How to Play 1080p MKV Videos on Apple TV 3

 

April 1, 2013 11:26 am / Posted by Jack Fisher to Supported Devices
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MKV is one of the most popular video formats like MP4 and AVI. For hold HD videos, it can compress high quality content in a relatively smaller size. There are more and more HD videos delivered via MKV formats on the Internet. However, MKV videos are easy to be played on computer, they are not so easy to be played on other devices even on the Apple TV 3.

Apple TV 3, just like other Apple products such as iPhone, iPad, can play videos in few formats including H.264 MP4, MOV, and M4V. If you get a pile of MKV videos and want to play them on the Apple TV, you need to convert MKV to Apple TV 3 compatible formats listed above. To do this job, an easy-to-use yet efficient tool Video Converter is highly recommended. It provides super-fast converting speed and no quality is lost while converting. Besides, it has optimized presets for Apple TV 3, which can save your much worry. Just download and have a try.

Load MKV videos to the MKV to Apple TV 3 Converter

You can load MKV videos to the app by hitting "Add files" button. If you get a lot of MKV video files, you can add them to the program at one time for easy conversion. You can change the order of the video files when they are listed in the interface.

Select output format

Click the format icon next to the file name, go to "Apple device"-"Apple TV 3(*.mp4)", which is optimized for Apple TV 3 and you do not need to set resolution, bit rate, frame rate, etc manually.

Convert MKV to Apple TV 3

When all is ready, hit "Convert" to start converting MKV videos to Apple TV 3, a bar will pop up to show you the status of conversion so that you can manage your time. After the conversion is done, you can import the converted files to iTunes library for playing on Apple TV.