MKV Repair: How to Repair Damaged MKV Video File

A popular video file format, MKV files offer great video and sound quality. In addition, they also offer advanced features like subtitles and chapters. Nevertheless, even MKV can stop working when transferred, edited, or infected by a virus. Fortunately, this guide shows how to perform MKV repair.

Fix MKV files with EaseUS Fixo Video Repair:

1. 1. Launch EaseUS Fixo Video Repair and go to the Video Repair section.
2. 2. Click "Add Video" to upload damaged MKV files.
3. 3. Tap the "Repair" button to proceed and click "Save" to save the repaired video.

MKV, also known as Matroska Video, was created in Russia in 2002. The modern extension .mkv can play MKV video files on media players such as VLC and Kodi Player. Since the file type is powerful, the MKV video format is widely used by people who want to compress their HD videos without losing quality.

Despite its incredible performance, files in MKV format can still be damaged. Fortunately, you don't need to delete all your broken MKV files. The MKV videos can be repaired in a few minutes. You can use VLC Media Player to convert them into other formats, which often recover the corrupted data. Also, a professional tool to perform MKV repair is EaseUS Fixo Video Repair.

Fix 1. Using EaseUS Video Repair to Repair MKV File

EaseUS Fixo Video Repair is a handy application that can repair corrupt MKV files in under three minutes. If you are having trouble playing MKV video files, this software will solve your problem. 

With this video repair software from EaseUS, you can fix all kinds of problems with videos that cannot play. For example, corrupted videos due to unstable downloads and videos infected by malware can be repaired.

EaseUS Fixo Video Repair has several features that make it effective for fixing video problems:

• Using this powerful video repair tool, you can repair most video formats, including 3GP, M4V, FLV, AVI, MOV, MP4, MKV, WMV, SWF, FLV, MP3, NPEG, 3G2, RM/RMVB, etc.

• EaseUS Fixo Video Repair has several features that make it effective for fixing video problems:

• Using EaseUS Fixo Video Repair, you can repair corrupted video files on Windows。 With step-by-step guides on the EaseUS website, it's fast and easy to use.
• It is possible to repair most video formats using EaseUS Fixo Video Repair, including 3GP, M4V, FLV, AVI, MOV, MP4, MKV, WMV, SWF, FLV, MP3, NPEG, 3G2, RM/RMVB, etc.
• You can use EaseUS Fixo to repair damaged videos that have been edited, converted, transferred, or corrupted by recovery attempts. Users can also restore videos that have been corrupted by hardware failures, malware infections, and much more using EaseUS Video Repair.

Follow the detailed instructions here to fix corrupted MKV files and related video-playing errors:

Step 1. Open Fixo on your local PC. Click "Video Repair" and add the corrupted MP4/MOV/AVI/MKV/3GP/FLV/MKV/WMV video files by clicking "Add Videos".

Step 2. Move the pointer to a video and click the "Repair" button to start the single video repairing process. If you want to repair all the videos, click "Repair All".

Step 3. Wait a few minutes, and the corrupted videos will be repaired. Click the play icon to preview the videos. You can save a single video by clicking the "Save" button next to the play icon. If you want to save all the repaired videos, choose "Save All".

Step 4. If the quick repair fails, you should utilize the advanced repair mode. Click "Advanced Repair" and add a sample video. Choose "Confirm" to ensure.

Step 5. A list of detailed information on corrupted and sample videos will show up. Click "Repair Now" to start the advanced video repair process. When the repair is complete, you can view the videos and click the "Save" button to save the repaired video files to an appropriate destination.

Fix 2. Convert the Video Format to Perform MKV Repair

VLC is an open-source, free media player that is available for all major operating systems. Nowadays, the VLC player has many features, such as playing videos while downloading them.  If the media player you are using does not support MKV files, you may try converting the video format with the help of a VLC media player like this:

Step 1. After launching  VLC Media Player, click on the "Media" tab. Then select the "Convert/Save" option on the drop-down menu.

Step 2. Click on the Add option. This is the list of files to be transcoded.

Step 3. In the Convert box, navigate to the location folder of the files to be converted.

Step 4. Click on the button "Convert/Save". Open the Profiles tab to select an input codec in this new window.

Step 5. To start the conversion process, click the Start button. Then, let the VLC Media Player finish the job.

Fix 3. Repair Corrupted MKV Video File with VLC Media Player 

In addition to converting the video format, VLC Media Player can repair corrupted video files. But here's to note that the VLC media player can only perform AVI repair, so you need to convert your video files to AVI format.

The steps below will guide you through the process of performing VLC repair and repairing your corrupted MKV video file.

Step 1. Go to the Luanch VLC media player and go to the Tools tab. Choose "Preferences" from the menu and then go to the Input/Codecs section.

Step 2. Under the "Damaged or incomplete AVI files", choose "Always fix".

Step 3. Click on "Save" to proceed.

Fix 4. Run CHKDSK Command to Perform MKV Video Repair

You can run the CHKDSK command to scan your disk to see if any errors affect your video-playing process. Follow the steps here:

Step 1. Hold Win+ S simultaneously and choose "Run as administrator" from the right panel.

Step 2. Type the following command and hit Enter:

Step 3. When prompted, hit Y. Now and, wait patiently for your PC to restart; this command will check your disk errors.

Conclusion

This guide describes how ro fix corrupted MKV video file problems using VLC Media Player. Corrupted video files can be repaired by converting them to another file type. Sometimes, converting MKV files using VLC Media Player will repair them, but not always. 

If the above doesn't work, just use EaseUS Fixo Video Repair to perform MKV file repair. It is a green video repair tool designed specifically to recover videos. If you are still in doubt, contact EaseUS Fixo Video Repair support.