vlc and smplayer wont play mkv video track

[blackcoffee]

is anyone else having an issue with mkvs not playing right, both vlc and smplayer are playing the audio tracks fine but wont display video, vlc says "no suitable decoder module:" but smplayer doesn't seem to display an error about it

[blackcoffee]

(17th March 2016, 15:52)blackcoffee Wrote: is anyone else having an issue with mkvs not playing right, both vlc and smplayer are playing the audio tracks fine but wont display video, vlc says "no suitable decoder module:" but smplayer doesn't seem to display an error about it

after a bit more stuffing around it seems it only effects certan groups of files

[leszek]

Can you also check what video codec this is that causes the problem ?
MKV is only a container which can use numerous of audio & video codecs.

[alekkova]

uncheck /Smplayer/Options/Preferences/Interface/Hide video window when playing audio files