Simple Question How To Play?

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I installed on Ubuntu 9.10. Put Bluray into player. Opened program. Selected movie, started app, waited until it finished. I have two files. Opened each with mplayer. Could hear sound, no video. Spent hours registering for this forum. Do you have nuclear waste here or something? I thought I would have two files, audio and video in ONE file and I would simply play that with mplayer. Obviously not. What am I missing. If it is complex, ignore me. I am old and no longer spend long amounts of time on anything I don't have to. I have the free look download, so I have nothing ventured. Still, it seems to be a stupid simple thing I am not seeing. Not at all unusual for me. Couldn't find the answer in the forum, but I admit I didn't look that closely.

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Follow up. Mplayer says "Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device." VLC says "No suitable decoder module: VLC does not support the audio or video format 'WVC1'. Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this."

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This isnt a makemkv problem, its a ffmpeg/mplayer/vlc problem

From your second post you indicate that your video is VC-1 encoded. This is a microsoft proprietary format and wasnt supported by free software for a long time. What version is your mplayer/vlc?

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The video that is "WVC1" is the video that MakeMKV created from the original source bluray. Neither VLC nor Mplayer can read those files. I wonder why MakeMKV made two files rather than two files inside one wrapper. Both files play audio only in both players. I just installed the players from the medibuntu repositories this morning. ffmpeg also. VLC is 1.0.2.

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MakeMKV created mkv files. I may not have made that clear, VLC is not reading them as such. I simply expected to have an audio file and a video file in a mkv wrapper or container. That either didn't happen, or I am missing the obvious.

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Scanned files with MKVtoolnix and could not see anything out of the ordinary, considering I don't know what to look for. Tried to convert the files in Handbrake to mp4 just to see what would happen. Handbrake scans the files, then declares the to be "No Source". The original bluray was about 3 hours. The mkv files are about half that.

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Downloaded a sample mkv file as a control. Mplayer gave same error code. VLC played it.

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What bluray is this? Can you post the output of mediainfo? regarding mplayer: what vo are you using?

there are ubuntu packages here if mediainfo is not in repository, or build from source:
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

also what version is your mplayer? you may need to get an updated version, as the version in ubuntu repository is very old.
VC-1 plays fine in my mplayer (in debian multimedia repository: SVN-r30656)