I’m a pretty big fan of Windows Media Center. In fact, it’s at the heart of my home theater system. Just one wrinkle: I can’t play MKV files from within the WMC interface. In case you’re not familiar ...
If you have MKV files and you want to play them on your computer, you must have an app that supports the MKV format. That is why you can download these MKV player apps for Windows 11 and Windows 10 ...
We outline three simple methods for converting MKVs into the easier-to-play MP4 format, and help you decide which is best for you. MKV is an open-source container format that’s useful for storing ...
Initially, Handbrake became popular with the Mac OS and its approach was limited to those possessing expensive Apple devices. Today this open-source converter is used widely across Mac OS, Windows, ...
AVI and Matroska are just container formats. What makes a difference is how the contents are encoded. Most MKVs I've seen use the Theora video codec which is more resource-intensive than DivX (MPEG4) ...
There are many occasions that you need a video converter, for example, for changing the video format/codec to be compatible with portable devices or media players, or for reducing the video file size ...
Other than Handbrake, which won't work for me (see below), can you recommend a video encoder (for Win7; ideally free) that can encode a single, 14GB VOB file to an H.264 .mkv file? For Free?