MKV

File Format
Name	MKV
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Video MKV
Extension(s)	.mkv
MIME Type(s)	video/x-matroska
LoCFDD	fdd000343, fdd000344, fdd000345, fdd000374, fdd000375, fdd000376

MKV refers to the Matroska multimedia container format, when used for video. It can use a variety of compressed video formats.

Identifiers

Format	LoCFDD	Notes
Matroska	fdd000342	Refer to Matroska.
Matroska with MPEG-4, AVC	fdd000344	Refer to H.264.
Matroska with FFV1 Video Encoding	fdd000343
Matroska with MPEG-2 Video Encoding	fdd000345	Refer to MPEG-2.
Matroska with V210 Video Encoding	fdd000374
Matroska with UYVY Video Encoding	fdd000376
Matroska with YUY2 Video Encoding	fdd000375

Software

• Konvertor
• VLC

Sample files

• http://www.matroska.org/downloads/test_w1.html
• http://www.auby.no/files/video_tests/

See also Matroska#Sample files.