VLC cannot play MKV files?

[Craig Treleaven]

> On Jan 23, 2016, at 12:33 PM, Vincent Habchi <vince at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> … If you only installed those libraries for VLC then you shouldn't lose much. You would however have more definite proof whether your issue is due to something with the MacPorts build or in VLC itself. If the latter, you should take it up on the VLC bug tracker.
> 
> The pre-packaged VLC works fine. It’s definitely something wrong with MacPorts somewhere.

Interesting…I downloaded a sample .mkv file [1].  I can’t get the MacPorts-built version to play it at all.  Tried Opening the file in VLC.app, etc.  No error message reported.  The Media Info window does identify that it has a bunch of streams.  Also tried playing it as rene suggest.  Results are below—no idea how to interpret them!!

Just a few days ago, I was using this version of VLC to play video streamed from my HDHomerun tuner box.  (North American broadcast OTA MPEG2 with AC-3 sound.  Note that I have to build with +dvb to make this work.)  Worked fine.

If you get the same results, I think you should file a bug.

[1] https://mkvtoolnix.download/samples/

Craig

$ /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC /Users/craigtreleaven/Movies/mkv_tests/vsshort-aac.mkv 
VLC media player 2.1.5 Rincewind (revision 2.1.4-49-gdab6cb5)
[0x7f9bc0f744f0] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[0x7f9bc0f79fd0] main demux meta error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/lua/liblua_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc0f03d00] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[matroska,webm @ 0x7f9bc1809400] EBML header parsing failed
[0x7f9bc0f8c590] main demux meta error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/lua/liblua_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc0f8c590] main art finder error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/lua/liblua_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc351ed60] main probe error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/lua/liblua_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc0c9eca0] main generic error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/lua/liblua_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc0e0d890] macosx interface error: Unable to load extensions module
[0x7f9bc3501fb0] mkv demux error: cannot find KaxSegment or missing mandatory KaxInfo
[matroska,webm @ 0x7f9bc1830600] EBML header parsing failed
[0x7f9bc3501fb0] avcodec demux error: Could not open /Users/craigtreleaven/Movies/mkv_tests/vsshort-aac.mkv: Unknown error: 1094995529
[0x7f9bc3501fb0] main demux error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/lua/liblua_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc5b10630] main demux meta error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/lua/liblua_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc18306b0] main decoder error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/codec/liblibass_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc10730b0] main decoder error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/codec/liblibass_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc20fa2b0] main decoder error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/codec/liblibass_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc18392b0] main decoder error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/codec/liblibass_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc184b6b0] main decoder error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/codec/liblibass_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc105fcb0] main decoder error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/codec/liblibass_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc18bc8b0] main decoder error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/codec/liblibass_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc18e54b0] main decoder error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/codec/liblibass_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc10736b0] main decoder error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/codec/liblibass_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc20e22b0] main decoder error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/codec/liblibass_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc10a58b0] main decoder error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/codec/liblibass_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc18ea6b0] main decoder error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/codec/liblibass_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc1086ab0] main decoder error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/codec/liblibass_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc211f6b0] main decoder error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/codec/liblibass_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc10a8cb0] main decoder error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/codec/liblibass_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc10ad6b0] main decoder error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/codec/liblibass_plugin.dylib
[0x7f9bc210b2b0] main decoder error: corrupt module: /Applications/MacPorts/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/codec/liblibass_plugin.dylib