How to Convert and Play MKV on iPhone 4S/4G/3Gs/3G

MKV file is a Matroska video/audio multimedia file. Matroska is similar in conception to other containers like AVI, MP4 or MOV, but is completely open source. It is not really intended for media content distribution on a large scale, but is achieving it anyway. Matroska file types are .mkv for video (and audio) and .mka for audio-only files. MKV's popularity is partly due to it supports for a huge number of different video, audio and subtitles compression formats.

However MKV can't be played on the Apple's mobile devices like iPhone 4S, iPod, iPad, so how can we enjoy this popular video format on the same popular iPhone 3GS, even the latest iPhone 4. As we know, iPhone only supports MP4, MOV, M4V, and some AVI videos (iPhone 4), so we should convert MKV to iPhone (iPhone 4S) compatible video format.

We know that Windows Movie Maker can't convert MKV to iPhone, and for Mac users, iMovie also couldn't convert MKV to iPhone on Mac, so we need the third-party software to help us.

Aimersoft iPhone Video Converter and Mac iPhone Video Converter are the two video conversion programs respective for Windows and Mac users to solve the problem of converting MKV video to iPhone.

For users who having any Mac running Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Lion etc., please go to Mac iPhone Video Converter and learn how to convert video to iPhone on Mac here>>

For Windows users, please keep on reading the MKVto iPhone guide;

1Import MKV videos

After installing and running iPhone Video Converter, you can select the MKV video that you want to convert to iPhone after clicking on "Add Video"

2 Set an output format and destination folder

Set an output format from "Profile" drop down list; then click "Browse" to select the destination folder for converted files if you want to change the default folder.

Note: If you don't like the default setting, click "Settings" button next to "Profile"; you can set the video resolution, frame rate, audio channels, bitrates etc.

3Edit videos for your iPhone 4S/4G/iPhone 3G/3Gs

iPhone Video Converter supports powerful editing function such as Cropping, Trimming, Video effects and Watermark. Before the conversion, you can edit the MKV videos for a custom effect.

4 Convert MKV video to iPhone 4S/4G/3Gs/3G

Click "Start" to convert MKV to iPhone after you edit the MKV video and choose the output format for iPhone.

After finishing converting MKV to iPhone compatible videos, find and sync them to your iPhone, you can then enjoy MKV videos on your iPhone.

What's more?

If you also want to rip DVD movies to iPhone, please turn to DVD to iPhone Converter or Video Converter Pro for more details.