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How can I open an MKV file please?

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December 22, 2022
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This is a tad on the irritating side, as it still works over on my Windows 7 installation, along with my very expensive SurCode Dolby Digital Plus encoder - both are missing in the Windows 10 system.

How can I access all my stored MKV files, please?

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Baffy19

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R Neil Haugen

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Hey Neil!

Always nice to talk with another Neil!

Yea, the Matroska codec is a good one, but ... they see this as an archivist-niche codec, not a 'production' codec, and so do not see a reason to worry about supporting it. We can kvetch about that all we want, but ... I think it ain't gonna change.

So at this point, conversion with something free & easy like ShutterEncoder is probably the step needed. You can batch convert to get a bunch ready for working, and of course after the project is done, dump the t-code files. As you can recreate them at need, no need to store them.

Not a happy situation, but ... practically ... that's about all we can do.

You can look for both UserVoice (still being supported for now) and the Ideas section on this forum for Matroska/MKV posts, upvote them. Maybe someday ...

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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smrpix

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MKV isn't a codec. It's a container -- a very capable one that can hold multiple video and audio streams, subtitles and metadata. Use mediainfo to see what is actually in there. Often, it's just run-of-the-mill H.264 which can easily be rewrapped as an .mp4 using shutter encoder or similar.

UT is kind of old and not as efficient as ProRes.

R Neil Haugen

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Several "codecs" are more properly referred to as containers. Which I've tended to do, but also ... been chastised for because "it confuses people".

MOV is also ... a container, as are many others ...

But whatever ... for that container ... they would have to write the code to recognize the container and properly parse the contents of same. Exactly the essential contents of the many posts about this over the last couple years.

And they've said clearly they have no plans to do so. Ergo, upvoting this either in UserVoice or the new Ideas section here are our only choices to attempt to get the decision changed.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

Ann Bens

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Dont say which Pr version.

MKV is not supported, has not been for quite a few versions now.

neil wilkesAuthor

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Yes, thisn I know only too well. I have been using the local Network, and basically sending MKV across to the W7 DAW/NLE, turning it into a UT AVI (no ProRes option) and passing this back over the network again, and I just snapped earlier today with a 320Gb transfer there & back, just because I cannot read a file type that was previously not an issue. It;s simply frustrating - between the W10 & the W7 versions I can get most things done, but it should not be such an absolute faff.

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