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...mkv files.

whats so special about mkv files??

what software can i use to play them??

and anything else??

Answer 1

check out... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska......

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The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free Container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks inside a single file.[1] It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows. Matroska is similar in conception to other containers like AVI, MP4 or ASF, but is completely open source. Matroska file types are .MKV for video (with subtitles and audio), .MKA for audio-only files and .MKS for subtitles only.

supported by these programs....

ALShow

Avidemux

BS.Player

Chameleo

The Core Media Player

CorePlayer Mobile

The Core Pocket Media Player

DivX Player

GOM Player (Makes audio sound slow motion)

Gstreamer-based Players (Totem, etc.)

HandBrake

jetAudio

Kaffeine

The KMPlayer

Media Player Classic

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema

MediaPortal [2]

Mezzmo Media Player

MPlayer

MythTV

Target Longlife Media Player

Totem Movie Player

VirtualDubMod

VLC media player

VSO Software

Vuze (client) Media Player

xine

Zoom Player

Perian Quicktime Plugin for Mac OS X [3]

Answer 2

The Matroska Multimedia Container(MKV) is an open standard free Container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks inside a single file. It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows. Matroska is similar in conception to other containers like AVI, MP4 or ASF, but is completely open source. Matroska file types are .MKV for video (and audio) and .MKA for audio-only files.

  

Matroska is an English word derived from the Russian word Матрёшка (transliterated as Matryoshka). Which is pronounced as: mat + ros (as in albatross OR as in metros) + ka (as in Alaska). Simply stated, the term Matroska means 'nesting doll' (the common eastern European egg shaped doll within a doll). This is a play on the container (media within a form of media/Doll Within a Doll) aspect of the Matryoshka as it is a container for visual and audio data.

You can use mpcstar to open files with this suffix. http://www.mpcstar.com/

Answer 3

.mkv files can have selectable subtitles and other things of that nature embedded.

play them with VLC player.

http://www.videolan.org

Answer 4

download vlc media player, .mkv is a container format.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska

Answer 5

If you have obtained a file with the extension .mkv then you have a Matroska video/audio multimedia file. Matroska is a container like MOV and AVI , providing support for a huge number of different video, audio and subtitles compression formats.

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