#Convert mkv to mp4 mac vlc install#

If MKV is not played in Windows media player users either have an option to install mkv codec or to convert unplayable mkv to mp4 file. But sometimes MKV files are not played in Windows media player due to missing MKV codecs. In recent times Microsoft released a native support for MKV file by default Windows 10.

If your VLC player is not playing MKV video and HD videos update VLC codec, restart VLC and play MKV file Step 2: Select Open with VLC media player and mark it as defaultДЄnother way is, open the VLC player and from file menu choose Open and select the MKV file VLC opens MKV file in Windows, MAC and android devices.

VLC is the default choice for MKV, because no codec needs to be downloaded to play this file type. MKV files among other media players supporting mkv file. VLC developed by VideoLAN is the best suitable media player for.

You can store unlimited number of video, audio, images and subtitles into a single file.

For example, a MKV file can contain H.264 video, a MP3 audio track and a subtitle.

Different encoded files can be used in single container.

In MKV video file you can also turn off the soft subtitles which is not possible in AVI.

You can embed subtitles in the audio files instead of separate.

MKV are open source multimedia container.

MKV file extensions are MKV for video (with or without subtitle/audio). This type of functioning is not possible in any other type of file container. Components with different type of encoding can be merged into a MKV video container. This file does not act as an audio or video compression format. So a need arises to convert the MKV files to any other commonly used video file format. MKV files are not supported by all type of media players. MKV files are also called as Matroksa Video files.