{"id":76009,"date":"2014-11-03T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=76009"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:23:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:23:02","slug":"mkv-and-hvec-video-format-now-supported-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mkv-and-hvec-video-format-now-supported-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"MKV and HVEC video format now supported in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downloading <strong>codecs<\/strong> for media formats can be quite annoying, so it&#8217;s good news that <a href=\"http:\/\/windows-10.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows 10<\/a> will support <strong>MKV<\/strong> and <strong>HVEC<\/strong> files.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MKV<\/strong> is a popular video format, and the latest build of Windows 10 Technical Preview now supports it. Implementation is not yet complete though &#8211; if you try to open an MKV file in Windows Media Player, you&#8217;ll see a message claiming that the format won&#8217;t work, but it will play anyway. Presumably, the warning message will be removed in future builds of the Technical Preview.<\/p>\n<p>Support has also been added for the <strong>HVEC<\/strong> (High Efficiency Video Coding) format. This is a relatively new format, debuting in 2013, but could become popular as it&#8217;s supposedly an improvement over MPEG compression, offering more compression for the same video quality.<\/p>\n<p>You can test Windows 10 by <a href=\"http:\/\/windows-10.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">downloading the Technical Preview<\/a>. This is can be used until April 15th 2015, and will allow you to follow the development of Microsoft&#8217;s next operating system and contribute by giving feedback about your experience.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/windows-10-mkv-support-out-of-the-box\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NeoWin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Everything you need to know about Windows 10\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-windows-10\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Everything you need to know about Windows 10<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Microsoft expands on Windows 10 security features\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/microsoft-expands-on-windows-10-security-features\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft expands on Windows 10 security features<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"First update for Windows 10 Technical Preview rolling out now\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/first-update-for-windows-10-technical-preview-rolling-out-now\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First update for Windows 10 Technical Preview rolling out now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow Jonathan on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanriggall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jonathanriggall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downloading codecs for media formats can be quite annoying, so it&#8217;s good news that Windows 10 will support MKV and HVEC files. MKV is a popular video format, and the latest build of Windows 10 Technical Preview now supports it. Implementation is not yet complete though &#8211; if you try to open an MKV file &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mkv-and-hvec-video-format-now-supported-in-windows-10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MKV and HVEC video format now supported in Windows 10&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2351],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-76009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwindows-10"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329898,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76009\/revisions\/329898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76009"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=76009"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=76009"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=76009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}