BlackBerry® PlayBook™

[Llewellyn101]

Is there a way to play MKV files on a playbook?

[PunPryde]

that would be amazing

[MaxxJag]

Outright, not at the moment. you need to convert. 

[Harry_Dodgson]

Hi,

    I just discovered this weekend that VLC does a nice job changing movie "containers" without having to re-encode anything.  I just go to the streaming/exporting wizard and change the .MKVs into .MOVs (which the PlayBook supports) in a few seconds.

Harry

[knottyrope]

have you tried MP4? that should be a better format.

also a bunch of people I know reccomend hardbrake to reincode movies.

[ulstr]

VLC offers an easy solution, I am waiting/hoping there will be a streaming app soon that will work with my twonkey media server on my qnap NAS

[supraking]

Thank you all for bringing the MKV issue to my attention. That's one more reason on my list why I'm not buying a PlayBook YET. As soon as this functionality is enabled (by RIM or a third party) that's one step closer to buying a PB

[knottyrope]

just a minor set back for me, i am converting all my vids to mp4 and calling it a day.

[cas118 · Accepted solution]

Changing the container for an MKV video is no more hassle than changing the container for a FLV downloaded from YouTube.

If there is anyone who likes the command line and has FFMPEG installed on their PC then this dies the trick nicely:

ffmpeg -i VID.FLV -vcodec copy -acodec copy OUTPUT.MP4

If you are copying the file to the PlayBook anyway - this is fairly trivial

Before people tell me the benefits of an MKV format - yes, I know but at least this gets the videos going with no loss of quality.

[knottyrope]

Kewl just found thier site, now just have to get home and try it.

http://ffmpeg.org/