How to Open and Play .MKV, .MKA or .MKS (Mastroska) File in Windows Media Player (Filter Codec Download)
Matroska Multimedia Container, or more popularly known in the file extension of .mkv (for video with or without subtitles and audio), .mka (audio-only) or .mks (subtitles only), is an open standard free container format. Matroska itself is not an encoding format for multimedia files, but serve as a universal format for storing and hold unlimited amount of common multimedia content of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks inside a single file.
When opening or playing back the Matroska files (.mkv, mka or .mks) in Windows operating system, including Windows 7 and Windows Vista, “Windows can’t open this file” dialog will be prompted, instructing user to let Windows to go online to look up program used to open the file automatically, or manually select from a list of programs that are installed on the computer.
When Windows Media Player is selected, or even if the Matroska file opens automatically in WMP, the media file won’t play with error message such as “Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file”, as by default, there is no codec (encoder and decoder filter) support for .mkv, .mka or .mks file format or type in Windows.
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