On 2025-02-20, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Howdy, >> >> I downloaded some really new videos the other day, .mkv ones. Nothing I >> had would play them, mplayer or mpv based players. > > Convert them using handbrake. Probably saves you a bunch of disk space also
There's no need for that unless for some reason you really do want re-encode the streams. All of the popular, maintained players (vlc, mpv, etc.) can handle the mkv container format. mplayer has been abandoned for many years. The replacement is 'mpv'. -- Grant
