Best 5 MKV Players
Matroska is usually found as .mkv files (matroska video) and .mka files (matroska audio).
Here's our recommended MKV Players for playing .mkv files and .mka files.
Download free VLC Media Player
 VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
 BS Player is used by more than 70 millions of multimedia users throughout the world and it has been translated into more than 90 languages. BS Player is the software movie player that supports all popular video and audio media file types, containers and formats such as: DivX, avi, mpeg-1, mpeg-2, Xvid, 3ivx, QT QuickTime mov, RM Real media, OGM, Matroska , asf, wmv, DV, m1v, m2v, , mp4, mpv, swf, vob and wav, mpa, mp1, mp2, mp3, Ogg, aac, AC3, aif, ram, wma... Download free BSPlayer.
 SMPlayer is a new multimedia player. It uses the award-winning MPlayer as engine, so it's able to play the most known video & audio formats without the need of external codecs.
Supported formats: AVI, MKV, OGM, MPEG, VOB, 3GP, ASF, MOV, WMV, MP3, Ogg, DVD, Internet streams. Download free SMPlayer.
FantasyDVD is an exquisite and powerful software DVD player, with the same features and controls of the living- room DVD player. Supports over 70 video and audio media files including TS, TP, TRP, MPEG2 HDTV, WMV HDTV and MKV, MKA, and MKS.
Download free FantasyDVD Player.
Media Player Classic looks just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but has many additional features. It has a built in DVD player with real-time zoom, support for AVI subtitles, QuickTime and RealVideo support (requires QuickTime and/or Real Player); built-in MPEG2/SVCD/DVD codec.
Download free Media Player Classic.
More MKV Players
Zoomplayer - Zoom Player is the most Powerful, Flexible and Customizable DVD and Media Player for the Windows PC platform. Using our powerful Smart Play technology, more image, audio and video media formats play with less hassle, increased stability and better performance.
Arpa Kolla Player - A standalone freeware Dvd/svcd/vcd/mpg/avi/ogm/mkv/xcd player with srt support. It also can: synch srt, export sup files and convert sub to srt files. It supports fully avi/ogm/mkv multiaudio streams with possibility of changing audiostream. It can reproduce dvd with all dvd capabilities.
The Core Media Player - The Core Media Player (TCMP) is the successor to the popular PowerDivX NextGen multimedia player.
TCPMP - A windows compile of the great Core Pocket Mediaplayer, for Windows 2000/XP. Probably currently the one player using the lowest CPU resources for playback of modern media files, and including full MKV and MKA support.
MPlayer - Multimedia player for Linux also available in a Mac OS X and Windows version with AAC/MP4 decoding through FAAD2.
Windows Media Player with Matroska DirectShow playback pack.
NERO Show Time with K-Lite Codec Pack - Nero ShowTime is an amazing application which offers you vibrant picture quality for any kind of visual medium. It's perfect for playback of all your digital recordings such as movies, TV programs, home videos, DVD-Video's and just about anything else you can think of.
ALShow Free Media Player -
ALShow is the easiest free media player on the Internet. With codecs already built in, it's the only download you'll ever need!
Avidemux - Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.
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MKV Player for Windows
| VLC Media Player
BSPlayer
SMPlayer
FantasyDVD Player
Media Player Classic
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MKV Converter
DVD to MKV Converter
| AVAide DVD To MKV Converter
Eztoo DVD To MKV Converter |
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MKV Player for Mac
| MPlayerVideoLAN VLC media player |
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MKV Player for Linux
| VideoLAN VLC media player |
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MKV Player for Pocket PC
MKV Player for BeOS
MKV Codecs
| Haali Matroska SplitterLazy Man's MKVMatroska Pack Full 1.1.2 finalWindows Essentials Codec Pack |
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MKV Converter for Linux
Hardware for MKV
| Beyonwiz
Popcorn hour
DViCo
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What extensions is matroska using?
- .mkv : Generally video files, as well those containing audio ( movies ) or video only
- .mka : audio only files, can contain any supported audio compresion format, such as MP2, MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AC3, DTS, PCM and soon MPC ( musepack )
- .mks : a so called 'elementary' matroska stream containing any subtitles stream
Matroska
1. Designed to hold any type of codec. (Audio, Video, Subtitle, etc)
2. Designed for editability.
3. Purposely flexible design.
4. Well documented portions, others in process.
5. Initial design is to support presentation container features such as Chapters, Tags, AudioGain, Menus, etc.
Will Matroska be streamable? Yes, but low bitrate streaming like streaming Vorbis, will always be better in Ogg. This is because their design is for different purposes.
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