Lightweight, stable multimedia player focused on effortless MKV playback, with custom playlists and minimal settings
Lightweight, stable multimedia player focused on effortless MKV playback, with custom playlists and minimal settings
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What is MKV Player
MKV is a highly functional but simple to use video player designed for the Matroska media container.
A comprehensive range of video files can be encoded and encapsulated within an open source MKV container, including MP4, WMV, H.263 and H.264. A sturdy and quickly maturing format, MKV containers also accomodate different audio file standards and subtitle formats. An entire DVD can be encoded as a Matroska container, with the media envelope storing several soundtrack options, menus, chapters, and subtitle languages. Compressed and lossless media is supported as is high bitrates. This new standard is quickly becoming desirable when encoding high-definition video and is finding support among major multimedia manufacturers.
Enabling fast and simple playback of Matroska files, the MKV Player enables playback without skipping or jerkiness. You can play high-definition, densely encoded files with ease on computers equipped with low memory and less than stellar processors. The emphasis of the player is firmly on simplicity of operation, allowing any technophobe to easily start a video file playing with a minimum of effort. Fuss-free and fun, the Mv Player's video playback software program occupies little space on the hard drive and is completely free to download and use.
Upon installation and first running the software, the user is presented with a basic interface that incorporates the simplest playback controls and a skinny timeline control. Standard video playback buttons are replaced by large, blocky controls labelled for playing, pausing, stopping, and opening video files. Clicking the "open" button results in a new window popping up which asks for the source directory of the Matroska file. This is about as complex as the program ever gets. Matroska video files all use the three letter MKV extension, so it's a simple matter to find a file to load on the player.
Pros
- Easy to control and configure
- Handy screen capture button
- Places little memory and processor overhead on computers
- Option to alter subtitle delay
- Timeline control for quickly locating desired playback point
Cons
- Lacks documentation and help files
- Few advanced features
- No video effects
- Other video players required for playing different formats