Now select Input/Codecs > Video Codecs > FFmpeg and disable hardware decoding on the list that appears.

Go to the VLC Menu Tools > Preferences, and in the preferences window, click on the All radio button on the bottom of the window. Choppy Video While Playing MKV and HD MKV on VLC Scroll to the bottom of the list to locate the File Caching (ms) option under the advanced section and set it to 1000.ģ. Go to Input/Codecs Section, and a list on the right will appear with preferences. Go VLC Menu Tools > Preferences to open the preferences window and select the All radio button on the preferences' bottom left. In the case that this fails, then VLC menu Tools > Preferences menu to display the preferences window, then click on the Audio section and ensure that Enable Audio is checked. VLC Media Player Has No SoundĬheck whether Sound is muted and ensure it is not muted before proceeding.

So we’ll tack these issues one by one in this part. What’s worse, deleting preferences, reinstalling, and even rebooting will not solve the freezing, skipping, or stuttering problem. However, VLC error that does not play MKV video happens at times, i.e., fail to open an MKV file, show a grey screen, or an error pops up a window while playing MKV file, and even loading MKV indefinitely. VLC Not Playing HD MKV Media File IssueĪccording to the official VLC feature, MKV is supported by default by VLC. Way 2: Open VLC media player and select Media>Open File… and then go to the location of the MKV video, as shown below, select the target file and click Open. Then click the Change… button to swap the default application with the VLC media player.Īfter that, simply double-click the MKV file would open it with VLC. Way 1: Right-click on the MKV video file and go to Properties in the context menu. Follow the guide to install it correctly, and then you’ll have 2 ways to use VLC to play MKV. Otherwise, you might get unwanted malware. Tricks on Playing MKV Files in VLC Smoothlyįirst of all, you need to download the VLC media player from, the official website.

Here we’d specifically talk about how to play MKV file in VLC, a powerful and open-source media player runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX OS and can reduce video size.

4.20 Convert MKV to MP4 with HandBrake AlternativeĪlthough MKV has robust capabilities to handle video, audio, image, and subtitle content in a single container, even if they are in different formats, it’s not yet an industry-standard supported by any media player.

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