720p MKV on the MacBook White

[timROGERS]

I often have 720p MKV video to watch, and I was wondering whether the current generation base model MacBook White is capable of playing them.

I know that the MacBook White has the 9400m GPU which should be capable of doing it, but does it work in reality? What software do you need?

 

[r.j.s]

It will work, I watch 720p videos on my 2006 white MB all the time.

 

[timROGERS]

Which software is suitable for watching MKVs?

 

[JamesGorman]

Download vlc, it pretty much plays anything.

 

[timferrell]

Perian also plays them fine through Quicktime.

 

[priller]

They play fine on mine with vlc or mplayer.

 

[r.j.s]

Movist works quite well as well.

 

[Chilz0r]

Use this, I think it's much better than VLC:

MPlayer OSX Extended.
http://mplayerosx.sttz.ch/

It now has the option for multithreaded ffmpeg. Experimental though but has
been heaps stable for me.