I am new here so hello from me, I initially came across the site when looking at playing mkv files on my pc and found your guide very helpful.
I was trying to play a 1080pmkv file and was getting video lag i.e the sound would happen first and the you would see the peoples lips move.
The system has managed to play some other HD stuff fine without any problems, I experienced the same problems in mpc, wmp and vlc although I had some freezing video in vlc.
Now my system although not great should be capable of playing 1080p mkv files
Intel Pentium D 3Ghz cpu
Abit SG-95 motherboard with 2GB ram Using onboard sound on motherboard
Asus HD 4350 Silent 1GB (although PCI-E 2 my motherboard only has PCI-E slot)
I also installed and installed ffdshow xxl build and haali matroska splitter as somebody had mentioned this on a forum I read.
The only thing that seemed to make is work was when I installed coreavc and now playback is fine in media player classic.
Any help and avise would be apperciated and appologies for starting my first post with a question.
Did you encode this file yourself or someone else?
I have run into audio sync problems using handbrake without setting a finite framerate , and then converting to M2TS using MKV2VOB, because it had a default setting of a variable frame rate.
Well, dude, I faced exactly the same problem last year(i.e. Video & Audio being out of sync in an MKV encoded HD1080p video). In fact, MKV format is OK up to 720p; but when it comes to 1080pfull HD, it has some problems(like your current one). I have tried 1080p playback in mkv but I never get 100% result. Sometimes, the video freezes or gets out of sync with the audio. Then I switched my encoding from MKV to AVC. And the same video with exactly the same quality(bit-rate, resolution, frame-rate etc. and of-course 1080p) played absolutely fine on this AVC(MPEG4) format(on every player I had).
According to your system's specs, it can play Full HD. But I would recommend that if you want great HD experience on your PC, you should encode your HD movies in MPEG4(AVC) format, also have K-lite CodecPack Installed and VLC Media Player or Media Player Classic. At-least, it did the job for me. You should also have a HD-ready monitor.
Regards...
