How to play MKV files on Android tablet and smartphone?

Have you downloaded some MKV files on your computer? Do you want to transfer MKV files from computer to Android tablet and smartphone for playing smoothly? In this article we will share the best way with you to play MKV files on Android tablet and smartphone with supported format.

MKV to Android tablet and smartphone playback issue

“Hello, how can I get MKV files from my PC to Android tablet for playing smoothly? One month ago I purchased a Samsung tablet, this is a powerful Android tablet with big screen, so I want to copy some videos and movies onto it for watching on the go, but after I copied some MKV files to Android tablet, I found MKV files can’t be played by Android tablet, what’s the reason, should I convert MKV to Android tablet compatible format? Is there an easy way to play MKV files on Android tablet? Any suggestion is appreciated, thanks!”

How to play MKV files on Android tablet and smartphone?

In recent years Android tablets and smartphones are becoming more and more popular, the Android tablet and smartphone are becoming more powerful, so many users choose to use Android tablet and smartphone. After you bought the Android tablet or smartphone, you may want to use it to play videos and movies, because the latest Android tablet and smartphone usually have bigger screen, it is great to play movies and videos on Android tablet and smartphone. But, how to play MKV files on Android tablet and smartphone? On Android related forums many users have reported that they can’t play MKV files on Android tablet and smartphone, what caused the MKV to Android playback issue?

MKV is one of the most popular video formats, many videos and movies are in MKV format, MKV is a container format which can contain many different video codecs. Due to Android operating system’s limitation, not all Android tablets and smartphones can support MKV files, so you will meet with MKV on Android playback issues, in this case how can we solve MKV to Android playback issue and play MKV files on Android tablet or smartphone? The best way is to convert MKV files to Android tablet and smartphone supported format like H.264 MP4, and then you can play MKV files on Android tablet and smartphone smoothly.

How to convert MKV to Android supported format?

In order to convert MKV to Android supported format, we would like to recommend the best MKV to Android converter for you, this program is Acrok Video Converter Ultimate, this is powerful all-in-one converter, it is able to convert HD videos like MKV, AVI, WMV, MOV, MP4, MTS, M2TS, MXF, etc. to any formats you need. Besides HD videos, you can also use it to rip latest blu-ray and DVD disc movies to unprotected common videos like MP4, and then you can play blu-ray or DVD on Android or any other devices.

Convert MKV to Android tablet and smartphone

Step 1. Download Acrok Video Converter Ultimate Windows version or Mac version, install this program on your PC or Mac computer, it can help you to convert MKV to Android tablet and smartphone supported format on Windows PC or Mac.

Step 2. Please run this MKV to Android converter, and then you will see the brief main interface, click “Add files” button on the top left corner you can load HD videos that you want to convert, you can load batch files at one time, batch loading and converting is supported by this top MKV to Android converter. If you want to use Acrok Video Converter Ultimate to rip blu-ray or DVD disc movies, please click “Load Disc” button to import.

Step 3. After you loaded the HD videos like MKV files, please select output format you need. There are many optimized output formats in this MKV to Android converter, to play MKV files on Android tablet and smartphone with compatible format, you are recommended to convert MKV files to H.264 MP4 format, H.264 MP4 format is the best format for Android device, you can select Common Video -> H.264 MP4 Video (*.mp4) for output.

Step 4. This MKV to Android converter has offered easy-to-use customization feature, you can click “Settings” button to adjust the output resolution, bitrate, frame rate, codec and other parameters. If you don’t need to adjust the output settings, you can skip this step.

Step 5. You can also use the editing feature in this MKV to Android converter, after you loaded the MKV files, you can click “Edit” button on the main interface, and then you can trim, crop or add watermark to the video before you convert video to Android.

Step 6. Click convert button to convert MKV files to Android tablet and smartphone supported format.

When your videos are converted, you can transfer converted videos to Android tablet and smartphone, and then you can play MKV files on Android tablet and smartphone with supported format.