# .mkv videos?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mkv-videos/257166>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [April 10, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mkv-videos/257166 "2008-04-10T20:53:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Blue\_Exodus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@Blue\_Exodus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Blue_Exodus)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mkv-videos/257166/1 "2008-04-10T20:53:55Z")

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Anyone got an idea how to play this? It’s an .mkv video file. It’s supposed to be some kind of extremely efficient compression format, but my computer says it doesn’t recognise the file type.