The Matroska (MKV) is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks inside a single file. It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows. MKV movies can be download with Emule, BT, etc. The best software players out there (VLC, MPlayer ) have full MKV support and are absolutely free. Unfortunately MKV files can not playback in Apple TV 2. You need convert the MKV videos, MKV DTS files to H.264 HD MP4 which Apple TV 2 supported.
How to convert and play MKV, MKV DTS files on Apple TV 2?
Don’t worry, MKV to Apple TV 2 Video Converter is such a useful and powerful MKV to Apple TV 2 Converter that can convert all MKV formats with different codecs to Apple TV 2 H.264 720p (*.mp4) with fast conversion speed, perfect video and audio synchronization, and high output quality.
Step-by-Step Guide to Convert/Play MKV Movies on Apple TV 2:
1. Free download the MKV Converter for Apple TV 2 and then install, start up it.
2. Import MKV files to the program. You can add more than one file or directly add MKV folder.It supports MKV files batch converison to Apple TV 2.
3. Click the “Profile” option and choose Apple TV > Apple TV 2 HD Video (*.mp4, *.mov) as output format for Apple TV 2. (When you select the output format, you can click Settings to set video encoder, video Resolution, bitrate, framerate and audio encoder, sample rate, audio channels, bitrate.) After all settings done, check "Apply to All" to ensure all your MKV files to Apple TV 2 HD MP4 conversion.
4. Then click Convert to start the conversion of MKV files to Apple TV 2 HD 720p MP4 files.
With this MKV to Apple TV 2 MP4 Converter, you needn’t worry about how to play MKV files, MKV DTS movies on Apple TV 2 now. And you can also trim, crop your MKV videos and set Brightness, Contrast and Saturation of the videos.
Do you want to convert and play your MKV files on Apple TV 2? Just do it now.
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