Wednesday, September 23, 2015

How to Enable Plex read MKV files on Mac?

Plex is a centralized home media playback system with a powerful central server–the Plex Media Server–that streams its media to many Plex player Apps. The Server is available to make you share music, movies on many platforms like Windows, OS X, and many flavors of Linux, many NAS devices, TV, PS3, Xbox360, Android, iOS, and other DLNA-certified devices.

Though Plex supports wide range of media formats, many users still can not add MKV files to Plex Media Server for smoothly playback. According to some tests, there're some easy ways to fix the issue. Here I list two solutions you can take take as reference.

Solution 1: Make sure the whole file names were being recognized by Plex. For example, if all of mkv videos are all Sports videos so the names, there were kind of random. To solve it, you can set 'Scanner' as 'Personal Video Files Scanner' and 'Agent' as 'Personal Media'. Plex picks up pretty much any file with that setting. However, I found it's stuttering on large MKV files Plex.

Solution 2: In order to stream MKV files via Plex Media Server without any problems, the easy option is to convert MKV to Plex compatible MP4 video files. Along with some help from iFastime Video Converter Ultimate for Mac, it can be done effortlessly and perfectly. The top MKV to Plex converter has helped many people to solve the related troubles, the entire conversion is quick, safe.

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How to Play MKV files via Plex quickly?

Step 1: Load original MKV files

Click "Add" button on the main interface to load your MKV files to the program. (Drag&Drop function is included.)

 

Step 2: Select output format

Click "Format" and choose MP4 from "Common Video" as output format, which can be recognized by Plex easily. If your source video is in 1080p and you want to keep 1080p resolution as source movie, you can choose HD Video > H.264 HD Video(*.mp4) for Plex Media Server.

 

Tips:

Adjust the video and audio parameters including the Bitrate of Video&Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc., by clicking the "Settings" button on the main interface for getting the best quality. You can reference the following parameters, from Plex supported formats website.

Video Framerate: 30fps
Video Bit Depth: 8
Audio Encoding: AAC
Bitrate: 8 Mbps or lower

 

Step 3: Start MKV to Plex Conversion

Tap the Conversion button on the main interface to start transcoding MKV to Plex Media Server.

The process will be finished soon. After the conversion, you can easily find the encoded MKV video clips in the destination folder by clicking "Open"button.

Now you can stream MKV files through Plex to play them on your favorite devices. Just have a try!

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