MKV is a flexible, open standard video file format that quickly became the preferred file extension for HD video on the internet.
MKV是一种灵活的,开放的标准视频文件格式,很快成为Internet上高清视频的首选文件扩展名。
Matroska- MKV历史
(Matroska- MKV History
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MKV development is started in Russia in 2002. MKV is a short form of the Matroska Video where Matroska is a Russian toy originally named matryoshka. The lead developer Lasse Karkkainen and the Matroska company founder Steve Lhomme with a team of programmers created this wonderful multimedia format or container. Matroska is an open-source project which means its source code and algorithm are free to access and use personally.? Also, the improved version of MVK is forked and created a similar format named WebM by Google in 2010.
MKV is a multimedia container format. But MKV is generally known as compression but it is not. MKV file format provides the data structure of the audio, video, and other informational data. The actual audio and video are generally compressed with formats like H.264, H.265, MP3, ACC, etc.
MKV file format is designed to be dynamic for use in the feature without a problem. This means MKv will not become outdated because of some key features like below.
Subtitle can be inserted as hard-coded or soft-coded.
Subtitle可以硬编码或软编码插入。
Error Recovery is used to playback even some parts of video and sound data is corrupted.
Error Recovery用于回放视频和声音数据的某些部分,甚至损坏。
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了解更多FFmpeg命令教程 为Windows设置默认的MKV播放器
(Set Default MKV Player For Windows
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In Windows operating systems like 10, XP, 8, Server the default MKV file player is the default one provided. This is named as Windows Media Player. Windows Media Player can play popular video formats but lack a lot of useful features. so VLC Player is one of the popular 3rd party MKV players for Windows. But the default player is set as Windows Media Player.? We can set the default player VLC for MKV files like below.
在Windows操作系统(如10,XP,8,服务器)中,默认的MKV文件播放器是提供的默认播放器。 这被称为Windows Media Player 。 Windows Media Player可以播放流行的视频格式,但缺少许多有用的功能。 因此VLC Player是Windows上流行的第三方MKV播放器之一。 但是默认播放器设置为Windows Media Player 。 我们可以为MKV文件设置默认播放器VLC,如下所示。
First, we right-click to an MKV file which is named as SampleVideo_1280x720_30m.mkv in this example. Then we will click to the Properties like below.
Then the General tab will be opened like below. We will click to the Change button in other to change Opens with default application.
然后,将如下所示打开“ General选项卡。 我们将单击其他按钮中的“ Change按钮来更改“ Opens with默认应用程序Opens with 。
Here we will see a list of Media Players that can play the MKV files. We will select the VLC media player like below and click OK.
在这里,我们将看到可以播放MKV文件的媒体播放器列表。 我们将选择如下所示的VLC media player ,然后单击“ OK 。
Then we will see the change from the? General tab of the file properties like below. VLC media player is set and open the MKV files.
然后,我们将从文件属性的“ General选项卡中看到更改,如下所示。 设置VLC media player并打开MKV文件。
MKV文件属性
(MKV File Properties
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We can see details of the MKV file and codec from the following Current Media Information screen. We can open this screen which is provided by VLC Tools->Media Information like below.
我们可以从以下“ Current Media Information屏幕中查看MKV文件和编解码器的详细Current Media Information 。 我们可以打开以下屏幕,该屏幕由VLC Tools -> Media Information 。
The following screen provides information like
以下屏幕提供了类似的信息
Media Stream 0 and 1
媒体流0和1
Codec specifies the compression algorithm
Codec指定压缩算法
Type provides the current stream is video or audio
Type提供当前流是视频还是音频
Video resolution is the size of the video in bits
Video resolution是Video resolution的大小(以位为单位)
Frame rate is the count of frames shown in a second which is 25 frames in second in this example
Frame rate是每秒显示的帧数,在此示例中为每秒25帧
Sample Rate is audio Hertz value for the quality
Sample Rate是音频赫兹值的质量
Bits per sample is the data quality of the voice.
Bits per sample是语音的数据质量。
热门MKV播放器
(Popular MKV Players
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MKV is an open and popular media format which is supported by a lot of different video players here are some of the popular MKV players for the Windows operating system.