Can't play .mkv

I cant play files in the .mkv format. I checked the page that says "how to play mkv on this forum but the link took me to a "how to play mov" page. Then when I found a page that has instructions it said I should download the mkv splitter, which I did. But the splitter doesn't open and I dont know what program to open it with.

Any help?

 

Try VLC

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Works for me

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Can't I just download a decoder that will let me play it on any media player or do I have to download VLC player?

 

VLC Media player is better than Windows Media Player. But here is a codec installer for Windows Media Player.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...b7-dcc9-466b-b0c4-04db144bb601&displaylang=en

Also download the codec pack here
http://www.soft32.com/download_2592.html

If none of them allow you to play the mkv files VLC aleeady has all the codecs nessessary to play them.

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By the way this works very well too

http://www.download.com/Media-Player-Codec-Pack/3000-13632_4-10749065.html