Playing MKV with QuickTime

[Sheepish-Lord]

I still don't understand why .mkv files are not supported by QuickTime but since it isn't and Perian is no longer continuing to be developed is there another solution? I prefer to use QuickTime as the AirPlay to ATV feature is much better than trying do something similar with VLC which basically acts as dual screen and makes everything laggy.

Any help is appreciated, thank you.

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

Use Infuse on your AppleTV instead. It plays everything.

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

Use Infuse on your AppleTV instead. It plays everything.

That's not what I want besides they make VLC for AppleTV if I did.

 

[McScooby]

That's not what I want besides they make VLC for AppleTV if I did.

I'm a bit confused, Quicktime will get mkv support at the same time as iTunes/Music gets FLAC i.e. likely next to never. If you don't like VLC airplay & you know that the VLC AppleTV app locally caches the file (so no airplay) & you're not interested with Infuse/Plex etc. the only other option would be to screen share your screen & airplay that. Apple don't support tech that they don't own or use themselves, that's your answer.

 

[arw]

I prefer IINA over VLC.
But (afaik) Airplay video is Apple-exclusive so you‘d have to use screen mirroring nevertheless.
With Plex, you can start a video on your Mac/iDevice and then send/play it on your AppleTV (via the Plex app) but I think this only works with a Plex server running and not just a local client/player.

edit: fyi, you could remux your files from mkv to mp4 with Subler to make them Quicktime-compatible

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

That's not what I want besides they make VLC for AppleTV if I did.

Then tell us what you want? I don't understand why you would want to airplay something, instead of doing it the easy way by direct streaming.