VLC Player and MKV Container Playback Issues
(movies)For whatever reason, I
sometimes have issues with MKV files. They stutter and have difficulties seeking (fast seeking being touted as a benefit of MKV containers ... hah!). I have tried fiddling with all the advice on the Internet to fix this, and they simply do not work for me. Note that I do have the most recent version of the VLC player.
What did work for me is a very quick conversion of the MKV to MP4 container using ffmpeg from
https://ffmpeg.org/. Put the following in a BAT file (obviously, change the location of the ffmpeg.exe file if necessary):
for /R %%f IN (*.mkv) DO c:\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe -i "%%f" -c copy "%%~nf.mp4"
pause
If you have a TV series with many files, simply copy the BAT file into the directory with all your MKV files and run it. It will automatically convert all MKV to MP4 files. It is supposed to recursively do subdirectories, so be careful not to do this in some root or semi-root folder.
WARNING: I got ffmpeg a long time ago, and so I cannot fully vouch for the ffmpeg.org site. My _README.txt file says the following, but the website referenced no longer exists:
This is a FFmpeg Win64 static build by Kyle Schwarz.
Zeranoe's FFmpeg Builds Home Page:
http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ This build was compiled on: Jul 14 2014, at: 22:09:48
