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Enable Windows Media Player play MKV videos- MKV codecs for WMP 9 and above
Why MKV is such a popular format? Basically MKV is a container file format in which there can be many audio, video and subtitles streams, allowing the user to store a complete movie in a single file. Anime fans love MKV because they can make "soft subs" which allows the user to enable/disable subs; movie enthusiast and audiophiles choose MKV format for movie ripping because the MKV format lets them to do lossless backup of their CD, DVD and Blu-ray Discs with desired audio tracks and subtitles. And there are many
other advantages of MKV format.
While MKV files can be opened with media players like VLC media player and Media Player Classic, the format is not naturally supported by Microsoft’s Windows Media Player or Windows Media Center. You do not have to worry about that---just do a bit Google search and you’ll learn about multiple MKV codec packs that can enable Windows Media Player play MKV. Among all these MKV codec packs, Shark007’s tools are regarded as top free codec packs for Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center. And indeed, it performs better than other free MKV codecs per our test. To reach a more reliable and convincing conclusion, we use HD MKV files of possible best quality--- LOSSLESS BACKUP of commercial Blu-ray Disc Toy Story 3 (created by Pavtube ByteCopy software)--- for testing. You may also make a lossless backup of 1080p Blu-ray movie and see how it works yourself. Just download a trial of the Pavtube ByteCopy software and try it out.
Now let’s take a look at how to make Windows Media Player play MKV files with the help of Shark007.
Shark007 for Windows Vista/XP
Download link: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=5326 MKV playback solution for Windows Media Player 9:
Step 1. Download the Shark007 codec pack from above link, and double click to install the codec to your Windows Vista/XP. The Shark007 setup for Windows Vista/XP shows as a “VistaCodecs_v593.exe” file.
Step 2. Launch the Shark007 v593 for Windows Vista and XP.
Step 3. Press “MKV” tab, and check the box of “Enable Linked files”. In that case the Windows Media Player will call Shark007 for decoding/playing MKV files.
MKV playback in Windows Media Player 9 on Windows XP
What you can do: play, stop, fast forward/backward, switch between subtitles and audio tracks
Thumbnails for your reference:
How to switch subtitles and audio language: Find a small icon of Haali’s splitter
at the bottom right corner on your desktop, and right click to set subtitles and audio language.
Shark007 for Windows 7
Download link: http://www.majorgeeks.com/Win7codecs_d5959.html
MKV playback solution for Windows Media Player 11:
Step 1. Download the Shark007 codec pack from above link, and double click to install the codec to your Windows 7. The Shark007 setup for Windows 7 shows as a “Win7codecs_v279.exe” file.
Step 2. Launch the Shark007 v279 for Windows 7.
Step 3. Press “MKV” tab, and check the box of “Enable Linked files”. In that case the Windows Media Player will call Shark007 for decoding/playing MKV files.
MKV playback in Windows Media Player 11 on Windows 7 64bit
What you can do: play, stop, fast forward/backward, switch between subtitles and audio tracks
Thumbnails for your reference-
Toy Story 3 playback in Windows Media Player, English subtitles:
Toy Story 3 playback in Windows Media Player, French subtitles:
How to switch between subtitles and audio language:
Find a small icon of Shark007 at the bottom right corner on your desktop, and right click to set subtitles and audio language.
Tip 1: This is an MKV playback solution for Windows Media Player 9 and later on version. We did test with Windows Media Player 9, Windows Media Player 10, and Windows Media Player 11. But this should work on Windows Media Player 12 as well.
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at the bottom right corner on your desktop, and right click to set subtitles and audio language.
