How to get Windows Media Player to play MKV movie files

Summary: This guide shows you how to play MKV files with Windows Media Player by converting MKV to Windows Media Player friendly format like WMV or AVI.



As we all know the Windows’ default Windows Media Player is pretty impressive though, but sadly it doesn’t support playing MKV files yet. Microsoft has added support for many commonly used formats like MP4, but not MKV. You may use other media players like VLC, for playing MKV files. While, if you want to stick with Windows Media Player to open MKV files and haven’t found a proper MKV codec for WMP, you will need to convert MKV to Windows Media Player preferable format like WMV, AVI, MPG, etc.

To achieve the goal, first download and install the app- Brorsoft Video Converter.

It is just such a video converter tool you need, which comes with super high conversion speed and keeps the output files in good quality simultaneously. With it, you can fast convert MKV to Windows Media Player friendly WMV//AVI videos. Besides, it allows you to encode MKV to MP4, MOV, FLV, MPG, etc many other popular video formats. More than that, it also provides an access to touch up MKV videos, which including trimming, cropping, appending artistic effects and more. Now follow the step-by-step guide for you.

How to Convert MKV to Windows Media Player on Windows(Windows 8)

1. Import MKV files

Run the MKV to Windows Media Player Coverer; click the Add button to load MKV files to the program from your computer. You can also directly drag the video files into the program directly.



2. Select the output format

Click the Format menu, select Windows Media Player friendly format as your output video format. There, you can take WMV as your output video format. If you prefer high definition videos, move your mouse pointer to "HD Video" and then choose HD WMV.



3. Start conversion

Simply click the Convert button to start encoding MKV video to Windows Media Player friendly video formats.

Additional features of this MKV to Windows Media Player converter:

1. You can check the “Merge into one” box to join multiple video clips together.

2. If you like, adjust video and audio parameters, including the Bitrate of Video and Audio, the Codec of Video and Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc., by clicking the Settings button on the main interface for getting the best quality.

Within several minutes, the conversion would be finished and you can find the converted files by clicking the "Open" button. And then you can add and open the converted files in your media player. Enjoy playing MKV files in Windows Media Player now.

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