Now there is a new video format called MKV, but seldom players can read it. So you'd better convert it, this guide shows you how to play and convert the MKV files then you can enjoy the converted video anywhere you want.

Part One: How to play MKV files for free
Part Two: How to enjoy MKV files on Portable Player such as iPod, PSP, iRiver, Walkman

Part One: How to play MKV files for free
The Easiest Method (VLC), With the VLC player you are actually getting two things; a fine player with support for Matroska, and support for most video and audio streams you will find in an MKV file. This means that you most likely will not have to install any extra codecs or filters, depending on what your streams are.

Part Two: How to enjoy MKV files on Portable Player such as iPod, PSP, iRiver, Walkman
Tipard MKV Video Converter can help you to convert MKV files to the formats fitting for your portable players. This best MKV Video Converter can easily convert MKV to AVI, MPG, WMV, MP4, MOV, 3GP, FLV etc and extract audio from MKV to MP3, AAC, M4A, WMA, WAV, AC3, and OGG for your iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, PS3, Xbox and other portable Players.

Make Preparations: Install and run Tipard MKV Video Converter

1. Quick Start:



Step 1: Add files
Click “Add File” to add your video files.

Step 2: Set output video format
Click “Profile” button from the drop-down list to select the output video format such as AVI, MPG, MPEG and WMV. You can click the “Settings” button to set parameters of your output video such as Frame Rate, Bitrate to get the best video quality as you want.

Step 3: Click the “Start” button to start the conversion.

2. Edit Functions

(1) Trim any segment
There are 3 ways that you can trim your video.
a.You can drag the button to set the start and end time
b.You can preview the video first and when you want to start trim click the left one of the pair button when you want to end click the right one.
c.You can set the exact start and end time on the left side of the trim window.




(2) Crop any play region
There are 3 ways that you can crop your video.
a.We provide 7 modes on our “Crop Mode”
b.You can set your own mode on the left side of the crop window
c.You can drag frame to set your own crop mode



(3) Snapshot and merge into one file
If you like the current image of the video you can use the “Snapshot” option. Just click the “Snapshot” button the image will be saved and you can click the “Open” button next to “Snapshot” button to open your picture.
If you want to make several files output as one you can choose “Merge into one file”.

For Mac users I recommend Tipard MKV Video Converter for Mac and the above operational steps is completely suited to the Mac version of MKV Video Converter.

For iPod users, Tipard iPod Converter Suite is a requisite iPod converter to rip DVD and any video to iPod MP4 video format and MP3, M4A, AAC audio format. It can also backup the files on iPod to computer. This iPod Converter Suite is discount software for the coming Christmas. It is actually the combination of Tipard DVD to iPod Converter, Tipard iPod Video Converter and Tipard iPod to PC Transfer.



Key Functions:

1. Rip any DVD and video to iPod video and audio formats

Rip DVD and convert MP4, H.264, AVI, MP3, WMV, WMA, FLV, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, 3GP, 3GPP, VOB, DivX, Mov, RM, RMVB, M4A, AAC, WAV to iPod MP4, H.264 video formats and iPod MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC audio formats.

2. Transfer music and video files from iPod to computer

Help you to backup iPod video/audio files to PC, then you could transfer the video/music to another iPod or iPhone.

3. Easy and powerful editing function (Merge, Trim, Crop, Snapshot)

It offers powerful editing functions such as joining multiple DVD chapters, titles or different videos files into one file, trimming any clip from video and DVD, cropping the size of video play region and so forth.