MKV to play on Windows Media Player

[Halb]

Hi y'all.
What methods do you use to let mkv files play on WMP?

[Winterway]

Not sure why you'd want to, just download a comprehensive codec pack quite a few of which come with MPC-HC player (MKV is a container and may contain different video formats)/use VLC player. I've always used the K-Lite codec pack and MPC but my library is in Plex anyway so I just play it in the browser if I'm using this PC to watch.

[Halb]

Because I have a mkv file I want to play on WMP and was unsure which site to trust to download a codec to play it.

[aquarianone]

CCCP Code pack works fine - http://www.cccp-project.net/

[Halb]

aquarianone said:

CCCP Code pack works fine - http://www.cccp-project.net/

Ta!

[gun12b]

VLC player all day..........

[mmm-five]

If you mean videos encoded with HEVC, then in W10 you can bypass the £0.79 payment option for the plugin by downloading the 'device manufacturer' version for £0.00.

I find H265 playback in VLC misses/delays frames (on an i9, Vega 48 GPU, SSD, 48gb RAM) - so have recently started using Movies & TV player.

[Penelope Stopit]

VLC comes across as old now

This is much better https://www.smplayer.info/en/info