Can Plex Play MKV Files? MKV to Plex Converter Can Help.

MKV to Plex Converter - Convert MKV to Plex Supported MP4 H.264

With Plex, you can get any of your favorite videos played on your personal devices, like on Apple TV, Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Android, iOS, etc. Can Plex help to play any format file? Why can't I play my MKV file with Plex? Recently, many people wrote to ask me questions like these. Now I will explain them clearly as well as tell you how to successfully play the unsupported file, such as MKV, with Plex.

Can Plex Play Any format File, such as MKV?

First, you must know that Plex is just a channel and whether a format file is played on your device or not actually depends on whether your device supports this format file or not. For example. If you use Plex on your Apple TV theoretically you will fail to play MKV on your Apple TV, but in practice many people made to play MKV on Apple TV. Why? That is because Plex has a function to automatically transcode the unsupported MKV or other unsupported ones to your Apple TV supported formats, such as MOV or MP4. However, there are still some people who failed to open MKV on their Apple TV. Why? That is because Plex transcoding needs a powerful server and if your server is not that powerful Plex automatic transcoding will fail and so you will end in fail when playing MKV file on your Apple TV.

How to Successfully Play Any MKV with Plex?

What to do if your device failed to play MKV files with Plex? The best solution is to convert the unsupported MKV to your device supported one, like converting MKV to Apple TV supported MP4 H.264, to do which a professional MKV to Plex converter - Avdshare Video Converter is highly recommended. This powerful MKV to Plex converter fully helps to do the following tasks.

  1. Convert any MKV file or other unsupported FLV, AVI, WMV, 3GP, AVCHD, etc to your device most supported ones so that there will be no playback issues through Plex.
  2. You will have no quality loss when using this converter to convert your MKV.
  3. The batch conversion function helps to convert many MKV files to your device supported ones at one time.
  4. Also, it supports to convert MKV or any video format to iPhone, iPad, Android or other devices supported ones.
  5. It also has the powerful media editing features, helping to edit your MKV or the output file. You can edit them with aspects in frame rate, bit rate, resolution, channel, size, volume, subtitles, logo, watermark, length, special effects, etc.

Guide on Converting MKV to Plex Supported Ones

The following guide works to convert MKV to Apple TV, iOS or to convert any video format to any device supported formats.

Make Preparation: Free download the Best MKV to Plex Converter
Free download the professional MKV to Plex Converter - Avdshare Video Converter (for Windows, for Mac), install and then launch it, the following interface will pop up.

Step 1 Import your MKV file
Click the Add File button or use the Drag&Drop feature to import your MKV file to this converter.

Step 2 Specify MP4 H.264 as the output file
Click the "Profile" button > the "General Video" category to choose your device supported video format, such as MP4 H.264, as the final output format.

Step 3 Start and finish the MKV to Plex MP4 H.264 conversion
Click the Convert button to simply get your MKV file converted to Plex MP4 H.264 for compatible MKV playback on all your devices.