VLC Media Player VLC Media Player is one of the best free MKV player for Mac. Apart from MKV, it can also play various other regular video/audio formats, including AVI, WMV, MP4, MOV, FLV, MPEG, etc. And even DVDs and CDs. With it, you don't need to install any codecs or filters to play MKV videos on Mac. Just add the MKV videos to VLC. To watch an MKV file using VLC, right-click the MKV file, point to “Open With,” and then choose “VLC Media Player.” To make VLC the default player for MKV files so that you can just double-click a file when you want to watch a video, right-click any MKV file, point to “Open With,” and then click “Choose Another App.
VLC is an excellent media player but I just get a VLC not playing MKV issue. When I play MKV on VLC, problems like VLC MKV grey screen, skipping keep popping out. Can VLC play MKV? How to successfully play MKV in VLC? Any ideas?
Does VLC play MKV files? Recently I downloaded some MKV files and tried to play but it seems that VLC won't play MKV anymore since it just loads the file forever... I've already tried rebooting my computer, deleting the preferences and reinstalling VLC but I’m keeping receiving VLC stuttering and freezing problem when playing MKV HD files. Anyone who can help with this?
VLC media player is a widely-used player that plays various video and audio formats. However, when you visit a forum, you can see users seeking for solutions to how to fix VLC not playing MKV files. While claiming to support MKV on its official site, we find, much to our regret that VLC won't play MKV. For example, when importing MKV media contents to VLC, we will experience problems like: VLC stuttering, skipping or freezing when playing 1080P HD MKV; MKV choppy playback or MKV grey screen; VLC just loads MKV forever... How to play MKV file smoothly? Take it easy, learn how to solve MKV files not playing in VLC below.
Vlc Player Mac Mkv Video Player
Posted by Candice Liu to 4K, Video Converter | Updated on Dec 26, 2019
'Can VLC play 4k ultra HD video? New to VLC & love its many options, however it doesn't start then becomes very choppy in playing 4K. No problem with other players so nothing wrong with my system or CPU. Would welcome any advice. Thanks.' - andylolly
Vlc Not Playing Mkv Mac
'I have been trying to watch 4K files on VLC, they play the sound but no video, windows media player plays the video but no sound, MPC and Power dvd play the videos with sound no problem, I have tried nightly VLC and there is no option for gpu accelerated on my settings. when will this problem be fixed, and my graphics card is a GTX 1060 Rog strixx edition.' - kmj523
Vlc Media Player Mkv
As the free and open source cross-platform media player, VLC is available to play multimedia files like DVD, CD, various online streaming videos as well as 4K videos since 2013. However, VLC video playback problems happen over and over, for eaxample, VLC won't play MKV or MP4, video lagging on VLC, VLC subtitle delay, video audio out of sync etc. And here we're talking about VLC not playing 4k problem. It's really frustrated to find your 4K choppy, stutter or lag during playback on VLC. So how to play 4K on VLC smoothly? You're suggested to enable GPU hardware accelerate decoding in VLC, compress 4K video to lower resolution, or switch to a VLC aternative.