Despite the foreign-sounding name, Matroska files are anything but rare. The multimedia container format — known more commonly as MKV — is an open standard, one entirely free for independent and ...

How to Watch an MKV File. An abbreviation of Matroska Video, MKV is a digital video file format that supports various types of audio and video codecs. The multimedia container is also commonly ...

For example, you could have a device that can only play MP4 videos, and not MKV. To be able to watch your MKV file, you have to know how to convert MKV to MP4 file format.

We outline three simple methods for converting MKVs into the easier-to-play MP4 format, and help you decide which is best for you. MKV is an open-source container format that’s useful for storing ...

I'm going crazy trying to find a way to convert a .mkv file with H264/AAC to an .mp4 file with the same content (so QT can play it natively). VLC's transcoding doesn't work, ffmpeg doesn't seem to ...

MKVToolNix is a set of free tool that allow you to create, alter, split, join and inspect WebM and Matroska video MKV files. Works on Windows as well.

You don't have to settle for WMC's lack of MKV file support. Here's how to make Media Center play nice.