Did I fix the MKV issues in 4.3?
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Haha, sounds a little crazy, but stick with it!

I am back to XBMC on a new ATV2 after a couple of years with Plex on my mac mini. It has been bloody frustrating with not being able to watch MKV's, even after disabling the subtitles in the OSD they would still either crash immediately or play with no picture.

Last night I downloaded the most recent nightly build but it still never fixed it.

So tonight, a bit fed up of not getting anything working I was just playing with the video settings in the OSD menu, trying to change something, and when I went back to my file it worked!

I thought it must have been a fluke so I browsed to another MKV that I have been trying to watch and did the exact same thing there, and it worked again!!

But the really stupid thing is that I never changed anything.

So here is what I did..

Play MKV, which now thanks to the nightly build update will play but with a blank screen.

Pause MKV.

Go to the OSD menu.

Go to the video menu.

PRESS on "deinterlace video" find that there are no other options anyway.

PRESS on "Video Scaling Method" click to "nearest neighbour" but then click it back to "Bilinear".

Just scroll down the rest of the menu doing nothing, fed up that there is nothing else to change.

MUTTER "I am fed up of XBMC"

And exit the OSD without actually having made any changes.

PRESS play and watch your video.

Weird.
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