssa and drop it in the same directory as the .mkv file.

The player should pickup the .ssa file automatically and display subs normally then.

By: BasuGasuBakuhatsu

BasuGasuBakuhatsu — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:17:26 +0000

Something tells me I should try CCCP… Thanks for letting me know guys.

By: scottfrye

scottfrye — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:51:19 +0000

Why did you try Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP)? It handles just about every codec out there. Or if you don’t care for that you should try the VideoLAN player. It handles just about every codec too.

By: Elyscape

Elyscape — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:33:17 +0000

Here’s what I would recommend. Grab the Combined Community Codec Pack. It’s specifically designed to be able to handle pretty much everything you’ll encounter when watching anime. Just make sure to follow the installation instructions to the letter, or else bad things may happen.

By: Jeff Lawson

Jeff Lawson — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:21:54 +0000

As much as I like BSPlayer, it doesn’t handle MKV containers very well. You might try a different video rendering mode (I can only get softsubs to show when using overlay mode, for example). Unfortunately, even if you can get the subtitles show up, you’ll be stuck with a default font (in other words, no styling). And, in a worst case scenario, you may experience random application crashes with certain files. So, MPC really is your best bet for the time being.

As for the choppy playback problem… if you installed some sort of pack to get MKV files working, it’s possible you’re now two conflicting ffdshow installs. If so, try uninstalling the original version.