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The data on the blue-ray of the movie is approx. 7 GB, the mkv-file is 5 GB (without any audio reduction), so it seems to me that there must be some compression. The mp4-file made with Handbrake is 3 GB, the one with MacX only 1 GB (without significant loss in quality; the original print of the film...

Yes, I have Perian. I think it's great, and I didn't realize that that was one of the things it did.

But why do other mkv-files play fine in QT then?

Why do the mkv-files made by makemkv have to be so huge?

I won't ask why it has to be mkv-files in the first place.

Then I used an makemkv created single mkv-file, not a "backup". No, there weren't any error messages, and like I said, VLC plays these files correctly, and the blue-ray itself also plays fine with Macgos blue-ray player, so I don't think it's due to the source material. I havent tried it, ...

Thanks for your reply. I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean with "Makemkv-created backup". Perhaps I didn't explain it well enough. Both VLC player and Quicktime player can play mkv-files. Just that the ones that I made with makemkv were out of sync in Quicktime. And as I also already sai...

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but if so, I was unable to find the relevant posts. I ripped a movie file from a blue-ray, only 25 minutes long. It plays fine in VLC, but not in Quicktime player. The sound gets more and more out of sync over the course of the file. I wanted to convert to so...