# Suport for mkv video file
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/suport-for-mkv-video-file/38701
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [December 27, 2012, 9:43am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/suport-for-mkv-video-file/38701 "2012-12-27T09:43:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Ze\_Alves](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ze_Alves)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 9:43am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/suport-for-mkv-video-file/38701/1 "2012-12-27T09:43:10Z")
Hi.
I need to play mkv H264 files.
This is possible…?
I’m using wowza vod player:
server: rtmp://localhost/vod
streamname: mkv:file.mkv
Thank’s
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/suport-for-mkv-video-file/38701/2 "2012-12-27T17:55:10Z")
Try it with “mp4:” prefix. Not sure if that will work. It’s come up before:
> [@Matroska MKV Support](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/34671):
>
> I’m actually surprised that I didn’t find a topic about this when I did a search on the forums. The Matroska MKV format is gaining in popularity because it supports multiple video, audio, subtitle and even [chapter tracks](http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/chaptertracks.html). Playing an MKV file on the web is less than unheard of, but recently the DivX development team added support for it (and through their DivX web player plugin): [http://www.divx.com/en/software/divx-plus/codec-pack/mkv](http://www.divx.com/en/software/divx-plus/codec-pack/mkv) This is all well and good for people that don’t mind askin…
Richard