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RoccoR5955

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6. Get rid of your WD Live Plus player

Reply to displacedtexan (Reply #5)

Tue Jun 4, 2013, 09:03 PM

Jun 2013

and install VLC.
If it can't play it, it's a proprietary format.
It plays all sorts of audio, video, streams, podcasts, and the like.
You can get it for ANY operating system at http://www.videolan.org

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Watching a movie in MKV format..it is gorgeous....why? [View all] dixiegrrrrl May 2013 OP

MKV and AVI ChromeFoundry May 2013 #1

I'm no expert, but all the MKV files I have came from blu-ray arcane1 May 2013 #2

AVI and MKV are both just containers of video data, how the data is encoded and compressed varies Fumesucker May 2013 #3

mkv can give you alot of choices grok Jun 2013 #4

My WD Live Plus player hates mkv files displacedtexan Jun 2013 #5

Get rid of your WD Live Plus player RoccoR5955 Jun 2013 #6

It's probably HD (720 or 1080) as opposed to SD sir pball Jun 2013 #7

yep, as you said dixiegrrrrl Jun 2013 #8