Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Good Advice on Playing MKV on Mac with QuickTime or iTunes?

If you have no ideas on how to watch your MKV files on Mac with QuickTime or iTunes, why not move on to know more details below. Several main solutions are offered below which we can take as reference for watching MKV movies smoothly on Mac.

When you tried to open WMV files on your Mac QuickTime, something wrong would happen there along the lines of ‘This is not a movie file’ This gets really annoying if you come across a MKV files for a playback on Mac, right? As an open source container format developed by Matroska, MKV can hold different types and unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks in one file. However, it is not associated with the QuickTime player or some other NELs. Or even enjoy MKV movies on Apple TV? Fortunately, some good solutions are offered here:



Solution1.Perian---A nice plugin for playing MKV on QuickTime

Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats like the MKV. When you’ve had Perian installed, you have to quit QuickTime completely and then restart it. Note that you don’t just close the QuickTime Window; in fact, it’s still running in the background. To do this, QuickTime can update its format and encoding library.

Note: If the Perian plugin is no longer working in your Mountain lion or Mavericks, there is another doable workaround. You can take this article for a reference about how to watch MKV on Mac Yosemite and Maverricks.

Solution 2.VLC Media Player---Play MKV well on Mac
As one of the best free MKV players on Mac,  it can also play various other regular video/audio formats, including AVI, WMV, MP4, MOV, FLV, MPEG, etc. and even DVDs and CDs. With it, you don’t need to install any codecs or filters to play MKV videos on Mac



Solution 3. MPlayer OS X---Handle MKV files well
Media Player Classic is another great free MKV video player for all the Mac users. This player emerged out of the Google Codes project as an attempt to create an all-round player. MPlayer OSX is a simple but powerful video player designed specifically for Mac and can handle MKV playback. 

To play MKV files with it, you need to first install the updated Matroska Pack: run Media Player Classic and click View > Options to disable Matroska and then install the latest Pack. After that, you can add the MKV videos to it and start playing them on your Mac without any troubles. In addition to MKV, MPlayer OS X can also play AVI, MOV, RM, MPEG, DVD, etc. files.



Another Popular Solution: Pavtube Video Converter for Mac
If you don’t want to install so many different media players on Mac, have you ever thought of converting your MKV files to MOV or MP4 as the compatible formats for QuickTime or iTunes? This program can easily help you convert MKV to MOV,MP4, M4V, AVI, WMV, ASF, FLV, etc. popular video formats on Mac while keeping the video quality. After the conversion, you ca easily play MKV using QuickTime on Mac for another way.

Free download and install this program with general ways. Open it and when the main interface pops up there, just click the ‘Add video’ and ‘Add from folder’, we can easily import out original MKV files. For QuickTime, we can choose the ‘Common Video’>>’MOV QuickTime (*.mov)’ as the best one.


While for iTunes, maybe we should change with another way, as we all know iTunes supports the MP4 for the best as we here suggest the ‘HD Video’>>’H.264 HD Video (*.mp4) to be the most suitable one.


Of course you can here click the ‘Convert’ button to get your work started or we can also take around the ‘Settings’ or ‘Edit’ for advanced adjustments. Additionally, if you have no ideas on how to import files to iTunes, here we have the related guide offered for you.

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