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How to play MKV/HD MKV movies on QuickTime in Mac OS X Leopard?

Posted 02-08-2010 at 06:01 AM by Athna

Matroska is a container format that stores multiple streams(video, audio and subtitles). These streams may require you to install decoding software and filters to playback depending on what player you use.

For Mac users, when download a file with MKV extension, they will often try to play it back on Mac default Media Player QuickTime. As mentioned above, you have to add a package handler for QuickTime to play MKV files. Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that can hand MKV files natively. However, the downside is when playing MKV files on QuickTime with Perian, you have to wait until the entire film is buffered in QuickTime before it will play smoothly. This is really annoying unless you are patient enough. Is there a shortcut to enjoy MKV /HD MKV movies, videos or TV shows on your Mac?

Video Converter for Mac is the terrific conversion software to play MKV with QuickTime Mac. It can easily convert MKV to QuickTime supported MOV, M4V, QT, MP4 format to enable you toplay MKV/HD MKV movies, videos or TV shows on QuickTime Mac rapidly without installing extract decoding software or filters.

How to play MKV/HD MKV on QuickTime in Mac OS X Leopard?

1.Load MKV files with the program.
Load MKV files with the free trial version of MKV to QuickTime Mac after launching the program.





2.Select the output format and the output folder.

Select QuickTime compatible MOV, M4V, QT or MP4 as the output format and specify a destination on your Mac to store the output MKV files.




3.Customize the output settings.
To make the effect of your output MKV files more perfect, you can customize the settings with different parameters.




4.Apply effect.
You can crop the video size to remove the black sides surround the frame or simply type the specified value in the brackets to change the output video size.




5.Convert MKV to QuickTime on Mac OS X.
Start converting MKV to QuickTime supportable MOV, M4V, QT or MP4 format to play MKV/HD MKV on QuickTime.
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