Comments on: 5 MKV Video Players for Mac OS X

By: How to Connect a Mac to a TV

How to Connect a Mac to a TV — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:17:37 +0000

[...] QuickTime Player is also a fine choice for playing .MOV, m4v, .mp4 files, but for other movie file formats like .WMV, Flash .flv, .mpeg, .avi, and others, you’ll want to get a third party app instead. For other formats, VLC is a classic app and should be included in just about every Mac users app toolbox, and MplayerX is becoming increasingly popular for being just as versatile while having the added bonus of supporting BluRay and MKV playback. [...]

By: no-mac-store

no-mac-store — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:16:46 +0000

** You can *not* update from the Mac store**, he got tired of arguing with Apple to let every feature out of the sandbox needed every release like (use the net to get subtitles), etc, etc… find info on the real homepage.

By: Go Mid Rak

Go Mid Rak — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:47:07 +0000

MpayerX best of the best

By: Go Mid Rak

Go Mid Rak — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:44:30 +0000

vlc bad sound quality 1080p

By: sherpav

sherpav — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:34:33 +0000

vlc cool player.

By: Forget Windows Media Player, Here Are 3 Free Ways to Play WMV Video on a Mac

Forget Windows Media Player, Here Are 3 Free Ways to Play WMV Video on a Mac — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:40:22 +0000

[...] it with flying colors. WMV files are no exception, but because it supports so many other popular (mkv, divx, etc) and obscure formats, MPlayer is debatably one of the best free video players available [...]

By: AtariBaby

AtariBaby — Mon, 28 May 2012 07:58:08 +0000

Quicktime with Perian is higher quality than MPlayerX.
MPlayerX is higher quality than VLC.
VLC is still excellent quality and good to have when the other two won’t play something.

By: Convert MKV to M4V for Free with Subler

Convert MKV to M4V for Free with Subler — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:12:51 +0000

[...] necessary if you want to watch the movie directly on your computer, in that case, check out a handful of free MKV video players for Mac. If you need to convert other video types to iOS compatible format, Handbrake works great for [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:05:09 +0000

Nevermind, forgot they dropped PC/Mac support…

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:04:10 +0000

Um…What about Boxee?

By: Icebreaker

Icebreaker — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:39:35 +0000

I use perian on osx lion and it works fine, so stop talking bs

By: iCK

iCK — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:04:16 +0000

Right, Movist is the best!

By: Max

Max — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:03:58 +0000

Perian is simply useless on OSX Lion. This OS is more than 6 months old and the developers don’t care about making Perioan work on it. I’m not even talking about Snow Lion support… Too bad, it used to be an interesting product, but it’s dead now.

MPlayer OSX Extended and XMBC are my favourites. Plex’ GUI is very bad and I removed it 5 minutes after installing it.

To repackage MP4 to MKV, I use MKVtoolnix
To repackage MKV to MP4, I use MKVtools (now MP4tools)

By: David Owens

David Owens — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:28:21 +0000

I’ll have to try Subler again. I used it previously, but since I was re-encoding blurays from 1080p down to 720p, I ended up sticking with Handbrake, since it could also burn in subtitles (which for some reason if I use soft subs, get out of sync with the video while watching if I pause/rewind/ff)

Can Subler re-encode hi-profile/10-bit video down to standard 8-bit? I don’t have my AppleTV 3rd gen yet, but I’m going to assume it won’t display 10-bit video This would be another issue, as that functionality is something which Handbrake now includes.

By: Gary Dauphin

Gary Dauphin — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:31:44 +0000

Huge MOVIST fan! It plays everything, it has neat extra features, and it prioritizes video playback while other tasks are going on, so that video playback is rarely interrupted.