Play 4K MKV on Vizio Smart TV from USB port

Best workaround to play any MKV videos on Vizio Smart TV from USB by convert MKV to Vizio Smart TV preset profile formats.

"Does anyone know what should be done for this particular Smart TV brand to play MKV videos correctly? What happens is that the TV can't either read the file or when it does the images are kind of distorted with poor audio. I did a Google search and someone was saying that the USB drive from which the TV is reading the files from needs to be formatted to FAT32 otherwise they won't work? Is this the real reason? Am I missing something else. Ultimately I can get an HDMI cable and playing the files from laptop to TV, but I wait first for the non-cable option. Cheers!"

If you have MKV files stored on server or hard drive, generally you can play them on media player perfectly. Whereas, when you transfer and play these MKV files on Vizio Smart TV from USB, you maybe bit baffled why some of the videos work but not others. For our goal of watching MKV on Vizio Smart TV without any trouble, we introduce the best solution to you in the following paragraphs.

How to properly play MKV movies on Vizio Smart TV?

Generally, there are two important factors that will decide whether you can successfully play downloaded MKV videos on Vizio Vizio Smart TV:
- A properly formatted USB drive
- The right MKV format that Vizio Smart TV recognize

Properly formatted USB drive

A properly formatted USB drive means that your USB drive must be formatted to a format that's compatible with your Vizio Smart TV. You can check the user manual to find the information or do some search on Goole, you will finally get the answer and find that your USB drive needs to be formatted to FAT32. In addition, for different format USB drive, there will be a maximum file size limitation, for FAT32 usb drive, the maximum file size limitation is 4GB.

The right MKV format that Vizio Smart TV support

As far as we know, codec support is likely to be limited to whatever Vizio decided to support in their TV. You may find that your Vizio Smart TV has no problem to work with some MKV files but fail to open other MKV files. The main reason is that MKV is a container file format, which can hold various different video and audio codec, you can only play those MKV files on Vizio Viera TV with compatible codec. And you can consult the user manual or promotional material for the particular Vizio set to which see MP4 file formats it support. Some of your Vizio Viera TV may only play MP4 files at a specific resoltuion or within a particular range of resolutions.

Convert MKV for Vizio Smart TV playback

To play unsupported MKV files on Vizio Smart TV, you will need to perform a format conversion process first. Here, you can get the job easily done with a remarkable MKV to Vizio TV supported format conversion program - Acrok Video Converter Ultimate. The program has enhanced compatibility with virtually any MKV files formats with various different video and audio codec. And the biggest merits of this program is that it enables you to directly output Vizio Smart TV preset profile formats will the optimal playback settings including video codec, bitrate, frame rate, resolution and audio codec, bit rate, sample rate and channles, etc.

Compress MKV for Vizio Smart TV

As Vizio Smart TV compatible Format 32 usb drive only store video that's less than 4GB, if your MKV file is larger than 4GB, you can use the program's built-in video splitting function to split it into small parts or segments or trim and cut video off unwanted clips with no quality loss. If you do not care too much about quality, you can try the following ways to compress MKV file with some quality lossage:
- Lower the output video resolution
- Lower the bit rate 20-50% of the default to get small files
- Lower the frame rate of the video to 15 or 10 fps can reduce the file size by as much as 1/2 or 2/3

Besides converting MKV to Vizio Smart TV, you can also use the program to convert unsupported MKV for playing on Sony/Samsung/LG/Vizio TV. For Mac users, please download Acrok Video Converter Ultimate for Mac to get the job completed on Mac.

Step by Step Guide to Convert MKV for Vizio Smart TV Playback

Step 1: Load MKV files into the program.

Install and launch the MKV video converter program on your computer, click "Add File" to load unsupported MKV files into the program.

Step 2: Output Vizio Smart TV preset playable formats.

From "Format" bar drop-down list, directly output Vizio Smart TV preset profile formats "H.264 Video (*.mp4)" from "Common Video" drop-down list.

As for Vizio 4K TV, only MKV container format with H.265/HEVC video encoding are supported. So if your Vizio TV is a 4K Smart TV, please select H.265 MKV as output format.

Step 3: Compress large MKV video.

Click "Settings" to open "Profile Settings" window, you can change video resolution to a suitable file size, lower the bit rate 20-50% of the default to get small files or lower the frame rate to 15 or 10 fps.

Step 4: Begin the conversion process.

After all setting is completed, hit right-bottom "Convert" button to begin the MKV to Vizio Smart TV supported formats conversion, trimming and compression process. When the conversion is completed, you can have no problem to play MKV files on Vizio Smart TV from USB drive.