Sony’s PlayStation 4 now supports MKV movie files. But why you still fail to play MKV material on PS4? You may follow this short tutorial to learn a way of converting incompatible MKV movies to MP4 for playing with PS4.
The PS4’s new Media Player finally transforms the PS4 into a proper media centre, allowing for playback of movies and music over both Wi-Fi (DLNA) and USB. More than reading video files in format of AVI, MP4 and MPEG-2 TS, the PS4 now supports MKV files with the following specifications:
• Visual: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile Level4.2
• Audio: MP3, AAC LC, AC-3(Dolby Digital)
If your MKV files are not encoded with the proper video and audio codec, you may encounter incompatibility issues playing MKV movies on PS4. In this situation, you will need to convert MKV files to a format that is best suitable for playing with PS4, such as H.264 MP4, which is a very popular digital multimedia format most commonly used to store video and audio and can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images. MP4 has high compatibility and can be played on Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS etc. Here’s a quick guide on how to encode MKV to MP4 for PS4 playback.
Before we start, you may want to learn more about PS4 supported file formats:
Video
MKV
- Visual: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile Level4.2
- Audio: MP3, AAC LC, AC-3(Dolby Digital)
AVI
- Visual: MPEG4 ASP, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile Level4.2
- Audio: MP3, AAC LC, AC-3(Dolby Digital)
MP4
- Visual: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile Level4.2
- Audio: AAC LC, AC-3(Dolby Digital)
MPEG-2 TS
- Visual: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile Level4.2, MPEG2 Visual
- Audio: MP2(MPEG2 Audio Layer 2), AAC LC, AC-3(Dolby Digital)
- AVCHD: (.m2ts, .mts)
Photo
- JPEG (based on DCF 2.0/Exif 2.21)
- BMP
- PNG
Music
- MP3
- AAC (M4A)
[Guide] How to transcode MKV files to H.264 MP4 for PlayStation 4?
Here’s what you need
HD Video Converter
The steps:
Step 1: Start up HD Video Converter as an MKV to PS4 Converter. When its main interface pops up, click ‘Add File’ to input your source media.
Step 2: Choose output format for PS4
From ‘Profile’ list, select ‘PS4 H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)’ as output format under ‘PS3,PS4’ column.
Important: If you’ve loaded a number of video clips to do batch conversion, please do remember ticking off ‘Apply to All’ option before you start.
Step 3: Custom video and audio settings
If necessary, you can click ‘Settings’ button and go to ‘Profiles Settings’ panel to modify video and audio settings like video encoder, resolution, video bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio encoder, sample rate, audio bit rate, and audio channels. 3D settings are also available.
Step 4: Start MKV to MP4 conversion for PS4
When ready, click ‘Convert’ to start format conversion. As soon as the conversion is complete, you can click ‘Open Folder’ button to get the exported MP4 files for playing with PS4 smoothly.
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