Fortunately, there’s a terrific open-source video player you can grab from the Microsoft Store – VLC – that solves all your problems. The problem is that Windows Media Player is not intended to be a digital Swiss Army Knife, so it has a very limited range of image files it can manage, and, as you’ve learned, MKV isn’t one of them. A media file that contains other files? It actually makes sense. The acronym MKV stands for “Matroska Video Stream” and the name “Matroska” comes from the Russian word for “nesting doll”. ![]() ![]() Let’s start with a definition, however, because MKV is a particularly interesting file format because it’s a “container” that lets users pack up multiple media files into a single file for convenience. There are dozens of different video formats so it’s not a complete surprise that you have encountered one that can’t be played by default on your Windows PC.
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