I've download a movie, but I don't know how to open it. What's MKV format. Never used that before. This is the file name :
Final_Fantasy_VII_Last_Order_v2.DVD(H264.AAC)[KAA][C58D2776].mkv

I'm very excited to watch the movie. So, please reply as soon as possible. Please include information about the codec in your post. Where to download the codec ?

Go here: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Matroska_Pack.htm
And never go anywhere else again looking for codecs

This is a website of Matroska

To download the lastest version, try its official pack at packs.matroska.org

Matroska aims to become THE standard of multimedia container formats. It was derived from a project called MCF, but differentiates from it significantly because it is based on EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language), a binary derivative of XML. EBML enables the Matroska Development Team to gain significant advantages in terms of future format extensibility, without breaking file support in old parsers.

First, it is essential to clarify exactly "What an Audio/Video container is", to avoid any misunderstandings:

It is NOT a video or audio compression format (video codec)
It is an envelope for which there can be many audio, video and subtitles streams, allowing the user to store a complete movie or CD in a single file.
Matroska is designed with the future in mind. It incorporates features you would expect from a modern container format, like:

Fast seeking in the file
High error recovery
Chapter entries
Selectable subtitle streams
Selectable audio streams
Modularly Extendable
Streamable over internet (HTTP and RTP audio & video streams)
Menus (like DVDs have)
Matroska is an open standards project. This means for personal use it is absolutely free to use and that the technical specifications describing the bitstream are open to everybody, even to companies that would like to support it in their products. The source code of the libraries developed by the Matroska Development Team is licensed under GNU L-GPL.

The founders of Matroska have the following goals:

Create and document a modern, flexible and cross-platform Audio/Video container format, in combination with an open codec API to form a free and open media framework
Establish Matroska as the opensource alternative to existing containers such as AVI, ASF, MOV, RM, MP4, MPG
Develop a set of tools for the creation, editing and implementation of Matroska files
Develop libraries and tools for software developers to be able to support Matroska in their applications
Prepare hardware support of Matroska files in next generations standalone units, in close cooperation with device manufacturers
Support adoption and implementation of Matroska's libraries into OpenBeOS Mediakit and GStreamer (Multimedia Framework for Linux , equivalent to Microsoft (tm) DirectShow ® for Windows (tm))
Launch a set of DirectShow filters for playback and creation of Matroska files on Windows (tm) Operating Systems
We invite every interested developer to join our team and to help us to achieve these goals. While most of the existing Matroska code is in C++ we are also interested in C and Java programmers joining us.

Yacoob

'Matroska aims to become THE standard of multimedia container formats.'

yah sure guy...

-Gaijin

Hi, download VLC player and you will be able to open it.

Replying to curare
I also downloaded a .Mkv file, I tried to play it on my ogm player but it will only play for 5 seconds, I thiughts that the file is corrupt, but when I tried to burn it on the dvd, you can now watch your movie, I used the convertXtodvd software.

what is mkv format
What Is Mkv? Need Help With This File Format?

Replying to PureHeart
Actually, MKV is just a multimedia container format that can contain so many kinds media formats. If you want to play an mkv file, the best way is not to decode it but extract the video and audio format from the mkv inside, there is a site which offers a lot of <a href="http://www.Mkv-converter.Com">MKV Converter</a> you can find for your problem.

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Replying to iGuest

.Mkv files are also 3x bigger than ordinary video files. What was wrong with the old formats? I've never had a problem with previous formats of movie files for burning/viewing/sharing/whatever.

I say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it!

ImTOO MPEG Encoder Platinum - This MKV Converter is powerful video and audio file converter. It can convert video formats like MKV,AVI, MPEG, WMV, etc., convert audio formats like MP3, WMA, etc. And convert picture formats like JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP.
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-reply by caryan

And of course, remember, downloading commercial movies like "Final Fantasy VII" is strongly forbidden by law in most of modern countries, and is against our forum rules.
Except if this movie was made by your cousing, with his own camera, filming his dogs playing in your garden ? Home-made movies can be upladed and shared freely, all other ones are not.

Replying to iGuest-mkv converter

hi.

you don.T need to decode or extract audio and video from mkv format files.

Just use VLC player or Media Player Classic and enjoy the Movie.

Regards

----BANDIT(colmoss@rediffmail.Com)

MKV is a container format developed by Matroska. It can hold different types of video and audio. For example, there might be an .AVI file contained within the .MKV file.

Lear more: http://en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/Matroska

MKV Converter for Mac

-reply by woowha

 

butter1093What Is Mkv? Need Help With This File Format?

MKV is the Video container format similar to .AVI and .MOV that supports several types of video compression and video codec. So you will always happen that some MKV videos could play on your media player .

If you HD MKV can not play on your PC, the first thing, please download a free MKV codec package . If you still can not open the file, you have to think about converting the MKV files to other compatible formats for your media player on your PC. So, you have to get a powerful all codecs included Mkv converter  to help you convert all MKV files to any other video formats you want.  Hope you could solve your problem.  

All the best,

 

Samantha

 

-reply by butter1093

Replying to PureHeart.Mkv file format is supported with VLC media player.U can watch the movie in vlc player.Ok-reply by khadeer

.mkv stands for matroska and its as i think the best format as it includes large videos in a very small sieze. Its capablity is just too much. The quality in this video is generally the best and the sieze is still the lowest of all. Whenever you see a mkv file be sure to get a good video or in like in hd quality but not always. this is one of the bst format and now being popular after the avi and vob formats. Many movies in this file are damn to small and are avilable easily but one thing this kind of videos are generally pirated i am not saing that they are always but in genral this are for the downloads only and they are used for doing piracy converting large films or videos in hd but in small size so this format is very much useful. Hope you get the point and to play this there are many players avilable around like vlc or kmp (with codecs) and many more but i like this tooo so i am naming this 2 only

I was curious about it too cus I know most of all kind of video format but this one...but any way as it is posted before VLC will reproduce it.

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