Re: Downloadable sample of H.264 Matroska file?

John Nickum wrote:
Does anybody know of a directly downloadable video sample that's encoded
in H.264 Matroska as many recent fansubs are? Preferable a public domain
sample?

You're mixing two different things together here. H.264 is a video codec that can go into many different file formats (.mkv, .ogm, .mp4 for example). MKV is a container format which can hold many different video, audio and subtitle streams among other things.

It's so that I can go to the websites of various media players, point to
the sample, and ask why that file format is unsupported / crashes the
player / plays with choppy video.

That's not really the fault of the player for the most part, but the codecs that are installed. The exception would be MPlayer (and maybe vlc) which has h.264 support built in and doesn't need codecs to play it.

So if files that have H.264 in MKV don't play right, you need to either install a better H.264 codec or a better MKV splitter, depending on which of the two is broken. Or just use a player which has support for both built in. If the player has built-in support and a specific file doesn't play, then and only then should you complain to the developers of the player. In all other cases it's the fault of the codec or the splitter.

Me, I just use MPlayer...

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