The New MKV to iPad Method That Saves Your Time & Effort

The Matroska (aka MKV) is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture, or subtitle tracks in one file.

The advantages of MKV includes flexible, extensible, cross-platform, robust streaming support, menu subtitle support, to just name a few. That's the reason you can find so much videos you downloaded from internet is in MKV format.

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In view of the popularity of this video format, even the Android can natively read VP8 and Vorbis streams inside MKV files. However, thanks to Apple's usual policy, the iPad won't play an MKV video without an extra player app or iPad video converter.

That's why you'll need PhoneTrans Pro, an all-in-one iPad iPhone Video Converter and Transfer software. Without extra assistant program, you are able to import MKV videos to an iPad or iPad mini. Besides, when adding MKV files to iPad, the conversion starts on the fly and you do not have to worry about original songs being erased. Start Taking A Tour >

How to Play MKV Videos on iPad with PhoneTrans Pro

Step 1: Launch PhoneTrans Pro > Plug your iPad to the computer:

Step 2: On Homepage of PhoneTrans Pro, Select Videos > Click Movies.

Step 3: Click Add to browse the MKV videos you want to play on iPad > Select the MKV videos > Click Open to transfer MKV videos to iPad from computer.

Step 4: After clicking Open, you can take a cup of coffee and wait for PhoneTrans Pro convert the MKV to iPad format. After that, it will transfer MKV to iPad automatically.

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The Bottom Line

As you can see, when transferring videos or audio, any unsupportable format will be converted to the formats supported by iDevices automatically. Except offering the function of converting video or audio format, PhoneTrans also supports transferring as many as 20 types of iOS contents, such as, Photos, Messages, Contacts, Calendar, Notes, Safari Bookmarks & History, etc, and also supports selectively extract iOS data from iTunes or iCloud backup. Free Download PhoneTrans to Try It Now >