VLC, this open source and cross-platform multimedia player, is very popular among users and powerful on playing DVDs, CDs, various videos, even streams. It can open and play MKV files on Mac El Capitan and Windows 10. But since MKV is a video container that can contain various video and audio codec, so it will be common to meet MKV playback issue with VLC like below:
1. My VLC can’t open some of my MKV files.
2. Only video display in VLC while play MKV files, why?
3. Strangely, the sound and video was unsynchronized while playing a MKV file with VLC. But when playing MP4, it will be file.
4. Why no audio play when I am playing MKV in VLC?
The reason that VLC can’t play MKV file finely is perhaps the code issue. The video or audio codec in MKV file is not supported by VLC. In this case, you can choose to convert MKV to VLC more supported MP4 files with a video converter.
Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate(review) is a nice choice. It concentrates on offering simplest and fastest solution to convert any HD/SD videos. It is capable of converting SD/HD MKV to VLC in AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV etc, and delivering high video & audio quality.
It allows you to adjust video/audio codec, resolution, bitrate, channel, frame rate, display aspect ratio and deinterlacing video, rotate video, add subtitle to vidoe, add watermark to video, compress 4K to 1080p, trim/crop video.
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How to convert original MKV file to VLC?
Step 1: Load mkv files
Click “File” to load MKV files to Pavtube MKV to VLC converter. Or you can simply drag and drop the MKV files to the app. You can see all the chapter added will be listed. The main title will be automatically detected to convert. But if also can select certain chapter to convert.
Tip:
1. At the bottom of the chapter list, you can choose desired subtitle/audio track in “Subtitle” and “Audio” box.
2. You can preview the video on the right window and take a snapshot of your loved scene.
Step 2: Choose MP4 for VLC
Click the “Format” bar to get the drop-down menu and you can get “HD Video -> H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)” as the best output format for playing in VLC.
If the default A/V settings cannot fit your needs, you can click “Settings” button to custom the output video and audio settings by yourself. But if you are not good at it, you’d better use the default parameters, they will ensure you a good balance between file size and image quality basically.
Step 3: Start to convert MKV to VLC
Press the “Convert” button on the bottom-right corner of this MKV to VLC Video Converter to start doing video conversion. The larger the MKV files are, the more conversion time should be taken.
After converted MKV to MP4, then you can add it to VLC to play now.
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