Android VideoView will not play MKV files?

MKV is not a supported media container under Android.

MKV is not a supported media container under Android. The supported video file types (container formats) are: .3gp, . Mp4 and .webm.

There are also restrictions on supported video codecs. Also, video codec format (h263, h264, mpeg-4, vp8) and container format (3gp, mp4, webm) are two different things. Which means that even if you have a .

Mp4 file it does not mean Android will be able to play it. It's content would also need to be encoded with a supported codec.

I know the linux kernal supports it. – Fritz Sep 25 at 20:23 MKV is a container format not a codec. – Peter Knego Sep 25 at 21:17 Erm, how do the media player apps play MKV files then?

I don't quite understand. – user963415 Sep 26 at 0:52 They inpack the mkv container, which can contain multiple streams (video, audio, subtitles), then feed this streams to appropriate codecs, depending on what kind of stream it is. If a codec is missing then sometimes you get no video or no audio.

– Peter Knego Sep 26 at 5:27 For . Mkv see en.wikipedia.Org/wiki/Matroska – Peter Knego Sep 26 at 5:28.

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