How to Solve can’t Play MKV Files in Windows Media Center

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When it comes to a video format, MKV may come into your mind enables you to limitlessly access to almost all media players. Many people have been wondering “Can Windows Media Center Play MKV files?” Does your WMC not playing MKV Videos? Is there any trouble, which you really not aware of? You are in a dilemma, what is causing the MKV Video not run on Windows Media Center? There may be some reasons for which Windows Media Center cannot play some MKV files. They are discussed as follows. 

 
If the MKV files are not corrupt, the main reason may be the MKV video codec problem. MKV is a container format which may contain multiple video and audio streams. And the video and audio stream can be encoded any of several ways. If the MKV file was encoded with a non-Microsoft codec or with a codec not installed on your Windows, you will fail to watch this kind of MP4 video. Though we can make WMC play MKV video by installing some codec, sometime we still encounter can’t play MKV in Windows Media Center issue, let alone it is so complicated to most users. 

So you will need one professional MKV to Windows Media Center video converter. Pavtube Video Converter is your smart choice. With it, you can transcode MKV to Windows Media Center supported formats like wmv, asf, mov, avi, mp4, m4v, mp3g, etc. without any issue with only 3 simple steps. Besides changing MKV to WMC video format, it also has advanced editing function like trimming, cropping, adding watermark/effects/subtitles, etc. Now, download the software online and follow the guide below to start conversion. (Read review)

Free download the MKV to Windows Media Center:

Encode and Add MKV files into Windows Media Center 

Step 1: Launch the best MKV to WMC Converter, and then click the “Add video” button to load the original MKV medias. You can double click the video files to have a preview. 

 

Step 2: Click on the dropdown menu of “Format” and then move your pointer to “HD Video”>> “WMV HD(*.wmv)” or “DivX HD(*.avi)”, “AVI HD Video(*.avi)”, they are compatible with Windows Media Center. 

 

Tip: You can adjust codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the “Settings” interface according to your needs and optimize the output file quality. 

Step 3: Tap the “Convert” button at the bottom right corner under the preview window, the converter will start encoding MKV for Windows Media Center. Once the conversion completes, just click “Open” button to get the generated files for adding into WMC for watching perfectly.