Playing .mkv file on windows 10

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ichiha68
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Playing .mkv file on windows 10

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My friend shared a few .mkv files to my google drive; they work fine when I play them on google drive. When I downloaded them and played with Windows Media Player, there was no audio.



Do I need a special program to play them?
d00zah
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Re: Playing .mkv file on windows 10

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WMP doesn't have the necessary decoders (codecs) to play many things natively. One could add a 'codec pack' (e.g. shark007, k-lite, etc.), enabling WMP to play these back, or install a player like VLC, which includes most necessary codecs.
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