Yes there is with Roxio and MKV!
Roxio Creator 2011 had it's own codec that were installed on my Windows systems, as Michael had mention.
Unlike VLC and XBMC self contained codec, Creator was messing with PDVD 10 codec.
You will have a fun time uninstalling Creator completely with CCleaner and manual delete but I managed and there is info and tools on there site how-to's.
I also uninstalled PDVD completely and reinstalled to to be clean and all is well finally.
I just installed Creator on my other PC with PDVD 8 but PDVD 8 doesn't play mkv so no issue. I only wanted it for file conversion and capture.
Good Luck!