Remember its also a DirectShow based player, so it will need a CCCP playback pack or at least the Haali media splitter to work for MKV files.Ĭomment: Currently the one player with the best matroska menu support, and not based on DirectShow (if you don't like codec installation on your PC) and it will play most of your MKVs out of the box.Ĭomment: A very good, DirectShow based mediaplayer with advanced matroska support in combination with the Haali media splitter.Ĭomment: Now that DivX has adopted the Matroska container for their HD content, they offer a good set of tools including a player, a DirectShow filter, a web player and an encoder.Ĭomment: foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. MediaPlayer Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC)Ĭomment: An improved version of MPC with more integrated decoders, performance, Vista support, etc.Ĭomment: Still one our preferred media players, with excellent matroska support thanks to its matroska CDL plugin. We recommend to deactivate the internal splitter, and use it with one of the CCCP playback packs. It is DirectShow based, but has a built-in, internal matroska splitter, which is tending to be outdated -). Homepage | Download (English) | Download (other languages)Ĭomment: You can get this great player also in French, German and Russian language. Note it is not DirectShow based, so no codecs/filter installation is necessary. Please CorePlayer features one of the leading H.264 video decoders, 'CoreAVC'. However as of 1/2009 it does not support subtitles, RealVideo or AC3 playback. Supporting CE, Windows Mobile, PocketPC, Palm Symbian, iPhone, Windows, OS X and Linux, CorePlayer is currently the one player that uses the lowest CPU resources for playback of any modern media files, and includes full MKV and MKA support.

we have also created CorePlayer with similar goals.

Windows media player mkv support