Title: My experience on playing MKV video on popular players
Absract: For MKV is the Video container format that supports several types of video compression and video codec. So the playing of these files will cause a lot of problems. This article tells people how to deal with these problems caused by MKV.
Keywords: MKV video, MKV video converter, Media player, iPod/iPhone, PSP/PS3, Xbox 360.
I had ever encountered the following troubles: I got a famous movie from my friend, and then played on my media player; I found that the video was out of my media player’s reach. My player can not recognize the video format---MKV. And nowadays, many friends who were unsuccessful in their attempts to play MKV files on their portable stuffs always asked me the follow questions: “Why I can not play MKV files on my iPod? How to?” or “How to play MKV files on PSP/PS3?” or “How to play MKV files on Xbox 360?” etc. I was wondering what is MKV, why does all of us can not play it on our popular players, how to deal with it?
With these questions, I searched on Google and found much information about MKV and methods of playing MKV video. Now I will share them with you.
MKV is the Video container format similar to .AVI and .MOV that supports several types of video compression and video codec. So you will always happen that some MKV videos could play on your media player, but others can not. In this situation, you only need to download a free MKV codec package.
But if you don’t know anything about codec, and don’t even want to add these annoying codecs in your PC, or just want to play MKV video on your iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP/PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii etc. What should you do? Don’t worry, I also found a very effective way for you. And I just follow this way to watch my MKV movie successfully.
You only need to download a powerful and easy software which carries a powerful codec pack to meet your various projects need. And then convert MKV video to MP4, MPG, WMV, 3GP, MJPEG, MOV, AVI, FLV, etc which compatible with your players. I have tried many similar soft wares and find Moyea MKV converter is the best one—almost all codecs included, good output quality, fast converting speed, and perfect video/ audio synchronization.
Step1: Download and install this program.
Stpe2: Run the software and click “Add” button to load your MKV video.
Tip1: You could add more than one MKV video file together, and change the name by clicking the destination file if you want.
Step 3: Choose output formats and destination folder.
Please select the output format to convert in this step. You may do not know what format your player supports, just be easy, this program gives you the details of formats included device information. You only need to make easy choose. (The follow picture is just a part of it). Then select destination folder you would like to put.
Tip2: If you want to merge all the MKV videos into one. Please check “Merge into one file”.
Tip3: Select "Setting" button could let you adjust the profile of the output format; of course, you could select default setting.
Step 4: Convert video.
Click "Convert" button to start the conversion. The popup frame will let you know how much time will spend on converting, and how much time have left etc.
Optional choice:
1. Trim and crop video.
This converter has a powerful function of editing. You could “trim” the video to convert the important clips by setting the start time and end time. You are able to choose “Crop” to select screen region you want to convert by dragging the dashed line. Because your iPod, iPhone or PSP etc has limited space, you can select the above two functions to get smaller size.
2. Add watermark.
You may like to add text in your video for describing something. Choose “Text watermark” could do that. You may like to add logo in your video for protecting your copyright or add video for playing two videos in sync. You have to click “Image/video watermark”.
Thanks for reading this article, hope you could get useful information from it.
