Windows media player and .mkv

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Hi I've been wondering if someone knows of a program that can stream .mkv files to TV and that program can be controlled throughout TV itself.

Let me explain

I have TV with BRAVIA engine with which I can aces all files that are in shared folders and Windows media player can play via TV control. In Windows media player I have streaming on home network turned on and firewall is configured in a way that TV can aces files in shared folders. Now the problem I have is that Windows media player doesn't support .mkv files so when I'm trying to select files through TV they just don't show in the menu aka that they exist.

Currently I'm playing .mkv with VLC but either its not possible or I don't know how to configure VLC that program would give me selection from TV.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

I hate Windows media player.  :thumbsdown:

Lucky for me my comp is close enough for a direct connection to the TV.

You might need to use something like tversity which basically converts the file on the fly. Have not tried it yet and will be interested on what works. MKVs are great.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I do have TV enabled as 2nd monitor but I am just to lazy (to go out of bed and change TV input to HD then open programs change to TV speakers find a file then run it... ;P ) Well its troublesome.....

While if I have TV remote on all above doesn't have to be done and every thing is done with 1 remote.

 

PS I hate Windows media player as well and I wasn't using it before I started TV streaming but in this case its very useful as .....

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

you can get windows media player to support .mkv files by downloading the windows codec packs, there are packs for XP, Vista and 7. go here to download www.shark007.net/ . you can then associate every single codec with windows media player. Hope this helps :)

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks for quick replies.

The thing is I can play .mkv files by windows media player (codecs are working) but because they aren't natively supported by program they don't show up in menus while browsing from TV. >:(

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

If BRAVIA doesn't support Matroska format, you'll need to either manually convert the files to a supported format, use a transcoder such as Tversity (as mentioned above), or just use the TV directly with the computer.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

As it turns out Kryo is right BRAVIA is the culprit....

Thanks again for your help

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

in the future please check dates of last post....

This thread was dead for 2 years.

And by the way converting mkv doesn't add mkv so your reply is pointless.

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

Thread was revived by spam, ignore it.

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

Kyro

Can you lock this thread please