I’m a pretty big fan of Windows Media Center. In fact, it’s at the heart of my home theater system. Just one wrinkle: I can’t play MKV files from within the WMC interface. In case you’re ...

MakeMKV converts videos on proprietary discs into MKV or “Matroska Video” files. This container file format can hold an entire movie on a single file. What’s more, as a royalty-free, open ...

Short question Other than Handbrake, which won't work for me (see below), can you recommend a video encoder (for Win7; ideally free) that can encode a single, 14GB VOB file to an H.264 .mkv file ...

Starting today, Windows 8.1 will now natively support the Matroska Multimedia Container (MKV) file format with the built-in video app.

As of writing, those running Windows 8.1 can play MKV files without having to download a third-party media player.