Best MKV Players for Mac
Matroska is usually found as .mkv
files (matroska video) and .mka files (matroska audio).
Here's our recommended MKV Players for Mac users. 
- MPlayer - A movie player which
runs on many systems (see the documentation).
- VideoLAN VLC media player
- An excelllent freeware, bring your better, brighter video with
a smaller, easier media player software.
MPlayer for Mac
MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation).
It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4,
RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA
files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs.
You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264
movies.
Another great feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output
drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib,
DirectFB, but you can use GGI, SDL (and this way all their drivers),
VESA (on every VESA compatible card, even without X11!) and some low
level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and ATI), too! Most
of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies
in fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG
decoder boards, such as the Siemens DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+.
MPlayer has an onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice
big antialiased shaded subtitles and visual feedback for keyboard
controls. European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc),
Cyrillic and Korean fonts are supported along with 12 subtitle formats
(MicroDVD, SubRip, OGM, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle,
JACOsub, PJS and our own: MPsub). DVD subtitles (SPU streams, VOBsub
and Closed Captions) are supported as well. Click here to view MPlayer
for Windows.
Supported Input Formats
| (S)VCD (Super Video CD)
CDRwin's .bin image file
DVD, including encrypted DVD
MPEG-1/2 (ES/PS/PES/VOB)
RIFF AVI file format
ASF/WMV/WMA format
QT/MOV/MP4 format
RealAudio/RealVideo format
Ogg/OGM files |
Matroska (MKV, MKA)
NUT
NSV (Nullsoft Streaming Video)
VIVO format
FLI format
NuppelVideo format
yuv4mpeg format |
FILM (.cpk) format
RoQ format
PVA format
streaming via HTTP/FTP, RTP/RTSP, MMS/MMST, MPST, SDP
TV grabbing |
Supported Video and Audio Codecs
most important video codecs:
MPEG-1 (VCD) and MPEG-2 (SVCD/DVD/DVB) video
MPEG-4 ASP in all variants including DivX ;-), OpenDivX
(DivX4), DivX 5 (Pro), Xvid
MPEG-4 AVC aka H.264
Windows Media Video 7/8 (WMV1/2)
Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3) (using x86 DLL)
RealVideo 1.0, 2.0 (G2)
RealVideo 3.0 (RP8), 4.0 (RP9) (using Real libraries)
Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3), Cinepak, RPZA and other QuickTime
codecs
DV video
3ivx
Intel Indeo3 (3.1, 3.2)
Intel Indeo 4.1 and 5.0 (using x86 DLL or XAnim codecs)
VIVO 1.0, 2.0, I263 and other H.263(+) variants (using
x86 DLL)
MJPEG, AVID, VCR2, ASV2 and other hardware formats
FLI/FLC
HuffYUV
various old simple RLE-like formats |
most important audio codecs:
MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (MP3) audio
AC3/A52 (Dolby Digital) audio (software or SP/DIF)
AAC (MPEG-4 audio)
WMA (DivX Audio) v1, v2
WMA 9 (WMAv3), Voxware audio, ACELP.net etc (using x86
DLLs)
RealAudio: COOK, SIPRO, ATRAC3 (using Real libraries)
RealAudio: DNET and older codecs
QuickTime: Qclp, Q-Design QDMC/QDM2, MACE 3/6 (using QT
libraries), ALAC
Ogg Vorbis audio
VIVO audio (g723, Vivo Siren) (using x86 DLL)
alaw/ulaw, (ms)gsm, pcm, adpcm and other simple old audio
formats |
Supported Video Output Devices
general:
x11: X11 with SHM extension
xv: X11 using overlays with the Xvideo extension (hardware
YUV & scaling)
xvmc: Xvideo Motion Compensation
vidix: VIDeo Interface for
niX
xvidix: VIDIX in an X11 window
cvidix: VIDIX on the console
winvidix: VIDIX under Windows
dga: X11 DGA extension (both v1.0 and v2.0)
gl: OpenGL renderer
gl2: alternative OpenGL renderer (with multiple textures)
fbdev: framebuffer output
svga: SVGAlib output (supports EGA displays)
sdl: SDL >= v1.1.7 driver
ggi: GGI graphics output
aalib: text mode rendering
caca: text mode rendering in color
vesa: display through the VESA BIOS (also needed for Radeon
TV-out)
directfb: DirectFB support
directx: native Windows DirectX output driver
quartz: native Mac OS X output driver |
card specific:
mga: Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550
hardware YUV overlay via the mga_vid device
xmga: Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 overlay (mga_vid) in X11
window (Xv emulation on X 3.3.x!)
syncfb: Matrox G400 YUV support on framebuffer
3dfx: Voodoo 3/Banshee hardware YUV support (/dev/3dfx)
tdfxfb: Voodoo 3/Banshee hardware YUV support on tdfx framebuffer
mpegpes: support for Siemens DVB hardware MPEG-1/2 decoder
boards (or MPEG-PES file output)
dxr2: support for DXR2 hardware MPEG-1/2 decoder boards
dxr3: support for DXR3/Hollywood+ hardware MPEG-1/2 decoder
boards
zr: support for Zoran360[56]7 based hardware MJPEG cards
special:
png: PNG output
jpeg: JPEG output
gif89a: animated GIF output
tga: Targa output
yuv4mpeg: yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
pgm: PGM output (for testing purposes)
md5: MD5sum output (for debugging)
null: null output (for speed tests/benchmarking)
bl: Blinkenlights output |
Supported Audio Output Devices
OSS (Open
Sound System) - factory standard under UNIX
SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer) - wrapper library with support
for various systems
ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) 0.5/0.9/1.0 for Linux
SUN audio driver for BSD and Solaris8/9 users
SGI audio for IRIX
Mac OS X audio
Windows audio
NAS (Network Audio System)
ESD (ESound Daemon)
ARTS (KDE Sound System)
JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit)
Download
MPlayer OS X 1.0rc2
Before you start...
Make sure that your version of X has Xvideo support, without it even
very fast machines may not be able to properly play high resolution
videos in fullscreen mode. Consult DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for details.
There you may also find out about special card-specific video output
drivers that can yield optimal performance.
VLC
media player for Mac
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.
Download
VLC media player for Mac OS X
Latest Mac OS X package for 10.3.9, 10.4 and 10.5 (release 0.8.6f)
Universal Binary (23.2MB)
How to install
VLC for Mac OS X is distributed as a disk image. Download the .dmg
file, open it, and copy VLC to your hard drive (for instance the /Applications
folder). Open VLC by double-clicking on it. Click here to view VideoLAN
VLC media player for windows.
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Can't open .MKV files?
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
| MPlayer
VideoLAN 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 Splitter
Lazy Man's MKV
Matroska Pack Full 1.1.2 final
Windows Essentials Codec Pack |
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MKV
Converter for Linux
Hardware for
MKV
| Beyonwiz
Popcorn hour
DViCo
Sigma Designs |
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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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