5 Best MKV Codecs for Windows Media Player on Windows 11/10/7

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Matroska

Matroska pack is a famous code pack for playing MKV files and others with Windows Media Player 11/10/9/8. It comes with two versions called Matroska Pack Lite and Matroska Pack Full. The Liter version only contains basic features to play MKV videos with Vorbis audio and subtitles. As for the recommended Matroska Pack full, it has a collection of components to play .mkv files (Matroska video) and .mka files (Matroska audio) under DirectShow framework like Windows Media Player, Zoom Player, MPC-HC, etc.

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Media Player Codec Pack

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K-Lite Codec Pack

K-Lite Codec Pack is a free MKV codec for Windows Media Player. Its basic version is slim yet powerful that contains a huge number of MKV audio codecs (e.g. MKA, MP3, FLAC, M4A, OGG) and video codecs. Plus, it offers plenty of useful features like MKV subtitle display, hardware-accelerated MKV decoding, broken codecs detection, and more.

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MKV Video Extension is the only paid software in this list. It's developed for running MKV format in Windows Media Player. Compared with other free MKV codecs for Windows, it is easier to install and use. But note that, it's not compacted with other codecs. If you want to solve issues caused by other codecs, such as FLV, WebM, VOB, you need to add more extensions to the Media Player application.

MKV Video Extension is the only paid software in this list. It's developed for running MKV format in Windows Media Player. Compared with other free MKV codecs for Windows, it is easier to install and use. But note that, it's not compacted with other codecs. If you want to solve issues caused by other codecs, such as FLV, WebM, VOB, you need to add more extensions to the Media Player application.