How to stream MKV to Xbox One/Xbox 360 for playback
Searching for a way to play MKV files on Xbox One, Xbox 360? This article will teach you how to convert MKV to Xbox One/Xbox 360 playable video formats while keeping the high video quality. Xbox One, Xbox 360 are two solid consoles that bring people a lot of funs including digital entertainment. But when you wanna transfer some personal video files like MKV to Xbox One/Xbox 360 , you would find the Xbox can’t recognize MKV format. To play and watch MKV on Xbox One/Xbox 360 smoothly, what we need concern first is to get rid of the format limit. After widely searching and multiple testing, I know MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV video formats can be natively supported by Xbox. For other HD files in FLV, MTS, VOB, MKV, etc formats, Xbox One/Xbox 360 will not open and read. To get MKV to play on Xbox One, Xbox 360, the possible solution is to convert videos to HP Slate 7 compatible format first with a third-party software. Being a professional video converter program, Brorsoft Video Converter is highly recommended to help you finish the conversion task. It offers quite effective solution for you to convert MKV as well as MTS, FLV, TiVo, VOB to Xbox One, Xbox 360 friendly videos without quality loss. It also allows you to adjust the video, audio parameter to get a decent output video that you want. For Mac users, Brorsoft Video Converter Mac is also a helpful app to encode videos on Mac OS X(Yosemite, Mavericks included) for further usage. How to convert MKV to Xbox One/360 for playback STEP 1. Import MKV videos Launch the program, and click “Add” button on the main interface to load your MKV files for converting. (Drag&Drop function is included.) Check the “Merge into one file” box and you can join MKV clips into one. STEP 2. Select output format Click on the drop down menu of “Format” and then move your pointer to "Zune/Xbox 360 Device"> "Xbox 360 HD Video (*.wmv), which fits on Xbox 360 and Xbox One as well. STEP 3. Adjust video and audio parameters Custom the profile for Xbox consoles by clicking "Settings" and set video/audio parameters like video bitrate, frame rate, audio sample rate etc as it lists. STEP 4. Start conversion Finally, hit the "Convert" button at the bottom of the main interface to start encoding MKV to Xbox 360, Xbox One friendly MP4 video. After the conversion, click "Open" to quickly find the converted movies. Now you can stream MKV to Xbox360/Xbox One for playback with ease. Enjoy. More topics: How to Solve Roku MKV Playback problems How to Stream MKV files to Plex Media Server How to Stream and Play MKV files from NAS