Convert the MKV file to QuickTime MOV This is not the best solution but if you want to play your MKV (or HD MKV) videos and the above two solution just not work for you and you’ve no better choice. Plus Plex sometimes just won’t play HD MKV movies.ģ.
If you are using Snow Leopard, VLC player would be a better choice considering some Snow Leopard users reported that they ran into some problems with Plex on Snow Leopard. Plex and VLC player are two highly recommended powerful players and in most cases they work like a charm under Mac. You need not to install any codecs or filters to play. Switch to other player Using VideoLAN VLC media player VLC player supports all the video and audio streams you will find in an MKV file. This will be done automatically in the next Perian update.Ģ. It’s not necessary to open files with them just having a copy on the disk is enough, but it may be necessary to start the application once to register it. Note: Perian 1.1.4 is compatible with Snow Leopard, but some Mac users open MKV files in QuickTime X. It works perfectly even “like a charm” for most of the MKV files on Mac. QuickTime+ Perian is a free QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
