Some of the important MKV codes are available online. The following are some non-VLC related solutions that can help you more effectively.Īs mentioned earlier that codecs that such pieces of software that can compress/decompress a video, so you can download some MKV-supported codecs and install them. If they do not work, then you can use another media player to play the MKV file. These are all the manual attempts that you can employ to repair minor issues in an MKV file. In the Preferences, go to Input/Codecs and disable the option for hardware-accelerated decoding. It can show some errors while playing or video may hang continuously. Hardware acceleration may be affecting the performance of the video with a graphics card driver. If the video is playing only audio with a blank screen, then you can enable video just the way enabled audio. Click the checkbox for Enable Audio option.Īs you enabled the audio part, you can enable the same for the video also.Click Tools, then Preferences, and go to Audio settings.

Although it is checked by default, if it is missing, you should check it deliberately. If the audio is missing in the video, then you can enable it in the settings. Under Input/Codecs, you need to increase the File Caching to 1000 ms. If you can change the settings, then you can play the video more effectively.Ĭlick Preferences under Tools. The codec is the piece of code that compresses the video for playing it in the video. Although it is for the AVI file, it will check the MKV file also. Then under the Input/Codecs category, check the option for ‘Preload MKV files in the same directory.’ Under the drop-down, choose the Always Fix option. Start VLC Player and click Tools>Preferences. You should read the following lines and use them depending on the video’s symptoms. To allow users in tackling some minor but most common video-related issues, VLC player offers some inbuilt techniques that you can use while running any video.

MKV file shows the error – ‘Unidentified codec: VLC could not identify the audio or video codec’.

The sound may be not working for a video.

If you have faced such an issue, then you may be aware that there are some other issues also. Read also: Repair MP4 file from any corrupted large video files

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