How to Play mkv files In Windows ?

[Bisujaksha]

Hello, there everybody , I had Some .Mkv Files Which I tried to play Many Time in Different players. but i was unsucessfull In Doing So, I Got these files From a freind Who Has Access to internet He Keep Downloading Passed on to me But this time .mkv files also come Along ,SO can you Please tell me how can play .Mkv files in Windows thanks In Advance for your Suggestion.

[Philip21]

Many people who download a file with the extension MKV will often try to play it back with video player software they have installed on their systems. Most of the time this doesn't work (hence, the reason you are here). While a great selection of players support the playback of Matroska files, often the proper decoders for the streams contained in the files are missing. It is important to understand exactly what Matroska files are.

MKV files contain video and audio streams (may also contain subtitles). The streams are likely compressed and have been produced with an encoder. In order to play these streams a codec is required. Codec, as a word is an abbreviation of Coder / Decoder. The video stream located in the MKV file has been "coded" by the source and now it must be "decoded" by the end user who wishes to play it.

So to summarize, Matroska is a container format file that stores multiple streams (video, audio and subtitles). These streams may require you to install decoding software and filters to playback depending on what player you use. For most MKV files you find, there is a player not based on DirectShow (so you probably won't have to install any extra decoding software or filters) that has support for Matroska files, VideoLan Client (VLC).

The Easiest Method (VLC)
With the VLC player you are actually getting two things; a fine player with support for Matroska, and support for most video and audio streams you will find in an MKV file. This means that you most likely will not have to install any extra codecs or filters, depending on what your streams are

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[jesse]

• First choose a media player to play your files. (Windows Media Player and Real Player are not recommended, as they have less features).
  Download Vlc Player as in first post
  
• Download Combined Community Codec Pack, go to[ http://www.cccp-project.net/]
  
• Third, open your video file.
  
• On the bottom right of your screen, you should see some extra icons. Right click the green arrow or the black-and-white film. Select if you want subtitles on/off and which language you wa

[Lillebror]

Hello,
Here's are the recommended MKV Players for playing .mkv files and .mka files.

• VLC media player - Free cross-platform media player.
• BSPlayer - Windows player for playing back avi/asf/mpeg video files.
• SMPlayer - Multiformat video player that doesn't need codecs.
• FantasyDVD Player - Stylish and well equipped DVD player.
• Media Player Classic - Extremely light-weight media player for Windows.

Download it fom google

[Solomon]

Zoom Player was originally conceived to fill a void in Multimedia playback. Prior to Zoom Player, playing media files on the PC was either overly simplistic for the Power User or overly cryptic to the common user. Zoom Player tries to both simplify the playback experience for the common user, while giving the Power Users all the tools and interfaces they may require to manipulate their playback environment to their exact specification.

To that end, Zoom Player employs a slick and simple user interface, combined with easy to access features while at the same time providing advanced control dialogs over every feature imaginable.

Zoom Player was designed from the ground up to load quick, take as little system resources as possible, provide user feedback/direction as appropriate and maintain as much isolation from other applications and system components as not to undermine overall stability.


Zoom Player is capable of playing all common media formats and quite a few of the not so common, including:
AVI, Matroska (MKV), QuickTime (MOV), Cellphone 3GPP (3GP), Flash (SWF), RealMedia (RA/RM/RMVB/RAM), Windows Media Format (ASF/WMV/WMA including DRM with WMV Professional version), OGG Movie (OGM), MPEG-1 (MPG/VCD), MPEG-2 (MPG/SVCD/VOB), MPEG-4 (DIVX/XVID/ISO), VP3-VP6, MPEG Layer 3 (MP3), Vorbis Audio (OGG), Dolby Digital (AC3), Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), MusePack Audio (MPC), FLAC Audio (FLAC), OptimFROG Audio, Monkey Audio (APE), True Audio (TTU), Wave Audio (WAV), CD-Audio.

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