Free MKV Players to Play MKV on Mac OS X and Snow Leopard

Matroska file types

• .mkv: Generally video files, as well those containing audio (movies) or video only.
• .mka: audio only files, can contain any supported audio compression format, such as MP2, MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AC3, DTS, PCM and soon MPC (muse pack).
• .mks: a so called ‘elementary’ matroska stream containing any subtitles stream.

How to play MKV Videos on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Here are two free MKV players for Mac OS X.

Media Player Classic
It has a built in DVD player with real-time zoom, support for AVI subtitles, QuickTime and RealVideo support (requires QuickTime and/or Real Player); built-in MPEG2/SVCD/DVD codec. To play mkv file you need to install updated Matroska Pack. To do so follow simple steps below:

VideoLAN VLC Media Player
VLC player supports all the video and audio streams you will find in an MKV file. You need not to install any codecs or filters to play .mkv files.

How to play HD MKV file on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

High Definition movies in 720 or 1080 pixel width format are often encoded and packaged as a Matroska format video with a .mkv file extension. Apple QuickTime doesn’t handle this format natively so you have to convert MKV files to QuickTime MOV files on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

Learn How to convert MKV to QuickTime (.MOV) for Mac OS X.