How to Play and Burn MKV video on Mac OS X?

What is MKV Video?

.MKV is a container format developed by Matroska. It can hold different types of video and audio. For example, there might be an .AVI file contained within the .MKV file.

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. 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 entirely open in specification, with implementations consisting mostly of open source software. Matroska file types are .MKV for video (with subtitles and audio), .MKA for audio-only files and .MKS for subtitles only. High Definition movies in 720 or 1080 pixel width format are often encoded and packaged as a Matroska format video with a .mkv file extension.

1. How to Play MKV Video on Mac?
2. How to Burn and Edit MKV video on Mac?

How to Play MKV Video on Mac?

MPlayer OS X and VLC Media Player both are free cross-platform multimedia players.

These excellent and free multimedia players can tackle many of the video formats unknown to QuickTime. They contain the decoder to decode the .mkv files. They will also play many of the formats you will find inside the .mkv file.

How to Burn and Edit MKV video on Mac?

Professional MKV Video to DVD Burner can help you to burn MKV video files to DVD on Mac

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Step1. Add MKV video

Click the "Add" button to add the MKV video files you want to burn. The added MKV videos will be shown in thumbnails in the right pane. You can sort the order of the added video files by drag them in the pane.

Step2. Edit MKV Video (Optional)

MKV Video to DVD Burner offers you powerful edit functions to Crop MKV Video, Trim MKV Video, you also can choose your customized DVD Menu and "Preview" the MKV video, this editing function is optional.

Step3. Start Burning MKV Video to DVD

Click the "Burn" button (to the left of the Burn button) to make burning settings, then click the "Start" button to start burning your MKV Video to DVD now.

Note: It will take you about 50 minutes to burn MKV Videos to DVD, and the common AVI, FLV, MOV, WMV, MP4 videos will take you about 30 minutes to burn, the burning time depends on the video file size.
Then, you can enjoy and share the DVD on your home DVD player!

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