Put and Play MKV Videos on iPad 2-Sync and Transfer MKV 720p Videos to iPad 2
Watch MKV HD Videos on iPad 2-Convert MKV to iPad 2 Compatible Files
For a HD movie fans, MKV is one of the most popular formats.It is a container format and most stored on blu-ray discs. We recognize it because of its high-definition effect and multi subtitle and track. But it is not recognizable by Apple iPad. I have downloaded some 1080p/720p MKV movie from internet on Mac and I think it must be pretty cool to watch MKV videos on the go with my newly bought iPad 2. If I want to Put/Play/Watch MKV HD Videos on iPad 2 and iPad anywhere anytime, I need to Stream/Sync/Convert MKV to iPad 2 supported video and audio files first.
Before converting MKV to iPad, we'd like to show you more information about MKV:
MKV file is an open source container format. It is a general-purpose audio and video container and a competing format to the more popular AVI and MP4 formats. With its futuristic design approach, it can provide support for a vast number of audio, video and subtitle compression formats. Its features exceed even those of AVI and MP4 files. An MKV file contains compressed video and audio streams along with an encoder. A codec or Coder/Decoder is required to play this type of file. MKV aims to be the leading standard for multimedia container formats. It is based on EBML, a subclass of XML.
So if I want to play MKV files on my new iPad 2, it's necessary to convert MKV to iPad 2 compatible files. I need is a Mac MKV to iPad 2 Converter – Aunsoft Mac iPad 2 Video Conversion ( PowerPC Compatible), which can easily convert MKV for iPad 2 with 720p high quality.
Have a look at the steps below to convert MKV videos to iPad 2 on Mac, and output movies to HD 720p resolution.
Step 1. Load MKV movie files you want to Put/Transfer/Sync and Play on Apple iPad 2.
Free Download Aunsoft Mac MKV to iPad 2 Converter and install. After launching the iPad 2 Video Converter for Mac, please load your MKV video file by drag and drop or click ‘Add’ button to load kinds of videos.
Step 2. Choose iPad 2 720p MP4 format.
Click the "Format" option, and navigate to iPad > iPad 2 HD Video(*.mp4) as output format. iPad 2 supports 720p video playback, video formats with H.264, MPEG-4. The Profile default size 768*576, you must choose 1280*720. Then output format is iPad 720p resolution.
Step 3. Convert MKV to MP4 on iPad 2.
Click the convert button under the preview window, and the Mac MKV to iPad 2 converter will start converting 1080p/720p MKV to 720p iPad 2 MP4.
When the conversion is done, use iTunes to Sync and Transfer the 720p Videos to iPad 2. Then you can Put and Play MKV Videos on iPad 2.
Tips: At the WWDC 2011, Apple unveiled iOS 5 system, and some testers have got the iOS 5 beta on iPad 2 to play 1080p HD videos flawlessly. If you want to play 1080p videos on your iPad 2, you can choose HD Video - HD H.264(*.mp4) and set 1920*1080 mp4 as video codec ,save as iPad 2 1080p MP4.