Monday, July 25, 2011

MKV file format and how to play MKV on Mac OS

Many friends have the experience to download MKV files from Internet and found it is used for HD movies; today we will unveil its true colors and learn how to play it on Mac OS freely.

What is MKV?
MKV file format: or .MKV files, Generally Matroska files, as well those containing audio (movies) or video only. .MKV file is an envelope for which there can be many audio, video and subtitles screams, allowing the user to store a complete movie with subtitles or CD in a single file.

Why MKV generated?
As a new video and audio container format similar to AVI, one of compression formats, but with several new features like support for OGG audio, Variable Framerate Video. It aims to become the standard of multimedia container formats and replace AVI in the future.

How to play MKV on Mac OS?
Here I recommend you use MPlayer OS X or VLC OSX, certainly they are both free.
Both of them are wonderful multimedia players can undertake many of video formats incompatible with Mac player QuickTime. Because they contain a decoder to decode the MKV files. Also they will play many of the formats you will find inside the .MKV file.

How to play MKV on Mac portable devices i.e. iPod, iPhone?

If you need play MKV on Mac portable iPod iPhone, we should firstly enable MKV upload to iTunes then can we sync it to iPod, iPhone, so I recommend you use Mac MKV Converter.
Use it to easily convert MKV to Mac common MOV, MP4, AVI, 3GP, FLV, MPEG-4, MP3 then it can be sync to Mac iPod, iPhone as well as QuickTime, iMovie or FCP.

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