The movie lover no longer needs to go to the theaters to enjoy the spectacular spectacle. All you need to do is have a computer, a suitable player, and a good film library on hand.
There are many special programs for playing movies on a computer. The variety of formats forces programmers to create more and more advanced software capable of supporting high quality video and sound. Among the most famous formats in recent years, *.mkv has gained particular popularity.
More about the mkv format
This format was created within the framework of the target project "Matroska - Matryoshka". A developer from Matroska.org set out to get a cross-platform solution with sets of tools and libraries that could be played on various operating systems.
Three formats were created for the project - mka, mks and mk3d. The first is for audio, the second is for subtitles, and the third is for 3D video. Meanwhile, the mkv format has been developed for video with subtitles and audio. Among its features: the ability to broadcast over the Internet, robustness, the ability to display subtitles, easy switching between video tracks, modular extensions.
The format is not supported by hardware on consumer video players, which somewhat restricts its use. However, certain programs have been developed on the PC with which you can watch movies without much difficulty.
Programs for mkv
The list of programs for opening mkv is very long. However, there are the most common among them.
Gom player
It is one of the free video players for Windows. The main reason for its popularity is the support for a huge number of video and audio formats. Has built-in own codecs, and can also use those that are installed in the system. So far, developer Gretech Corporation has released version 2.2.5. The product is constantly being improved and supported.
Light alloy
An equally popular product from the developer Vortex Team. Distributed under a free Freeware license. The latest version for today is 4.7.8
The KMPlayer
Included in the popular line of software for watching movies on a computer. Supports many formats, among which mkv is not the last. The Pandora TV developer has released version 3.8 for Windows, 1.0 for iOS and 1.01 for Android to date.
Media Player Classic
A simple but powerful enough free player, which is distributed both separately and as part of the K-Light Codec Pak. Supports many formats, is multilingual and has version 6.4.9. The project is no longer supported at this time.
