MKV to AVI Converter

What is MKV?

MKV is a new package format for streaming media, which is similar as AVI. In other words, it is a container, where the video, audio and subtitle files are packaged as a whole before it shows in front of the audiences. The embedded video file format can be MPG, H264, DIVX or even RMVB etc.. Compare to AVI, it provides embedded subtitle and supports multiple embedded subtitles (AVI only supports plug-in subtitle).

Advantage: It can accommodate many different types of encoded video, audio and subtitle streams, and even include streaming media such as RealMedia and QuickTime. It is a big subversion for the traditional media package format! It is now almost become a universal media container.

Disadvantage: Because MKV is new, it is difficult to play MKV, many players do not support this work. Media Player Classic support to play MKV files directly, but if you are using Windows Media Player, you have to download a correlative plug-in to play MKV files, download and install the plug-in, and then we can play MKV files with Windows Media Player.

What is AVI?

AVI has a professional name, which is called the Audio Video Interleaved format. It is developed by Microsoft as a digital audio and video file format. AVI was initial developed for video on Microsoft's Windows (VFW, Microsoft Video for Windows), but now it has been supported by most operating systems.

The so-called "Audio Video Interleaved" is that the video and audio can be combined together for playback synchronously. We can often find it on the multimedia CD-ROMs, it is commonly used to store movies, TV Shows and other video information, and sometimes we can find it on the Internet, showing the highlights of a new movie. This video format has the advantage of good image quality and can be used on many platforms; the drawback is its size is very large.

Why MKV to AVI?

Though MKV is becoming popular, it is a new technique, many players do not support playing MKV file.

The outstanding advantage of AVI is its excellent image quality. AVI video can be easily played by most players and AVI format is widely used by digital players like iPad, iPad 2, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Cell Phones, etc. If you want to play MKV movie on your iPod, iPhone, or burn it to DVD, you will need to convert MKV to AVI. You can now download the best MKV to AVI Converter, which is a multi-functional video convert software. You can even edit the video file before converting MKV to AVI.

How to play MKV movie on your computer?

As long as your computer system has installed the decoder which supports directshow, then almost all players can play MKV movies. What you need to do is download and install a decoder onto your computer. You can go to the official website matroska.org to download the MKV decoder.

Note: The official name the decoder is 'filter', or 'directshow filter'.