MKV NAS: Convert MKV to NAS Supported Format to Play MKV from NAS

Overview

Synology NAS is developed for storing and sharing videos to your home devices, media players, etc within your local network easy and quick. But sometimes users find they can not play MKV on their media players from NAS. Why and what is the solution?

Why Can not Play MKV from NAS?

Whether your NAS can support to play MKV on your device or not depends on what NAS you use, Group 1 or Group 2 and what device or media player you use. And good news is that most of NAS now supports to transcode some MKV to the device or media player supported MKV. For example:

• For Apple TV and PC browser users: NAS, either from Group 1 or Group 2 can support to stream original MP4 and MKV with subtitles to your Apple TV, and also the NAS has the ability in transcoding MP4 and MKV audio to your Apple TV and PC browser supported MP4 and MKV audio.
• For DLNA users: Any NAS only supports to stream the original file to your DLNA devices, whether your device supports to play MKV or not depends on what device you use.
• For Chromecast users: Any NAS only supports to stream the original MKV with video codec H.264 HP@L4.1; audio codec: AAC/MP3 to your Chromecast. And any NAS has the ability in transcoding the MKV audio to Chromecast supported audio if the original MKV audio is AC3.
• For iOS users: Any NAS supports to transcode the original MKV audio to iOS device supported audio.
• For Android users: Whether NAS supports to play MKV on your Android devices depends on what device you use and whether your Android device supports to play MKV or not.

So if your device does not support to play MKV from NAS or your NAS has no ability in transcoding the unsupported MKV to your device supported one, to play MKV on your device or media player from NAS we need a third party MKV to NAS converter to convert the unsupported MKV to your device or media player supported video format.

MKV to NAS converter - iDealshare VideoGo

iDealshare VideoGo is just the right MKV to NAS converter which can convert any unsupported MKV to your any device or media player supported one, including Win PC and Mac browsers, Apple TV, DLNA devices, Chromecast, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Roku players, etc.

Besides this perfect MKV to NAS converter also supports to convert other unsupported MP4, M4V, MOV, AVI, FLV, WMV, 3GPP, etc to your any device or media player within your local network from NAS.

How to Convert MKV to the Video Format Supported by Your Device from NAS?

Follow the guide below to convert the unsupported MKV to your device or media player supported video format.

Make Preparation: Run MKV to NAS Converter

Free download the best MKV to NAS Converter - iDealshare VideoGo (for Windows, for Mac), install and run it, the following interface will pop up.

Step 1 Import MKV

Click "Add file" button to easily import the MKV to iDealshare VideoGo interface.

Step 2 Targeted output format setting

Choose MKV H.264 or other supported video format as per your device or media player Manual, specification as the output format by clicking "Profile" button >"General Video" category.

Step 3 Edit MKV (Optional)

Click the "Effect" button to do some basic editing for the MKV videos

• Switch to "Trim" tab to set which MKV segment will be converted for play on NAS
• Switch to "Crop" tab to remove the MKV black edges or adjust the aspect ratio like 19:6 or 4:3.
• Switch to "Image" tab to adjust the MKV video image brightness, contrast, saturation.
• Switch to "Watermark" tab to add text or picture watermarks to NAS
• Switch to "Effect" tab to add video effects to MKV files like "Black and White" or "Old Film" to the output video.
• Switch to "Subtitle" tab to add, remove or extract subtitle for MKV.

Step 4 Convert MKV to NAS

Finish your conversion from MKV to your device or media player supported video format by finally clicking "Convert" button.