Problem playing game recordings in mkv in vlc

[Davince]

i've been downloading a lot of game recordings lately...mostly about basketball.

and those recordings are encoded from HDTV into mpeg4 and contained in mkv

now i've been having trouble playing those files in vlc whether on windows or on macintosh...

at first i can't play it with any player in windows...not after i installed a few things mentioned in the readme files.
corevorbis
ffdshow
matroska splitter

i don't know why vlc can't play it..
now i can play it in windows with media player...
but the video is still kind of slow..

i hope i can watch those game recordings with vlc...

is it because of HDTV being the source??

another thing...

i'm highly interested in solving multimedia problems..
including video encoding/decoding..streaming..all kinds of stuff.
but i don't know what are the things i should learn..
i know i have to be good programmer..which i really ain't...
i just interested in solving audio/video problems...

can anyone tell me what to start and what to learn.??

[dionoea]

could you try with the new 0.8.2-test3 version ? (or upcoming 0.8.2 this week end)

[Guest]

I've tried the test 2 on macintosh...

but it keeps crashing everytime i want to load any mkv file.

by the way..
i forgot to say..
i just checked.
when i load in the mkv files...i can hear the sound but no video.

that's why i think maybe it's because of hdtv being to source causing the problem.