How to Solve Samsung TV won't Play MKV files?

Can Samsung TV play MKV? Why my Samsung TV not playing MKV files? Here is a useful guide to help you solve the issues. 


Samsung’s range of TVs are some of the most popular and well-received available on today’s market. Having shelled out considerable amounts of hard-earned cash on brand new, top-of-the-range TVs by Samsung, some customers were understandably agitated when they got it home and came to the realisation that Samsung TV struggles with MKV videos. 

Q: When I play movies by connecting USB, I can view avi, mpeg files etc. But when I play MKV files, it gives an error codec not supported, and audio does not work. I can see the visuals fine with no sound.

Then, can Samsung TV play MKV files? Why won't play some MKV on Samsung TV? How to watch all kinds of MKV on Samsung TV? This article will give you answer.



Can Samsung TV Play MKV? Why won't play some MKV on Samsung TV?

As far as we know, codec support is likely to be limited to whatever Samsung decided to support in their TV. Unfortunately the video's you play on the TV will need to be formatted in such a way that they are encoded using codecs supported by the TV. And an MKV is a container format which can hold various video and audio codecs. If your Samsung TV can't either read the MKV file or when it does the images are kind of distorted with poor audio, you may get some MKV videos encoded beyond Samsung TV's support. This is the main reason why you got into trouble to play MKV in Samsung TV.

How to watch all kinds of MKV on Samsung TV

To solve "Samsung TV not playing MKV" issue, a widely recommended solution is convert MKV to Samsung TV more compatible MP4 format. There are a huge amount of tools out there that allow you to convert MKV files to Samsung TV friendly formats

While in view of converting speed and quality, here I highly recommend you try Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac, which can fast help you convert MKV to Samsung TV accepted MKV videos with customized preset profile for Samsung TV. Besides MKV, the program can also convert MP4, MOV, AVI, VOB, MTS, M2TS, MXF, WMV, etc. video formats to play on Samsung TV, iPad, iPhone, Nexus, Samsung Galaxy devices, Xbox One S, FCPPS VR and more smoothly. Even the original 7.1 audio channel can be kept in MKV to Samsung TV supported MP4 conversion. If you're a Windows user, simply turn to the Mac version here.

 

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Guide: Convert MKV files for playback on Samsung TV

Step 1. Import MKV you want to convert to Samsung TV

Start MKV to Samsung TVvideo converter and drag the .mkv files to the software interface. Or you can click "Add File" button to import the video.  



Step 2. Choose the optimized format for Samsung TV

Now click the "Select Format" icon to reveal output panel. And move mouse cursor to TV category to Select Samsung TV as the output format. The optimized output format will contains the best video settings for playback on your Samsung TV. Of course, you can also choose H.264, MP4, MKV, AVI from "Format > Video" profile list.

Tip: Before start the MKV to Samsung TV conversion, you can click the Settings icon and adjust the video size, video bitrate, codec, frame rate, audio sample rate, etc parameters, so that you can get a decent video on your Smart TV.



Step 3. Convert MKV to Samsung TV

Click the "Convert" button to start converting MKV to Samsung TV video format. After the conversion, connect the USB drive with computer and head to the destination folder where the converted files are stored; transfer the files to the USB drive then playback your MKV files on the Samsung TV with best quality. Or share them to TV wirelessly with Dimo Free media server. Why don't give this powerful tool a try today?

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