And, success, we can now easily play this file on virtually any video player, phone, tablet, and, of course, cast it to our big screen TV in the living room! When our file is done, we should be able to play it in Chrome.

Here you see our file is almost six-percent complete, and has almost nineteen minutes remaining (estimated). You can note Handbrake’s progress at the bottom of the application window. MKV may play perfectly in an all-in-one solution like VLC, but it often meets resistance from other players like Windows Media Player and Chrome.īack on Handbrake’s main window, we give our transcoding job one more look and click “Start.”ĭepending now upon your computer’s speed and the size of the file, this operation could take a few minutes or a few hours.

This type of file is very popular with purveyors of anime and foreign films because it allows them to be distributed with extra features such as subtitles and multiple languages. In this example, the format of our source file is. The problem is, the file won’t play because it’s in a format Chrome doesn’t support. Here’s the situation, we really want to play a file in a Google Chrome tab so we can then cast it to our TV. Today, we’re just going to show you the simplest way to convert one video file format to another. We’re not going to even bother with any of these though. You can adjust your video and audio quality, add subtitles, and much more. Source displays basic information about your source file: titles in the file, angles, and dropdown buttons that will allow you to convert your file by chapter, time (seconds), or frames.įinally, there are your Output settings. Destination, of course, allows you to choose where your converted file is saved and what it is called. Along the top row are six buttons where you can manipulate essential functions, such as opening your source file, adding a job to the queue, and a simple “Start” button, which says it all.īelow these buttons are your Source and Destination features.

Handbrake convert mkv to mp4